The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-10-19

night. with, of course. some natural
regret and sorrow, but with quite
patient resignation to the inscrutable
ways of Providence. Then Ft. Wayne.
learning from some entirely credible
newspaper report that Muncie had dis
covered ways of evil that by comparison
made of the tale of Sodom a gentle les
son m ethics. fell into mood of
pieasurable congratulation at its own
virtue, but felt somehow, don't you
know, that 1t had known this all the
time. Then Terre Haute knew, as an
absolute certainty. that Evansville had
enjoyed a purely accidental growth in
population, and that. being just across
the river from The South. it was oily
a question of a few years until this
Northern and more energetic pitts
burgh OF the West would overtake It
| in walk. even if going in hobbies and
on pair of broken crutches. Then
| but need i go on?
Those were days when each city.
town and village had its dearest enemy.
when nought good could be said about
| one that gained the slightest credence
| in another, but all evil was believed.
Then the State. in short, had but one
sentiment in common. and that preci-
Gus. dearly cherished. ever active.
sleepless anita gonism for one city, which
| sat In the midst of them. in the dark :
ness of its isolation on the banks of
Pogue Run, and longer for the day to
come when 1t might be held, by the rest
| of the State, almost as worthy and
deserving of love and respect as Chi
cago. or Cleveland. or Cincinnati, or
Louisville. or St Louis.
Then the reports of the census were
only cause for invidious comparisons or
vain excuses, not for common rejoicing
in the general growth OF the State
Then commerce and trade brought the
cities of Indiana only enmities and
strife, nit the mutual respect of those
who deal honestly and straightfor-
wardly with one another; and all BUSH
ness that could be transacted with the
cities that lay around the borders of
the State was given to them, as though
In despite of other Hoosier communities
that might have profted thereby Is
this picture overdrawne DO exagger-
ate over much? If 1 do. you will
pardon, for the point is clear.
| Those were the days of competition =
| But we of Indiana have moved with
the rest of the world. And the rest OF
the world. whether for god or Ill shall
not say 0or this is not a discussion OF
economics), seems surely and truly to
be moving away from competition.
Even our millionaires, themselves the
product of the competitive system. are
beginning to tell us that cooperation
must take the place of the fierce strife
that has had for its slogan that time
lhonored and weil-worn cry, Every man
for himself and the devil take the hind
! nd We HnnSjayS n re harrsu inc
to feel the impulse of coopera ton in
more directions than it would now be
profitable to consider. And natural
causes and the conditions of our early
history brought about the competitive
strife, the il1-will and antagonisms the
lprovincialism that went with. 1t so the
conditions of today are bringing us
NATURALLY to cooperation. friendliness
land good will.
The telephone, rural mail delivery
the interurhan railway. the muitiplica-
tion and freer circulation of newspapers
and Journals, an increase of the capa city
and the means for travel: the whole
movement for closer relations express
ed in the growth of fraternal orders
OF women's clubs, of young peoples so
cieties: the increase of church activities
and organizations, with their frequent
meetings and conventions-au these
have come. We are getting acquainted
the world Is becoming Sunderland. By
"a curious paradox, much larger than il
was beforehand our State is becoming
La close and intimate thing of which VIC
are a part, one with another. The walls
of prejudice of mistrust and jealousy
Iare breaking down
This change is in the very fibre of our
;.-, 1, -f,-fs =.
1.-THE state. the sign of the sisterhood OF