Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 216, Hammond, Lake County, 12 February 1913 — Page 4

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Garfield Lodge No. 569 P. & A. M. stated meeting Friday, Feb. 14, 7:30 p. m. F. C. degree. Visiting brothers wel

come. Tt. S. Galer, Sec, E. M. Shanklin,

V. M.

Hammond Chapter No. 117. R. A. M.,

regular statedy meeting Wednesda

evening, Feb. 12. Work in mark mas

ter. It

Hammond Council. No. 90. B. S. M. Stated meetings first Tuesday of eaea

month.

' Hammond Commandery, No. 41, K. T. Regular stated meeting first ana

thi rdMonrtay of eifl finnth. ..

fOi? por THE

MUSE OF THE IXCOMMIJMCABLE. An echo often kave ou r wingers ramtht

And they that lend above the aaddenrd Mtrlngs; Uw hue of all the hundreds on her VtlORH

Onr painters render, and our men of

thought

In realm mysterious her face have

aous;ht

And glimpsed Its marvrl things Her shadow gathers and ranee clings

To all the loveliness that

wrought.

The wind of lonely places In her wine.

Still she evades urn, hidden, hushed, and fleet A star withheld, a music la the gloom.

Ileauty and death her speechless lips

assign. Where silence Is, and where the surfloud feet Of armies wander on the sands of doom.

George Sterllug In "orth American

Review.

la elusive her frag-

has

western pictures. Some of them are interesting no doubt, as "movies" go,

and to the mature well balanced mind, they serve their purpose, that

of giving entertainment.

But in the young romantic school

boy they implant a wrong ideal. He ses the hero in a predicament or in an argument, and instead of con

trolling his passions and temper, and

acting with patience and forbearance

he reaches fo rhis gun. The play, according to the censors is justified because the villain is baffled by means of a gun. What is the effect upon the immature mind. Instead of taking home the moral, the gun is the big feature to him. If the seed takes root we hear about it later in the police court. The owner of the "movie" who believes he owes a duty to society will either restrict admission to his gun toting plays to adults, or limit their number.

property owners along Calumet ave- ' nue had shown their faith in the street by shouldering the cost of'

widening it the county commissioners put through measures that will result in paving the street through the lake. An no one can charge these commissioners with extravagance for each instance the improvements have been badly needed. Some of the county commissioners are in fact showing their conservatism by calling a halt on the Oue Hundred and Forty-first and the One Hundred and Fifty-first street bridges on the theory that they are not so badly needed as some other county improvements. In the meantime Cr,own Point, the county seat, has been getting its share. The new county infirmary Is to cost an enormous sum and the commissioners have purchased additional land for the fair grounds. The development of the Calumet region, the building of roads, bridges and culverts may be a costly thing

but it facilitates the growth of its

cities and in the end will pay for itself several times over.

WHAT IT MEANS. "She has something up her sleeve"

is pregnant with meaning now when it has reference to an English suff

ragette.

It means that she either has a flat-

iron or a bottle of acid for a bobby.

AVE cannot imagine the militant London suffragettes doing anything so tame as singing the Marseillaise.

SHOOT SOMETHING ELSE, Policeman, we note, shot himself when a buxom widow shot him because he refused to marry her. We trust that our b. ws. will have a care. Good policemen are scarce. And there are a lot of b. ws.

A CUTTLEFISH ARGUMENT.

THE TIMES does not advocate private ownership of the Hammond

waterworks. If does advocate the

adoption of such measures as will en

able the waterworks engineer to fight needle ice. It is absolutely

idiotic to declare that any private

ownership of the system was ever

thought of by this paper.

THE TIMES does believe, however,

that only until the constitution of the state is amended to increase the borrowing power of the city will

Hammond be able to extend its water works as rapidly as the city grows.

