Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 43, Hammond, Lake County, 11 November 1922 — Page 4

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a head-guard, a nose-guard, a shin-guard, and regular football pants besides cleated shoes. "Why aren't you playing?" we asked him. "I'm not good enough," was his response. The boys in the game were equipped with no such paraphernalia as he had. Most of them were engaged in wearing out their ordinary school clothes. Boyhood's democracy you see, if a real one. It is there that worth, not wealth, decides one's standing in the game.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS: It you fail to receive your copy of THE TllLBS aa promptly as you have in the past, please oo not taiaa it has boss lost or was not sent oa umi. IHt, TlMJfia has increased its usailin equipment and Is striving earnestly j reach its patrons on time. Be prompt in auviminjc when you Jo not yet rour paper and we Wli; net irnr DEMOCRACY OF YOUTH. You don't have to go to high school or to college to learn how to play footbalL One of the most thoroughly thumbed rule books we ever saw was trotted out every few seconds the other day while we watched a bunch of grade school youngsters tumbling about on a vacant lot. The arguments were fierce, and the line bucks were fiercer. These little fellows put their whole souls into the game. Some pretty good material in that outfit, too. But sure enough, after every play, the argument started, and we fear the game wasn't concluded without some private fights.

A few more years of football, youngsters,! and you will learn teamwork and discipline. Many lessons of courage and temper-keeping t are in store for you. In any boyish sport, there !

is revealed tne tundamentals of characterbuilding and there is taught that rare bit of knowledge how to make a place for yourself among your fellows. On the sideline of this terrific football game of which we were speaking stood another boy. He was loaded down with equipment He had

MODERN LIFE IS LONGER. War, the pestilence of influenza and a thousand minor causes have not kicked the legs out from under the American public. Scientists have said that the measure of civilization is the degree of reduction in the death rate and according to such a standard we are farther ahead than any race that inhabited the world before us. Statistics are the dullest things in the world. But the story they tell sometimes is thrilling, often inspiring- By patient research, extending over many years, it was found that the mortality rate in the Unied States decreased from 17.2 per thousand in 1900 to 13.9 in 1920. And between those dates were some black years of horror, as we all remember. Babies and middle-aged folk have been the biggest gainers. To think that the death rate of those under one year of age has been cut from 114.62 per thousand in 1910 to 90.11 in 1920 is to realize that the human family at last is beginning to take care of itself with some sanity. No baby should die of neglect. Fewer are doing so. Let us rejoice. And let us also take heart at the fact that men and women between the ages of 40 and 60 are now showing a firmer grip on life than ever before. It is things like this that make us renew our faith in the ultimate cacomplishment of humanity. If so much has been done in our generation, a mere 20-year span, .how much may we not hope for in the next?

At last accounts that Oklahoma perfect man who says he has never smoked, drank, swore or in any way violated the law of living was still at large.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY F. H. Hannebohl. mechanical foreman of the Buffington eement plant, backed Roosevelt In an election bet with K W Crawford, master mechanic of the same plant. Tonight they will ,ettle up. Hannebohl will haul Crawford down Hohman street. In Hammond in a wheelbarrow. Henry Horan of Hebron has plenty of bad luck. He was rendered unconscious by an explosion during: the fire early in the week. Yesterday he was hurt in a runaway and will be confined to his home for a while.

The East Chicago Masonic Temple is now under roof and it Is believed the buildlnr will be ready for the dedication exercises In about six weeks. The H emmond Ministerial Assoclstlon in a meeting at the First Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon reorganised by electing- the following: officers: President, Rev. F.- H. Adams: secretary. Rev. M. J. Cameron; treasurer. Rev. A. W. Hoffman. A wag-on loaded with beer upset beeaus of a broken axel at the Hohman street bridge In Hammond this morning;. Hundreds of bottles were smashed, flooding: the pavement with beer. Xr. William Bhlner of the state basteriolog-icat department is In Indiana Harbor assisting local health authorities in trying to discover the source of the present epidemic of typhoid fever.

It is r?ro"'l that a deal has practically bee nclosed whereby another theater, to cost $35,000, will be erected In East Chicago on Forsythe avenue, near Chicago avenue. Ed. Simon, successful democratic candidate for county auditor, -pects 'o spend next week fishing along the Kankakee river to rest himself from his strenuous campaign. East Chicago and Hammond are now preparing to resume their campaign for waterway legislation by congress, which will result In improvements to the Indiana Harbor canal and the r.rand Calumet river.

