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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-07-12
An Example Of What the Law Can Do When
1t Will



Chcago's law-making body, the city council, with
the aid of the strong of the police have given
practical demonstration of the power of the law in pre-
venting wanton destruction Of life and property. In
order to do this it nerfered with folks personal
liberty If personal liberty is to be viewed in the light
OF the construction put upon by the United Societies.
The fact that Chicago the home of these selfsame
United Societies. the champion howlers for personal
lberty does not in any way weaken such demonstra-
ton of the laws supremacy We refer to the wise
action of the council and splendid cooperation of the
police department in forbdding the sale of explosives
for the Fourth of July celebrations.
Interfered With Personal Liberty
The enforcement of this ordinance worked hard
ship to the small boy. Pent up restrained patriotism
of years accumulation in the American boy has al
ways been released the glorious Fourth in the firing
of giant crackers, and shooting of pistols, and the
rafting and banging and smashing of everything and
anything that would produce racket It has been the
day in the year when young and vigorous America
could make noise his hearts content without let or
hndrance. This day concentrating our country's
independence and liberty has always offered excep-
tona and unsurpassed opportunity for the enthusiastic
American boy to exercise his personal liberty The
Chicago boy has been exception. Imagine, them
young Chicago receiving the edct of the ctys legis-
latve body that forbade the of explosives on the
Fourth. The Fourth of July without dynamite or
powder No devotee of the beer stein could possibly
feel greater resentment his favorite brew denied
him by law than must have possessed the souls of most
Chicago youths when they realized that explosives
could not be bought Nor were these young patriots
the only ones upon whom the law fell with force Con-
slider the manufacturers of fireworks the hundreds of
dealers who proted through the sales of these manu-
featured Was these firms and dealers
personal liberty nterfered with? This action of the
city council Of the city of Chicago cost them many
thousands of dollars in profits. Will free and liberty
loving people stand for such class legislation that?
No stronger of outraged personal liberty could
possibly be imagined.
Splendid Record of Safe and Sane Fourth
But popular demonstration against the city
council and police occurred No uprising of the people
threatened Instead, today July grateful Chicago
untes in giving expressions Of praise and commenda-
ton to the powers that be who responsible for hav
H.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-07-12


by anybody who had the price No one is so preudced
to not admit that it vastly better record Today
the small boy is intact; he has his eyes and his nose
and his fingers and hands and legs. He's all here He
has prohted The city has not suffered the loss of
thousands of dollars costly fires has been spared the
lives OF many OF the coming generation that otherwise
certainly would have been sacrificed The city has
pro6ted. Everybody believes that the good accom-
plished by the enforcement of this bit of legislation
has outweighed the little hardships it imposed No
argument is needed to convince the average citizen of
this fact.
Apply Same Method To Prevent A1cohoIs Ravages.
Now, since the city has so ably demonstrated what
it can do by law though seems to violate per
sona liberty in protecting its youth from accident and
DEATH and preventing the wanton waste of property
why not strike at the biggest enemy of childhood and
that biggest burden to city and state the licensed
liquor saloon, the distributing station for alcoholic
beverages? Alcohol, the arch-enemy of mankind It
heartessly Stays thousands of innocent children every
year through sins of the parents manning and Grip
ping many thousands It is responsible for a
large percentage of imbeciles and epeptics and in
sane and moral delinquents Multiply all of child
hood victims Of powder and dynamite thousand fold
and you would have but small fraction of alcohols
toll. Isn't it time to forbid it's sale?
Alcohol Mains Children
No less authority than DR.. T. Alexander Mac
N1choll of New York, surgeon of sufficient ability
and prominence as to receive commission from the
president of the United States travel abroad and in
vestgate the subject of alcoholism recently said in an
address before the Medical Association in New York
City:
degeneracy appalling magnitude, that staggers
the mind threatens destroy this republic numbering more
victims than have been slain all the all the
epidemics of diseases swept the country
within two hundred years.
What is the of this degeneracy? A hundred
different intermediate agencies contribute undone
of the but back of them all alcohol as the chief
degeneratve factor
In studies among school children in New York CITY
we ind that OF centum the children drinking
parents suffer from functional organic disease
parents ufer from functional orgauic disease
Three out of five school children afflicted with some
functional or organic disease.
Our studies of school children show that one in every
three is mentally deficient
In the face of such facts where is the merit of the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
A KNOCK AT JUD.