Municipal ownership is a failure

and will continue to be a failure un

til a municipal enterprise is placed

cn the same money borrowing basis as a private corporation. A private

corporation capitalizes prospects. If

Hammond was certain to double in

population next year it could not get

one extra dollar for the extension o

Its municipally owned utilities. THE TIMES does not favor privat

ownership of the city's waterworks

Its object in pointing out the weak ness of the local situation is to pro

mote greater efficiency and urge

change in the constitution increasing

the borrowing power of the com

munity. .'

ito; JiMbs nas absolutely no

knowledge that any private owner

ship has ever been thought of.

y If the goblin' fear of private owner

ship of the Hammond waterworks is

DEMAND THE DEATH PENALTY. It is high time that the death penalty be invoked for some ot the

urtti v uti u uiuj uwei s. mere

been a dozen of them in the past few

years and not one of the brutes has

ever been given capital punishment.

The latest slayer is Fred Alton,

whose victim died two days ago. Al

ton "shot up" a Gary pool room.

It is opportune for a hanging party

down at the Michigan City prison.

PALACE AND LEADERS IN MEXICO REVOLT

fho de-

haven't

THE Pennsylvania railroad Mill

insist on its conductors saying

'Thank you" when they get their

tickets, but who is going to get any

satisfaction out of the berth artists when you hand them their little old

two bits?

KEEPS PACE WITH PROGRESS.

The people of Lake County have no

complaint to make of their county commissioners. These three men order nearly a million dollars worth

of improvements every year and

spend the money as efficiently as the board of directors of a railroad would

do.

There is not even a vestige of the

parsimony that existed when the south end of the county dominated both the board of commissioners and

the county council and the extraction

of money for north end improvements

was anything but painless. The board, since Matt Brown's connection with it, and he has the longest record of service, has put In more improvements in Lake County than all of the other boards in the history of the county. When ever a community neede.l anything to further its growth the

county has been on the job and has

provided it. For instance when Gary

adopted that splendid project of building Broadway, its Appian Way through to the country districts to

the south; the county commissioners did their share and a snlendid road-

the only defense that the organ of jway and concrete bridge are the re-

me aammisiraiion can set iortn for

QUI V- f

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN ?

Many interesting books have been

written o nthe subject of what would

happen if everybody told the truth to

everybody else.

It is usually shown in these books that the man who answers every question with absolute truth makes

five hundred enemies a day, is de

serted by his wife and children, and

lands in jail before night. T T

ror wnen a woman asks you

whether she is. pretty or not, what are you to say? We all lie, if neces

sary.

An equally interesting speculation

is "What would happen if everybody told, the truth to himself?"

If lying to other people were our only sin we would get along fairly

weu, out the inmost fact remains

that there is not one person Ina

thousand who tells the truth to him

self. Even on the simple a subject

as weight and height .there

enormous number of people ceive themselves. To begin; at home, yov

, - -, . - - ,

stood on a scale lor ntteen, years without attempting to fudgeon the

weight, nor have you ever had your

self measured for height, without

stretching your neck to the utmost

limit In trying to make the top of your head stand up another quarter of an inch. And if we deceive our

selves in these simple little every day

matters, how much more tremendously do we defraud our intelligence when more important subjects are up

for consideration.

War, for instance. To ' take hu

man life wholesale is no more justifiable than to take it by retail; yet

we fight with a foreign nation for

possession of an island thousands of miles away, to accommodate 'some of

our esteemed "commercial interests." Nothing is rriore simple than the proposition that a man is only entitled to what he labors for; yet for hundreds of years there have been untold poverty and misery in the world because of great volumes of laws defending the proposition that some people re entitled to what they did not earn.

In religious, political, and personal

ife, nearly every man lies constantly

to himself. Yet we only approach the

perfection advantage in the long run

The greatest resolve that any young

person can make, the highest ambition he can have, is to face the truth

unflinchingly, find out where he is

going till he gets there.

