Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 211, Hammond, Lake County, 6 February 1913 — Page 4

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Tbe Lake County Times, dally except nnday. "enff rd jls second-class matter June s, lorVThe Lake County Tim, daily exeept Saturday and Sun. day. entered Fab. t, 1111; The Gary Evening Times, dally except Sunday, entered Oct. 5, lOt; The Lake Coanty Times. Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. 0. 1U: The Times, dally xeapt Sunday, entared Jan. 15. ltll. at the postof Ace at Kaamond, . Indiana, 11 under the aot of Maroh I. H7. JEntered at the Postofftee, .Hammond, Xn4L. as secoad-claaii matter. FOREIGN abvkrtising omcKJ, til Reotor Building - - Chicago PC1UCATI05 OFFICES, Hammond BaUdlng. Hammond. Ind. TSUBFROirBS. nd (jdrtit excKaasra......iii OaU for department wan tad.) Gary Ofllce. TeL 117 East Chicago Office TeL S40-J Indian Harbor Tel. S48-M; ISO Waiting Tel. 0-M Crown Point ' Tel. S Kegewlsch . Tel. 13 Advertising solicitors will be sent, or rata given on application. : If rw bar any trouble retting The Time notify the nearet office and have It promptly remedied. LARGER PAID UP CIRCULATION VBAlf AMY OTHER TWO HEWS. PAPERS IN THE CALXMET REGION. ' AJTONTMOUS commgnJ cations will t be noticed, bat others will be printed at discretion, and sheold be addressed to The Editor. Times. Ham maad. Ind. , Garfield Lodge No. 669 P. & A. M. stated meeting Friday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p. m. E. A. degree. Visiting: brothers welcome. R. S. Galer, Sec, E. M. Shanklin, yv. M. Hammond Chapter No. 117, R. A. M., regular statedy meeting Wednesda evening. Feb. 12. work In mark mas ter. It Hammond Council. No. SO. R. S. M. Etated meetings first Tuesday ot eaea month, t Hammond Commandery, No. 41, K. Xi, Regular stated meeting first and third Monday of each month. OR GAGGED THE CHEE-UB. T. A 1 . 1 proposed steel strike at Gary and Indiana Harbor is producing we hare a grave suspicion that some one has put one of those new-fangled Maxim .silencer on it. THE word malaria means in reality bad air and that a lot of people have it who don't know it is shown by a litle ride on a crowded G. & I. or a H. W. & E. C. street car. Y THE PRESS AGENT. The ways ot the press agent are slicker than the heathen Chinee of Bret Hartes. They are many and devious. Notice the case of Santa Barbara. Cal., whose publicity agent is worth his weight in gold to that winter resort. "Stewart Edward White the author," says a dispatch sent out on Tuesday, "broke his ankle 'sliding' In a ball game." , Santa Barbara caters to the winter resorter of the multi-millionaire and upper society class. It is one of scores of similar places on the continent and competition for patronage is keen. Advertising in the news columns can not be bought but the wily press agent gets the advertising and space rates In addition. He tels of an author playing ball in February, and then proceeds to give the names of the players, names that are known from coast to coast. The reader has a picture of sunshine and luxury and instinctively Santa Barbara nestles away in his brain as one of . the places that he will visit some day. On a hot summer's afterMoon the story would have been flat Santa Barbara can well afford to pay Author White's hospital bill. New Industries and Tim Englehart are the press agents assets for the Calumet region, and one of these days the clever artist will capitalize the ancient Erie depot in Hammond. FUNNY winter. Hardly safe to go out in the morning without taking a fuzzy hat, a set of ear tabs and a straw hat for us during the dav (This was written several days ago and may be all right tomorrow.) POLITICAL LIARS. It gives us great pleasure to read that the new governor of Illinois ad vocatcs a law which will provide