Honestly men this being a candi-
date for president of the United
States must certainly be what Gen
eral Sherman said war is.
Not only is a mans public life
shattered into fragments, but his
private life is showed under the most
power spot light ever furnished by n
current. How he acts, sleeps. eats
and dresses are on the tongues of his
lenemies and friends alike.
For instance here is poor Jud Har-
mon of Ohio. We say poor" be-
cause it was figured out at one time
that the Gary-Hammond democrats
were for him.
Over the red-hot wires, now comes
the sizzling information from Ohio
that the Harmon hired girl declares
that Jud eats buckwheat pancakes
with his knife. Harmon's enemies
have bounced on the horrid disclosure
with both feet and there is the very
deuce to nay.
| Now we rise to Mr. Harmons de
Tense. We believe that if he can eat
buckwheat cakes with his knife, b.
is doing something that few men car
do. We have never tried this joyous
way of eating but to balance a piec,
of hot buckwheat cake, slippery will
maple syrup on smooth-bladed knit
and introduce both into the yawnin,
aperture between the jaws withou
Icutting the mouth or swallowing tn
! knife must be a might clever tricl
and shows what a clever juggler Mr.
, Harmon Is.
Unfortunately the dispatches d
not say whether Mr.. Harmon's hire
girl saw him slipping whole or jus
a piece of a pancake between hi
ruby lips. II he can get away with
whole one. he deserves still NOR
credit.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
HARD ON THE LAWYERS.

1t is no wonder that many lawyers
in these parts seek to take down the
single and mount the bench or en-
gage into another line where the
money may not be SO good but where
the disappointments are fewer.
Every now and then some big graft
scandal breaks in Lake county. Then
there is a wave of virtue, outraged
justice and public officials bent up
on cleaning out the Augean stables.
Distracted grafters rush to the
lawyers, hand them a twenty dollar
bill as a retainer and promise enough
to buy a little runabout when the
case comes to trial In most in
stances the twenty dollar bill is all
the poor lawyer ever gets and by
the judicious insertion of time into
the matter the CRATER soon becomes
legal proof. And the lawyer has the
$40 and the promises of $500.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
HI e A X ID
BY
r. u B E

ISN'T 1t nice to be a citizen of Whit
ing? Help to earn $1,000, 900 for John
d. and then have him give the town a
nice sanitary drinking fountain
SPEAKING of thrilling rescues a man
named Furness was rescued from a
burning building out in Gotham
WE don't want to appear facetious
with the fans, but it seems that a lot
of baseball presidents and managers
hereabouts wear up-to-date clothes
with the exception of their shoes. They
seem to be wooden.
CAN 1t be that old Doc Wiley has re-
signed his job at Washington so that he
can take charge of that new pathalogi-
cal laboratory the Lake County Medics
are going to start?
YOU got to hand 1t to the Twentieth
century limiteds lately. Despite the
many wrecks, no one is ever killed
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
THE DEMOCRATS MEET.

The democratic meeting In Ham
mond last Saturday was n spirited
gathering as result of the milling
introduced by the Gary democrats
who can always be trusted to add n
picturesque effect whenever they lend
their presence. The opposition to
County Chairman John Gavit was no
idle boast. 1t was 40 votes out of a
hundred and the resourceful Judge
Becker had to put forth all his
efforts to win for Gavit It will be
extremely interesting to note the
outcome of the convention at Indi-
annapolis on Wednesday. Mayor
Knots and his allies are not going
to relinquish the idea of the Balti-
more delegateship with equanimity
and Judge Becker will have to play
his cards we'll to win out
The popularity of the Hammond
man among the Tenth district demo
Gratis gives him three aces right OF!
the jump however. His alliance with
the Durgan machine of Lafayette
nearly assures his election now.
Still you know you never can tell
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
CAN'T GET OvR TAGGART.

