Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 158, Hammond, Lake County, 4 December 1912 — Page 4

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The Lake County TItnea. dally except Sunday, "entered as second-class matter June 28, 190'"; The Lake County Times, dally ezeept Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. 8, The Gary Evening- Times, dally except Sunday, ntered Oct. 8, lt; The Lake County Times, Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. JO. llll; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. IS. 1912. at the postofflee at Hammond. Indiana, all ndr the act f March . 1I79.

Entered at the Postofdeet Hammond, Ind., as saeead-elaas matter. FOREIGN ADVBRT1SIXO OFFICES, 11 Hector Building - . Chicago FtTBUCATIOlf OFF-ICES, Hammond BwlMtng. Hammond. Ind. TBLF.PHOSKS, Hammond (private exchange) Ill (Call for department wanted.) Gary Office.... Tel. 187 East Chicago Olflce. . i ...... .Tel. MO-J Indiana Harbor Tel. 349-M; 160 Whiting- ........Tel. KO-M Crown Point ......... i........ Tel. 3 Hegewlsch ..TeL l Advertising solicitors will be sent, or rates glen on application. If you ha-e any trouble getting The Times notify the nearest office and have It promptly remedied. , LARGER PAID t.'P CIRCULATION THAN AWT OTHER TWO NEWS PAPERS IN THE CALTJMKT REGION. anonymous communications will not be noticed, but others wilt be printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor, Times, Hamxnond. Ind. 433 Garfield Lodge. No. 569. F. & A. M. Stated meeting every Friday evening. Fast Masters night, Saturday, Dec. 7, starting J:I0 p. m. Hammond Chapter, No. 117, R. A. M. Regu.lar stated meeting second and fourth "Wednesday of each month. Election" of officers Wednesday, Dec. 11th. Hammond Council. No. 90, R. S. M. Stated meetings first Tuesday of each month. . Hammond Commandery, ' No.-! 41," K. T. Regular stated meeting first and third Monday of each month. THE FUN SOON TO BEGIN. According to all indications, Hammond democrats are preparing fori two very interesting processes. One! Of them is the washing of the polltlcal linen,' and the other is the wetting of knives for the pie cutting.

There Is no longer any denial of tnejcampajgn an(j demand recognition. fact that the local field is divided Into Those who look to THE TIMES for

two camps, Beckerites, and Beckerites. If Judge Lawrence Becker, former mayor of Hammond has any strength at all in the party it will be put to the test within the! next few months. The post off Ice ap-1 pointment and the mayoralty nom-1 lnation will be the bones of contention. The revelations concerning the factional fight in the party as exclu Bively told In this paper have been a source of intense interest to poli ticians. John L. Rhode, president of the board of public works and intimate political colleague of Judge Decker, was generally conceded to have first choice for either honor, but now there comes a report that Judge Becker will be unable to dictate the appointment of Rohde for the post mastership, and at the same time names are bobbing up for the mayoralty nomination which have as yet not had the sanction of Judge Becker, and so the conclusion Is that the former mayor instead of playing the first fiddle will have to dance to the music that is furnished him. The story of how he came to lose his fiddle is of absorbing interest. As told by THE TIMES several , weeks ago somebody sometime ago ' threw Attorney John A. Gavit's hat In the ring for the mayoralty. Mayor Smalley's has been in , all the time, and it is still there. But those who threw Gavit's chapeau in the circle, were careful to kick Rohde'e out, and there you are. Even the anti-Beckerites admit that the jurist as a politician and a ponucai ana Bociai economist is aeserving or tne greatest respect out they say that his yoke as a boss is uulucun-'""' iUC v -" villi BC against him is that he has been call - ing to many or tne democratic stai wart porcn campers. Then too the organlxation of the Wilson League, a democratic organi zation at a time when the Jefferson Club-was nourishing and doing yeo - man service, was not received with the best of feeling by many of the Jeffersonians. Judge Becker the strong factor tha WHson. League organisation

IKRAFEL. Aad the asa-el Israfel. whose heart alrlaars are a late, d who has the aweetest voire of all God's creatures. Koran. In Heaven a spirit doth dwell Whose heort-strlBKS are a hite"! None kIiik bo wildly well As the angel Iarnfel, Aad the Kddy stars (so legend trill Ceasing; their hymns, attend the spell Of his voter, all mnte. Tottering above In her highest aoon. The enamored moon Illnshra with love. While, to listen, the red levla (With the rapid Pleiades, evea, Which were seven) Pauses la Heaven. And they say (the starry choir And the other listening things) That Israfrl'a Are la owing to thst lyre By which he alts and nines The trembling; living; wire Of those unusual strinfes.

