Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 176, Hammond, Lake County, 26 December 1912 — Page 4
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Thursday, Dec. 26, 1912.
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A 1ST TAHITI! A.
Whatever I do, and vrhatecer I say.
Aunt Tabltha tells me that Isn't the i
way j
When, she was a ntlrt (forty summers
ago) Aunt Tabltha tells me they never did MO, Dear aunt! If I would only take her advice! Rut I like my own way, and I find It so nice! And besides, I fonret half the thing I 4 am told; But they nil will eome bark to me when I nm old. If a youth passes by, It may happen, no doubt. He may chance to look In as I chance to look out: She would never endure an Impertinent stareIt la horrid, she says, 'and I mnan't alt there.
A walk In the moonlight has pleasure.
I own.
But It isn't quite safe to be walking
a lone
So I take a lad's arm Just for safety.
you know-
But Aunt Tabltha tells me they didn't
do so.
How wicked we are. and how aroort
they were then! They kept at arm's length those de
testable men;
What an era of virtue she lived In!
But stay
Were the men all such rogues In Aunt
Tahltha's dayf
If the men were so wicked, I'll ask. my
papa
How he dared to propose to my darling
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Garfield Lodge, No. 469. P. & A. M. State meeting ever Friday evening.
Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. r. ext meeting Thursday, Jan. 16th. In
stallation of officers by Past Grand
High Priest John J. Glendening of In dianapoli3.
Hammond Council, No. 90, R. S. M.
Stated meetings first Tuesday of each
month.
Hammond Commandery No. 41 K. T,
Christmas service 10:30 a. m. Dec. 25th.
Installation of officers Monday Jan
6th. , Wednesday, Jan. Sth. free
illustrated lecture on' Yellowstone Na
tional Park. All Master Masons and
ladies cordially Invited.
HE DID THAT. Little late perhaps but in the twi
light gloaming of the day after, it has been found that In trimming the
Christmas tree father got beautifully
and unctuously trimmed.
"AIL THOSE IN FAVOR " With a great deal of interest we note that Col. William Jennings Bryan the greatest feared democrat in America pooh-poohs a suggestion that he is to be secretary of the U. S. Treasury. . In order not to be out-don3 by the most genial Col. we arise also to pooh-pooh it.
Do we hear a second to the pooh-pooh?'
PRESIDENT-ELECT Wilson said he felt like a squeezed sponge after he returned from an all-day session with the pardon board of New Jersey. We know just how he felt, on pulling out the lining to the pockets of our pantaloons.
OXE good thing about today is
that these shivering Santa Clauses
you see in Chicago with the fringed
trousers will probably stay out of
sight somewhere and get warm.
L WW WSMM WSWM B ns g!--ggg"
How Viceregal Couple Were Riding When Bomb Was Thrown f?f cast m Zj 44 M .jr -x..., JpV- if Ps. tsanmaannaaiaB
I Pi. "I' . J I I
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made it a point to expose "Jobs" that are continually being hatched up by the loafers in pool rooms, notify the police when he suspects that one is about to be pulled off, it would help things. In no private clubs do the members make it a point to loaf in the billiard and pool room. They play their game and then go home or to the lounging rooms of the club. - Chief of Police Austgen has pointed to the source of crime in Hammond and he knows of what he speaks. It is up to the proprietors of these pool rooms to seek the co-operation of the police in driving out the toughs and bums.
Was he like the rent of themf Good
ness! Who kaowsf And what shall I say. If a wretch should propone T
I am thinking; If sunt knew so little of
sin.
What a wonder Aunt Tabltha's aunt
must have been! And her a-randannt It scares mr - how shockingly sad
That we iclrls of today are so fright
fully bad! A martyr can save as, and nothing: else rant
Let me perish to rescue some wretch
ed young- man!
Thona-h when to the altar a victim I
ICO. Aunt Tahitha'li tell me she never did so!
artist, the actor, the writer, must
stick to them, else he suffers.
But what about the people who
long for something new and never
get it? Are they never to be considered? Or will it be necessary for them to strike since strikes are the fashion and by boycotting the Stale
force the new into the field?
There never was a better time for
talent that is novel, provided it is ag
gressive, too. It wil have to fight, but the rewards will be worth the
struggle.