At frequent times the Courier has
urged that Governor Marshall be ask
ed by the party to select the delegates
to the Baltimore convention. This
was hooted at by every Taggart
henchman and newspaper in the
state as "undemocratic.
Now Tom Taggart, at no ones re-
quest, is making out the slate for the
delegates at large. Wherever he can
he is picking the delegates to repre-.
sent the several districts. This
though, meets with not single pro
test. Not a word is heard about IT.
being undemocratic.
Is Taggart the embodiment of de
mocracy? Would course tha1
would be undemocratic for Governor
Marshall to pursue lat the request o
the party, be perfectly proper for tn,
French Lick boss through his own ex
ercise of power Evansville Courier
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only broken backs. several limbs, ETC.
A GARY waitress loaned her boss
hundred dollar bill and he won't pay
it back. We infer from this that tips
are good in Gary.
"CABARETS" takes the place of
charity balls in New York society, and
at recent one where a million dol
lars worth of Jewels and new dresses
were worn $3.50 was raised for the
poor.
HEADLINES we keep alive these days:
Another Aviator Killed" Twentieth
Smash Windows" "Affinity's Letters
Read in Court Gary Bribery Trials
to start Soon" Spring May Come"
WE ought to include, Whiting anx-
iously Expects Drinking Fountain
from John D." why we are not going
to rub oil into cuts already red.
No sooner do the price of eggs slide
down than the price of coal climbs up.
AFTER rejecting the stories what
stampede his announcement would
cause no doubt oyster Bay resounds
with the sad little song. Somebody
Lied"
ALTHOUGH a dozen cement compa-
MES have effected a merger. 1t may be
like some of the cement they make and
not be very adhesive.
vALPO wants more interurban facili-
ties. Fancy that there is a great de-
sire for more ways to get out of town.
HOORAY. A Hammond genius has
invented an improved beer tap. Now
for an invention to improve the beer.
throwing a watch at friend. Evil
IDENTIFY they have strenuous way OF
passing the time at the Harbor. (Quick
Watson, the needleD
THE government is to start a fish
| hatchery in the Kankakee valley. Hope
| it doesn't rival any of the fish story
hatcheries in this vicinity
WE see by the dispatches that An
derson plans to have a central heating
plant. If the usual happened the may
or and aldermen there will now be ar
rested in T. B. Dean style.
| FOR the love of Mike, Some one
pulease tie a can to that "Kickin' My
Houn'" song.
BRICK interests magazine comments
on the disappearance of wooden houses
This is referred TO the Gary mar
J whose bungalow was stolen the other
day.
| FROM what we can learn the sever
| governors will have a hard time of II
| explaining to the colonel why his an
| nouncement didn't precipitate thai
promised landslide.
1T is suggested that you cut ou
| these storm pictures in the papers and
paste them up. They'll be consolins
by July
HIST, Hear the crash, the
.'zz-z zz -z-zz-z'' of the wireless. Oyster
Bay has "P. d. O." signals out.
TT might have been" Tom Knott!
wiring from the county convention.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
TWO PINK CHEEKS 25 CENTS BOZ

He who would gild the lily or
paint the rose might find excuse in
the compilations of Chicago high
school girls. II the absurd attempt
to beautify the inimitable bloom of
youth with rouge were not enough
to make strong men weep, the de-
graduation of this imitation of the
women of the street would make
them swear.
There is nothing among the num-
erous annoyances of every day life
that is quite so poignant as the sight
of scores and hundreds of young girls.
| girls from good families, whose
mothers know better, girls made up
with more color than an actress ready
for the foot lights, rouged cheeks and
penciled brows that would put a
regular tenant of a Strand dive to
shame.
| An editorial last week from THE
TINS of Hammond reprinted by two
local papers brought the situation
sharply to mind. Whence will come
the low voiced sweet mother of the
future. VIII she be found among
the lutra-slangy, smart alecky, paint.
ed "kiddos'' of this end of the city
Are these little painted creatures
that run about the street to become
the wives of our sons, the mothers o.
our grandchildren? Let US face the
situation squarely. The fault lie:
with every father and mother tha
tolerate the makeup box among thu
toilet accessories of their daughters
that permit them to run about tn,
streets nights and take on all tn,
othe outward appearances of tn,
! scarlet woman. A good example will
lalso help some.-Calumet Record.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18

fine building on our street, he will
the ground, he will be told that Hob
man street is the only street where
a deep sewer is available and East
State street will lose a fine improve
ment''
And instantly an agitation for a
deep sewer would have been started.
But the property owners on this
street simply provided for the needs
of the immediate future and now
when a $250,000 development awaits
sewers they blush and squirm and try
to devise some other means of temp
orary relief instead of solving the
problem for once and all time.
And the worst thing about the
situation is the fact that before Stat:
street east of Oakley avenue can have
the drainage that is necessary y
serve modern buildings the Calumet
avenue deep sewer must be built anc
the State street lateral must be bull
| into It,
| This is necessary for the reason
that when East State street between
Oakley avenue and Holman stree
was supplied with sewer it was no
designed to drain the territory an.
farther east than Oakley avenue.
| So before the rest OF East Stat,
street can have a sewer it must wal
until Calumet avenue gets ready t,
construct deep sewer. And Calu
met avenue is. presumably, not read,
yet. Hammond people don't thin
they need deep sewers until some on
gets ready to build a skyscraper o.
the street.
/ Hammond will never be able t
compete with Gary and asst Chicag
SO long as this sort of conditio
lexists.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
s'THIS Is MY 53RD BIRTHDAY"
Baron GfbsOn-Carmichnc

Baron Gibson-Carmichael, who re-
Gently was elevated to the peerage,
was born in Edinburgh. March Is, 1859,
and received his education at Cam
bridge University. He began his
career private secretary to Sir
George Trevelyan and Lord Dalhousie,
when Secretaries for Scotland. Since
then he has filled such opposite posi-
lions as chairman of the Scottish Board
of Lunacy and trustee of the National
Gallery and he Is Grand Master of the
Scottish Freemasons He filled sew
eral public positions in England. and
succeeded the late Mr.. Gladstone as
member OF parliament for Midlothian
in 1895. He has been Governor of
Madras for the past year, taking that
post after the Governorship of Vic
toria, Australia. His baronetcy dates
back to the days of Charles /.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
Up and Down in
IN d. A N A
GARBAGE CAN FIGHT FATAL.