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"THE REST IS SILESCE." Horatla a peaks i Beyoad these ancient nalli of Elslnore A shrouding mist Is folded oi tbe snow. (Here by tbe battlements he leans no more. Watching the guard below.) League after league along the cliff the gray Wide water darkens with the darkening west. (O troubled moo! by what uncharted way Hast thou gone forth to rest?) Within, the shadows creep across the walls. Through the long corridors as dusk grows dim. (The echoing vastaess of the vaulted halls Tonight Is full of him.) - gust of wind steals shuddering from the floor , Whre om he placed his hours ot heartwrnng watch. (It may be that his foot Is at the door. His hand upon the atch.) "The rest Is alienee" Ah. my liege, my prince! Though storm wlnda aweep the seas, and cannon roar. Silence Is on they lips, and ever since Silence la Elsewhere! Mabel Earle In Atlantic. prison penalties for office holders who break written political pledges. We ought to have such a law in this state. It woud bring to time the iar seeking office who arrives there on the strength of promises he never intends to keep. We have a lot of these liars not far from here. PROPOSED now to make all hunters wear bright red caps when out hunting. Suggest also that a bill be passed to provide blinders for bulls then. TRACTION LINE DELAYS. Last year after one of the hardest fights in the history of the traction business in Lake County the East Chicago city council passed a franchise ordinance granting the Ham. mond, Whiting & East Chicago Railway Company rights in that city. The agitation at that time was the principal -topic of conversation in three cities; East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Hammond. The entire community was' wrought up in the settling of the questions Involved. C At the same time the Gary & Interurban Railway Company secured franchise rights in East Chicago. Both companies made solemn promises that the lines in the streets covered by their franchises would be built before the expiration of their franchises. The Gary & Interurban has made splendid progress in the work of con struction. The Gary-Indiana Harbor line is about completed. The Gary & Interurban has the reptuation of living up to its franchise agree ments. The Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Railway Company, on the other hand, has built only its share of the track where joint trackage rights have been secured. THE TIMES suggests that the Hammond. Whiting & East Chicago Railway Company had better not take chances on securing an extension of Its franchise rights in East Chicago. If it does it does not understand the temper of the people there. - The people of the Calumet region expect the Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago line to have it work of construction completed within the time limit fixed In Its franchise. Delay will be dangerous. COLLEGE head Kays that the poor are the nation's hope. Sure, hope that they will become rich. Eh? WTFEY'S DEVICE. A Caney man received several let ters threatening his life in case be was seen on the streets at night. As a consequence he didnt venture out after sundown. Postoffice InsDectors discovered that the letters had been written by the man's own wife. It was a way she devised of keenine him home nights. Kansas City Journal. TOM Taggart says he 13 in favor of a direct contsitutlon. If that man isn't careful he will get his name in the papers directly. SHE EXISTS. There are women who nag their husbands. Of them the world has a-plenty and has heard a-plenty. But the woman who nags her daughter is heard of less often because the lips of critics are silenced by those sympathetic words, "Mother love,"

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But she exists, nevertheless, and is a more serious menace than the nagging wife. She never nags a , son. A manchild is to her perverted eyes the perfection of all creation, but she nags his sister In a way that furnishes countless girls the excuse for willfulness, which loyalty forbids them to give. BROWN university prof, says eugenics would bring a race of pygmies. May be something in that. Nature doesn't work by rule and rote and love certainly doesn't. WHAT DO YOU DO OUT OF HOURS? It is part of an employe's business responsibility to take proper care of his health and morals outside of the business office. The reputation of any clerk is an important thing to his house. We have heard of one employer who makes it a rule to have any man shadowed for a week before he employs him, in order to learn what his personal habits are. A young man once applied to this employer for a position, and was re jected. He was of a good appearance and pleasing address, well qualified, apparently, to hold the position for which he applied. When he desired to know why his application had been refused, the employer said to him: "I pass by such and such a corner every noon when returning from my lunch. I invariably see you standing on that corner, loafing, and I am certain that any young man who has not a better place in which to spend his spare time will make a poor helper for roe, in the long run." Whether it is fair or not, many employers are interested in what their clerks do after hours. But if the employer is not, the employe should be. The greater part of his success depends upon what happens between 6 p. m. and 8 a. m. Self-improvement is impossible to the squanderer of spare hours; and he who does worse than waste them needs to be operated on with a meat ax. MRS. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, the first woman justice of the peace in Illinois, after reelection, has refused to run again on the ground that there seems to be a prejudice against third term candidates. Tom Knotts organ and the Oyster . Bay papers need not copy.' THE GLOOMS RETREAT. The letting of the contract for the construction of the extension of Calumet avenue after all of these years of fighting for a new north and south thoroughfare is the source of a great deal of satisfaction on the part of the public spirited' citizens who fought for the improvement and to the Lake County TIMES which first suggested it and always supported the project. Along in the fall of the coming year the new street, cut through the edge of the lake, straight as the crow files from the shore of Lake Michigan to the bank of the Little Calumet river, will be a realized dream and wll be the delight of autocaobilists the country over. It j is understood that the south Calumet avenue extension is being pushed by the property owners in that section of the township. There were enemies to the project. They wanted crooks put in the street and they wanted it kept narrow instead of widened. . But an aroused public sentiment overcame , these objections and now Hammond Is to have the most magnificent thoroughfare in North townshipEven the report that the street would cost 1225,000, did not deter the county commissioners lor they went ahead with the advertising for bids and finally let the contract for $118,000 or about half of the engineer's estimate. It only goes to show that these obstacles are not so insurmountable as the "You-Can't-Do-Its" would have us believe. If we had listened to the people who held up their hands in holy horror at the idea of spending $225,000 to build Calumet avenue through the lake we would never have had the job done for $118,000 and DONE RIGHT at that. Down with the glooms, down with the knockers, down with the barnacles, down with the ultra-conservatives. Up with the progressives, up with the boosters, up with the optimists. we'l make a city out of Hammond yet. HER APPETITE WITH HER. Mabelle Padgette, a former belle of this town who married a city feller some time ago, came home to spend the ho id ays. . She turned up her nose at all her old friends and everything else in the town, except the lean treaks of ham and the fried fresh eggs for breakfast. Wakeeney (Kan.) News.

