Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 204, Hammond, Lake County, 29 January 1913 — Page 4

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NEWSPAPERS T Lake County Friadas u4 Pub. Tha Lake County Times, dally except Sunday, "entered as second-class matter June ss, 1906";' The Lake Count, Times, dally except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. S, 1911; The Gary Evening Timea, dally except Sunday, entered Oct. 5, 1909: The Lake County Times. Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. 80. 1911; The Times, daily xcept Sunday, entered Jan. 15, 191J. at the postofflce at Hammond. Indiana, 11 under the act of March I. 1171. Entered at the Postoffleo, .Hammond. Jnd.. as second-class matter. FOREIGN A9VKRTISIXG OFFICES. It Rector Building - - Chicago PUBLICATION OFFICES, Hammond Building:, Haasmond, Ind. TELBPhOSES, Hammond (private exchange) .ill (Gall for desartmeot wanted.) Gary Office... Tel. 187 East Chicago Office .....Tel. HO-J Indiana Harbor Tel. I4I-M; ISO 'Whiting .....Tel. 0-M Crown Point ................. .Tel. S Hegewlacb. Tel. 18 Advertising- soltertar will be sent, or rate given on application. If yen hare any trouble geWta The Time notify the nearest office and ft promptly remedied. LAJUBKR PAID UP CTRCTOLATION THAN m OTHER TWO NEWS. PAPERS IX THE CALCJIET REGION. AKONTKOTJ3 comtnaloatlona will not b notices, but others will be printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor. Times, Hammood. I rid el's Astated meeting- of Garfield lodge No. 669, F. and A. M., will be held on Jan. 31. at 7:30 p. m. F. G degree. Visiting: brothers cordially welcomed. E. M. Shanklin, VT. M. R. S. Galer, Sec Hammond Chapter. 117, R. A. M,. special meeting- Wesiesday, Jan. 29. Past and Most Excellent degrees. Hammond Council, No. 90, R. S. 1L Stated meetings first Tuesday of eaea month. Hammond Commandery, No. 41, K. T. Regular , stated meeting first and third Monday of each month. OUB AIM TO PLEASE. A Kansas preacher saya he would lather drink red Ink than beer. All those who are in favor of the Kansas preacher drinking red ink if he wants it will please rise. And they were like the sands of the sea. ' . , SEE that kimonos are advertised for 4c a-piece. Who wears them anyway? "WAS Robert Webb a visitor to Laporte?" asks the Laporte Herald in its headlines. Don't think he was or there surely would have been a story in every paper in the lard, isn't he mixed up with the Gunness case some way? , THE STRIKING COUNCILMEN. Instead of holding a special meeting this week the county councilmen who make all appropriations for county improvements met at the county seat on Tuesday and decided to go on a strike as far as special sessions are concerned. Their grievance is against former legislatures who made no provisions to pay those officials for extra sessions, and against a scrutinizing state board of accounts, which refused to O. K. expense bills that the councilmen had allowed themselves for such meetings without legislative , sanction. The councilmen have the satisfaction, if It Is a satisfaction at all, of being "even" with their oppressors, but the TAXPAYERS OF LAKE COUNTY WHO ARE CRYING FOR NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS ARE HOLDING THE BAG, BECAUSE THEY HAD NO VOICE IN THE MATTER. The NBcores of taxpayers who went to the county seat to attend the special meeting at their own time and expense went home disappointed. We are thoroughly in sympathy with the councilmen when they say they have a grievances and we would gladly say amen to a law reimbursing them and also to pay them in the future for special meetings as well a3 regular meetings, but there is another angle to this situation. The grievance, is after all a secondary matter. ; When we elected our county councilmen, we knew, and thought they knew that the law did not intend to pay them for the ripe judgment, the wise counsel, and the rich experience which they were expected to bring with them into the office. The uiod-

