Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 48, Hammond, Lake County, 28 December 1912 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

December 28, 1912.

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The Lake County Time, dally except Sunday, "entered a second-class matter June XI, 190S"; The Lake County Times, dally except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. B. 111; The Gary Evening- Times, daily except Sunday, entered Oct 5, 1901; The Lake County Times. Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. 10. ltll; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. 15, 111, at the postofflce at Hammond, Indiana, all under the aot of March t, 1171. Entered at the Postofflco, Hammond, Ind.. as secoad-elaaa matter. FOREIGN ABTKBTISIHB OFFICKS, 12 Rector Bunding- - . Chicago PUBLICATION OmCEI, Hammond Building, Hammond. Jnd. TELEPHONES, Hammond I private exchange).,..., n$ (Call for department wanted.) Gary Offlce Tet 187 East Chicago Olflce Tel. 140-J Indiana Harbor Tel. S49-M; ISO Whiting Tel. 0-M Crown Point Tel. 13 Hegewlsch Tel. Advertising solicitors will be sent, or rates rlren on application. If you ha-e any trouble getting The Times notify the nearest offlce and have it promptly remedied. LARGER PAID UP CIRCULATION THAU AST OTHER TWO MEWSPAPERS IX 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. Tn1 433 Garfield Lodge. No. 469, F. & A. M. State meeting every Friday evening. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. next meeting Thursday, Jan. 16th. Installation Of officers by Past Grand High Priest John J. Glendenlng of Indianapolis. Hammond Council, No. 90, R. S. M. Stated meetings first Tuesday of each month. Hammond Commandery No. 41 K. T. Installation ' of officers Monday Jan. 6th. Wednesday. Jan. 8th, frea illustrated lecture on Yellowstone Na tional Park. All Master Masons and ladles cordially invited. ,, MISEET CREATES FEAR. It has been characteristic of re forms that they come slowly because of the contentment of sufferers. In almost any grade of social life the leaders of reform, commonly mis called "reformers," are far from being the worst sufferers under the regime against which they rebel. The American slaves did not take up arms for their own freedom. They could not. Their condition had sunk too low, John Brown and Wendell; Phillips were necessary. I The Russian serfs are not able to Bght for their economic Independence. Their minds are stupefied. They are helpless but for here and there a Tolstoi. The patrician rule of Rome would have called forth feeble resistance from the Bmall farmers whose land was being taken away, but for the high-minded and wealthy Gracchi. The tendency of the greatly oppressed is to yield. Slavery produces inertia, low wages stupefy the mental activities, and voters lapse most easily into submission "when the idea becomes fixed that it does no good to vote. There is a common saying regarding the artisans in certain trades that are well-organized that "the more those fellows get the more they de mand. This is what DeTocquevIlle won dered at when he declared that the masses find their condition more in tolerable the more it is Improved Classes of people who are ground down near to the earth, or below it, ran scarcely be aroused to act in their own self interest. They have neither the time, the money, nor the education. Hence, it is that the duty of aiding the weak devolves upon the strong. It is a duty never to be denied by those of high ideals yet the most common excuse for economic selfish news Is that it is most logical to help those who will not help themselves, and this Is a most vile excuse. Down trodden men and women and chil dren who work seventy hours a week for barely enough to keep them alive will not help themselves because they can't. Dmitri Nekhludoff was not a fool to force upon the Russian peasants the land they refused to accept. He knew their refusal was the natural result of generations of want and destitution and that the only wary to give to very man the full product of his toil is not to give any other man anything for which he has not abored.

