Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 162, Hammond, Lake County, 16 December 1913 — Page 4

THE TIMES. TueRdav, Ben. 16, 1913. THE. TIMES NEWSPAPERS By Taa Lake Canary Piintla aad Pasllsatas; Casspanr. , Typical Mot ammcdans of the Philippine Islands Who d; sregarcLt lie Laws Against uman ANDOM TrtirVQ A1ND FUlINQaSj si avery,

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The Time East Chicago-Indiana Harbor, dally except Sunday. Entered at the poatofflce In East Chicago, November 18, 1913. The Lake County Time Daily except Saturday and Sunday. Entered at the postoffics In Hammond. J una 28. 1J06. The Lake County Times Saturday and weekly edition. Entered at the poatofflce In Hammond. February 4. ItU. The Gary Evening: Times Dally except Sunday. Entered at the poatofflce in Gary. April IS. 118. All under the act of March S. 1879. second-class matter.

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THK FIRST OF JUNE. Sweetly smile the iranaet. through dark bougas golden arleamlaa-.

Tenderly to went ward, faint and far way.

Ip iato the glory of the aky my heart

drifts dreaming. Dreaming; in earth'n wonder hour at rlairias; of the day.

Sadly algfcn the sunset, an lout wind

wander weeping;, Weeping with the nlKhtlagralea for the morns of May,

May, whone fragrant lovelinesa In the

fcrave la aleeplaa;. Sleeping; la that heaven of dead, aweet things that can not atay.

Dead and Kne the aunnett and, aa

night ts falling,

Fatat with June' Arat iwertaeM,

when the lilacs away.

Dim with far aweet meraoriea, the

-voice of May la calling

Sadly to my twilight heart at clon

ing of the day. Herbert Kennedy.

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LARGER PAITJ TJF CIB.CUUt.TION THIN AWT OTHER TWO XKWJ.

PIPERS IM THE CALUMET RF,GI O !f .

ANONTMOU3 cornxnurUoatloos wH

evot b nonets, but ethers will fee printed at discretion, and should be vddra4 to The Editor, Timas, Ham

janand. Ind. . Garfield Lodge No. E69, F.. A. 11

Stated meeting Friday Dec. 19, 7:30 p.

m. Annual election of officers. R. S,

Galer, Sec, E. M. Shanklln, W. Ml

Hammond Chapter No. 117, R. A. M. Special meeting Wednesday. December

17. Mark Master degree. Visiting com

panions welcome.

Hammond Council No. 90 R- & S. M.

Stated assembly, first Tuesday each

month. 3. W Morthland, Recorder.

Hammond Comroandery No. 41, K. T, Regular stated meeting Monday, De

cember 15, election of officers for 1914.

Visiting air knights welcome.

LONDON newspaper employes an

electrical expert. But we have many editors who can give their readers enough shocks without the aid of

electricians.

Time3 man is trying to wall! around

with the aid of cratches this week

Last Friday evening while milking

the Times cow, she gave a sort of

kick, hit the Times man on the ankle,

and then to add to the insult and In

jury turned his foot over and stood

on it. As a result his ankle Is very

much swollen and walking is a diffi

cult matter. But he manages to get

around just the same." Occurrences

like this lead us to believe that Mr.

Edison was right when he said:

"No man knows one-seven-billionth

about anything."

JUSTICE AND BURLESQUE.

One of the most diverting character delineations In the beloved Pickwick Papers Is the famous lawsuit in which the gentle Mr. Pickwick' Is sued by the charming "vidder" for

damages because she accused him of

trifling with her affections. Mrs

Bardell gave him many an anxious

moment. . ( . ... ,

While the trial was more or less of a Joke, it was not without its seri

ous aspects at least for the genial

Pickwick.

