Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 185, Hammond, Lake County, 7 January 1913 — Page 4
THE TIMES. Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1913.
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DON'T WHINE. In the conflict of life on It arret battlefield. You will have to climb many m nigjred Incline) Rut mlta Truth an your motto and justire your ahleld
1 ou may triumph at last, if you don't atop to nIoe. If you're too nrak to stand in the front of the tiicht. Where the brljcht. burnlnhed blades of the foenian doth striae, Vou may fall in the ranks and ntlli stand for the right Vou may till be a hero bat aot If
you whine. Don't wait for the cheers of your comraile. my boy Don't aulk If not praised let your work be divine The reward li In doing In conglct the Joy And Cod likes ne all likethe man
' w ho doesn't w hine.
lime - has It reveageas Truth may
travel Mow,
But It risen at luat to summits dl-1
oe.
While brainless Pretension, In -valleys
below
Sits down In the shadows to simper
and whine, Cleveland Leader.
LOOKS LIKE A BIG NIGHT.
While waiting patiently for some
body to put the cat out let us con
sider the sad case of the Stanton
county (Kan.) farm hand who, un
able to obtain any bootleg whiskey, took sundry horns of silo juice, fitted
an improvised rope halter to a two hundred pound hog, rode the animal
ten miles down a cattle trail until it dropped dead, and is now dodging the
Humane Society.
pose of freeing a worthless man at the expense of the good name of the dead. However, it appears that no such recourse was had. It was evidently too much trouble. Fourteen years is a long time and it seemed unlikely that any story an . unscrupulous lawyer and his convict client might concoct, would be proved or disproved. Therefore why investigate? At any rate the investigation was not made apparently and the result was that the name of a good woman was dragged in the mire, by the story of her husband's aHeged martyrdom for
but had it inserted the Word, harmful, instead of useless, in its name, it might fill a real mission. The air gun is not a deadly weapon in the strict sense of the word, but it is a firearm, and the police of the various Lake County cities should deal with it as such. True the United States Constitution insures the right to carry firearms, but the cities are given the right to say where such firearms may be used.
and every city has an ordinance
which prohibits the discharge of them within the city limits.
If any one questions the thought-
UNCLE SAM'S PARCELS POST PROVES POPULAR; MALL CARRIERS
OVERWORKED; EXPRESS COMPANIES PREPARE TO SLASH RATES
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an unfaithful wife, being published 1 lessness which parents provide these
broadcast throughout the state.
It is a shame that such a situation is within the pale of possibility.
When will this thing end?
dangerous playthings, let him keep open his eyes as he walks along al
most any street in any city. If he
sees a boy with an air gun, he is sure
to see an admiring group of play
mates with him. Watch him at his
sport, study the potential man's face before he aims and after he has fired, whether he hits or misses.
The gun in the youngster's hand
gives him a certain ' bravado. The
harmless little bird on the telegraph
WE notice that whenever some wire or ln tne tree branches, be it a
trust is knocked galley west and It is sparrow or a song bird is his quarry.
BREAK in the price of eggs said to
be due to a conspiracy. Well some of
the ones set forth lately would drive
a man to something worse than con-1
spiracy murder at least.
announced as a great, victory for the
people, the price always goes up about
ten cents a dozen or a dollar a ton
or something else like that.
FOUND AT LAST.
"At last I've met an honest grand
mother," said the woman next door.
'She says none of her children
were unusually smart, nor unusually large, nor unusually good; she says
they didn't cut their teeth all at once,
nor walk before they were a year old.
She was such a dear, jolly old
lady, and when her granddaughter
asked her why she was prinking up
so much, she said she was fixing to
meet her beau." '.
Garfield Lodge, No. 469, T. Etata meeting every Friday
& A. M. evening.
Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. Special meeting Thursday, Jan. 9th. AH the present officers and officerselect, their attendance requested.
Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M.
text meeting Thursday, Jan. 16th. Installation -of officers by Past Grand
High Priest John J. Glendening of Indianapolis.
Hammond Council, No. 90, R. S. M. Stated meetings first Tuesday of eaeh tcontb.
n&nraohd' Commandery No. 41 K. T.
