The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-03-14
LET US DO LIKEWISE.

The following from one of the Chi
cago papers is a description of the
banquet which was held recently at
the Coliseum. The dinner was given by
the Chicago Commercial association
and the success of the affair is a hint
of what might be done for the Calu
met region if representatives from it's
four corners were to gather together
and become imbued with the spirit of
progress that is actuating some of It's
successful men.
Twenty four hundred Chicago bust
ness men, the backbone of the city's
enterprise and progress, We're the
guests of the Chicago Commercial as
ISOLATION at the Coliseum last night at
the biggest dinner of business men
ever held in the world.
1t was a good fellowship supper"
wit IT VIII" as the motto with nothing
elaborate and typieaIly Chicagoan, and
for four hours the men in whose hands
rests the future of Chicago were in
spired with enthusiasm that means
everything to the progress Of what
they proudly proclaim the most enter
prising metropolis in the world
1t marked the dawn of real awak-
ening, of a boom for Chicago such as
enthused it's citizens in the days before
the Worlds Fair. It was part of a
movement TO create in Chicago an in
terest for its progress and it's better
ment that will sweep before it every
obstacle of Indifference selhshness,
partisan politics, weakness, and of
fear. It's promoters declare 1t will
strengthen its business interests, it's
industries, its commercial enterprises,
clean it's streets beautify its exterior,
and carry it onward as the most typ
ically American city OF the continent"
Hammond. whiting and East Chi
cago have everything in common and
should work out common destiny
There is not an industry that located
in this region that does not benefit, to
a certain extent every portion of it
For instance the people of East Chi
cago are counting almost as much or
the Standard Steel Car company as
are the people Of Hammond and the
people of Whiting are counting on the
Western Glucose company to increase
the prosperity of their city to as great
an extent as are the people OF Rob
ertsdale.
1t is a certainty and only a question
of a few years when the East Chicago
policemen will stand on one corner
swinging his club and gossiping Will
a Hammond policeman on the oppo
site corner unless amalgamation unite
the two cities.
With all three Of these municipali
ties working out their problems indi
vidually they will be almost power
less to secure what they want in tn
way of harbors. parks and boulevard
compared to the resources they woul'
have if the cities were united.
However aside from the question o
the desirability or undesirability o
amalgamation there ought to be som
opportunity for the business men o
the entire Calumet region TO get to
gether and talk over the plans for tn
furthering of the progress of this sec
ton.
Let the Il wiz spirit prevail her
as it does in Chicago and wonders vii
be accomplished. The business men o
the Calumet region are building a me
tropoIis that many confidently believ
will be the first city in the state i
few years and whether this metrop
oils is to be 8 ramshackle, thrown to
gether heterogeneous city or an or
derby, closely knit community will de
pend largely upon the extent t
which the cities that are to compos
it work together for a common end i
this, the formative period of its his
tory.
The defeating of the federal build
ing, of which the whole county
proud. is the opportunity and it ougt
not to be neglected.