Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 175, Hammond, Lake County, 24 December 1912 — Page 4

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Tuesday, Dee. 24, 1912.

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The La lea County Times, dally except Sunday, "entered m second-class matter June 28, 190rV The Lake County Tlmee. daily except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. 3, 1911; The Gary Evening: Times, daily except Sunday, entered Oct. 5, 190: The Lake County Times. Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. 10, 1111; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. 15. 1912. at the postofflce at Hammond. Indiana, 11 under the act of March , 17. Entered at the Postofflco. Hammond. Ind.. as secoad-clasa matter. FOREIGN 12 Reotor ADVERTISING Building: OFFICES, Chlcaxo PUBLICATION OFFICES, Hammond Building. Hammond. Ind. TELEPHONES, Hammond (private exchangre) ...... (Call for department wanted.) ill Gary Office. East Chicago Office... Indiana Harbor Whiting Crown Point . ...Tel. 17 ..TeL $40-J 349-M; ISO ...Tel. SO-M Tel. 43 TeL Hegewisch Tel. Advertising solicitors wUl be sent, or rates given on application. If you hare any trouble getting The Times notify the nearest office and have it promptly remedied, LARGER PAID IP CIRCULATION THAN ANT OTHER TWO NEWSPAPERS IN THE CALUMET REGION. ANONYMOUS communications will not be noticed, but others will be printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor. Times. Hammond. Ind coyCL433 Garfield Lodge, No. 489, F. State meeting every Friday & A. M. evening. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. rext meeting Thursday, Jan. 16th. In stallation of officers by Past Grand High Priest John J. Glendening of In dianapolis. Hammond Council. Stated meetings first month. No. 90. R. S. M Tuesday of each Hammond Commandery No. 41 K. T. Christmas service 10:30 a. m. Dec. 25th, Installation of officers Monday Jan. 6th. Wednesday, Jan. 8th, free illustrated lecture on Yellowstone National Park. All 'Master Masons and ladles cordially Invited. YES we are glad it comes but once year. HAS anybody asked you, in her most casual, careless manner, what size slipper you wear? MAY HELP SOME. If you have cold feet over the fact that wifie may not like that Christmas present, or for any other reasons, you may be interested in knowing that it is 122 in the shade in Australia Just now. ' IS THIS TRUE OR NOT? The attempt to close LaSalle street on the north side of Hammond appears to entail no serious loss to the city. It is one of those cases where a man with an adaptable conscience or a total ignorance of the laws of city buildiny will consent to the loss to the city of valuable rights. Lawyers will argue that LaSalle street does not amount to anything, that it is only a Bhort street that begins nowhere and ends nowhere. They will point out that the expanding business of an industry makes it necessary to close the street. They will explain volubly that the street never will amount to anything and so the courts and the city are persuaded to give up rights that are worth thousands of dollars. They overlook the fact that State Line street is one of the five north and south streets in Hammond. That It cost $40,000 to open it through two blocks. That it is possible that future generations may want to open it through to Lake Michigan. Now this innocent little LaSalle street that we have been talking about is the extension of State Line street. If the agitation that has been started in Evansville to have the states of Indiana Illinois unite to make State Line street a great transstate boulevard from Evansville to Hammond and thence to Chicago succeeds the promoters of that project would come to Hammond and find that the city had sold its birth right for a mess of pottage. The only condition on which the city of Hammond should agree to part with its rights to LaSalle street is by a compromise which would make it necessary for the companies seeking these concessions to see that a new street is dedicated to the state

A CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL. Christmas is here. To its friends and readers, yea even to its enemies this paper sends forth its Christmas greetings, its best wishes, its hopes that their hopes may come true. May their Christmas this year be all that it ought to be! This is not a Christmas editorial. Only one man in this world that great delineator of human emotion and searcher into the human heart, Charles Dickens, could write Christmas editorials. -

You do not know what Christmas Christmas stories, his Christmas carols,

One of the finest Christmas editorials ever written comes in that

treasure trove of humor and kindliness "Pickwick Papers," where Dickens makes his beloved child say :

"And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a

brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in, the restless struggle of life, are then re-united, and meet once again in that happy

state of companionship and mutual good pure and unalloyed delight, and are so

sorrows of the world, that the religious beliefs of most of the civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future state of existence, provided for the blest and happy. How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken !

"Many of the hearts that throbbed

beat. Many of the looks that shone so brightly, then have ceased to glow; the hands we have grasped have grown cold; the eyes we sought have hid their lustre in the grave, and yet the old house, the room, the

merry voices and smiling faces, the and trivial circumstance connected with

our mind at each recurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage was but yesterday. Happy, Happy Christmas, that can win us back to the de

lusions of our childish days, that can of his youth, and transport the sailor away, back to his own fireside and his of Illinois on that side of the state line. The time is come when concerns which seek to have street vacated should pay dearly for them.. It cost j the citizens of Hammond and West j Hammond $40,000 to open State Line street; it cost $60,000 to widen Calu-j met avenue and $7,500 to open Dickey place and One Hundred and Forty-first street across the Indiana Harbor canal. If it costs the people of this community such enormous sums to get back the rights that they so freely give away isn't it time that they were exacting enough from the closing of streets to pay for future openings. YOU can't have too merry a Christmas to suit us. IF you know' of any poor boy or girl with their poor mothers who want entertainment tomorrow won't you be a good fellow and let them know of the Orpheum's free entertainment arranged by THE TIMES. CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE. From President-elect Wilson's speech before the Southern Society it is evidently his intention to keep close to the people and appeal to them when in doubt or difficulty, lie said In this connection: The task before me as far as it relates to appointments to office is wholly hateful. But the task before me as far it relate to the working out of the problems bofore the country is wholly delightful. This is because I know that you have only to appeal to Xhe people of the United States on the right grounds to put those who Would resist out of business. That is, so long as you mean what you say and as long as there is no hesitation about your attack. This is a good resolve. The people are never wrong. APPARENTLY the people of Kansas are so wealthy , that they dont' care what they do. Recently they egged the principal of. one of the high schools and thirty-five of his pupils. MR. "Bridgey" WTtber says that if the New York gunmen go to the electric chair, it will kill him. Which may be regarded by some matter-of-fact people as another good reason. NONE WHATEVER! No reason why Gov. Marshall shouldn't have a merry Christmas. He is going to Arizona for a six weeks' rest, doesn't have to appoint any fourth class postmasters, and got past Xmas tide without having to write any Thanksgiving proclama tions. Anfl thp npfinlp nr iiiqt aa woll rff - - w t,v v STILL, that Black Hand letter1 I J.

Governor Wilson received won't be,,u,a l,me are uul wlinou e sor- . P.. t r,tJ. II. . , m

worth considering compared withi some he will get after he has given out all the offices. BLUFFING is as costly in diplomacy, sometimes, as in poker. Austria is borrowing $25,000,000 from the New York banks. MEXICO MUST COME TO ORDER. Whatever the course of the United States government may be in respect to disorders in Mexico and the resultant destruction of the property of foreigners in that country, and the

is until you have read Dicken's

and his Christmas delineations. will, which is a source of such incompatible with the cares and so gaily, then, have ceased to jest, the laugh, the most minute those happy meetings, crowd upon recall to the old man the pleasures and the traveler, thousands of miles quiet home!" still graver outrages to which are subjected personally, the they one must be a come to order. There must restoration of the ordinary security for life and property which civilized states are supposed to guarantee to subjects of other powers and to their own citizens alike. It may not be true that Ambassa dor Wilson has gone back to the City of Mexico, bearing a virtual ultimatum to President Madero, but it Is clear that foreign interference mu3t come unless Mexico shall prove able to restore law and order within a comparatively short time. The constant destruction of property owned by foreigners cannotgo on without limit. No can wide districts in Mexico be virtually closed to the outside world by the crimes and terrorism of bandits, whether or not disguised as rebels. Since this country has taken the position for half a century, that the great powers of Europe must keep their hands off the weak nations of Latin America, the United States stands in the position of .a self-appointed guardian for all foreigners and foreign Interests in Mexico, Central America, South America and the independent islands of the West Indies. This responsibility may entail heavy burdens, but it cannot be pushed aside. If the Mexicans do not get their house in order the United States may be compelled, in the near future to do the work for them. IT is apparent tht the suffragists who intend to march from New York to Albany hope to win in a walk. CARRIE Chapman Catt advises women to go bareheaded. Is that a bid for votes for equal suffrage? JUDGE GARY, It was a pretty tribute that the young men of the Gary Y. M. C. A paid today when they sent a Christ mas telegram to Judge Elbert H Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation. Judge Gary is one of the bfcst friends that the Calumet region has He is a firm believer in It. And none of the magnates who are interested in this steel belt has contributed toward it in a public way like Elbert Gary GREECE is more than half dispos ed to go right on fight while the gois good. WHAT has become of the oldfashioned man who was always talt ing an immunity bath in Gary; CHRISTMAS TRAGEDIES I - j j . , i il is a sincniar rarr miiT mnv tragedies seem to crowd themselves "uie- me papers or L. 1 J. 1 X . , . , .! a. 1 mi . . .. . wlUi uc "illie- remaps tne tragedies or, unnstmas time seem more sad because of the spirit of the season. WHEN Gabriel's last trump rings out the next most noticeable sound will be the clatter of a crowd on State and Hohman street in Hammond try ing to squeeze Into a six o'clock car MR. Wilson has decided to cut out handshaking at the White House This prevents John Hack of Lowel from ever having any fun If he goe to Washington.

