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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-17
PERSONALS.

Mrs A. Eddy has returned home after
a short visit with relatives in Michigan
City.
Mrs. Harry Wachter has returned to
her home after few days visit with
friends and relatives in Dyer.
Miss Margaret Boldt has returned to
her home in Hobart after a pleasant
visit at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Fred Collins in Truman avenue.
Mrs. F. scharabeck has ben spending
a few days with relatives in Hobart
Mrs. Elizabeth schaller has returned
home from an over Sunday visit with
relatives in Dyer
Grill and Clure Burge have been Wis
iting a few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Scott Burge at their home in Merrill
vile.
Vernon Parry of Crown Point was
in Hammond today on business.
Mrs. A F. Rohrer is entertaining
Miss Gullette of Pontiac, Ill. at her
home. 512 South Holman street for
few days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs Burge OF Crown Point
are spending the day with friends in
Hammond.
Miss Muriel Wilcox, who is attend
ing the Northwestern university at
Evanston, H.. came home today to visit
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. VIII
cox Of Conkey avenue.
Miss Alice Sohl, Of Kenwood, ILL.,.
was the guest of relatives In Hammond
yesterday.
Mrs Albert Mack Of Crown Point is
spending the day with friends in Ham
mond.
Just a Womans Way" the new
melodramatic success which comes to
the Towle opera house Saturday, NATL
nee and night, March 20. is staged by
an exceptionally strong and especially
selected company. Great artistic skill.
directness of method and intellectual
strength are evident in the portrayal Of
this great story OF every day life, and
the author. Mr.. Sidney W. Pascoe, is
to be congratulated upon the candor
and naturalness with which he has
handled a rather delicate theme and
upon the directness and forcefulness
which he has employed IN the telling
Of a story and in the driving home of a
| lesson which II Is well for US all to
know. Lincoln J. Carter has provided
him with a particularly we'll balanced
| interpreting cast and the scenic equip
ment IS most adequate and complete
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-17
Poorly sunptIsd with Teeth.

Despite its great size, an elephant
has only eight teeth.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
WHEN MAN is UNCONSCIOUS
WHERE is PAIN, is QUESTION

GLENDORA, Jan. IA Editor Her
add: Certain results supposed to pro-
coed from drugs are really caused by
the faith in them which the false hu-
man consciousness is educated to feel.
We have only mans assertion that
drugs cure, for Jesus never taught
that drugs, food, air and exercise could
make man healthy.
Either mind produces or it is pro-
duced. If mind is first it cannot pro-
duce it's opposite-matter; and If mat
ter is first it cannot produce mind.
Like produces like.
Will power is capable of all evil. 1t
never can heal the sick, for it is the
prayer of the unrighteous.
EtherizatiOn will apparently cause
the body to disappear. Before the
thoughts are fully at rest the limbs
will vanish from consciousness. The
whole frame will sink from sight along
with surrounding objects, leaving the
pain standing forth as distinctly as
mountain peak, as if it were a separate,
bodily member. At last the agony also
vanishes. This process shows the pain
to be in the mind, for the 1nt1amma-
ton is not suppressed
To the person under the influence of
morphine there is no longer any pain.
Yet any Observation-Disclosures, homeo-
pathic botanic, eclectic-Will tell you
the troublesome material cause is UNI
removed and that when the sOporific
influence of the opium is exhausted the
patient will find himself in the same
pain, unless the belief which occasions
the pain has meanwhile been changed.
Now where is the pain while the pa
tient sleeps? L.. ii. BROWN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
CHALLENGES Mr.. BROWN TO
PRODUCE HIS AUTHORITY