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At the left s General Kijycs (ton) and President Midrro) Felix lllas (ton rlaht, and troops revlenlns; la front of president's nnlace.

would be a bold prophet who would undertake to predict the type of personality which might be expected in the children of a given union. Some very unpromising stocks have brought forth wonderful products. Could any one have predicted Abraham Lincoln from a study of his ancestry? Observe I say predict, and not explain after his appearance. Can any one now predict from what kind of ancestral combinations the great scholars, statemen, men of affairs of

the next generation will .... ... '

iouia tne capacities andy-7:areer8 Df

me mempejer 7. h t o tmr-iatv thnsn

were born outside of Boston or

Philadelphia have been predicted? The time may come when it will be

possible to . predict what the chances are that the children of given parents will inherit more or less than average

Intellectual capacity, but since germinal potentiality is transformed

into intellectual ability only as the result of development, such a prediction could not be extended to the

latter unless the environment as well as the heredity were known. Society can safely eliminate its worst elements from reproduction, but it can not wisely go farther than that at present. Professor Edwin G. Conklin, in Science.

gard Who will not go to the ant and Michigan within a few years Frank ber of the Sacred College, 81 years olJ

consider her ways, is thin-witteLJailS9vVi 'wiirbe able to extend the Gary today

WgSt-oft 'rth'what Lazarus saw

& Interurban in a straight line to

Benton Harbor.

ives getting in the fables, when that jitx i.ir.iiT error.

drop of water was requested. f (Majenlca correspondence to the Hunt

ington Herald.) In an item last week making the announcement of the death of the baby of Raymond Shldeier was a mistake. It was a birth instead of a death. JUDGING from that lawsuit in Hammond wherein a Gary lawyer . seeks to recover several tnousand .dollars from a burglary insurance company because be alleges his furs were stol-

Love of work stands for civilization, intelligence, adolescence and success. It Is the badge of good society, brains, manhood and accomplishment.

WHAT HE SHOULD DO. "A man at my age," said a bride

groom of seventy, who had just taken en the inference is that the law busi-

Xo. 3, "does not love. He gets lone- ness

some and therefore he takes another wife."

Why not take a

Thomas Parran, representative in

Congress of the Fifth district of Maryland, 53 years old today. Judson C. Clements, member of tho Interstate Commerce Commission, 67 years old today. Bhsop Charles Edward Cheney, of the Reformed Episcopal Church, 77 years old today. Bishop John E. Robinson of the Methodist Episcopal Church, famous for his work In foreign missions, 6 years old today. Professor Morris Davis, geologist ot Harvard University, 63 years old to-

and buy a dog or a pianola

far easier on the gentle sex.

is unusually good in the Steel

City when a lawyer can invest such

a big fortune in cat skins. '

j ESTHER No. dear, they do not drink or go out gpeak polish down at the south pole.

It is,

the wretched service furnished the taxpayers of the city of Hammond Heaven help them!

GUNS AND "MOVIES." Laws are in force everywhere to squelch, the gun toter and gun play, and yet both are permitted to run

rampant daily not in actual life, but on the moving picture screen. The letter of the law is not being violated in this but the letter is never far reaching as the moral effect, and the moving picture gun toter is a case in point. This applies directly to most of our

When East Chicago had located the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Gogebic Iron company had located in

Hammond it became apparent that a bridge would have to be built over

the canal at Forsythe avenue.

In spite of the fact that the board

had previously ordered bridges at

Honman street, Chicago avenue,

Canal street and at a number of other

places in the county the members voted in favor of the Forsythe avenue

project and Lake County did its share

towards promoting the industrial de

velopment that has given it money to

spend for bridges.

Similarly in Hammond when the

NEW York church is planning a course of entertainment for the young. It includes dancing, pool and

eugenics. The good Lord only knows

where the churches are going to stop.

LEARN TO LOVE YOUR TASK. Love of work is characteristic of

civilization. The savage does not re

joice at a task, and the Indian of James Fenimore Cooper's time was not a captain of industry. The noble

red men could not exult without the aid of a tomahawk and a scalp.