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THE WORLD. The world I too much with u late and aoon. Getting and spending, Tie lay waste our powers t Little we nee la Mature that la oura We have lv our hearts away, a nord Id boon! This aea that barea her bottom to the moon ( The winds that will be howling at all ho urn. Are up-icthrr'd now like Bleep floweret For thl. for everything, we are out f tunet It move ua not Great tiod! I'd rather b A Pagan nuckled In a creed outworn t So might I. Btaadina on this pleanaat lea. Have alimpaea that would make me lean forlorn I Have xlitht of Proteua rlolna from the aea t Or hear old Triton blow hU wreathed horn. William Wordsworth. erate per diem which the law allowed them was not expected to serve In any way $ a compensation for peri or m ins the duties of wise councilmen. WE GAVE THEM WHAT MONEY CANNOT BUY. WE CAVE THEM THE HONOR OF BEING OUR COUNCILMEN. We thought they appreciated this when thev accented and even though the law might be stringent and carping we looked un to them as high-minded citizens who were willing to work for the com mon weal without reckoning the cost inereor. The shock of the disappointment is eased somewhat by the knowledge that there are such citi zens in Lake County. THE STRIKING PUBLIC OFFI CIAL IS A PRODUCT OF OUR MERCENARY AGE. His money hungry prototype has existed throughout all ages, but the fairest pages of history are ttiose telling of the days, when a lawmaker deemed it an honor to be such and counted the acceptance of remuneration below his dignity, when lawyers served without a fat retaining fee, when physicians did not diagnose a case by the size of the patient's pocketbook, and the preachers of the gospel taught by example. In those days a striking councilman wouia nave been considered a ioke. nr better yet he would liave resigned. IT is a mighty good time to take a day off and kill rnui riaio, two. HI Johnson's son didn't fight after all. He will continue to ape his dad and fight with his mouth. YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO DO IT. No woman can afford to defy the world's opinion. There are certain conventionalities which are set up, not because they are necessary to certain individuals, but because the general observance of them keeps the world straight. Jane may be able to go around unchaperoned in an automobile with a strange.young man and no harm come of it, but there are other girls, weather and more susceptible, who might be led into temptations, and who, in the hands of a designing man, might nave their reputations ruined, if al lowed such freedom. NOTICING that an Englishman has invented a pitcher for cham pagne, an exchange rises to remark that our most urgent need is a lamer growler for beer. READ where a man in his nihtl chased a burglar and the latter turn ed right around and shot the nightie off. Which is our idea nf th terrible calamity that could nossihiA happen to some chaps we know. THROUGH HIS HIDE. It is gratifying to observe that the barbs and arrows of adverse public criticism can be forced through so pachydermal a hide as that cover ing uovernor Hi Johnson, of California. Governor Hi vesterrinv inter fered to prevent the appearance of nis son m the Ting as a public prize fighter, although he had nrpvinnolv sanctioned the bestial bout, and his cnange or front, it is said, was directly due to the fierce assaults made upon him by the pulpit, the press, and even his warm personal friends. Johnson himself has long displayed in his intercourse with men the social graces popularly supposed to have appertained to the conduct of the flinthurling anthropophagus of . the palaeolithic age, and it is not in the least surprising to find a cub so sired bobbing up serenely in the prize ring as a contestant for the plaudits of a lot of low-brows and a twenty-five dollar purse hung un hv a ki. coterie of saloonkeepers and professional gamblers. However, now that

Governor Hi has "progressed" to that point where he gives heed to public opinion when expressed with a club, it is not too much hope that his pugilistic son may also in time see the light and submit to wearing a veneer, which If not thick will at least be decorative. Fort Wayne News.

THE suffragettes are going to give somebody a pain before they get through with that Wilson Inaugural pe-rade. DELIGHTFUL little item in the papers tells us that Hippolyte Jumllae of Oshkosh is laid up with appendicitis in the North Block. OH YOU GRANDMA! Holier-than-thou Carr of Gary, chief toe kisser to the steel trust, who is slated for the toboggan just as soon as Herr Knotts gets through cleaning up with the legislature at Indianapolis has had another duck fit because THE TIMES printed a red-hot piece of live news about the new Gary blast furnaces. Then again Last Saturday THE TIMES print ed from the trenchant pen of its Indianapolis correspondent a live story starting with its first paragraph so: Another case of starting something that you cannot stop has come to light in the legislature, and Mayor Tom Knotts of Gary and his followers are about to become the victims of their own joke." Last night, under the date line "Indianapolis. Jan. 28" mind you yesterday was the 28 and with the line "Special to The Laporte Herald" over it holier-than-thou Carr PRINT ED "THE TIMES" STORY OF FOUR DAYS BEFORE AND SERVED IT UP TO HIS READERS AS A "PIECE OF NEWS." Some unkind soul in Gary sug gested that h.-t.-t. Carr run a series of Mother Goose tales and pass them off as news. It is a good suggestion. Just now Carr is awfully fussed up. He is engaged In lambasting Mayor Knotts. Several months ago when friendly relations ensued Carr sought and obtained a park commisslonerhsip. In 1909 when the city camnaien was on, Knotts threw Carr a little sop in the way of the city printing in return for support. Two years later when it was withdrawn KnottsJ became a villain in the Tribune's columns. , Then came the park commissionership wtih a renewal of the old love. which has been sadly strained once more. There is such a thing as ingrati tude and no doubt Herr Knotts feels bitterly the sting of having been bitten in the hand that so freely dis pensed the eagerly-seized plums and perquisites. GETTING to be popular in the East to adopt women of 45 or so. We might consider the adoption of a few about seventeen or eighteen years of age. VACCINATION, , whatever the things that can be said against it, is far more desirable than smallpox. MAY BE DESERVED. After all these years laboring under the impression that all the cussedness that man is heir to, woman was responsible for, we have it on no less authority than that of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., himself, that man is largely to blame for the evil in women. Woamn herself always suspected that mankind was "putting something over" in convincing himself and her, that woman was the root of all evil, but now she has indeed been vindicated. That's all right, John, come again. Maybe it coming to us though it's a bit hard on some of us, who had it framed up that we would all have been entitled to halos, had it not been for Eve's faux pas. EXCHANGE says that the Indiana legislature will take up its most important work this week that affecting planks in the democratic platform. Democratic politics more important eh, than the welfare of the people? ROOSEVELT says it is an outrage for any one to be punished for contempt of court. Sure, if you want to spit in the judge's face go ahead, Mr. Roosevelt says it is an outrage if you are punished for that. A LITTLE OUT OF DATE. Vice President-Elect Marshall appears to be pushing democratic simplicity to an extreme, according to the dispatches from Washington. However if he prefers the simple life of a hotel to the arduous duties of