PASADENA, Jan. 22-[Editor Her.
add: If l.. H. Brown of Glendora, who
states that a human being deprived of
the power to hear, feel, taste, smell or
see, can yet think will produce a single
authenticated case of this kind in the
worlds history, his case of mind sepa-
rate from matter will stand proved.
1 challenge 41r. B. to produce the
proof.
A child born into the world and de-
prived at birth of the five senses would
be simply a helpless, idiotic imbecile,
and could never acquire a mind, either
so-called carnal or divine, under any
conceivable combination of circum-
stances. Were a normal child born in
to the world and retaining his senses
until maturity, suddenly deprived of all
his senses by means of which he had
acquired a mind he would be plunged
at once into helpless imbecility and
physical dissolution would speedily fol-
fow
In other words, the instant you de-
strOy the five senses in toto you de-
stroy the mind. Any we'll informed
Christian Scientist will admit that
when you have denied successfully all
Of the senses you no longer have a ma
terial existence, but exist spiritually.
Nom Christian Scientists cannot prove
to their own satisfaction the existence
of a spiritual world exclusive Of ma
terial manifestation. They, therefore,
are unprepared to accept the Christian
Scientist view of life and creation. But
a broad statement such as Mr.. B.
makes is susceptible of instant demon
stration and proof. Can he furnish it?
J. MALCOMB JONES.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
DOG LICENSES

=" OW much better the sane method
of dog-license inspection insti-
~ tuted by the Humane Animal
league is than the old-fashioned way of
hunting stray and unlicensed dogs with
wagon and a net is shown by the fact
that all records for receipts for dog
licenses are being broken. The officers
of the league are busy, and their work
is much more effective than that of the
predatory wagon. With the plan now
in force the dogs Of Los Angeles will
become steady and dependable source
of revenue to the city, and in return
the owners Of the dogs may depend on
the protection Of their pets.
Whenever any branch Of city affairs
is removed from primitive methods
there is cause for congratulation, be-
cause primitive methods may become
more easily associated with graft and
irregularities than methods which are
more businesslike and are down to
date. The new way Of dealing with the
dog question is one of numerous evil
dences of the progress which has at
tended the growth of Los Angeles.
This is city of clean metropolitan
instincts as well as Of clean metro
politan aspirations. 1t is gratifying to
note on every hand signs of progress
and of improvement. Los Angeles is
not only daily growing greater. 1t is
daily growing better.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS

A N effort is about to be made for the
II establishment of weekly Demo-
cratic newspapers throughout the
united States. Democracy is laboring
under serious disadvantage because its
available national publicity is not as
complete and as far-reaching as the
available publicity of the Republican
party. The Commoner in commenting
on this fact says: 1.-THE Democratic
party cannot hope to win excepting
through educational work, and it can
not do educational work unless the lit-
erature can be brought to the atten-
ton Of the voters. The predatory in
terests are able to furnish newsnaners
for nothing, because they make the
money back out of the privileges
which they secure from the govern
ment but Democratic papers must be
self supporting, and they deserve the
support Of the masses so long as they
protect the rights and guard the in
terests Of the general public"
In The Los Angeles Herald, Califor-
MIA possesses daily Democratic paper
of wide circulation and great influence:
a paper which is bound to become more
and more generally recognized as the
voice of the Democracy in the great
southwest. The Herald believes the
principles of Americanism and of Dem
ocracy are essentially the same, and
FIR this reason it condemns all infiu-
terfere with the development Of the
state or the republic along the lines of
Americanism.
The political CRATER may call him
self Republican" or Democrat" but
he is neither, and if Republican and
Democratic papers will do their duty
to the public they will openly brand
and condemn the political CRATER, no
matter in what office or under what
party colors he may be found. The
exposure Of graft is an act of Ameri-
can citizenship, and not Of party poll
tics: and political parties are better
off without grafters, who ought to form
a separate party Of their own, in or
der that the republic may never suf-
fer from confusion of ideas caused by
one CRATER announcing himself to be
a Republican, another declaring him
self Democrat, etc., etc.
The Herald, a Democratic newspaper,
is ashamed neither of the fight it made
for Americanism in national politics
nor of its battle for reform in local
politics, because, in spite of ingalls,, it
does not believe purity in politics is
an irideScent dream
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE

Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet,
See the sweet girl graduate
Brace herself to tackle Fate.
See her in her dimity.
Plain white lawn or organdie,
Waiting, trembling sweet and fair.
With a rosebud in her hair
And an essay in her hand.
Shaking as she takes the stand:
See the bushes come and go.
Soft pink blooms in fields of snow;
Listen as she reads the lines
Leading to the far confines
Of the future which she sees
Dimly through her auguries.
To her school days, ending here,
Pays the tribute of a tear.
And with smile she turns to meet
The long, hard path before her feet.
She has learned-from books-that life
At it's best is only strife
Till the end. when she lays down
The heavy cross to take the crown,
oh, say,
Amt she the higher way?
Amt she
The solver of mystery
Life's problem. whose solution is
Mans yet-quite-answered quiz?
Still the same reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet
That same evening. rather late.
Sitting in a hammock with
Some young cub named Brown or Smith
Swapping moonshine mush and bliss.
Rosebud rapture and kiss
Does she fear to tackle Fate?
Ask the sweet girl graduate.
William ]. Hampton.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
MANY SEE THE FAULT, BUT
OFFER NO PRACTICAL CURE

DOWNEY, Jan. 20.-[Editor Herald:
Long time ago, when 1 was kid, there
was a saying like this: ''HelIs broke
loose way down in Georgia" I didn't
know what it meant then, nor do I
know now, but from the daily reports
Of aw-breakers and crimes committed
over our land of liberty it does seem
that there is something loose and more
dangerous that "hell down in Georgia;
and it seems to be spreading thick and
fast. What to do about it is the ques-
ton Are the people being governed
badly, or are they governing themselves
badly? Man commits crime largely ow-
ing to surrounding conditions. Then
what is it that is producing unfavor-
able conditions?
Some Of your correspondents truth
fully have stated that it is our system
of government, but they offer no prac-
teal remedy. Let us not forget that no
imperfect man or set of men can lay
the foundation of a perfect govern
ment; nor, if a perfect one was laid
for them, could they perpetuate it. It's
time of life would be long or short in
proportion to it's control or the justice
melted out to its subjects.
The founders of our government were
wise and good men, and did the very
best they could under the circum-
stances and the experience of the world
at the time.
Some of us think we see some of the
errors they made that have led to the
present confusion in so short a time.
Let us not be discouraged there is a
silver lining. And of all your CORE
spondents but one has limited at the
remedy. We do not know him, nor
anything of his political or religious
creed. His name is J. T. Irwin.
W. III. STEEL.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
ROBERT BURNS

H HIS is one of the days the whole
world celebrates. 1t is one Of the
festal days of Liberty. On a
stormy January Is one hundred and
fifty years ago was born the poet of
Scotland and of all mankind, Robert
Burns. Scotland claims him, but the
world owns him; and every year the
fact is becoming more and more defln-
itely established that the influence of
Burns, instead of waning, is gaining
strength politically as well as poetf-
cally. Thomas Paine wrote of the
rights of man; but Robert Burns sang
of them. and the voice of the bard
will be heard when the political essay
list is only name.
In the United States the memory OF
Robert Burns is always honored as
faithfully as the memory of George
Washington; and when political and
historical students began to appre-
ciate the true place Of Burns in the
perspective of the past, many of our
principal cities began to erect Burns
statues in places Of honor along with
the statues of Washington and the
other great founders of the republic.
Incidentally we may say the first
official Washington's birthday celebra-
ton ever held was held in Scotland,
and the first ode for the birthday of
George Washington was written by
Robert Burns and recited by a popular
actress on the stage of the Dumfries
theater.
In those days the players discarded
their real names and adopted high
sounding ones, SO it is only as "Miss
Fontenelle" that the name of the first
human being to recite birthday ode
for General George Washington, the
American Hero" is remembered.
In Los Angeles the birthday will be
celebrated, and an authority on Burns
will speak of the causes which have
made Burns influence permanent. In
our opinion the principal cause which
has made Burns influence permanent
was his Americanism. He believed in
fair play. He believed in honesty. He
believed in life with liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness. He did not be-
lieve in the great un-American game
called "Beggar My Neighbor." He was
the poet of the Square Deal"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25