Installation of officers Monday Jan. gth. Wednesday, Jan. 8th, frea illustrated lectura on Yellowstone National Park. All Master Masons and ladies cordially Invited.
, Special meeting Red Cross work.
Monday, Jan. 13th.
HOW WOULD IT? The -situation in Gary might be immensely simplified If that city were to lose 139 saloons as a result of a supremo court decision. Indianapolis News. Just how the forfeiture of 139 saloon licenses would simplify the situation by filling the city so full of blind pigs that you couldn't turn around without bumping into one is not exactly clear to an obtuse editor.
THE RAPE OF "RASSELAS."
The current issue of Collier's has an article entitler "Charles S. Mellen
to the bar" by Carl Snyder. , ' This is the introductory paragraph Let such as deeply feel the lure of American bigness, and to whom Bigness confounds with Greatness; who have heard the oft-repeated story of what Monopoly could do if only it were unfettered and unharassed; who believe that huge consolidations make for efficiency and economy, and that a single man or set of men can manage a business of a hundred millions as well as one of five or ten millions; who Still trust that great power will be unswayed by greed and that large temptations will not induce dishonesty, attend to the tale of the
Rise and Spread and Fall of the Man Who Tried to Own New England.
Turning to the introductory paragraph of Samuel Johnson's classic
"The History of Itasselas, Prince of
Abyssinia" we read: Ya who listen with credulity to . the whisperings of fancy and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas. Prince of Abyssinia.
The Collier writer evidently want
ed to make a. classy lead so he lifted
the immortal first paragraph from
Rasselas.
BANDIT says he is sorry at having
shot a deaf man who did not hear
'hands up." Suppose he thinks the
victim had no license to be running
around loose when he couldn't hear! on the impressionable child mind.
A stray cat, a clog or a horse are other targets. Chickens are his irresistable mark. If the bullet hits
the target, notice the gleam of satisfaction, akin to the vicious spread
over tne race and if it misses, not infrequently a curse escapes the
young lips.
Rut the immediate harm that the
possession of the air gun does, con
sequential as it may be, Is after all
not tne strongest objection to the
plaything.
Less than two months ago a double
tragedy recorded in THE TIMES, pointed out a lesson, and two little
uu.ve, which Miouiu nave Deen napnv
under the Christmas tree are in up-
timely graves.
m i . ,.
mere is anoiner evil the gun
'toting' mania grows out of this early
handling of firearmbs. It is one of the worst evils, the police have to
deal with. But the worst Is the de
basing influence that this toy creates
anything.
COME, come now Mr.' Wilson tell
us whether Mr. Bryan is going to be
in the cabinet or no, so we can get a
cut of him ready with a large expan
sive smile.
HAS NEVER BEEN IN DYER.
I have sharpened and repaired one
thousand lawn mowers In beautiful Pasadena. I would rather be a lawn
mower expert in beautiful Pasadena
than be a banker any place else on
earth. Ad. in the Pasadena Star,
The crippled feathered victim in
stead of arousing symnathv and
horror for the act, nurses the passion
of cruelty, and under such environ
ments the child grows into manhood
If parents are unreasonable, and
indifferent to the rights of the com
munity, and children are beyond the
reach of humanitarian appeal, the
duty of the police is clear.
Confiscation of the weapons and a
few cases of exemplary punishment
w"buld help some. -
If the law is not broad enough let
us get one that is, and by all means
let us make it effective.
JUST to make it interesting we will
wager a box or old Dutch Cleanser with some one that old Battleaxe
Castleman doesn't run ten feet for
mayor of Gary.
OUR SAND DUNES. "A movement haa been started in Chicago for the preservation of sand dunes and geographic phe-
nomina in the great glacial region ln northern Indiana between Chicago and Gary and the movement now has linked with it the proposed establishment of a school of horticulture in that region." News Note. It la flattering to observe that the Band dunes of this region are wanted for some purpose other than the location of factories where the horny handed son of toil ekes out a livelihood by the sweat of his brow and by
his humble industry. Also whereby the festive millionaire ekes out more than a livelihood by the careful cutting of coupons. It is a change at least to have the real sure enough high-brows crave our sand dunes for educational purposes. What would it mean to this region to be able to learn all about
NEW movement has been started to permit wives to have two nights out a week to keep cheerful. All those in
favor will kindly get busy polishing the crockery and setting out the milk
bottles.