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HURRY! HURRY! M am not going to make a Cabinet of college presidents. I am considering both kinds (meaning men trained in pubic affairs as well as university men). 1 am try to make up m team." Presdent-elect Wilson. Better hurry Mr. Wilson there are several managers trying to sign up Pete Henning and the first thing you know they' beat you to it. PRES. -ELECT Wilson has confessed that he will wear a III Henry at the inaugural. It would be juet his luck to put it down and have Pres. Taft sit on it. SAD CASE. The City of St. Joseph, Mo., nearly acquired the ill-fated battleship Maine's bathtub. But it didn't. Aldermen of St. Joseph refused to appropriate for the relic's freight bill claiming that the mayor had already drawn undesirable notoriety on the city in merely asking for the tub. If this is the idea of the Mizzoury aldermen on undesirable notoriety it is well for Tom Knotts that he isn't ruling over the bailwick of St. Joseph. YOU simply have to admit things when a woman will make a long and terriffic campaign for a new dress and then be content if she only gets a jabot. NEXT THE PARDON BOARD. Gilbert Crumley, who unquestionably brutally murdered his wife at Covington on October 3, was found guilty of manslaughter Monday after the jury had been out almost 48 hours. Hanging would have been too good for the brute, and it is such decisions that inspire and justify mob aw. Mrs. Crumley was a good woman, and put up for years with the bad bargain she made when she got married. Crumey murdered her in cold blood and in two year3 he will be released. Certainly some ot our jury findings are very freakish. Rensselaer Republican. jhi e a m e BY KOBE" ' WHAT'S become of the ' oid-fash-loned couple that used to abstain from holding hands (and kissing) during the lenten season? - MERCY! Thieves are so measly at South Bend that they are stealing the very mercury out of the thermometers. Now up in Gary they would steal both. IT la all very well for the metropolitan national bank presidents to hand Out. ethics bunk to the country bankers, but we hope that some of 'em read that the big First National bank of Chicago admitted to a congressional committee that It makes loans to its officers and directors. GLOOMY DAYS IS IXDIANNY. (Yountsville correspondence to the Crawfordsvllle Journal.) Two of the older citizens of our village are reading of the war now in prosrress In the east, and comparing; It with the prophecy in Daniel, and they believe we may be nearlng the last days. IT was awfully mean of the Indianapolis News to insinuate that the Hon. Ed. Simon, who is seeking to have the legislatchoor raise his pay from $7,500 to $16,000, is bringing the members northward on a junket for purposes other than to see the sand dune scenery. - " W. H. F. F. es, no doubt it is true that since the hew government has taken hold of things down at the Springfield statehouse that the prevailing color of the typewriter ribbons Is genuine green. MIZZOURY legislatchoor may pass a bill prohibiting women from wearing back buttons less than a sixe of a silver dollar. Why not prohibit back buttons altogether? TREAT your Chinese laundry man with respect. No telling when he'll be called back to Peking. Chow-Chow, or Nanking to serve as an alderman. MUNCIE native has been arrested for beating up his mother-in-law. This and those diamond-heeled' stories that come out of Muncie suggests that its Inhabitants might do well to read the "History of Civilisation. - OUR old friend, Tom Cannon, is back again tugging at the newspaper harness in Gary and, as usual, he makes his debut by merging a few traction lines. TURKS have burned Tschatalja for which we are duly thankful. The war correspondents had more than a hundred million battles fonght at this place and every time our proofreader had it to handle he was on the verge of arterio-sclarosis, "WHAT difference does age make in a stenographer?" thus asks Beatrice Hansen, writing in The Times. Well, it depends on whether thf boss has just been married or whether he is about 45. AS far as we pan learn most of the Turkey trotting this month has been over In the Balkan mountains. Buffalo Bill was a aatoa Scoot aad be stirred up tammy m scrap. Bnt the mm nthat stirred np I'MOS SCOUT SCRAP made the biggest hit with the ehevrer. For sale at all live dealers. SIcHle 5. Tob. Co. Adv.