There was concluded in a Ham

mond ' court last night a lawsuit

which was considered more or less of

a joke by many people who thronged

the courtroom and that inimitable portrayer of human emotion who

created Pickwick could undoubtedly

have added to his fame by his por

trayal of this trial, but this case too

had Its serious aspects. A dark skin

ned young man confessing a strain of mixed blood had sued a newspaper for $50,000 because in an editorial praising a judge for protecting him from Justice court practice, the newspaper had referred to him as a colored man. It was the third time that he had sued in the Lake County courts. Each of the trials had lasted three days. 'Important litigation had been side-tracked to make way for them and the cost to the county an

expensive item. Herein lies the seriousness of the trials. Attorney Fred C. Crumpacker in his address to the jury asked the pertinent question are the courts of justice in this county to be permitted to be involved in litigation where a man can gdfeon the witness stand and swear to one thing in one court and In the same case in another court to sweat.. to another

thing, should not the courts be open

to litigation of more serious nature? It is to be regretted that the congested courts of Lake County, both at Crown Point and Hammond should

be clogged and cluttered up with trals of this nature, where court pro

ceedings are turned into farcecomedy. It is a question whether the immense costs in these three

trials will ever be paid and the tax

payers of Lake County will probably

ENLARGING THE NEWS.

You never can believe what you

read in the newspapers," is a com

mon remark not particularly pleasing

to the ear of the newspaper worker

and a remark manifestly unjust.

However, it is just the spark of

truth in the exaggeration that hurts.

The public is given to taking a great

many newspaper statements, chiefly the self-serving variety, with several

grains of salt.

Just at present, while Texas is suf

fering from floods not unlike those

that swept Indiana and Ohio in the spring, a little lesson in the gentle art of newspaper exaggeration which

a number of editors seem to be for

getting i3 to be found.

When Dayton was swept by turbid

waters, newspaper . announced that from 1,000 to C.000 persons were

drowned. There were few indeed

wbch said less than 1,000. The real

death list was less than 200. The

offense in that instance was to be in

a measure condoned. There never had been any such floods, hence there

was no method of obtaining correct

information.

When, however, after the salutary lesson of the Ohio floods, statements

that many hundreds are dead in

Texas are set forth in large type, the

credulity of the reader is strained

Whatever Texas' real loss is and it is bad enough to stir the sympathies

of the nation statements of hun

dreds dead in the valley of the Brazos will be set down at once in the public

mind as "yellow journalism," and

will reflect no whit to the credit of newspapers and editors handling the

figures.

Tragedy is always tragedy enough

without exaggeration. The rule ap

pies to all classes of news and is ob

served by all self-respecting news

papers. When dealing with figures

good editors publish what they know

or have good grounds to believe; not

what they can imagine. Grand

Rapids News.

SHE'S RIGHT ANYWAY.

Chicago woman says that sixty

per cent of the men would rather

contribute to the purchase of a, new

carpet for the church than to wear it out afterward, the other forty per cent merely wear out the carpet

and refuse to contribute to the new one. Detroit Free Press. Which simply goes to prove it's impossible to please a Chicago woman.

HARVARD university says that the freshmen of 1770 knew more than the freshmen of today. Base slander. What Old the colonial freshmen know about the tango, football, automobiles or higher education?

CHOCOLATE no longer given out in

the army's rations. Must be afraid

the boys in blue wilt make fudge,

IV addition to the free Hat, the tariff

Hat, the moat perplexing one at tbla time is the Ckrlatma Hat.

LOOKS like trouble In the G. O. yP.

over the convention question. Can now

understand why Ex-President Taft has been in training to reduce his weight.

CONGRESS may also take up the minimum wage seale. old age pensions, some trust "busting" laws, government ownership of railways lines and a few other things. While we didn't elect a socialist administration we feel the effects of one.

SCIENTIST reports discovery of skeleton of glyptodont in Mexico. This shows what the drinking of pulque leads to.

EAST Gary has another mystery. And still another mystery is how such a little town as East Gary can produce so many mysteries. CONSIDERING that he would have been obliged to attend four banquets. President Wilson can't be blamed for staying in bed al of last week.

NO DOUBT POOR OLD SANTA

CLAUS MUST HAVE TO SCRATCH

HIS HEAD WHEN SOME LITTLE BOY

SENDS IN A REQUEST FOR A LITTLE SISTER.

EXPERT My that any. safe can be

opened by aid of vibration from a

toning fork and aa electrical current.

If these adeatlfie dlscoverlea keep up ire -will behold war expert anfe-Movrera playing Antes and plccaloa In order to

poll oil a Job.

BRITAIN'S Indian subjects are on

the warpath in South Africa, No

doubt after seeing the motion pictures of an American Indiana uprising John

Bull can now appreciate what one

really is.