A WILD-CAT PROPOSITION. "Heretofore the Jefferson club has been ruled on a sort of frontier basis. Thysically it was a wildcat proposition. : Hammond News.
Which is just what Mr. Becker's
Wilson Progressive League evidently
thought. Yet if a republican paper
had said this about the Jefferson club.
what a weeping in Jericho there
would have been.
THEN, again, it might be differen
if those suffrage pilgrims had to walk
to Albany.
LEARN from the seat of war that
a blockade does not necessarily mean
occupation. Quite so. Man may
smite you violently on the eye without necessarily meaning to raise a
large, blue lump on it, but it's there.
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Upper picture shown clerk welghlng ' and sortina packages at the bottom, parcel poat motor tricycle. Judging by the amount of new business being done by post offices throughout the country the parcels post is an unqualified success. Not o, however, from the standpoint of the express companies, which are preparing to slash rates to meet the new competition. The. accompanying pictures gov some fdea of how the new system works.
other fellow to get him out and to get J the church is the Rev. Victor E. Har-
lumself in. 1 gltc The new house of worship has
LAFAYETTE paper (speaks of "thj W'ocesa of building since early
hard winter of "63," aa some of its asl Png ana it represents a ipisi readers describes it. Up ln Gary the cost of J19.00O, much of this provided
: rtv n ArwrpM rrnm xn npnnri m pnis ci i i ri e
-""O- " - T church and by subscriptions. The Sunday school pledged $1,000, and the La-
wiriter of 1908 touches the pioneer days, j
LATEST census report is that eaca '
citizen of the United States should have
$34.2. This was our per capita just before Christmas, but since then its dif ferent. MAN has been stationary for 7,000 years, says London scientist, but woman changes every ten years. For ln stance, what's become of the old-fashioned girl that managed to keep in style and yet wear enough clothes on a cold day so that i.er father didn't have to or- paying a running doctor bill? AND now t'a eoal men will be able to get in a lick. IF the Chicago cops can't cope with the a iv to bandits where do they think they will get off at wTien we get aeroplane bandit? f THIS fresh air sleeping gag wouldn't be so bad if you could press a button at the head of the bed and close the
window when tne ccid
to o.ow, Ol.rj Doc Smilh is Mentioned, for mayor of Gary, He ought to be able to pres-Mihe for the a-Hr.g child. TIIM?13 who had b!g hearts just before Chnstma.T now find themselves In ho possession c-I X.-z t lis.
dales' Aid Society $800.
1S68 the Archduchess Maria Theresa ot Austria-Este, by whom be has threw sons and six daughters. Since he was seriously wounded at the battle of Helmstadt in the war against Prussia by a bullet which has never been extracted he has played little part in military matters and is seldom to be
The building 1 seen in uniform. He is an enthusiastic
is of brick and stone, with a fine concrete basement.
The Day in HISTORY
breezes begin 1822 Greeks
pendence.
SOME of the good folk are still
trying to oust George W. Perkins. Foolishness. George will never be ousted. He has the key to the strong
box.
HOPE you are hooked up with at least several tons of Hocking Valley in readiness for a spell of dark and
gloomy weather.
THIS is the glad time of the year
for the squdgers. Don't know what
a squdger is? Well he's a lazy wight
who never cleans the snow and slush
off his walk and his name comes from
the noise your shoes make when you
walk through the evidences of hi3
shiftlessness.
HEARD BY RUBE
THAT PARDONING POWER.
Attention has once more been, directed to the pernicious use of the pardoning power as practiced by the
board of pardons and the governor of
Indiana. ?
Alvo O. Reser of Lafayette was a court stenographer at the time one
Freeman, charged with the murder of
his wife, was convicted and sentenced
the strata of which our dune3 are to the penitentiary in that city about
ROBBING HOME.
The woman who wears herself out
quickly in the service of the home quickly robs the home of its best
servant.
SPEAKING of women's hatpins as deadly weapons what about the wom
an's umbrella?
bullded. To know to a day when this bit of glacial drift hoisted itself or Was hoisted Into its present position, and all the rest of the interesting
data that will be at our disposal, if the organization which has designs upon our sand dunes, succeeds In its purpose, that of getting the government to set aside a perfectly good dune or two, for post mortem by the high brows." Perhaps not so interesting as a good carbarn bandit yarn, but infinitely more instructive.