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The Story of tKe Edward C. Minus Company

BT ONE WHO KNOWS

THIRTY-TWO years ago Edward C. Minas made his initial bow in business for himself in Hammond. He opened a dinky little hardware store in the one-story building which still stands at the corner of State St. and Oakley ave. No one dreamed then and Mr. Minas himself was not optimistic enough to believe that some day that humble beginning would have expanded to the proportions of the present in

stitution which bears his name.

That was in 1890. All of North Township, including the towns of East Chicago, Whiting and Hammondhad a population then of only 9,361. Hammond, with its ' population of 5,428 was the metropolis of the oounty. East Chicago had 1,255 and Whiting was 200 larger than East Chicago. Think over those figures and try to grasp the wonderful development of this- Calumet region. North township had fewer inhabitants than the present city of West Hammond. The population now thirty-two years later is rapidly nearing the 100,000 mark. Then consider the rapid strides which a merchantile establishment must have taken to keep abreast the march of progress. That is the story of the Edward C. Minas Co. What E. C- Minas could see in Hammond then is difficult to understand when a person knows how conditions were. But he was showing the same foresight which has since been characteristic of him. ' He had received his first business training when he clerked in a grocery store at Crown Point. Then he cams to Hammond and landed a job as bookkeeper and cashier in the store which M. M. Towle conducted. He had been in Hammond long enough to get the idea that the town was not always to be a mess of sand ridges, swamps and railroad tracks. In the years he has been in business he has seen Hammond and the neighboring territory develop and at the same time his business has moved right along, keeping at least one hop ahead of the community's progress. E. C. Minas was an anxious man that first day back in 1890 as he fussed around among the stock of his little hardware store. Practically everything he had was tied up in that $1,200 stock. He didn't need to look at the books that night to knew his total sales. He had personally atended to every transaction and knew just how much business had been done the instant the last custom-r was waited on. He had sold less than a day's pay. But business picked up steadily. The stock was increased- The name of Minas gradually became a household word.

At the end of the first five years came the first big step forward. The old quarters were too small. Mr. Minas purchased a fifty-foot lot which is part of the site rf h's n-. building. There he erected a three-story building. The hardware stock was made the most complete in this part of the country . In time it became apparent to the proprietor that no further expansion could be made as a single line store. He added rugs and carpets. That met with a quick response from the. public. ' As a new outlet for development was looked for, the furniture line naturally suggested itself as closely allied with the business he was already operating. A furniture department was added. It wasn't much of a stock at first but the demand grew and the department expanded. Today it occupies the entire third floor of the Edward C. Minas Co. store. While Mr. Minas takes pride in his entire present establishment more sentiment probably attaches to the hardware and furniture departments hardware because it gave him his start and furniture because it gave him the idea of the department store. While fitting out his first furniture line he realized that in time the business should reach a point where expansion would be limited again by the community demand- The vision of a department store began to formulate itself. The more he thought it over the firmer became his conviction that it would be a logical step. He was soon working upon a definite plan. He had determined to furnish Hammond a department store with a stock so comprehensive that a customer would be able under one roof to obtain anything needed in the conduct of an ordinary household. He had the big stores of Chicago for his pattern. He realized that he would never need to equal them in size but he was certain that he could equal them in service rendered to his patrons. That was his aim. It was the foundation of what was to become Northern Indiana's greatest department store. Success rewarded the policy.- Employes were impressed with the importance of adhering to this standard. Service was the slogan. Mr. Minas was closely scanning the personnel of his organization. He was selecting and training the men and women who were to share with him the responsibility of making the department store a success. Even shrewder judgment was needed here than he had been called upon to exercise in the past. Today he is the head of a staff of keen executives, careful buyers and a cales force unexcelled anywhere. Always alert to note signs of ability out of the ordmary in an employe and rewarding such ability with advancement, Mr. Minas has the satisfaction of having with him in responsible positions, department heads and ether trusted employes who started with the store years ago in minor capacities. Every employe is impressed over and over with the store's policy that a satisfied customer is its best asset-

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