THE Hon. Albert J. Beveridge is now writing a book. If our native son will confine himself solely to this occupation he will earn the thanks of a grateful nation.

VERY writes a

next poet who love sonnet that

ends In the marriage of the

the lovers should state in his composition that they took the usual eugenics examination.

THERE are thirty-three places where free baths can be had in Chicago, says a dispatch. Mercy! Didn't know the Chicagoans were so dirty.

UP to the hour of going to press

no malefactor of great wealth has acquired the additional title of income

tax dodger. .

ing of a national convention without protest on the part of some of its members, who claim that the com

mittee itself has ample authority to

make the necessary change in rules and regulations.

MUST GET IN PRINT. If Mayor Knotts isn't joking today

scarlet fever and pneumonia show proportionate increases, according to th health reports. Big storms chrun up the water, carry this refuse far out into the lake and into the city

intakes. The present murky and in

sanitary condition of the water is the

result.

Other violators of the federal 'law

are the Illinois Steel Company, the

he will appoint a woman and a. Standard Oil Company and the Indi

suffragette at that to head the Gary

police and fire departments. With

woman police commissioner Gary

ought to get back that place in the

limelight which she held during elec

tion time but which the trend of

other events caused her to be shoved

into the side lines. Gary is always

breaking Into print and the steel

town owes it to Tom Knotts for most of! iW -Verily;" if Gary I didn't' break

into print in any other way there Isn't the least doubt that the mayor

would dive off a sand dune or resign anr go Into vaudeville just to keep

the word Gary humming over the associated press wires.

G. 0. P. MEETING.

in the end have to foot the bills. The

rlaintlff in the case declared in openj Members of the republican'

court tnat ne win Dring otner like tlonal committee from every

actions and the matter Is one for the courts of the county to give serious thought. It doesn't seem just to saddle actions savoring of farcecomedy and burlesque on busy courts, on costly juries, on clouds of witnesses. Time is too preeious, life is too short. There is no man who has not his rights in court but it should neither be made a place of entertainment, a law school or an advertising bureau.

ANOTHER POOR EDITOR.

That this beautiful world of ours Is full of trouble for some one alt the time Is illustrated by this from the Warrcnsburg, 111., Times: "The

na-state

and territory in the union are attending the big pow-wow in Washington today. The meeting will be devoted to a discussion of party matters, Chairman Charles D. Hlles and

Secretary James B. Reynolds, having made this plan in the call issue for the conference. The decision to call

the national committee results from the repeated requests of republican

party. The principal changes de manded are in the basis of repre

sentation from the southern states at national conventions; and in the

method of electing delegates from

states that have primary laws cover ing that subject.

It is expected that the national

committee will not agree to the call-

A TIMELY PROTEST. It is refreshing to find that actors

and actresses themselves are becom

ing nauseated with problem and sex

plays. Right well may they view the thesituation with alarm. In a speech

in New York the Other day DeWolf

Hopper said:

Why, it has become so in this

town," he said, "that the question, is not where we shall go, but where

we can go. It has been a season of

salacious plays, disgusting, prurient,

and vulgar. What do managers

mean? What have they In mind?

This sort of thing can't last. A de

cent public won't continue to stand for such things? Why, therefore,

have any of it?

"Going to see one of Mr. Warfleld's

plays," he continued, "is like walk

ing through a field of flowers. There is a sweetness, and simplicity, and

kindliness about the man and what ever he touches, but in many thea

ters elsewhere there is no such atmo

sphere.

"What on earth are we coming to?

You can't tell me the public wants that sort of stuff; that It wants its 'young women, and boys ,and chilidren to attend moral clinics of that

sort!

"And vaudeville has taken up this salacousness. There is one theater

here that has devoted itself to such

productions all season. It's rotten.'

Indeed a terrible day of reckoning

is at hand for theatrical managers if

they do not see the error of their ways. They will be engulfed in the wave of Puritanism that is sweeping

this way as the pendulum swings back and theatres will be taboo and

forced to go out of business.