are noted disintegrant during and
after thaws.
Automobiles are more deeply inter-
ested in the preservation Of good roads
than any other class. If some means
are not found Of decreasing the wear
and tear the good roads they enjoy will
be short-lived. There is, of course, uni
versal Endorsement of the hope that
such methods will be perfected. Next
spring or summer we can have practi-
cal knowledge of he value Of oiling
or tarring the county or city roads that
were so treated last fall. Engineers
Of Europe and America are working
at that subject. Concurrently it seems
pertinent to ask whether it might be
worth while for automobile construct
ors to Investigate the possibility of
some material for the treads Of auto
momile tires less disintegrating in its
action on the surface of the roads.
Further, it can hardly be denied that
the automobile going at thirty or forty
miles an hour wears out the roads
much more rapidly than the one trav-
cling at the rate of fifteen or twenty.
Might it not be worth while for that
interest when the spring opens to re-
spect their own safety, the safety of
the public and the preservation Of the
highways by adopting moderate speeds,
at least until it is learned how to make
roads that can survive the stress Of
the bubble wagons?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
TRAITOR TRUST

INDEPENDENT powder and explo-
sive manufacturers in the United
States are trying to blow up the
powder trust by having explosives
placed on the free list. The powder
trust is one Of the best protected. best
organized and most typical of all the
trusts. By agreement with foreign
powder trusts it has made itself tba
American representative branch of n
world monopoly, and unless it's opera
lions are interfered with it may indi-
cate to manufacturers engaged in every
branch of industry an easy method If
carrying out the trust principle to its
logical conclusion, and the civilized
world may be at the mercy of a group
of world trusts.
Inc powder trust has devised q
working method of meeting the current
trust expenses, the charges incurred
for maintenance. 1t has established \
common syndicate fund, known popu-
iarly as a slush fund, which has been
USED Tor the regulation or extinction
Of competitors. There has not been A
single independent competitor of the
American powder trust during the past
ten years that has not felt directly or
indirectly the blighting force of this
common fund. All have been its vic
tins.
The destructive methods Of the Amer
lean trust have been sufficient to blast
in
to its fund are added the contributions
Of the wealthy European factories fol
the elimination of competition. it is a
wonder how any competitor has sur
vived Under the world agreement set
Elements have been made annually be
tween the American and European
chalrmen of the trust. 1t is still in
full force and effect, and will remain
so for years, with some variations ma dr.
by the chairmen to avoid technical
complaints.
protective tariff is not necessary
either on blasting powder or dynamite.
There is no competition in the United
States with the Dupont trust on black
rifle, sporting and military powders. nor
on smokeless sporting, ordnance and
military powders. On these the Amer
lean trust enjoys a complete monopoly,
and is amply protected from foreign
competition by its world agreement.
Robert S. Waddell, president of the
Buckeye Powder company, in a memo
rial on the subject, writes sarcastical-
ly: THE congress and the president
will need no interpreter to point with
pride to the glowing patriotism and
scrupulous fidelity of the Dupont
trust, as exemplified in its compact
with foreign trusts to corner the mar
kets of the world against the United
States government"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
THINKS KINGDOM OF ITALY
SHOULD NOT EXPECT CHARITY

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.-[Editor
Herald: [ wish to congratulate you
on your stand for good government.
The people depend on the papers for
the news, and if for any reason
the facts are withheld or explained
away the people are ignorant of what
is going on. 1t is estimated 100000 are
homeless on account of the earthquake;
we'll it would not take much of Sleuth
to find that many in this country with
out homes. In New York city the police
Guelled a riot Of men fighting for job
shoveling snow to buy food.
Uncle Sam is sending the WhereWith
to build homes for people in Italy.
There are men sleeping in mission halls
in Los Angeles, but they are only a
sample ofthe thousands in all cities of
the United States. Some manage to
exc out an existence and pay rent
when they have work. Rent must
necessarily be high when the public
money is so recklessly spent.
1t is the old story of the shoemaker
making shoes for others and letting his
family go barefooted.
A country that can keep up stand
ing army Of 240,000 men and a million
aire king certainly doesn't expect char
ity, and Uncle Sam should not bank
rupt himself to hear his praises sung
the world over.
AN HUMBLE WORKER.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
SAYS REMEDY Is NEEDED
TO RULWARK THIS COUNTRY