Bat the skies that angel trod. W'here deep thooxhta are a doty Where Love's a arrow-up GodWhere the Hour! arlanrea are Imbued with all thy beauty Which we worship In a star. Therefore, thou are not wrong. IsrafelL who desplneat An nnimpasHloned sons;; To tbee the laurels belong. Best bard, because the wlnest; Merrily live, aad long. The eetasles above With they burn I an measures Salt Thy grief, thy Joy, thy hate, thy love. With all the fervor of thy luteWell may the stara be mute I Yes, heaven Is thine but this Is a world of sweets and soars; Our flowers are merely flowers. And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody. While a bolder note than this might awell From my lyre within the sky. Edgar Allan Poe.

fact he is considered the prime mover, to England. From England she proIt has a representative membership ceeed s- Petersburg, Russia, of democrat, hut ns vt thr. nere an effort was made to dispose

strong men in the party who refuse to make application on the ground, that the' constitution and by-laws were drafted and adopted before an effort was made to get a represents wve membership. The Wilson League will undoubtedly attempt to assert itself, as a factor during the npxT 1piioHva oeinn a 1n dictation of federal patronage, but thoap who cast thpir lot with th Tfr. I erson Club will point to the work that jt has accomplished during the ant.I-hitrht nn AOTnr.nrtr. win k I kept fuiy posted. It won't do them any good to iook for ignt eisewnere. SOME of the opponents of non-

partisan city government can howljing everything but reverence. What

themselves in the face blacker than they are but it is coming just as sure as the sun shines. YOU buy things you don't need and then stand up on your hind legs and roar about the high cost of liv ing. THE PHANTOM OF GARY. We have read with interest Mayor! Knotts declaration to seek another! term at the head of the Gary government. One would think that by this time the mayor had acquired some wisdom if not a lot of hitter evneriences. A new town, Gary, has been the haven of every foot loose patriot it could attract. It has been at the mercy of a thieving gang of public contractors and the subject of a lot of notoriety brought on by some of its wayward officials and the doings of this contracting gang. In seeking a third term Mavnr Knotts goes after no enviable post.

The place pays but a pittance and to! life. As for the female who married protected. The idea of the commisbe an office holder in Gary is to be j him the insane asylum, poison or the" 8ion would not be to destroy but to

subject of comment when an official carries himself to other parts. To hold on to an empty shell Knotts has spent a couple of fortunes paying iawyer fees. Ia the job worth it? It Ia a singular fact that politics in Gary has Bhattered reputations. wasted fortunes, caused some to be i rUgnives from justice .one man to die Tof a br0ken heart, another to be sent - behind the bars while to others it haa attracted unenviable notoriety when J they became Involved in bribery and - 1 election scandals, I Mayor Knotts came to Gary lik J many others with the aim of gaining wealth and political honors. He has! gained and lost both. And now, once I again, he seeks nothing more than in j the highest seat in the midst of four in' years of the rankest turmoil.