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ana towns that dump their raw sew

age into Lake Mchigan. Another

'investigation" has been ordered by

the federal authorities. These investigations have reached the comic

stage. There la no need of them. Everybody knows what is the matter. The thing to do is to stop the pollution. Investigations that do nothing., but investigate, and stop

there,' have been ta order for several

years. In the meantime our drinking

water is being poisoned by the "city

beautiful 'outfit and the above-nam

ed corporations and Indiana towns.

The Greater "Chicago Federation

sent a memorial to the United States attorney general last week

urging the necessity of stopping the park board dumping.

The people of this district have

spent upwards of $70,000,000 to di

vert pollution from Lake Michigan

via the drainage canal. This tre

mendous expenditure is brought to naught by these water poisoners. It

would seem that the time for investigation had passed and the time for action had arrived.

Stop poisoning the water of Lake

Michigan. It Is the greatest crime against the people in the hstory of

the state. Calumet Record.

Letters To Santa Glaus

POISONING LAKE MICHIGAN. The South Park board has been breaking the law for some time' and poisoning Lake Michigan water by dumping refuse, street sweepings, etc., into the lake near the shore south of Grant Park, unprotected by a tight breakwater. Such dumping within eight miles of the shore is against the federal law passed by congress in June, 1910.. Forty-six cases of typhoid fever were reported

in Chicago last week, as against

twenty-three for the week ending!

MerrillvlUe, Ind., Dec 16. Dear Santa Claua: As Christmas is drawing near I thought I would write and tell you what I want for Christmas. I am nine 'years old and would like a dolly, a new dress, a pair of

hair ribbons and candy and nuts. My little sister Theresa wants a doll, a

little bed for dolly, a pair of ribbons

candy and nuts, and my little brother

Frederic wants a tool chest, a popgrun.

a football, candy and nuts. Also bring: us a Christmas tree.. But pleas, dear

Santa, don't forg-et my poor invalid

grandma and the poor orphan children. Wishing you and the poor orphan chil-

aren a very .Merry Christmas, I re

main your little friend, PHILOMENA STOLTZ. Hammond. Ind., Dec. 16.

Dear Santa Claus: As Christmas Is

coming soon I will tell you what

want. Please bring me a train of cars

and a farmer wagon and a little steam

boat and a game and a puzzle and a j box of candy and tool chest. Wish-!

ing you a Merry Christmas.

Your little friend, CHARLES STILLER. 1341 Roberts avenue. St. John. Ind., Dec. 16. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl eleven years old and go to school every day. I would like to have a writing desk and a ring, a book case, a Christmas tree and ' some candy and nuts. Do not forget the poor and mamma and papa. 1 am your friend, DOROTHr KOEHLE. Whiting, Ind., Dec 16. My Dear Santa Claus: I am 3V years old. I want a nice doll, a telephone with a bell, a little piano, a little doll buggy and candy, nuts and an Xmas tree. My twin baby sisters want a doll, a little dog, a ..Teddy Bear and

don't forget my mamma and papa and

Uncle Darrel. VEDA SNYDER.

December 7, 1912. Chicken pox.J Dear Santa .Claus I am mix years

old. I want a telephone with a bell on It and a train with a track and a little house and a new suit and some candy and nuts and an Xmas tree. You can get the telephone at the 5 and 10cent store. Don't forget my twin baby sisters. PAUL SNYDER. Hammond, Ind., ' Dec lt. Dear Santa Claus: I wish to let you know what I would like for Christmas. I want a horse and wagon, one that I can unhitch and a Xmas tree, candy.

oranges and peanuts, and also a few things for my little brother Alfred. He

wants a gypsy wagon, tree, candy, oranges and seme handkerchiefs. From your little friends, . ADOWH AND. ALFRED ilALLETT. f 352 Henry street. . - ; v. ' . Crown Point, Ind.. Dec 16. Dear Santa Claus: I thought I would write a few lines to tell you what I want for Xmas. "I would like a set of furs, paint book, pair of gloves and a pair of new slippers, some handkerchiefs and a Bled. Yours truly, BERNICE FREDERICK. Black Oak. Ind.. Dec 16. Dear Santa; I have been a good boy. Will you bring me a box of paints, a pair of overshoes, & story book, a game and some nuts and candy and an Xmas tree? Robert wants a merry-go-round, a gun. a horse, a boy doll and

a horn. Please do not forget grandma and the poor children.