THOSE STENCIL-PLATE ARTISTS
The annual holiday crop of artistic
calendars shows the poverty of the men who made them, despite skill they employ. One and all, the faces which are used are those which the artists have made their sign manuals, their trademarks, ho to speak, as if they were patent medicine men or manufacturers of a new brand of tobacco. You can tell a Gibson girl, a Coles Phillips, a Fisher or a Wenzel as far as you can see her. They have become such familiar faces that their beauty, their piquancy, their general allure, has become deadened by ' familiarity. Speaking as a mere layman, whose joy in work lies largely in the variety of it, the fact that these men make the same outlines 'over and
over again seems a wanton desecration of talent. The mere monotony of it must be terrible, the spirit of commerce which it obtrudes must have a vulgarizing if not a destroying effect
upon the ambition.
Here are men who do nothing but stencil-plate themselves over and over again. Once Gibson did break
away from the grind. He threw away his pen and ink and took to the brush and palate, but the venture was not a success, commercially or
artistically. And so he is now back at
the old trade again, tramping around a circle like a blind horse in a mill.
The situation is often duplicated
an aiong tne line or artistic endeavor. It is particularly true of the
stage, where one success, a marked
distinctive, spectacular success, puts shackles on a man's ambitions. If he makes a hit as the player of "silly ass" Englishmen he is doomed to
such characterization all the rest of
his life, irrespective of the fact that
the ability which enabled him to give
new values to an old subject is still
there, anxious to do new things
newly.
There Is no appeal: Managern.
like publishers, are commercial.
They make a man do over and over again what he has once done triumphantly. It is the day of types. The
HOW HEALTH CAN BE "BOUGHT." "Community health in purchasable, says the Chicago bulletin of the health department. This means that wise and adequate spending of money will produce conditions that result in public health adds the Chicago Record-Herald. In proof of its assertion, the department cites the example of Panama.
Prior to American control of the
Canal Zone the canal employes died
at the rate of 241 per 3,000 each
year. Lnder American rule the great ditch has been nearly complet
ed with a death rate among those who built it of only 11.4 per 1,000.
In justice to the French it must be said that the science of sanitation was not so well developed when they
tried to buil dthe canal as it has been
since.
Without sanitation there would be no Panama Canal, as the bulletin
says. And what has ben done at
Panama can be done anywhere by intelligent but firm control. Yet
American cities spend little for pub
lie health. They ought to spend
much more, and they will do ?o when
it becomes generally realized that public health, priceless as it is as a
possession, can be bought.
EVERYBODY'S awfully Shortness got our goat over ago however.
short
a week
OUTSIDE of the disgrace , its no
punishment to be sent to the Indiana penitentiaries. If you don't like
the board it is any easy thing to get
pardoned and walk out.
Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.
DON'T worry about the high cost
of living. Matzos and hardtack don't cost a picayune more.
CORNELL young woman announc
ed as phyically perfect weights 171
pounds. She dotes on beefsteak.
Well rather cut out the beefsteak and keep them about 120, its cheaper.
REFORMERS USE WRONG MEANS.
The Civil Service Reform associa
tion of Chicago which set out to oust the postmaster of that city from
office by preferring charges of po
litical activity against him has fallen
down with a bang. It has admitted the falsity of the charges.
This reform association had as Its
chief witness a negro hireling who
now has admitted that he perjured
himself.
The trouble with most reformers Is
that they often use improper means
to gain an end. If not this they usual
ly are fanatical enough to be fooled.
As a result of its failure the Civil
Service Reform association has ended
its usefulness. But before it closes its career the reform association can make some amends by prosecuting
the black liar who acknowledges his perjury.
WHO is this Andrew Dippy anyway, and why is Andrew, y?
THE misguided women Mho are hiking from New York to Albany a bedraggled band of frowsiness in sweaters and galoshes should thinkhow much more welcome they would be to Gov. Sulzer if they were clothed attractively and in their right minds.
A SOUL gown that typifies woman's mood is the latest. Getting so that all a man will have to do on coming home from lodge is to see what sort of a night gown wifie is wearing and he can get ready before she has uttered a single word.
REGULATE ALL POOL ROOMS.
In the absence of a Young Men's
Christian Association in Hammond
the pool room is the only place of
recreation and amusement for nine
ty-nine out of a hundred of the
I young men of Hammond who work In
the stores, the factories, mills and offices.
It is impossible to say to these young men that they can have no pleasure -and amusement, that they must either go to a saloon to meet their friends or stay at home. In the search for recreation young men are bound to congregate. They are bound to have some common place of amusement. They can't be expected to spend their evenings at church socials or in the public library. The problem is one of providing wholesome amusement for them. There is nothing vicious in playing billiards and pool. There are tables in the best of clubs and even in Y. M. C. A. buildings. The problem, then, is one of eliminating the vicious element from
these places. If the loafers could be excluded from the poolrooms of the city and these place were frequented
only by the young men who are era
ployed during the day and seek
amusement of this kind at night
there would be no pool room evil. It becomes then a matter of regu
Iation. Ir the pool room owners
were good managers they would solve this problem themselves and save their places of business the criticism
tnat comes every time a crime is
hatched up in a pool room.