TPt A What la a Sabbath Day's Journey? -About one mile. What la the Meaning of Gerrymander? It means the geographical apportionment of districts to give preponderance to one politeal party. The practice was begun in Massachusetts, and named from Its governor, Elbridge Gerry. Who Was Termed the Mad Poet? Kathanlel Lee, an Insane English iramatlst. ' What Is an Orangeman? A protestant Irishman, and one who cher ishes the name of William, Prince of Orange. Who was John Rennief He was an eminent engineer, the son of a farmer, and born 1761. His greatest achievement was the building of the famous London Bridge across the Thames, and which was opened in 1831. In what States does Capital Punish ment Prevail? Capital punishment prevails in all states except Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island and Maine. It was abolished in Iowa in 1872 and restored in 1878. It was also abol ished In Colorado and restored in What la the Area of Haiti? The area of Haiti is 10,204 square miles, or about one-third of Indiana. Its population is near 2,000,000. What Is the Highest Point In Wis consin? The highest point in Wisconsn Is Rib Hill, in Marathon county. When did the First Vessel Cross the Ocean Under Steam? The first vessel crossed the ocean under steam in 1819. It was the Savannah, of 380 tons burden, built at Corlear's Hook, N. Y. The steamer went from New York to Savannah, Ga., land thence of her to the c.tar. Failing to effect the sale, she returned to New York and was. afterwards converted into a sailing vessel. "HONOR THY FATHER.' Dr. William H Maxwell, City Superintendent of the New York scnools' tninka there is not enough reverence in the youth of the land toar an he said so in an address in Philadelphia on "The Attitude of the American Parent Toward Education. Tne attitude of the parents Is al! right. Fathers and mothers have denied themselves food and clothes that their offspring might have edu-j cation. J "We spend money like water," says Dr. Maxwell, "and provide for teach - we need is a revival of thatr'good old doctrine, "Honor thy father and thy mother'." The point is undoubtedly well tak en in many instances. Keverence Lhould be taught both In the school and in the home. This would be a fad against which no one would say one unkind word. DON'T you feel sorry about the poor express companies about this time of the year? ANDY Carnegie says that the main reeret of his life was that he did not become a newspaper reporter. How - lever we have not noticed where he has started any pension funds for aged and decrepit reporters. A BLACK PAGE. If henceforth any white man ever pays money to see the notorious beast ul- inhnmn flrh ho ontrht tn sQ I ashamed of himself for the rest of his bullet await her. ' And to think that they used to let the black scoundrel break sneed laws' and maintain an orgy camp right In Lake county! THE proud possessor of the breast bone of a wild black duck shot in the dark of the moon Hays we are to have a green Christmas and a late spring This has no bearing on who is to get the East Chicago postoffice however IOWA man stealing a ride on a train was locked 5ji a freight car for J 15 days and Uvea on apples for 13 j days and the trouble was he couldn't make croquetts, giblets Or hash out 1 of them after the first day.

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What la a Round Robin? A peti tion or remonstrance signed with the names in a circle to conceal who signed if first What la the Malthusian Ooetrine? The theory that the population is growing faster than the food supply. What Is Volapuk? A so-called uni versal language, invented in 1879, by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Swabian pastor, and later a teacher In Constance. Of the vocabulary about onethird is or English origin. The grammer is simplified to the utmost Who was Alexander the Copper smith T A nickname applied to Alexander Hamilton by those who were dissatisfied with the copper cents coined in 1793 at his suggestion as secretary of the treasury. What Is the Average Depth of Oceans? -The average depth of all the oceans is from 2,000 to 3,000 fath oms. Soundings have been made in the Atlantic ocean, ninety miles off the Island of St. Thomas, in the West Indies, which showed . a depth of 23,250 feet, or about four and onehalf miles. In 1872-74, the ship Chal lenger . made a voyage around the world for the purpose of taking deepsea soundings, and the result showed that the greatest depth in the Pacific ocean was between four and one-half and five miles. How Many of our President were Church Members? From Washington to McKinley, only three, Washington, Garfield and Harrison, were members of the church. All others were man who revered Christianity except JefferBon, who was not a believer, at least while he was chief magistrate. What la meant by the "Devarleation of Languages"? It means the breaking of a language Into two or more separate languages, through corruptions and other circumstances. What was the Defect of the Julian Calendar? It made the year about eleven minutes too long, and this extension amounted to three days la nearly 400 years. PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONS. Indiana is lagging behind in a great many things. Among them is advanced legislation creating a pub"C utility commission. A puouc utility commission is a referee which steps between the public and its pub- , nc utilities ana rorces. inem Dotn to be reasonable.