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A MEMORY (with apologies to Life): The day before Christmas mother in the kitchen making a mince pie small boy (yourself) watching her with wist ful eyes. "COMES TO HAMMOND; He GETS LOST." Times' headline. Well! no wonder. Ever since the economical city council ripped out the extra street lights in the business section a stranger coming to town ought to equip themself with a lantern, signal bells and a ten-foot sounding pole. FROM 1868 to 1908 with but one exception (and he was from Indianny) all of our presidents were either Ohio or New York men. Yet school teachers in 46 states will keep on telling every American boy that he is a potential president. IT must be like a dose of ipecac to some of the metropolitan patriots of Gary to find that a large part of the steel metropolis is a part of the Hobart rural free delivery district. THE action of the republic of Panama In deciding to have three of its ex-prosidents make up the reception committee to greet President Taft is, no doubt., a delicate compliment to the fact that he soon will be an "ex" himself. Inasmuch as hizzoner, the mayor of Gary, is to return from Cuba very shortly it would be well for his loyal subjects to important a few exmayors from Hammond and East Chicago to serve on the reception committee. ALTHOUGH the""moon will be full tonight, it is no sign that a lot of Christmas celebrators should try to Imitate it. FROM now on we don't want to hear 'any more from the 'steemed Indianapo. lis News about the financial condition of our local cities. Indianapolis can pay its policemen only half of their December salaries for Christmas. What do you think of a "metropolis" that would pare down upon the policemen and their families at Christmas time? THE steel business that is, being president of a steel company isn't what It used to be since Judge Gary quit giv ing those free get-together dinners. OUR office boy has been unusually sanctimonious during the past week. He even started to go to Sunday school on Sunday. There Is a reason! AND in this connection married men might notice how much they are es teemed by their wives, the softness of the "dearies" they utter, and the delicatness or their caresses. There Is a reason! IT looks rathr odd to see the January magazines chock full of Christmas sto ries. W. H. F. P. writes to ask if doctors treat one another free of cost when ill. We suppose that fhe'same brotherly feeling exists between; the docs as that that is between union bartenders in good standing. When one goes visiting at his neighbor's bar the place is his, WHAT the city of Gary would like to do would be to hang up its stocking and then have old Elb Gary come along in a kind-hearted mood and drop some thing as good as a J300.000 Y. M. C. A. in it. THE upshot of the congressional nrobe into the monev .trust will be a report consisting of about 42 volumes of 1.200 pages each, which no one will read but the proofreaders. This is the way the steel trust, hi kost of living and immigration investigation ended. GREAT SCOTT! What is the digni fied Selontiflc American coming to? Its current issue carries a Fatima ci garette and occupying an or tne last page. And to think that the old lady is about to enter her 68th year! GOVERNMENT is going to smash the shoe trust. The fact that it is a corporation with a sole doesn t seem to count much. UP to the hour of going to, press several packages had arrived for the proofreader, but we, procured a re straining order from the "editor prohibiting him from opening any until tomorrow. Thus we will be able to get this column out without having it look like the morning after. IF It wasn't for the notes, bills and instalment accounts that one must pay on the 1st of the month New Year's day would be almost as joyful . as Christmas. The Day in HISTORY "THIS DATE IN HISTORY December 24. 1800 Attempt to assassinate Napoleon I. with an Infernal machine. 1803 Jerome Bonaparte married to Miss Elizabeth Patterson in Baltimore. 1814 Signing of the treaty of Ghent. ending the war between Great Britain and the United States. 1851 Great reception in Philadelphia in honor of Louis Kossuth. 1863 William Makepeace Thackeray, the famous novelist, died. Born In 1811. "THIS IS MY 35TH BIRTHDAY" Karl of WIcklow. Ralph Francis Howard, seventh Earl of Wicklow, was born at Southsea, Dec. 24, 1877, and succeeded to the title upon the death of his father in 1881. His family dates back to the time of Charles I. The present Earl was educated at Eton and the Sand hurst military school. He became a lieutenant in the Second Life Guards, and served as a staff captain in the South African war in 1900. Tn 1902 he was married to Lady Gladys Mary Hamilton, daughter of the Duke and 1'uchfPS of Abercorn. I Congratulations to: 1 Queen Alexandrlna of Denmark, 33