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TAKE COMFORT. Forart thy sorrow, Aeart of mlnf ! Though shadow fall and fade (he leaf. Somewhere la joy, though tie not alne The power that sent caa heal thy rrlefj And light Ilea la the farther hills. Thou wenldet net with the world be one If ne'er thou knew est hurt and wrona-i Take comfort, though the darkened sua Never aarala brlna-a sleana or aoaa The light Ilea oa the farther hills. Richard Watson Gilder. HAVE you been mentioned yet for a diplomatic post under Wilson? 'TIs a pleasant pastime, forwith. What Indiana will get in this line will be what the little boy shot at. Oil how sweet the cute little express companies are these daya aren't they? Don't forget the parcel post. At last you have your revenge. JUST HAD TO. The News is run as a strictly neutral paper, but when the returns began to come in and Uncle George Rodgers met us on the street with a long face and said, "Wilson has carried sixty-six States," we just had to slip out back of our office, where our right hand grabbed our left hand and squeezed so hard we Just had to yell. Licking (Mo.) News. Why at the back of the office? Probably came, from the excitment. Move he be given the Licking postoffice and that a handy back door be provided. IT is pointed out that there i3 no marrying nor giving in marriage in heaven, heaven. That is of course why it is THE Muncy twins of Babylon, L. I., have just celebrated their 94 th birthday. Some twins eh? A BLOW AT THE CIRCULAR. A decision of interest and import ance to those advertisers who engage cutu,ura ur umer loose advertising matter in newspapers for delivery has been rendered in new lortc ana is a decision intend ed to protect newspapers from this very clear misuse of their circulation advantages. One of the recognized functions of a newspaper is to pub lish advertising of an acceptable and proper character. To thwart this function by inserting in a newspaper a separate advertising sheet or cir cular Is a violation of the right and privilege of the newspaper and a New York court holds that this must not be done without the consent of the newspaper. This may be regarded as another blow at circular advertising The time may come when those who indulge in this method of advertising will recognize that it is not as effeetive as they now believe. South Bend Tribune. MAN says a woman's voice started him on the road to wealth. Well it usually starts a man somewhere. WHENEVER you are disposed to1 bubble over with too much animal spirits just take a squint at one of those Christmas cravats you got. INEXCUSABLE BUNGLING. Fire Chief Peter Dilschneider of the Hammond Are department is wise to not make too many excuses for the magnificent failure of his men to cope with a very ordinary conflagra tion on Webb street the other day. His one excuse la the weakest and most flimsy imaginable. He said that luck was against them. The people of Hammond do not like to accept such an explanation for bungling. The people of Hammond may not know as much about fire fighting but they do know that: . 1. Luck was not a factor in fight ing a small blaze such as consumed the roof of the Gauthier residence and should not be a factor in fighting any nre. mere snouia be no "chance" In a fire department's work 2. That nozzle should have been tested under the highest of pressure and under the most adverse circum stances so that the fire chief knew, not guessed, it would work in a case of real emergency. ?. The lack of experience shown by the men in running that line of hoe indicates that the chief should make each department run a line at least once a day until they are thoroughly proficient in the work. 4. Is the organization defective? If the chief is unable to make a run I to a fire his assistant chief should be

required to be on the Job until he can take command again even if he has to have his meals taken to him. There ought not to be a minute of the day when the fire department of this city Is not under the absolute command of a man who knows how to handle men and fight fires. 5. The men ought to be taught to work smoothly, methodically and with absolute certainty of what they are doing. There should be no place on the fire department for the bungler. It is plain that while the Hammond fire department has the equipment that its men are woefully lacking in training. , Chief Dilschneider says his men are not going to take orders from spectators. That's right. They shouldn't. But there ought to be some one at a fire to give orders. When firemen work at cross-purposes as they did at Gauthier, the spectators can't be blamed for wanting to

help a little. REMEMBER the poor, not only on the day before Christmas but at every opportunity you get to help them in some little way. GEE! What become of the oldfashioned holiday-tide dance where they danced the lancers and the waltz quadrille. SINGULAR HAPPENINGS. The press dispatches in yesterday's newspapers carried accounts of some singular happenings. Over at East Chicago a drunken pig had been arrested. At Rochester three poker players fell thirty feet down an airshaft to escape arrest and were badly injured. From the southern seas came the tale of a Jamaica boy who had been carried 100 miles out Into the sea on a cocanut tree limb and who was rescued by a passing ship. A newspaper man who was explor ing in the Amazon country arrived In San Francisco with a thrilling tale of adventure. He managed to escape from a gang of hungry cannibals after they had put him into the huge kettle and clamped the lid down. And out in California a man rush ed into a surgeon's office and asked him to cut a two-carat diamond out of his arm as he wanted it for his wife's Christmas present. The man had the stone sewed In his skin years before for safe keeping There are odd happen,ngg recorded in newSDaDer every dav but vesterday Beemed to produce a big grist of them. SCRATCH HER OFF THE LIST. Sensitiveness is often only another word for egotism, and any friend who Is everlasting taking offense at some imaginary injury is not worthy of the name. MORE TROUBLE FOR JOHN B. It should be one of the pleasant things connected with his duties f r Congressman-elect John B. Peterson, in the Tenth district, to offer the Postmastership at Valparaiso tq Mayor W. F. Spooner. Mr. Spooner has been chairman of the County Committee of Porter county during the past several campaigns and is the backbone of the organization in the county. He is loved by every one who knows him and the school chil dren of the city never fall to salute him on sight. Not only is Mayor Spooner deserving of the position from a party viewpoint, but personally he has always stood by Mr. Peterson, who has made two campaigns. No man stands higher in Valpa raiso than does Mayor Spooner, and his friends all over Indiana expect to ee him taken care of in the way sug gested. Indianapolis Herald. EMPTY pocketbooks cast their shadows before. ANOTHER after-Christmas pond ering. Some men forget that the tree is the only thing that shouldn't be lighted up. STICK TO HOME. It seems that, after all, some lessons may be learned from Gary, the incorrigible instead of costing money the industrial schools there made money during1 the year. Indianapolis News. We would advise the News to keep its comments within home precincts. Just remember that the financial con dition of Indianapolis is so wobbly that it couldn't pay its policemen their December salaries for Christ mas, and, what's more, they will not have a pay day until the middle of January. PKfcSiDKNT-n.Lii;i;T Wilson says I the surest way not to get a job from I him is to ask for one. Better stand I out In the open near a haystack and wait for lightning to strike you