For instance here In the Calumet

region a public utility, commission would insist that street cars be kept Mean, that certain double tracking work be done, that the telephone ! comnanv abolish tolls in north township and It might require non-com-peting traction lines to exchange transfers. On the other hand no body of crooked or bullheaded aldermen could hold up a public service company's progress so long as it was in the interests of the people. The commission would protect the company from the people as well as protect the people from the company. If the question of a reduction in rates was to be taken up the commission would make an Investigation as to the cost of production in this particular community. With all of the facts at hand, after a scientific investigation, it would determine 'wnat Is a reasonable profit to the company and a reasonable rate to the consumer. It would prevent the water of stocks because it can regulate the issuing of stocks and bonds and other evidences of indebtedness against the company. But such stocks and bonds as have been issued up to the time the utilities commission took hold would be I protect the interests of both the pub llc and the consumer. 1,1 a community like this a public service company goes before a city council and makes certain reasonable requests. The grafters deny them. Delay means loss. The company is forced to show results. ' It takes the snort cut. The obstructionists are bought off and the community is corrupted. That is the source of most of the corruption in cities. The Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago line did not want the Whit ing city council to grant M. N. Castleman a franchise several years ago. Its officers knew that Castleman was a fakir. It knew that there was every reason why the Whiting councilmen should grant it, and not Castleman. a franchise; . X

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Complete Boycott JOUET CUP Paoerewski Shag Advance Styles in male Coiffure But the company officials kept clean. In other cities the council would have been bought off. The company now has proven Castleman an adventurer and the councilmen something else but it has been delajed for four years In gettinj the fran chlse it wants. The Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railway company wanted -a franchise in Hammond several years ago. Its deirrancfe were reasonable. It had demonstrated that it had the; necessary backing. It wated to make Indiana avenue the route oT its main line through the region and the north side line the branch. The residents on Indiana avenue

wanted to stop the limited trains ofjbu11

the line at every street Intersection. The company refused. It could not afford to run its line that way. Indiana avenue lost its one opportunity to become an Important business street, from then on it became a dead one. Certain aldermen who were looking to the lining of their own pockets instead of the Interests of the peope

voted against the new franchise. The J regime. Congressman Peterson should result was that the South Shore line!" iait remember them with packages

double tracked its original line and left the business distrct of Hammond out in the cold. So the need is seen of a publ!c service commission that will step between the people and Its public utili

ty companies and protect them bothicause he lost the audltorshlp election. . , . . . , but perish the thought if you think from the grafters and obstruction-, that Phe u nQt smlUnff t0(Jay- Havinjf

ists; tney are Dotn in tne same ciass. in the interests of progress. WHATS the use of advising the pecple to shop early and then see the business, men start advertising about the 22nd of the month? CHINA holds her first primary election this month. Now we shall

see whether China has learned her ' om th,e V' to 1",mt toK G7 . . ! to fill the lonely hearts of Its bachelors, politics from the ground up. or should wiIXUM JENNINGS BRYAN is to we say gutter up. moVB himself and his Commoner printI ing office to Washington. Thus we will be assured that our government has evTHESE are the days that our little ery possible supervision during the

holy war on turkey keeps up remorselessly Thanksgiving to New Years. X. SARAH Bernhardt advises es pecially that you watch your shoulder-blades and see that they do not protrude. Trust we shall not have to mention this again. THE congressman who tries to satisfy the pie-counter warmers has a stony and thorny path ahead of him as long as he is in office. HEARD BT RUBE THE 35-cent hair cut is now Inflicted Upon us. Wish that some .one would start a long hair movement. DIVINE Sarah Bernhardt is In Chicago. Having paid our nickel to see Sarah at the motion picture house around the corner we will save the usual coin we were going to spend on her for the forthcoming gift list. "ON the other hand, the enemies of the present executive have been thrown Into a state of consternation along with their having their fond ; hopes that Mayor Knotts would not again be a candidate dashed to the ground." Gary Post. Mayor Knotts is always talking