THE man who refused to go home during December with more than one cart wheel in his pocket to keep from being held up for Christmas presents H at least able to walk on the same Hide of the street with a bill collector (bis mouth. , , , ;
fourteen years ago. Freeman was re
cently pardoned by the governor on the recommendation of the board of pardons. According to Reser a lie was manufactured through the connivance of
the prisoner and his attorney, whereby the good name of the dead wife was sullied. Thin lie was used as a means to secure the freedom of the prisoner. Reser declares not a word to bear out the recent claim had been
introduced in the evidence whereby
the uxorcide was convicted.
If this is true the men who are re
sponsible for the release of the
murderer cannot be too severely censured. A reference to the records in the case would have made plain the
fact that the claim of infidelity of his
wife on the part of the convict hus
band, was raise, mat it was a
trumged up charge made for the pur
"CUSTER'S last scout" has again
passed away. And probably he has still more lives that haven't come to an end yet.
A DEMORALIZING GIFTEnough time has elapsed to avoid the charge of being a killjoy for saying a word of disapproval of ;t Christmas gift, which really is a moral de-
gerrerator to the reca'ver tnd a tuisance to the public the air gun. It would be a waste of lime to analyze the workings of the parental mind which is so weak that it is unable to withstand the assaults of a begging and pleading hopeful whose pne wish and desire is an instrument with which he can do harm to himself and to others. The Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving has been ridiculed,
Up and Down in INDIANA
"THIS DATE IX HISTORY", January 7. 1777 Elizabethtown, N. J., evacuated by the British. 17SS Blanchard and Jeffries crossed the English Channel in a balloon. X300 Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President of the U. S., born in Cayuga, N. Y. Died - in Buffalo, March 9. 1874.
proclaimed their lnde-
1832-T. DeWltt Talmage, famous Presbyterian divine, born in Bound Brook, N. J. Died in Washington, D, C. April 12, 1902. 1852 Laval University at Quebec opened. 1861 Florida troops seized Fort Marion and Fort St. Augustine.
1863 Confederate force attacked
Springfield, Mo.
1S92 First women members of a school
board in Canada elected in Toronto.
1911 Failure of the Carnegie Trust
Company, in New York City.
WE see by our new "Americana" that
Hammond is a town situated on the
Erie railroad and the Grand Calumet
river. Truly,- Hammond! deserves sym
pathy for being on these two sluggish
arteries of commerce.
"NEW American Freedom" is an ar
tide In the current magazine by
AVoodrow Wilson. After March 4
Woodrow won't be so free ln talking
about his freedom.
OX Monday mornings these days the
first two pages of the Chicago newspa
pers are devoted to auto bandits and
Jack Johntcn the last two pages to
Sunday sermons by the ministers.
THIS is the centenary of long trous
ers. Before 1813 the father of a lanky
son could wear his boy's knee breeches in case of a pinch. WHEN Mayor Knotts has his homecoming reception on Thursday night Chief Martin should examine the Comr mercial r-!ub carefully to see that no dictagraphs are ahnut. SOME women could be the wives pf presidents if it wasn't for their hus
bands, while soma men could be president If It wasn't for their wives. FOR the time being Mexico, Nicaragua and West . Hammond are seemingly quiet. TO other girls a girl may look like a queen when she is in a $100 ball gown, but the girl In the kitchen apron will always take the prize with a man. OUR own dictionary Politics ; Politics is nothing more than believing that the candidate you support is an angel, and that the other fellow is u devil. The man who is in office is a acvil in proportion to the desire ui tU
PRKPARES FOR ICE IIARYKST. Northern Indiana ice packers will be
gin the annual harvest this week unless
there is a change in the weather. The ice is of excellent quality and several . thousand men will be employed In gathering the crop. The lakes in (
northern Indiana are one of the sources
of supply for Indianapolis and Chicago
retail dealers and the harvesting of the
ice is the great winter industry in this section. FIGHT FOR KIUHT HOl'R LAW. The movement for an eight-hour law for working women and girls in Indi
ana is fast gaining state-wide proml-. nence and .already expressions favorable to such a law have been voiced by men who hold high positions in the l councils of the state. This comes large-? ly as a result of the active campaign1 inaugurated by a commltiee of South ;
Bend people who have at their head Mrs. W. E. Miller. INJURIES MAY PROVE FATAL.