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maintaining a social center in a residence in accord with the accepted standards of vice-presidential dignity, it is not for newspapers to criticise him. But we fear Gov. Marshall is carrying his Ideas of old time democracy to an extreme in other matters; indeed it would seem that he is developing into a stand-patter of the obsolete type. For instance Gov. Marshall says: "We've got to get back to the time when the people of the country had equal opportunities; back to the time when there were oldfashioned competition, old-fashioned rewards of comfortable living and tranquil old age for labor." With all due respect to the governor, it would seem that some nf the old-fashioned ideas of competition are precisely the things the country wants to avoid. It was the old-fashioned idea of special privilege that has brought about the abuses of which so much complaint is made. It was the old-fashioned idea of cutthroat competition and the devil take the hindmost that has made the laborer lag behind i n the rare for life. If the "rewards of comfortable living and tranquil old ae-a for lahnr" are becoming rare in these Jays, it is because of the old-fashioned Idea of competition that placed so hich an estimate on property and so mean a vaiue on services. THEY WILL BE STICKERS. They say that skirts are to be tighter this spring. This leads the Philadelphia Inquirer to suppose that they must be going to paste 'em on. DOWN IN MISS0URY. Seth Bedkin's eldest girl, Laminda, who married Llge Beegum four years ago, is lamenting that she didn't marry a title. Before she married Lige she writ her name on an egg and last week she got a letter from a fellow in Vermont, stating that he was holding a good job as chef In a kawfay, that his real name was Count De La Fido. and that he want ed to correspond with her. Alton South Missourian. VOICE OF? F EO P L (By Max Klrchman.) Gary, Ind., Jan. 24. Whoever saw a skirmish f "a war and having a true heart in the right place, instead of a piece of marble, wishes for a man never to turn into a coast, fighting his peaceful neighbor with an Instrument of death in his hands. Can you imagine the direful extent of a general European war? Would'you not prefer never to have been born, other than witness this bloodshed of the modern and enlightened age? Whenever a plight, draught, flood or earthquake visit the human family all the ingenuity of man and woman combines to alleviate the misery of innocent sufferers. We witness strange nations raising collections, sending medical aid and extending pathetic sympathies. But let Europe be divided into two huge camps, attacking each other like wild beasts, surely that would present a melodrama which human brain is unable to depict. AH the ingenuity of modern murderous weapons, polished with present Christian (?) culture, would turn Europe into a bloody stock yarda! Blood, more blood would be the mighty roar from all quarters, accompanying the crimson flood, drowning as it would all that is good and genteel brought about through millions of years of slow evolution. The wail of widows and children, the curses of men would hush all the sweet songs, words of love and their melodious tones. Is there a wonder then that we ask: "Who wants war?" Does the press, called the "seventh power" desire it? During the present struggle, the writer read most of the principal European journals, German, Slavish and English, but failed to note in any of these urging war; on the contrary, they all cautioned to avoid such calamity. Is there a single nation In Europe desiring their millions Of men to leave their homes, their wlvse, their children, fathers and mothers, and lead them into a slaughter? Is there such a nation in Europe wishing to sacrifice to a war-fury her agricultural and commercial prosperity? We fail to find it. Balkan nations are the exception, because the centuries of brutal oppression and dire slavery pressed the murderous weapons in their arms in selfdefense. They were forced to fight, defending theirs and their kin's blood, succeeding to re-enter the sacred ground of which their forefathers had been robbed by the savaye Turk.. This we all know and understand, hence our admiration for those "Spartan" nations, who rose to a man with a sacred feeling in their hearts, having but one goal in view to liberate themselves and posterity! What heroism, thin! Be assured, there exists not one Independent nation in Europe, controlling its army, that desires war. Germany Is deeply engaged in her agricultural and commercial developments, being to a great extent dependent in her exports on Russia and Balkan peninsula, therefore, does not care to raise enemies in those countries. Boycott is her bugaboo: Russia likewise opposes war, having room and work in abundance within hpr Vinr-l-a all the inhabitants in .Europe. She has f enough cripples from the Jap war, not caring to multiply them. Russian folk are extremely peace-loving, therefore decidedly against war. This la a fart ! France does not cater to war. She