Supposing every pool room owner in the city made and enforced the
following rules: 1. No young, man who does not have some visible means of support is permitted to frequent these rooms. 2. Loafers not wanted. This
room and these tables are intended for those who desire to play billiards or pool, all others are excluded. 3. We cater to the man who is employed. Toughs and bums are deadbeats anyway. They do not help business. And upon the failure of the proprietor to enforce these rules supposing the police enforced them; there would be much less crime traced to the pool rooms of the city. : Furthermore if the proprietors
THE LAW OF NONUSE. Working hard? Encountering obstacles?
Fortunate you! You are fulfilling the law of your development, which requires that you must use what yon
have and grow strong or lose what you
have and grow weak. There's the hermit crab. The hermit crab is too lazy to grow a shell for Itself. It loafs around until it finds the castoff shell of some mollusk and takes possession. Of course it follows that the hermit crab Is a feeble creature compared with the crabs that live the hustling life. It is the law of nonuse. There's the plant parasite. The parasite dodder, like the shiftless husband who is supported by his washwoman wife, clings to something else, say the Juices of the other plants and has neither root nor leaf. Classed humanly, the parasite is a vagabond. Don't be a hermit crab. Nor a vagabond parasite. Be a man! To be a man you must do the work of a man, suffer the hardships of manhood, develop the faculties of a man. There is no other way. If you want physical power you must use your muscles in overcdhing resistance; if you want character you must use your will in overcoming resistance. The land of desire is upstream. Only the strong camp there. They are strong because they go up against the current The weak drift down to the wide sea of nowhere. The easy job makes the easy man. The most pitiful spectacle is that of men and women who get up in the morning dependent upon the day turning up entertainment until bedtime. They are parasites, hermit crabs. To be something a man must do something. Some of our naturalists tell of the birds on a certain island that, because of the absence of snakes and vermin, quit roosting in the trees and lived on the ground. Years passed and the wing muscles of the birds grew flabby and useless, so that finally they lost the power to fly. It Is so of humans. The lazy man gradually loses his power to do and be. It is the law of
nonuse.
If you are doing things in this big
world whether little or big things, it
matters not if you are a worker and
not a shirker, happy you!
Up and Down in INDIANA
"THIS DATE IX HISTORY" Deeember 20.
1791 Canada divided into two provinces. Upper and Lower
Canada.
1806 The French under Napoleon won a victory over the allied Russians and Prussians in the battle of Pul-
tusk.
1811 The governor and many other of the leading citizens of Virginia
perished in a theater fire In Rich
mond. 1812 Great Britain proclaimed
blockade of the Chesapeake and
the Delaware.
1822 Dion Bouclcault, famous actor.
born. Died Kept. 18, 1891. 1831 Stephen Girard, f-minent phil
anthropist and banker, died in Philadelphia. Born In France, May
20, 1750.
1846 Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
connected by telegraph.
1S91 Jorge Montt Inaugurated as
president of Chili. "THIS IS MY 37TH DIUTHDAY" William V. MrCombx.
William F. McCombs, chairman of the National Democratic Committee
and manager of the Wilson presl
dential campaign, was born in Ashley
county, Arkansas, December 26, 1875
lie received his preparatory education in Tennessee and in 1898 was graduated from Princeton University. Following this he attended the Harvard law school, from which h was gradu-
ated in 1901, and was then admitted to
the New York bar. For several years he was employed as a clerk by a prominent law firm. He then opened an office of his own and before long had attained a high place In his profession. Trior to his taking charge of the recent campaign his only experience in practical politics was In 1904. when he was an unsuccessful candidate on the Democratic ticket for the New York general assembly. Mr. McCombs has been a close friend of President-elect Wilson ever since he was a student at Princeton, where the President-elect was at that time a professor. Congratulations to:
The Vicc-roy and Vtcarom on SUlz Elephant.
While the viceroy and vicereine of India, Lord and Lady Hardinge, were
making their state entry into Delhi, the new capital, an assassin, stationed on a housetop, threw a bomb, which exploded against the howdah and wounded the viceroy, killed the attendant who was holding a parasol over the viceregal couple, and wounded the driver of the elephant, who sat In front of the howah, directing tha huge beast with a steel spike. The vicereine
was not injured.