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CRITICIZES HEALTH OFFICERS. East Chicago, Ind., Dec. 28. Editor' Times: Having read an article In your paper in regard to the scarlet fever epidemic In East Chicago and the strict enforcement of quarantine which was to last three, weeks I have' noted each case and find that so far In the American colony not any have been kept in the specified time, some cases being released in two weeks. What is the use of closing schools and having health officers if the law is not enforced, giving the benefit to a favored few while the lives of hundreds of children are in danger. A RESIDENT. eart to near t Talks. By EDWIN A..NY11 THE RECOR.D OF THE FACE. ETery .one who goes to Milan wishea to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting of "The Last Supper" or what is left of it Napoleon, who stole everything ha could get bis hands on in Italy, permitted his noldiers to stable their horses in the cathedral. The horses kicked away much of the painting. The story of Da Vinci's model of Jesus and Judas is an old one and illustrates a spiritual truth that is always new. After painting the eleven apostles, each representing a type, he found a model for the face of Jesus in a young singer of the choir. One face remained to be painted that of Judas. Da Vinci made a search of many months for a model that would express the depravity of the betrayer. He haunted the jails and hunted the slums for a face that was mean and base enough. Finally in a prison cell he found his model. The face was of a man. still I young, but marred by vice and stamped with crafty cunning. Now Here is the point of the story: When the picture was completed the artist learned that the man who had posed as Judas and the one used as the model for the Christ were the same man! Do you doubt the story? Then you have not closely studied the human face or. what is more significant, the possibilities for good and evil of the human spirit Look at the bloated . faces, bleary eyes and degenerate cast of the faces any morning in the police court. You scarcely can fancy tbnt one day those faces were pure in line and lineament And yet you know the derelicts were somebody's innocent children. The face tells the story. Mask it ns you may. you cannot hide the stamp of your personal history. It is the perfect law of assimilation that one la transformed into the like ness of that which he follows and ndmires. lie Is changed into the likeness of goodness If he admires and follows goodness: If he loves and follows evil he degenerates Into the likeness of evil. And the face makes the record. The face of Jesus became the face of Judas. The change took place within the man. The face was the dial plate on which the change was recorded. HEARD BY UBE AH! We have to note the generous Christmas spirit that pervaded some Indiana cities. For Instance, down a Columbus twenty poor boys were given free hair cuts. IF Congressman John B. Peterson wants to do something real worthy let him get foreign consulates f or abou fifty or sixty pie counter patriots that we know of. Their absence from the community for four years will be it gain and the further they go the better for all concerned. WHY worry about your basemen furnace and a coal shortage? Think of the troubles that must beset the super intendent of the Gary coke ovens who has to have 9,000 tons of coal every day in the year. OF course, if the postofflce delivers to you two or three days late a Christ mas package from a friend that you didn't think would send one you can reciprocate on Jan. 1 by adding that you always send jour's out on New Year's day. JUST why hizzoner, the Hon. Tom Knotts, alcade of Gary, returned from Cuba on Thursday when he wasn't due until February is a matter of conjecture. As far as we can learn the city hall safe was nailed down and Chief Martin took day and night precautions to keep the city hall contrac tors away from everything that wasn't chained down. athemlH It In O. K. (About the Hammond fire department.) The specific complaints against the departments are that more than 'fifteen minutes elapsed after their arrival before water was played on the fire; that there was an absolutely uncalled for delay in making hose connections from the engine to the water plug; that the department fail.