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'Mr. -'O.y fc. tilf!i .:'v.--. 'i ;.r':i-r' Si 42 years old today. Viscount Morley, famous English statesman and author, 74 years old today. Manuel Estrada Cabera, president of Guatemala, 56 years old today. Emanuel Las-ker, chess champion of the world, 4 4 years old today. Sir Francois Langelier, lieutenant governor of Quebec, 74 years old today. Bishop Richard G. Waterhouse. of the it. E. Church, South, 57 years old today. "THIS DATE IX HISTORY" December 25. 1642 Sir Isaac Newton, discoverer of the law of gravitation, born. Died March 20, 1727. 1773 a tea ship bound for Philadel phia sent back to England before it reached port. 1821 Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross Society, born in North Oxford, Mass. Died at Glen Echo, Mr., April 12, 1912. Ig68 President Johnson issued a universal amnesty proclamation. 1S90 Great Britain inaugurated im perial penny postage. "THIS IS MY 46TH BIRTHDAY" Albert F. WoodM. Albert F. Woods, noted as a plant physiologist and pathologist, was born In Belvidere, 111., Dec. 25, 18G6. and received his education at the University of Nebraska. In 1S93 he became assistant chief and pathologist for the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Eight years later he was appointed assistant chef of the bureau of plant industry. This position he resigned three years ago to become dean of the State Agricultural College of Minnesota and director of the experimental station at Minneapolis. In 1905 Mr. Woods represented the United States at the meetings of the International Intitute of Agriculture in Rome and tthe International, Botanical Congress In Vienna. Congratulations to: King George I. of Greece, 67 years' old today. Commander Eva Booth, head of the Salvation Army in the United States, 40 years old today. John A. Dix, governor of N:w York, 52 years old today. Elbridge T .Gerry, founder of the famous "Gerry Society" for the Dre-

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.i it Sltw The Empty Stocking. f THE CHILD WITH GIFTS GALORE. vention of cruelty to children, 75 years old today. Up and Down in INDIANA CORN GROWERS TO MEET. The betterment of country life through the improvement of the soil, the school and home will occupy the attention of Indiana corn growers at the annual meeting to be held Jan. 15 at AVest Lafayette. The association has a membership of more than 1,400 and it is felt that one of the largest meetings in the history of the association will be held this year. Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins of Illinois cvill discuss the maintenance of permanent soil fertility. The home and the school will be discussed bfProf. O. J. Kern of Winnebago County, Illinois. His address will be illustrated. PLAN PROGRESSIVE PAPER. C. W. Prather, a newspaper man of Laporte . announced that, beginning this week, he would begin the publication of a weekly newspaper which would advocate the policies of the Progressive party. It is the ultimate plan of Mr. Prather to make the paper a dally publication. Progressive newspapers are now assured for Laporte and South Bend, and if report be well founded a new party paper is assured for Valparaiso before the city campaign of next year. COl'RT SETS BEDELL FREE. Glae E. Bedell of Mt. Carmel, 111., arrester! at Sullivan with Samuel Woodsmall Shelburn, attorney, on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery as the outcome of the arrest of Charles C. Rlggs, a Culllvan real estate dealer, at Carmi, 111., was released on his own recognizance fhis morning by Judge Brldwell. Henry Davey, charged with robbery, arrested at the same time, will likely be returned to Carmi, where a reward of J500 l offered for him. JUST HAD TO STEAL. Because he has ever been truthful John Shaw, 17, of New Albany, who has confesed to a dozen thefts, will be permitted to return .unattended to the Indiana Reform School for Boys In riainfleld. Probation Officer Joe H.

it Kraft will buy him a ticket and put him on the train. Shaw was arrested on larceny charges and confesed to half a dozen more thefts that had not been reported to the police.' He was paroled from the reform school three months ago and to the probation officer he declared that he had led an honest life from the time of his reless until two weeks before his arrest, adding: "I couldn't stand it any longer, I just had to steal." , . IXSAAE DRAK ACID. Mrs. Blanche Havercamp, 21 year old, committed suicide at her horn at Crawfordsvllle yesterday by drlnkinir carbolic acid. She left no note explaining her action. The death of an Infant son a few months ago is believed to have temporarily deranged her mind. Two other children survive. SEEK AID FOR LEGISLATION. In a meeting of manufacturers and shippers last ni.sht under the auspices of the Indiana Manufacturers' and Shippers Asociatlon at Evansville, addresses were delivered by J. V. artman of Indianapolis, secretary of theassociation, and J. C. Frederick of Kokomo, chairman of the executive committee John M. Bible of Hopkinsville, Kj president of the Kentucky Manufacturers' Asociatlon, was another speaker. The meeting was held to get support in this section for the legislative program which the state association desires carried out. Including a workmen's compensation act. ALEX SMITH GOES SOUTH New York, Dec. 24. Alex Smith, former holder of both the national and metropolitan open titles, let for Belleaire, Fla., yesterday for the winter, where he will put In his time at the golf links. Smith has been at Bellealre for several seasons in the winter golfing period in the south and returns each spring to resume work on northern greens. The former champion will go first to Atlanta and probably will engage in a few matches before proceeding to Florida. On his return to the north he will take up his duties as professional at Wykagyi for another year. , ADVERTISE AND AGAIN IN THE TIMES. ADVERTISE