Admiral George Dewey, hero of the J m
cer of the United States navy, 75 years j old today. I
Hon. Joseph Dubuc, former chief
Justice of Manitoba, 72 years old today.
Morgan G. Bulkeley, former United
States senator from Connecticut, 74
years old today. William D. Stephens, representative
in Congress of the Seventh district of
California, 53 years old today.
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Lady Hard mg2.'
Popular Actress Now in Chicago
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IT Is all right to suggest that a sane first be observed like- a sane Fourfh, but the avalanche of bills due on the 1st naturally drives some people to forget their troubles. ONE good thing about your kid attaining his Sth year Is that he Is old enough to hook wlfle's dress which saves you a lot of trouble. FOLKS that resolve to turn over a new leaf on Jan. 1 usually do the turning so roughly that the leaf tears out in a few weeks. ALICE We do not know how long you should leave the mistletoe hanging but It would be well to let it alone until you have him broken in. SEE that President-Elect Wilson says that he. will do as the pe-pull want. If Woodrow Isn't careful the Hon. Battleaxe Castleman will have Mm up before the supreme court for infringing on his methods. EAST CHICAGO cops presented their mayor with a sterilizing outfit. If he can sterilize some of the political germs of would-be rivals probably he'll be satisfied with It. . ONE of the things that most of us
will do to today Is to wonder whether j we can pay all of the Xmas debts by j the middle of February j DISTILLERY company has gone out
of business in Chicago and a new brewery company has been incorporated. Thus, as the physicians say, in this" world no energy is ever lost. ; WHILE Indiana Harbor didn't get
to start a revolution among the Jamaicans. HIZZONER the mayor of Gary Is In Jamaica. It is now a tossup which Is
the warmest proposition in Jamaica the mayor or the ginger. CORNELL university says that its j most perfect beauty weighs 171 pounds. j In the meantime our ideal will be a 105-pound doll of animated sweetness. i BEING a motion picture tun we have i to wonder at the short-nosed indlvidi uals who wear hats of the 6 size and who are trying to make moving picture shows close on Sundays. J ONE good result of the 35-cent hair ' cuts In Gary and Hammond was that the bOHs barbers were able to buy their wives fine sets of furs and two caftfl . diamonds for Christmas. I TODAY the unfortunate cabbage leaf is being blamed for the trail of smoke you see In many places. IT is refreshing to note that the government is going after the leather trust.. It would tickle us to see Uncle Sam getunder its hide. FASTIDIOUS farmer now using vacuum cleaners on their cows. Bye and bye these farmers will got so antl- , septic that they will Insist on using ' sterilized water In the milk.
Jfifp Horn Pjbxzj?
HETIIIX TO GAS FOR FlEli. With another advance of 3 cents In crude oil. which puts the price at $1.22 for the North Lima and $1.17 for tha Indiana and South Lima product, many manufacturing concerns art- sitting up and taking notice. Amon Hartford City concerns which have been uslngv
the crude oil for fuel are the American
that million-dollar harbor from Uncle Window Glass Company, the Johnston Sam in its Xmas stocking, It might Glass Company and the Sheath Glass
keep it hanging for awhile and then maybe some time in January after Uncle Sam sees if he has any money left he may fill the stocking. NOW that it has been found that a Gary man "stole" the two-foot key to the city of Indianapolis It is more than likely that Mayor Shank will keep the key locked up In the safe and have it guarded by the militia when the Gary Democratic club blows into the capital to attend the governor's inauguration. SERVICE ON LINE IS DEPLORABLE." Times' headline. This is what Eve also said when the breeze blew away her washing. THE ship of state Is indeed in a perilous condition. President Taft is down in Panama and h.izzoner, the mayor of Gary, Is down in the ginger belt trying
Company. The prohibitive price of this fuel forces a return to the use of gas. The advance today marks the
fifth in as many weeks weeks and it is predicted that the quotations, now record-breaking, will go still higher.
ALL GETTING WISER. They find CSIOJI SCOTT SCRAP la made of the flneat chews. Ilandlrd bow by all dealera. And they hava KORHX (XXXX) amoklng one of tha rholeeat. HeHie-S. Ton. CoAdv.
IF THE WORKER YOU'RE LOOKING FOR DOESN'T ADVERTISE TODAY, YOU ADVERTISE FOR HIM IN THE TIMES TOMORROW! AND THE SAME DOUBLE CAPACITY FOR SERVICE HOLDS TRUE OF ALL THB WANT AD CLASSIFICATIONS.