"FLOWERS AND APPLAUSE ARE NICE," ADMITS MAY BUCKLEY, "BUT" WELL, READ WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY.

STasC O.AUSfoEC COMPS -TO tOOt Ue trfPUtSTO Vfo-rpu u? sue- "tAiDs; is (Miss Buckley, on being asked to ! furnish some general observations for the benefit of our readers, and especially those who contemplate a stage career, on the subject of "being an actress," was quite sure there was nothing new to say. On being reminded. however, that there is never anything new, except perhaps hew readers of a newspaper, Bhe consented to write this article. Miss Buckley la an actress of rare ability. Always identified with the best companies, she has played only leading roles foe several years. Her success has not -been confined to America, she having had a very successful season in England. More recently she has been seen in "The Little Damosel" and "The Shepherd King." She played in moving pictures last winter and made a very decided hit. The Editors.) By May Buckley. I wonder how many thousands of young women In this land of ours dream dreams of a stage career. Surely they roust be as numerous as the sands of the seashore, for I myself am constantly hearing from them; and think how many others they have to confide In! And what dreams those dear girls have! How blissful is their ignorance of the real actress and the price she pays for her success. In their fond Imaginings they see her as a creature who trips blithely ' over sunlit paths always strewn with roses that have never a thorn! They see her behind the footlights, bowing and smiling to applauding throngs. They see her happy, successful, famous. And it all seems so easy. No wonder they soon come to nurse the longing themselves to lead the life apparently so filled ed to make a timely application of the chemical; that the water from one lead on top of the building had to be temporarily shut off Just after it had been turned on, because of a faulty nozzle; that the firemen lacked discipline, and that there were not enough firemen on the Job. There was more water poured into the street and yard than on the fire. F: om ThSTTiuks. MR. RAPP is a candidate for speak er of the Illinois house of representatives. He ought to be handy with th gavel. . i ALTHOUGH we received several tubs of fancy Havanas for Christmas, we have gone back to our old love the nnrnenh nine i Sonndn Uke a Gary Charity Ball. (From the Chicago Tribune.) Mrs. Draper, wearing a gown of white satin brocaded in broad bands of black velvet, received the guests. Flounces and furbelows of priceless lace trimmed the costume -which was completed by Mrs. Draper's famous $500,000 tiara, necklace, throat piece, and bodice ornaments of pearshaped pearls. i Miss Draper wore a costume of! pink and blue taffeta changeant, the short bodice having a square neck and the wonderful puffed sleeves having cascades of creamy old lace. Antique shadow lace frilled the short , skirt over which opened two enor- j mously bouffant panniers edged with "pinked" silk and finished with lace falls. From Paris also came the enormous puffed and curlet wig of lustrous white hair which had for it further ornamentation garlands of tiny pink roses and strands of pearls festooned in and out mong the tiny curls. IF tTncle Sam uses the 'steemed old Wabash or Erie to send chickens through the parcel post it will be. nec essary for the sender to provide at least ten days' rations for each 100 miles traveled. WHY will the cartoonists persist in drawing about the unfortunate married man walking the floor with the baby at night and stepping on a tack? Rugs are used now days and tacks went out of fashion ten years ago. DESPITE the absence of snow old Kris Kingle and his sleigh managed to cover the usual amount of ground. WHAT'S become of the old-fashioned Hoosler who used to talk of Indianny as being God's "own country?" FALLS SO FEET FROM SCAFFOLD. Clarence C. Moon of Indianapolis, uperlntendent of electrical construction work in South Bend's new $890,000 high school building, fell twenty feet from a scaffold at the building and received serious injuries-