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about his friends while his newspaper organ Is always wailing about his ene mies. "THE GREAT DIVIDE" played at the Lowell opry house the other night. In these bull moose-republican times this is like waving a red flag before the AMERICAN cocktail has been intro duced into Turkey. If you don't hear of the wonderful courage of the Turks in the next few days we'll eat our hat. NOW photographing , sound waves. We would like ' to have a good 12x12 view showing the bellowing caused by BiU Cafa reading of the' daily routine Of Convict Harry Moose. THEN again If tome of the faithful democratic patriots don't land any fedjeral j0bs during Woodrow Wilson of alfalfa and cucumber seeds. T. W. C. A. Gary now wants one. If the cholera and seven-year Itch were prevalent In this country Gary wouldn't be satisfied until It got both. , TOUR Uncle Jawn A. Brennan may have been weeping a few days ago becieaned up $75,000 in a little real estate deal yesterday he will not find It necessary to Join the Society for the Prevention of Buying Useless Xmas Presents. PIEASE clip out and mail to any i Gary real estate booster: "Billy Rugh, an obscure newsboy in a small Indiana village, sacrificed his life, etc., etc."-From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. TURKISH HAREMS ARE BEING DEPLETED." Headline. Might Induce next administration. SUPPOSING that ye stork should come: TOR RENT Small fiat, only for two, at southwest corner Grove and Sarah Sts. Inquire at 617 Sarah st. emJUDGING from the few names that ther have to revere at their memorial services we should say that the Brother Elks seldom "die. In other words, they are live ones. LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS Santa Claus has announced that all good little boys and girls who want to write to him may do so In care of Tub Time?, as usual. The letters must be written legibly and on one side of the paper only. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 2, 1912. Dear Santa Claus: I am writing to you early this year so you don't forget me. Last, year you nerly forgot me. Papa Just cleaned the chimney so you can come down and not make yourself dirty. I will give all my money this time. And Santa, will you please send me a railroad track and some cars and a pair of boots, a sled, a rocking horse, nuts and candy and Christmas tree. Don't forget mamma and papa. . - Tours respectfully, WALTER TAPKE. 79t- Sohr street? ' ' ' '-'- '

Letters To Santa Claus

Up and Down in INDIANA

FORGETS MACHINE IS IX GEAR. Forgetting that he had left his machine in gear, James Nelson, a farmer, near Elwood, waa knocked through a fence and run over by the car yesterday morning when he attempted to crank it. His wife, who was in the: automobile at the time, had sufficient ' presence of mind to throw the switch, stopping the car before it had dragged her husband more than a few feet. Nelson suffered several broken ribs and ; possible Internal injuries. lOO TEARS OLD AT DEATH; Mrs. Nelson Weeks Ferris, more than 100 year' old; the oldest woman In St.-' Joseph County, died 'yesterday ' inornJ1 Ing. She was 111 but four days. She retained nearly all her faculties up to the time Of her last tllnoss. On March 29 last, she celebrated her 100th birth anniversary and a reception was given for her. Mrs. Ferris was born in Watertown. N. Y, March 20, 1818. She was then one of a family of six chil dren and Is the last one to pass away. One sister lved to be 90 years old and all the others lived to be 70. She came to South Bend in 1843. BELIEVE PARDOX IS DUE. It Is thought by many residents at Hartford City that Albert Musser, pe titioning for a pardon, has been sufficiently punished for his part In the crime. Musser's assertion that he waa sentenced to life imprisonment on per jured evidence while the real murderer escaped punishment. Is given credenceby many. Musser and a man by the name of Marshall were alleged to have entered the home of Mrs. Eliza Stolz, in Portland, In 1907, for the purpose of robbery. The woman waa bound and gagged and was later found dead. It is not believed the robbers had any Intention of killing her, but that the gag suffocated her. Musser's case was sent to Hartford City on a change of venue. START FIRE IS WASHIIOVSE. Fire, which destroyed the washhouse of the Ingle coal mine at Evanavillo yesterday, morning. Is attributed to thieves from evidences that the clothing of the ninety miners in the shaft had been thoroughly ransacked before the building took fire. The miners lost $600 In valuables and clothing and the mine company $800. CALLS PASTOR JEKTLI ASD HTDE. Completing the taking of evidence in the case against Everett . Hopkins, charged with assault and battery with Intent to kill the Rev. James C. Burkhart, arguments were. begun yesterday at Frankfort. Attorney Boulden of Indianapolis for the defense, created a sensation by comparing the minister to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, declaring he was a dangerous man to the church and the community. The arguments of th attorneys were complete last evening and court adjourned until 9:30 this morning, at which time Judge Combs Instructed, the jury. The Day in HISTORY THIS DATE IX HISTORY" - December 4. 1642 Cardinal P.ichelieu, one of the greatest of French statesmen, died In Paris. Born in Poitou, Sept. 5, 15S5. 1783 -Washington bade farewell to the officers of his army. 1795 Thomas Carlyle, famous historian and philosopher, born. Died Feb. 4. 1881. 1828 Earl of Liverpool, British prime minister during the war of 1813, died. Born June 7, 1770. 1839 Whig national convention met in Harrisburg and nominated William Henry Harrison for President. 1859 Province of Queensland Aus--tratnv established.