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Heart to Heart Talks By JAMES A. EZGERTON

A MARVELOUS AGE. The other day a wireless operator out la the Puciflc ocean heard voices 150 miles away. The explanation was offered that he had picked up scraps of conversation in a distant wireless telephone test The same day came news that an aviator had flown across the Mediterranean sea from Tunis, Africa, to Sicily, a distance of 160 miles. A few months earlier it was reported from Pari that by a combination of the phonograph and moving pictures the audience not only saw. but heard, the actors on the screen. At about tbe same time it was cabled from London that moving pictures had been reproduced in natural colors without painting the films. It Is a marvelous age. just how marvelous we who live in it but dimly realise. The currents of all past ages are meeting la this focal point of time. The dreams of seers and prophets are coming true. Things our great-grandfathers hardly dared imagine are today commonplace. The writer has a sixteen-year-old boy who has a wireless apparatus, much of which he made himself, through which he picks tip message from ships hundreds of miles at sea. What would have been a miracle to our fathers has become the plaything of our children. What does all this mean for tbe future? Reflect on the swift progress of the last twenty-five years and the swlftef progress of the last ten years. If advancement continues at ever increasing speed where may It not lead? Tomorrow may we not speak through telephones without wires for hundreds or thousands of miles and not only hear our distant friend's voice, but see his peaking image before us? Tomorrow inuy not the common means of travel be the airship? The automobile bas come in a score of years, the telephone In a lifetime, the railroad, telegraph and steamship In a century. With the advance of science and surgery on the one hand and of psychology on the other may not disease be practically banished from the future man? It is a privilege and an Inspiration to live is an age like this. It Is a trumpet call to all the powers, hopes and aspirations within us. VOICE OF F E O F lTe A LETTER FROM THE CARPENTERS. To the Editor: And to the Business Men of the Calumet Region: Inasmuch as it is a well known fact that waes of laboring- men are spent in the district in which he lives, that virtually all wages thus earned are put ! into circulation and thus business men , naturally get the profit on the business ' thus done the surplus if any, is placed in the banks and used to improve the district by loan through the banks. Now there is a movement in Gary in the open shop contest now on which means in the last analasis only longer hours, less pay and less stability of employment. The working men expect and have organized to obtain as large a share as possible of their product ; that they may live as becomes nnj American citizen support and educato a family thus making good citizens, 1 that are an asset and not a liability to society organized labor does not ap peal to any rane sentiment nor mandalin sympathy from any one. We give no monkey dinners nor cat betrothals, we want no charity, we are not paupers, our whole effort is to etmlnate the pauper. Eliminate un reasonable hours, child and female employment sweat shops, convict labor and consequent poverty. cauDerism. ignorance and crime. Evidence in courts almost invariably show under paid female labor is ths direct cause of the social evil. Overwork and under nourishment Is the greatest cause of intemperance, in short long hours, low washes, unstable employment, all urged and insisted upon by champions of the open shop lead to the worst possible social and ; economic conditions in fact it Is exactly! opposite the uim and hope of labor organisations. Labor leads up. Open shop down. Mr. Business Man, whore does your interest'lle? Citizen, where does your interest lie? Are you for a square deal for all? O. A. CORNER. President L. V. 599 t". B. C. fk I. of . Deegate to the D. C- Approved by the Council. Up and Down in INDIANA '- BEGINS DELAYED SENTENCE. John Norton of Huntington, found guilty eighteen months ago of running a "blind tiger" and fined J200 and sentenced to serve sixty days in jail by a Wabash jury, yesterday afternoon began serving his sentence. Since he was sentenced the case has been carried to the higher courts, but to no avail, and the wealthy Huntington druggist spent his first night behind the bars. He was ordered to appear In court yesterday morning, but failed