SIERRA MADRE, Jan. 2S-[Editor
Herald: The Letter Box of your
columns might be termed a mirror
which has revealed that it is mans de-
pravtty and woman's heartlessness
which has so greatly diseased this old
world.
1t has also revealed the long drown
out theories as to what might prove a
panacea for all the ills and evils raging
in modern society. Neurasthenia, mel
ancholia, hysteria of drunkenness, in
sanity and suicide, of prostitution, war
and crime, can never be discovered by
painting fanciful pen pictures
The millions of human beings in this
much boosted ideal republic, now roll
ing in sQualor and vice, spreading a
slow contagion, which is injecting the
world Of civilization, is apparently in
need Of an immediate remedy.
If we were on a sinking ship would
we think Of painting pictures in the
cabin? No; fancy we would think of
getting ashore and Of getting our COM
rades ashore; and further fancy they
would not ask if you were a Socialist.
or Christian Scientist, or a true blue"
Republican. But what incentive does
the world offer to the rescuer, when it
clips the wings of its prophets and i'm
prisons those who were trying to build
lifeboats for the perishing?
Drummond declared that love only
could have this power. BY love L mean
the power which would make a man
choose that which is lofty and noble.
rather than that which is selfish; that
put courage into clouded spirits, that
consoles and aids men in grief, mis-
fortune and disappointment.
If there be such a potency in this
power, then
A heart OF love, why seem to be of stone
Hiding the gentleness which should be
shown,
Hearts starve for love, haste then unlock
the shrine.
Forget myself. display thy gifts divinel
RAMONA.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
CASTS DOUBTS ON RIGHTS OF
ORDINARY MAN TO PRoPHEsY

POMONA, Jan. 21.-[Editor Herald:
someone has said that "a man should
not prophesy unless he knows" Does
L. j. Pollard know when he says the
common people ''are still fighting and
VIII continue till all forms of slavery
are abolished and a system established
tnat Will guarantee freedom to all man
kind?"
No doubt ''the common people, have
always fought, for no yoke rests easy
that one party imposes on another.
But what have they accomplished by
hght1ng? Are they getting any nearer
that system that will guarantee free
dom for all mankind? On the con-
trary do we not see the fulfilIment
of PauPs prophesy that ''evil men and
seducers shall wax worse and worse
q Tim 1919 till. at Christ's coming,
It shall be as it was in the day of
Noah Matt. 24:3O. The Bible gives no
nope for better economic conditions
until God sends Jesus (Acts 1920 to
take to himself his great power and
reign Grew. HID.
The laws which God gave for the gov
eminent Of the children Of Israel never
have been appropriated for justice and
care for the poor. No family could
dispose of it's free holdings beyond the
fiftieth year Gev. 25:13); so that all
had an inalienable interest in the land.
In reaping the corners of the fields
and gleanings had to be left for the
poor Nev. 23:22); as also the rebear-
ings of the olive trees (Deut. 24:2O).
Every seventh year the land was to be
allowed to lie fallow, and whatsoever
grew of itself, in field or vineyard, was
free to all, providing they were poor
eek. 23:1D. In addition to all this the
people were commanded to open their
hands wide to the poor (Deut. IBID.
When similar laws for the whole
earth are instituted by the same power
the Utopia Of T. J. PolIards magma
ton will be here.
JAMES r. IRWIN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
Some Eastern Experiments
z0ifh Road improvements

m HE question of imp owed roads
versus the rubber tires of automo-
biles is forcing itself on the at
tention of road engineers and construct
ors everywhere. France reports n
marked increase in the deterioration
of it's improved highways since auto
mobiles came into use. In England
the cost per mile of maintaining rural
macadamiZed roads has increased 81
per cent in the last ten years, while
the same cost for city roads has in
creased 8 per cent. In this country the
same fact is reported wherever at
tention is. paid to it. New Jersey, which
led the other states in improving coun-
try roads. is now surprising them all
in attempts to regulate their use by
automobiles so as to secure the least
possible damage, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch.
NO one who seeks demonstration nee l
go outside of Pittsburg to find it. He
can see for himself on the boulevards
the effect of the new vehicles, and can
easily perceive the causes though it
may be difficult to determine the pro-
portiOnal force of each. The suction Of
rapidly revolving rubber tires is one
cause, especially active when the roads
are dry. The tractive force of the driv-
ing wheels is another, especially when
the surface is soft. The chained tires