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with everything worth while. Poor girlsl It does seem a pity to shatter an illusion so fond. Tet if they could but be made to see the whole truth, how many heartaches could be saved, how many tragedies averted. Stage Deniidi Much. The stage demands first that its humble follower shall posses stalent of a high order, and then that she shall work, work, work. Work she must; there's no royal road, even for the most gifted. Hours of study, hours of rehearsals, more hours of study. How irksome it all grows to the girl whose ambition and vitality are not almost boundless, and bow soon to her the stage manager comes to look Just like pictures of Mephisto. Nor is this alL Many of life's little pleasures must be sacrificed in the ceaseless flutter from town to town. Home life becomes a cherished memory; hotel life something worse than a nightmare. And the salary? Well, it never could mak the shade of Midas envious. So the life of an actress can hardly be compared to a June day, after all. It's frightfully prosaic in many respects. And the prose always comes most generously before the first taste of success. Success! Tes, one can sacrifice much for that. Tet, there's always the dread possibility that success may never come. Many an actress after long Up and Down in INDIANA AMISH COLOXY "WILL MOTE. ' Members of the Amish colony in Gibson county, about 600 In number, are preparing to move from their location , about five miles northwest of Oakland City to the vicinity of Mason, Ga. Their farms are located along Satoka river and when the court recently decided against the Boieman levee proposition they decided to move. Already they are selling their property and preparing to m6ve in a body. ! FIRE BURNS "MOVIE" HOUSK. 1 Fire having its origin from the ex-' plosion of a stove, yesterday afternoon gutted the Grand Theater, at Washing- j ton, a moving picture house owned by Harry and Ray Palmer, doing damage to the extent of $1,500. The building, which was owned by Hugh McKernan, was damaged to the extent of $300. The business section of the city for a time was threatened. The Palmers' loss la party covered by an insurance, of $800, while McKernan's loss is total. FAMILY HEADS PAY FINES. Five cltitens were prosecuted at Worthington yesterday for failure to send their children to school. Schofleld White, Joseph Summers and Lotus Bland were found guilty, and their fines and costs were $15.3') each. Harvey McDaniels and Riley Blaker pleaded guilty and escaped with smaller fines. Squire George Allison heard the cases. RECEIVES JTIRSE OF COLD. Members of the Moores Hill College factulty, the alumni and student body at Moores Hill, Ind., made a Christmas present of a purse containing $100 in gold to Dr. A. J. Bigney, vice president and head of the biological department of the college. The presentation in the chapel was made by President H. A. King, who spoke of the esteem in I which the recipient was held and of his unselfish and worthy service to the . institution during the last twenty-fiv vears. Dr. Bigney responded with much feeling. MAY BE VICTIM OF TRACHOMA. Benj. S. Crawford, a government In spector from the Immigration Bureau, j yesterday arrested Mrs. Zanit Ameen, Syrian woman Of Michigan City, who is claimed to be a victim of trachoma, a j disease of the eyes peculiar to orientals. She will be given a hearing in court today and if she is found to be i so affected, she will be deported. A similar case was found at Michigan City three years ago and the victim, a man, was deported. TREASURER GIVES VP OFFICE. Although he had received a certifi cate of his election as treasurer of 1

years of toil and striving and selfdenial has awakened in the dawn of a gray day in her middle age to the realization that real success has never come to her that It never can come. Then perhaps has she felt with bitterness in her heart that she could have lived a much happier, a much fuller life had she given it all to making some man happy and to the upbuilding of a little home. Bat Tkes, It's Not So Bad. However, I don't want to paint too dark a picture. Even the humblest actress has her little Joys; and to her who possess real histrionic talent, together with plenty of ambition and health and beauty, too the stage offers glorious possibilities. To such a girl there will come rich compensation for every sacrifice.. There will be applause and flowers, and hosts of worth while friends, and financial reward, too. But greatest and best of all. there will be the satisfaction that comes from having done a great work well a satisfaction far greater than wealth or applause squldH bring, So If you happen to be an ambitious and stage-struck girl. ' and competent critics rather than doting friends have told you that you possess real talent, don't let anything I've said discourage you. For although the stage never exacted more from its followers than it does today, it never had quite so ' much to give. Lawrence County, Lincoln Burton, a Democrat, at Bedford, has given up, his bond of $20,000 has been released and the commissioners have elected Earl Q. Short, a Republican, to the position. On the face of the returns Burton was elected, but three recounts of the votes resulted In different figures each time. This, together with the fact that his appointment of a Republican former treasurer as his deputy gave dissatisfaction, disgusted Burton. Have yo tried UNION SCOUT SCRAPf Live dealer handliae It. Wl consumers having It. Adv. Popular Actress Now in Chicago

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