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has no men to spare, being deprived of her increase in population by criminal and unnatural causes. Having plenty of money, she prefers lending it to her neighbors on high interest rather than waste it in wars. It is a common knowledge that her most intelligent and able statesman, Pointcare, spared no efforts to prevent the extension of the present war. Italy is overjoyed, having ended her struggle with Turkey, therefore does not care to plunge anew into a more ferocious war. Least of all England wants war; it Is her diplomacy, trying to quiet Austria and Germany on one hand and Russia and France on the other. But should England favor war, not one of her citizens would be obliged to go to the front, should he refuse. Would she hire Christian murderers to murder Christians? What a paradox? General report has it that Austria is anxious for war, at least some of the foreign Journals spread these news, pointing at Austria as the sole peacemaker! That empire is composed mostly of Slavs, and they all protest ,'and oppose war, "building up" obstructions. Daily there are some forty journals confiscated there, mostly Slavish, be cause of their protest to war. ' But even the German minority there opposes war. proof of which are the protests of her business men. Well then: Who wants war? Diplomats? If they do, then they are the biggest liars, because they all pretend to prevent war! Does the militia want war? Who is the militia? The people! We are the people, they sa, uj we wan war! Let the world rest assured. There will be no European war. Money is scarce. No money, no war! Pleasant dreams! . Z I V I O J EI E A R ID BY RUBE BYE and bye we'll all be able to af'ford autos, but what will be the use? By that time only the very rich will be able to afford to buy gasoline. Editor of one South Chicago paper, Mr. Lee, received an appointment as civil engineer for the canal Histrit This moved the rival editor. Col. lioHmg, to cruelly remark that among engineers Mr. Lee is considered a good editor, and among editors he is considered a good engineer. PITY the poor poet these days. If the weather Inspires him to write a lay to spring it is snowing before he gts through. If he writes t t robins are twittering ere the ink dries. WHAT'S become of the nlrt.fhin,i boy that didn't amount to much? He has gone to the city and has become a millionaire. "POVERTY is a disease." says a scientist. Well, then get busy and discover a suitable anti-toxin for the villainous germ that causes it. WHY KXdIAMiK EDITOR GOT THIRSTY. (From the Cra wfordsville Jonrnal.) Mr. and Mrs. Fred Barley and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark and baby spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. Vannice Corn returned to their home near Coatsville Saturday after a short visit with Geo. Corn and family. Lon and Ote Brewer of Indianapolis spent .Sunday here with their parents. Andy Pirkell moved Tuesday from the John Larrick place to Highland. WE read in The Times thnt are 147 applicants for the Hobart postmastership. No wonder that John B. Peterson is losing his appetite. BAD PLACE TO FAI.U (Hobart correspondence to ThkTimbs.) miss viara LinKIiart had the misfortune of falling on Sunday afternoon an.1 sprained her arm. WHAT'S become of the old-fashioned family-that used to keep a deck of