Your friends.

GEORGE AND ROBERT SCHEIDT.

Black Oak. Ind., Dec. 16. Dear Santa: I would like to have

this year a drum, a etory bock, a fountain pen, a steamboat that sails, a

game. My sister Dorothy wants a

piano, a rosary, a pair of shoes, a dolL high chair, a sewtng box. a doll hoUBe, and please bring an Xmas tree and do not forget mamma and papa.

Your friends, JOHN AND DOROTHY SCHEIDT. Munster, Ind., Dec 16.

Dear Santa Claus: I thought I would

write to you and tell you what I want for Christmas. I am a little girl ten years old and go to school every day.

I want a table and twelve little chairs.

a set of dishes and a little stove with some cooking utensils. I want a doll

two feet high with dark hair and brown eyes. These thing's are for me

and dolly to play house with. Be sure

and give her a name. Do not forget

mamma, papa, grandma and my broth

era and sisters. I forgot to tell, you to

bring some games. lie sure and bring

some. Wishins you a Merry Christmas from us all. From your loving friend.

LILLIAN WELTER. Hammond. Ind., Dec 16. Dear Santa: As Christmas is draw

ing near I would like to tell you what

I wish for Christmas. 1 would like

to have a sewing box, a new dress,

pencil box, a bank, game and story book, a school satchel and a Christmas tree. Thank you very much for being so good to me last year and hope you

will be the same this year. Please do

notflorget my mother and father and

my sisters and brother and the orphans and all the poor children and the school sisters. I wish you a Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year. .

From your little friend, ANNA JASIN.

P. S. I am 11 years old and go to

St. Joseph's school and I am in the. fifth grade.

518 East State street. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 16. Dear Santa Claus: 1 am a little girl 6 years old and go to scUool every day. Please, Santa, bring me a doll, story book, pencil box and bring me a Christmas tree, nuts and candy. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Good-bye. From your little friend, GENEVIEVE JASIN. 518 East State street. .. Black Oak. Ind., Dec. 1. Dear Santa: I will jut write you a

few lines and tell you what I want 'for Christmas. I want a pretty, big doll

and buggy -with ten n-lfc. -Then I

want some games, a new coat and toonnet, some new shoes and stockings and a new dress. Send these to me Christmas. I live in a little pink house on a hill. From IRENE O'MALLEY. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 16. Dear Santa: My name is Leona Clark and J live at 78 State street and I want you to come to my house If you have time. I would like to have an Indian dress and a new doll head and some new handkerchiefs. I don't think that is asking too much, but if It Is

just put the Indian .dress in my stock

ing. I will hang my stocking; right near the stove and you will be sure to see it. I will only hang up one.

Lovingly, - LEONA CLARK.. 78 State street. . . . Lowell, Ind.. Dec. 16. Dear Santa: I would like a horn.

a Jumping jack, knife, Noah's ark, nuts and candy. I am 7 years old. From

MARSHALL SANGER.

The Day in HISTORY

DECEMBER 16 IS HISTORY.

1S35 New York visited by terrible

fire, which raged three days.

1862 Gea. Foster defeated Confeder

ates at White Hall, N. C.

186 Gen. Thomas defeated Confeder

ates at Nashville, Tenn. 1874 Attempts to Introduce mixed school system in New Orleans, starts a strike among white children. 1884 New Orleans World's Fair formally opened. . 1904 Sewen Russians arriving at Chee Foo reports terrible fighting of Port Arthur. 1912 President-elect Wilson visited by several Democratic leaders at . Trenton, N. J. : ,, TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS. Congressman Rufus Hardy, Democrat, of Corsicans, Texas, bora in Monroe County, Miss., December 16, 1855; educated at private schools In Texas, at the old Catnright school (Somerville

Institute), Mississippi, and the University of Georgia; . member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity; married In 1S81; admitted to the bar in 1875; elected county attorney of Navarro County in 1880, and re-elected In 18S2; elected district attorney for the thirteenth judicial district, composed f Freestone, LImestome, and Navarro counties in 1884, and re-elected In 1886; elected ditsrict Judge of same district In 1888 and re-elected in 1892. retired from the bench in 1896, elected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sisty-second and Sixty-third Congresses.

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