Mrs. Levi Zeigler, 67 years old, fell on the street at Columbus yesterday morn- ' ing and broke one of her hips. She is in so critical a condition from the ln- , jury and shock that her physicians give out no hope for her recovery. There were also a number of other minor injuries from falls on the ice, and blacksmiths worked all day at shoeing hQr8t!SEXJOY FIXE SLEKiHlXt; WEATHER. This was the first day of fine sleighing weather of the season, and the
main street at Anderson were nlled with sleighing parties. While a few cutters made their appearance on the street last night, all the available vehicles on runners from the finest cutters to roughly manufactured sleds were pressed into service. Late this afternoon a drizzling rain put an end to the sleighing by rendering tha snow in the streets slushy. I.KOHtiF. A HE IJI REI IX FALL. George Ade, author and playwright, fell while "walking along the street at Anderson yesterday morning and was rendered unconscious. He was carried into a drug store and given medical attention, under which he soon revived. He had been in Anderson visiting Judge Henry Vinton.
'DEDICATE XEW CHURCH. Services dedicating the new Methodist Episcopal church at Waldron were held at the church Sunday, In charge of the Rev. William I. Parr, I. D., of Kokomo, lnd. The present pastor of
"THIS IS MY 68TH BIRTHDAY" Regent of Bavaria.
Prince Ludwig, who has succeeded
his father as Regent of Bavaria but has declined an offer of the crown, was born January 7, 1845. He married in
practical farmer, and by public speeches and other means has used all his influence on behalf of agriculture and Industry. He is especially devoted to the development of waterways, and has fought consistently for the claims of Bavaria in this respect. Hitherto he has taken little or no Interest in art.
for which Munich, his capital city, is
so widely famous. He enjoys general popularity, which doubtless ancouraged
the advocates of the idea that he should be made, not only Regent, but King. ; Congratulations tot " : -
Viscount Gladstone, first Gpvern!
Genera pf the Union of South Africa,
68 yea"rs old today.
Dr. Melancthon W. Stryker, president
of Hamilton College ,62 years old today.
Dr. James B. Angel!, president emeritus of the University of Michigan and former United States minister to China. 84 years old today. Dr. Charles A. Richmond, president of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., St) years old today. Richard Caton Woodville, the celebrated English painter of battle pictures, 67 years old today. Walter E. Clark, governor of the Territory pf Alaska, 44 years ol dtoday. Charles Klein, author of "The Music Master, "The Third Degree," and other successful plays, 46 years old today. Sir Sanford Fleming, builder of the Intercolonial railway and father of the Taclflc cable, 86 years old today.
Popular Actress Now in Chicago
THE DAY IN CONGRESS
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SEXATH. Convened at noon. Considered amendment to enlarge powers of campaign funds investigating committee. Senator- Brlstow introduced bill for an industrial commission to control corporations and with power similar to that of Interstate Commerce Commission. Samuel Gompers at judiciary com-, mittee's hearing on anti-injunction and contempt bills, advocated these bills, and discussed for first time publicly th dynamite conspiracy case. Court of impeachment resumed trial of Judge Archbald. Adopted Senator Work's resolution requiring secretary of thn treasury to furnish information as to expense pf tunning government health and medical services in 1912. Senator Kenyon Introduced resolution calling on Postmaster General Jlitchcock for cost of handling franked mail matter. Adjourned at 5:35 p. m. until noon today. HOUSE. Convened at noon. Considered legislation on unanimoua consent calendar.
Ways and means committee began tariff revision hearings, listening to manufacturers' objections to reduction on chemicals. "Money Trust" investigating committee resumed its hearings. Notice of contest against re-election Of Representative Harrison of New York was filed. Commerce Commission reported lighthouse appropriation bill carrying $1,350,000. Considered, but took no action, on bill to incorporate the Rockefeller foundation, At'jurned at 5:47 p. m. until noon today.
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