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. - mrrnrn areas that card game, "Authors," on the sitting room table? "BEET SUGAR OUTLOOK POOR." Headline. Bitter news ahnnt o thing. INCIDENTALLY in these muddy days the guid wives of the Highland truck gardeners make their men folk take off their shoes before they enter the house. MAYOR SHANK of Indianapolis has been arrested twice in a week's time. Getting jealous of the alcade of GarsLew? ' ON page 1 of a Gary newspaper last night an article appeared with the following headline: UNABLE TO WORK; COMMITS SriCIDE; INJURED LAST SPRING. ON page 7 another story of the same death was printed under the following caption: DIES FROM INJURIES RECEIVER IN JULY. What kind of newspaper work is this that has a man dying from Injuries on an Inside page and by suicide on the front page? Up and Down in INDIANA OCCIPIES ADJOIMXG CELL. Before his assailant has had a preliminary hearing. Munns Bering. 81 years old, himself has been ' arrested jand is confined in the County Jail at tiawiurojvme. rour weeks ago Scrwas shot by his son-in-law. Arno Zeigler. Sering's condition waa considered serious immediately after the shooting, and Zeigler has been held until the effect of his assault could be determined. Soring has been out of the hospital about a week. He was placed in the cell next to his assailant on a charge of intoxication. DIE OSLT A FEW HOI RS APART. Joshua MeCloud, 75 years old, died Sunday afternoon at his home at Crawfordsvllle. A few hours later hla wife. Mrs. Katharine MeCloud. 73 years old. was also dead. The elderly couple had been ill but a short time. Death in each case was caused by an attack of grippeMr. and Mrs. MeCloud had been married almost fifty years. Three sons aud five daughters survive. CEXTARIAN PASSES AWAY. Margaret Kugawa. 97 years old. and Mrs. Ernest Hibray. S years old. two of the oldest women in South Bend, are dead. The former died this morning after a short illness. The latter passed away last night, following an illness of more than a year. Had the latter, lived four mor days she would have been 90 years old. PUPIL ARfo POOR SPELLERS. Examinations In the Newcastle High School last week developed that a majority of the students In the school were poor spellers. As a result of the discovery when the spring term began spelling wai made one of the compulsory studies. MOTHER LOSES 10,000 SUIT. Unless the court at Denver. Colo., I grants a new trial Otto Meyer of Laporte will receive the J12.000 left him by Miss Candace Wheler, the Denver young woman who committed suicide and whose tragic death was probed by the authorities while the girl's mother, living in New York city, began contest proceedings in the Colorado courts. Today Miss Wheeler's mother's claim to the estate was denied, though a dispatch received at Laporte last night stated that further proceedings would be brought in the effort to defeat Meyer. The latter won the affection of MissxWheler by his ability as a violinist. lA motive for her suicide has never bjsen found. PES Conid URATES TREMTOST ROCK. rable Interest is manifested in the outcome of the well drilling on the T. C. N al farm in this county. The drill ha i penetrated Trenton rock to a depth o thirty feet and a fair showing of oil h, is been encountered. There are prospec s of a good oiler. The well will be completed and shot this week, j It is th first hole put down in Black ford Cobnty for several years. BADLY CRUSHED IN RUNAWAY. Cyrua D. McCracken, a well-to-do

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lja Ui TJiJSIR CLOTHES an-oi at lefti two of the name tooay. j farmer, near Washington, was badly injured today when his team ran away ' and plunged into a telephone pole and barbed wire fence. The wheels of the loaded wagon passed across McCracken s body and, when taken from the wreckage, it was discovered that a severe cut had been made in his head. The real extent of his injuries has not ueen ueierminea. The Day in HISTORY THIS DATE IX HISTORY" January 29. 1550 Henry Clay submitted compromise resolutions in Congress proposing an amicable settlement of the slavery controversy. 1S53 Marriage of Napoleon III., and Eugenie de Montijo, Countess of . Teba. 1860 Henry D. Gilpin, who was attorney-general in Van Buren's cabinet, died In Philadelphia. Born in England. April 14, 1801. 1S61 Kansas admitted to the Union. 1906 King Christian IX. of Denmark died. Born April 8, 1818. 1910 Bishop Cyrus D. Foas. of the M. E. Church, died In Philadelphia. Horn In Kingston, N. Y, Jan. 17. 1834. 1912 Duke of Fife, brother-in-law of King George v., died. Born Nov. 10, 1849. "THIS IS MY 43TH BIRTHDAY" Bishop staata. Dr. Homer C. Stunts, who was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church at the general conference in 'Minneapolis last summer, was born in Eric County, Pa-, January 29. 1868. He ; was educated at Northwestern Uni versity and at Garrett Biblical Institute and was ordained In 1884, when he was sixteen years old. He went to India for missionary service, but his . health failed and the work nearly cost jhim his life. He returned to America and was engaged for several years in j pastorate work. He was superlntendient of the Methodist mission in the Philippine Islands from 1901 to 1907. was field secretary of the board of foreign missions in 1907-8, and was assistant correspondent of the board from 1908 until his election to the bishopric. Bishop Stunts is the author of several books, the best known of which is "The' Philippines and the Far East." 1 T" f a ropuiar Actress J Now in Chicago j L Vkrx&ycbz.

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