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Two aged women of Memphis. Ttan., art fighting In the courts to prevent two pretty little glrla, not their own, from being taken away from them. Mrs. Rhcda Young la tba grandmother of her namesake, Rhoda Boehler, 4, who waa made an orphan when her father, Adam J Boehler, waa shot to death not lone ago by police who were attempting his capture. An uncU of the little girl who can give her a better home than her grandparents, wishes to take her to hi home In Columbus, O. Mrs. Emmaline Coleman Is the step-grandmother of Josephine Coleman, 8, and has taken care of the Uttle girl since her mother practically deserted her several years ago. Recently the mother went to the Coleman home and took Josephine away. Now the grandmother la trying to get the child back.

to do so. and his bond of $1,000 was forfeited. Later in the day he arrived In the city and gave himself up to the sheriff. His meals will be sent to his cell from a hotel. POLICEMAN IS ACftVITKD. At the City Council meeting at Bloomington Policeman Henry E. Dudey was acquitted of two charges filed against him by Richard Brown. One alleged that the officer made out a warrant for the arrest of Brown when another Richard Brown was wanted and the other accused the officer of extorting money. The Council adopted a resolution appropriating $5,600 with which to purchase an auto truck and equipment for the fire department. WORKING UIHLS FORM CLITB. A working girls' club has been organised In Bloomington wtlh a membership of nearly 100. Membership is open only to .jrage-earners. Rooms have been provided at College avenue and Fourth street and are at the disposal of the girls from 7 to 10 o'clock each evening. A chaperon is in charge and entertainments will be provided from time to time. Citizens are taking great interest In the club and subscribing liberally for its maintenance. The club's first officers are Miss Flora Gourley. president; Miss Margie Benckart, vice president; Miss Minnie K1Ipatrlck. secretary; Miss Ada Caxton. treasurer. NEGOTIATES ISSUE OF BONDS. Four gravel road contracts, aggregating nine miles of new highway and representting a bond Issue of $33,500, were let this afternoon by the county commissioners at Vincennes. The bidding was the most spirited in Knox County's hstory, there being twentyseven bids submitted. The Fletcher American National Bank of Indianapols negotiated the purchase of the entire Issue of bonds., PREPARE TO SINK OIL WELLS. Locations for new oil wells In the Fike County field were made yesterday in Monroe and Patoka Townships. More than 1,000 acres have been leased In the vicinity of Littles, six miles south of Petersburg, during the last few days by the Rogers Oil Company and test wells will be drilled at once The price of Pike County oil has almost doubled in the last twelve months, and this Is the reason of the renewed activities. DECLARES HE IS INNOCENT. Walter Hlstt, under arrest in Chicago as an auto bandit suspect, has written his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hiatt of Winchter, declaring his Innocence. He says three men came to the garage where he was empoyed and he was detailed to drive the car thej" engaged. . After they had ,been out I some time a murder was oer mmlttcl and then he was arrested. He says he did not know the men. Attorney A. T. Nichols hss gone from Winchester to consult with him. The Day in HISTORY

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY , February . 1777 Letters of marque and reprisal granted t by England against American ships. 1778 The lnite dStates and France concluded a treaty of alliance. 1796 The State of Vermont adopted a constitution.; 1833 Gen. j. E. B. Stuart, celebrated Confederate j cavalry leader, born in Virginia. Died in Richmond. June 12.) 1864. . 1838 Sir-Ht-nryi Irving, famous. Enish actor, born. Died Oct. 13, l0tf.

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fi I I 'I mi " J-: 1S45 Ildor Straus, noted New York merchant and philanthropist, born in Bavaria. Drowned In the Titanic disaster. April 15, 1912. 1S95 Queen Lilluokalanl abdlcted the throne of Hawaii. 1912 Gen. James B. Weaver, twice a candidate for President of the United States, died In Des Moines, la. Born In tayton, O., June 12, 1833. -THIS IS MY 60TII BIRTHDAY"" ' X M C Saslth. '' Y f", John M. C." Smith, one of three members of the Smith family now among the representatives of Michigan in Congress, was born in Belfast, Ireland, February 6, 1853. In Infancy he accompanied his parents to America. The family settled in Michigan and the future congressman received his education at the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in 1S82 and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession In the city of Charlotte, Mich., where he also has largo Interests In manufacturing and other industries. After serving several years as an alderman in. his home town Mr. Smith was elected to Congress on the Republican ticket in 1911. Last November he was re-elected by his district, the Third Michigan. Congratulations to: Rlcardo Jlminez, president ot Costa Rica. 64 years old today. Rear Admiral Thomas O. Sel fridge, U. S. N., retired. 77 years old today. Asher C. Hinds, representative In Congress of the First district of Maine, 50 years old today. Popular Actress Now in Chicago 3 Y, i MnzWazimova

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