The desire to be useful is a dis

tinguishing feature of human intelligence. The horse is taught to labor

under the lash, and it is the twisting of a cruel bit that keeps the

Percheron in the path of duty. The

cow does not give milk as a poetic

tribute of, love to mankind: nor are

dumb beasts swayed either by re

ligion or natural love of work when they render service to man.

Love of work separates human

HEARD BT RUB E

COUNTY engineer is surveying bottom of Lake Michigan off Gary. Large number of empty beer bottles reported to have been found on the bottom.

Up and Down in INDIANA

The Day in HISTORY

THE Cincinnati Enquirer starts a

story with these words the trouble

in Mexico," thereby starting some

thing that was impossible for it to from animal intelligence.

finish. The child becomes a man when he

begins to love work. Natural children love play only, not work, Rolla's

EUGENICS A FALSE SCIENCE, father to the contrary notwithstand-

I have once or twice in this address ing; and a real keen affection for

t

referred to eugenics in a way which I work is the almost unvarying mark

was intended to be facetious, but I that distinguishes the successful from

would not wish to be understood as the unsung in every line ot business

attempting to disparage that infant 1 or art

industry. Undoubtedly it represents The man whose eye is focused upon an important application of biological the heights of attainment, feeds on

discoveries to human welfare; but it work. He devours it with a glad cry, seems to me that it cannot wisely go and calls for. more. He does it better

farther at this time than to attempt because he loves it; and he loves it to eliminate from reproduction the because he does it better. most unfit members of society. Giv- It is necessary for the average ffian

ing advice regarding matrimony Is to work eight hours a day for 30 to

proverbially a hazardous perform-1 60 years.

ance, and it is not much safer for the It is possible to learn to enjoy work

biologist than for others. With a I just as it Is possible to cultivate a more complete knowledge with regard 1 taste for olives even if you don't

to the inheritance of human defects Hike it at first; for the human mind

than we now possess, at least in many lis subject to laws of suggestion that

instances, it will probably be possible! are almost all-powerful.

to give such advice wisely; but apart! If one must work; and if it is possi-

from certain bodily pecularities, helble to learn how to love it, the slug

CAN it be that the Mexican war cor

respondents got jealous of their Balkan conferes? ' "WHAT is wealth without love?" ' asks old Lnury Jean Llbbey. Don't know Laury, but we can expound on love without wealth. HOW ABOUT VALPARAISO. (Smartsburg correspondence to the Crawfordsville Journal.) Fremont Brown says if he don't go to Richmond, Ind., he is going somewhere. 4 THIS eugenics stuff may be all right, but if any of the eugenlst enthusiasts had ever seen the uncouth parents of Abe Lincoln none would have accused 'em of being the ancestors of a great president.

SEEING the apparent success in which young General Plasi has overthrown Broth.ero Maderoi the Gary "antis" might introduce the young star to come up and promote a revolution

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY" February 12. 1736 Marriage of Maria Theresa, of Austria and Francis of Lorraine. 1791 -Peter Cooper, famous philan-

fORX TRAIL BETRAYS THIEVES. A trail of yellow grains of corn, led Detectives Haley and, Stewart to tho whereabouts of a wagon load of cron stolen from a sidetrack car near the Belt "Railroad and West Michigan street at Indianapolis early yesterday morning. The trail of corn was followed for more than a mile to the home of Victor, Royce, 1140 Porter street, where it had been sold. Royce accused Rufus Whiteford; 20 years old. 114 Minkner street, and Ely Maiden, 3 5 North Belmont avenue, 'and they were arrested. When tha. men arrived at

, . Y Zrr AT:,, .police headquarters they confessed that

inrop.sv, uwrn ... xw th broken ,nto the car Sundav onn It v.6"' Pt ' , ...tnth rxigh Whiteford is under suspended ISOAbraham . L.ncoln. sixteenth from the Crlmlnai Court. President of the V. 8., born in Hardin County, Ky. Died in Washing- TRIES TO SAVE HlSBA5iD SHOT. ton, D. C, April 15, 1865. When Mrs. Sarah Here, 50 years old, 1S13 Benson J.-Lossing. artist, author attempted to prevent her husban l, and historian, born In Beekman, N. Nicholas, from committing suicide. Y. Died in Poughkeepsle, N. Y., shortly after midnight this morning at June 3, 1891. , . Columbus, she was shot in the abdo1833 Henry Clay introduced the com-, men, probably fatally, by the bullet promise tariff bill in the senate. which .her husband intended should 1877 Frof. A. Graham Bell exhibited take his own life, but which only graihis t'elesThone at Salem, Mass. ed his breast. He had been drinking 1879 Calbraith Rodgers. the first to and was despondent. ,He was arretted cross the continent in an aero- and she was removed to the hospital. plane, born on New Tork City Met( LIMITED HITS YOUTH. death in accident at Long Beach,- . . T

Cal., April 3, 1912. ' T Hno nt Antlorh. four

1886 John Sherman re-elected United States senator from Ohio. 1889 Norman J. Coleman of Missouri annointfrf Secretary of Agriculture.

against hizzoner, Thomaso Ephraimsco i912 The Manchu dynasty n China

Knotts,

IX remembering that it is lent and that you must have resort to the mackerel keg a little more than usual also recall that it isn't Mrs. Grover Cleve

land any more. Mrs. Tom Preston, if j

you please.

YE MERR1E FARMER. This is the way ye farmer's library

was then and now-

ended with the abdication of the child emperor and the recognition of the republican government. "THIS IS MY .13TH BIRTHDAY" William B. fttttt. Dr. William Berryman Scott, Blair

i Prof essor of Geology at Princeton Uni

versity, was born in Cincinnati, February 12. 1858. On the maternal

miles south of Frankfort, Vern Hutchinson. 15 years old. was probably fatally injured when hlswagon was struck by a limited car, south bounl out of Frankfort. The lad, who is In the employ of David Young, a farmer residing south of the city, was driving to his home and did not notice the aproach of the car as it rounded the curve. SPORT FOR GYPSY' CKILIMtEV. Sliding on ice with bare feet is goo'l

sport, according to several small cnu-

side he is a direct descendant of Bn- dren, members of gypsy famllios who

THEN A Ben Franklin Almanack. A Bible. Life of George Washington. Sermons of Rev. Doolittle. Pilgrim's Progress. History of the SpanishAmerlcan war.

C osmopoli tan Magazine. Studebaker "E. M. F." catalog. Latest List of Victrola Records. "How to Mend Your Own'Spark Plug." Carribean Winter Cruises. "Three Weeks."

"IS the judicial atmosphere at Crown point superior to that at Hammond?" Debate subject of the county bar association. Having disposed of this why not take up the weighty phenomenon of why women powder. THEN again if the Indiana Steel company keeps filling in old Lake

jamin Franklin. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1878, and afterward took a course in the University of Heidelberg, from which he received in 1S80 the degree of Ph.D. j Dr. Scott is a member of the National ' Academy Of Sciences, and In 1906 was elected vice president of the American Philosophical Society. A year ago the

Geological Society of London conferred

upon him the Wollaston Gold Medal for geological research. He is the author of. numerous works on geology and paleiitology. He id the editor and joint author of an account of scientific expeditions to Patagoilia, which was

published in 1904. Congratulations to

Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, el-1

est daughter of ex-Prertdent Roorevelt,

29 years Id today.

Cardinal Vaszary, ,P:

winter" in houses near Richlaod ave

nue and Ohio street at Indianapolis. A report was received at police headquarters that the children of the families were allowed to go naked, and Patrolman Saylor investigated. He found that the children were not naked, but saw them slide over Ice in the street in their bare feet and apparently enjoy it.

HOLU VI STREET CAR. Stepping In front of an Elkhart city street car and flashing a revolver, an unidentified bandit forced the motorman to hold up his hands while he emptier his pockets of $30 in cash. P.efore gaining possession of the money, however, the highwayman became frightened by the arrival of pedestrians and flcd.:

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