A fight over a can of garbage has re-
suited in the death of Theodore Eckel.
of Anderson, age thirty-eight, and a
charge Of murder being filed against
Guy Harmon. age nineteen, both of
Anderson. Eckel died Thursday after
noon at the home of his mother. Mrs.
Mary Eckel, without regaining con
seriousness after being hit on the fore
head with a shovel by Harmon We'd
nesday morning in an alley at the rear
of the Grand hotel.
There were no witnesses to the
tragedy and Harmon's story is the only
information the police have concerning
the fatal fight. Harmon and Eckel
were drivers of garbage wagons and
each claimed the right to collect garb-
age from the Grand hotel. fight fol
lowed.
FIND GOOD OIL WELL.
An oil well expected to produce fifty
barrels a day has been brought in or
the Perry Cunningham farm, eigh
miles west of Hazleton. 1t is the frs
profitable we'll drilled in Knox county
The right which the Gillespie Oil
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
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FoEM9 ss P EA9
THE ROAD.

Upon the road to RomRny
It's stay. friend. stay
There's lots OF love and lots o. time
To lfnger on the way;
Poppies for the twilight.
Roses for the noon,
It's happy goes AS lucky goes
To Romany I'm June.
But on the road to ROme-Oh.
It's march, man, march!
The dust il ON the chariot wheels,
The sere Is on the larch;
Helmets and javelins
And brides necked with foam
The flowers are dead, the worlds nhcn
Upon the road to Rome.
Will Irwin.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
PARALYZING PROGRESS.

East State street has a confession
to make; one of which 1t is heartily
ashamed; one which indicates the
property value destroying effect of
owning property next to that owned
by barnicles, people who fight perm
anent improvements.
East State street, east of Oakley
avenue is ready for a tremendous de-
velopment. 1t promises to become
the mercantile center of the city of
Hammond. A number of property
owners are now contemplating the
erection of modern business blocks.
lit is estimated that $250,0O0 would
go into Improvements this spring if
1T were not for TOTAL MADE
QUACY OF THE SEWERS.
1t is too bad to confess to the cities
of Gary and East Chicago, both OF
which have built modern deep sewer
one street in Hammond are not suffi-
Gent to warrant the prospective de-
lvelopment next spring.
1t is pity to admit that Ham
mond never builds for the future in
the matter of the construction of its
sewers, that the sewer in State street
east of Oakley avenue lies three feet
below the surface of the ground.
| 1t must make East State stree
blush for shame to be compelled t.
admit that it waited until the las
moment to put in an improvement
that alone will make possible tn,
draining of the Easements of modern
mercantile buildinsg.
The keen progressive up-to-the
minute property owners would hav'
said years ago, The first thing w
know some one will want to build /;
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
The Day in
HISTORY
"THIs DATE IN HISTORY

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY
March IS.
1745-Sir Robert Walpole. English
statesman, died. Born Aug. rs,
17S2-John c. Calhoun. American
statesman, born. Died March 81.
1850.
1s05-Napoleon Bonaparte assured the
title of King of Italy.
1S37-Grover Cleveland, twenty-second
President of the u. s., born in
Caldwell, N j. Died in Princeton.
n. J., June "a, 1905
1S63-Prince William George of Dem
mark elected king of Greece.
1S65-The Confederate Congress at
Richmond adjourned sine die.
1905-United States cruiser Washing
ton launched at Philadelphia.
1911-Theodore Roosevelt opened the
big Salt River irrigation dam in
Arizona.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18

period of service and whether or not
1T was satisfactory.
32,9s7 STITCHES IN COAT.
Edward Fisk. age thirty-seven. a
Lawrenceburg custom tailor. who has
just finished a coat for William Roden-
berg. United States gauger, kept an
account of the stitches it required to
make the garment Fisk found that
his sewing machine made forty-fve
stitches to ten strokes of the pedal,
and that there were 23.S00 stitches on
the machine and e.137 by hand, making
a total of 32.a27.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
Political Announcements
FOR AUDITOR

Editor TIMES: 1 desire to announces
that / am a candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for County Auditor,
subject to the decision of the Republi-
can primaries The support and AS
sistance of the Republican voters OF
Lake country are respectfully solicited
(SiEned) JOHN A. BRENNAN.
Garv. Ind
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
WHAT IT MEANS.

Friend asks us to please to print
in the paper what "ETaoin" means
He says he is repeatedly running
across it in this and other papers
We do not make a practice oi
divulging shop secrets but we are
willing to admit that ETaoin is just
linotype cussword
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.

Editor TIMES: Please announce in
the columns OF your paper that will
be a candidate for denomination to the
County Treasurership. subject to the
decision of the Republican nominating
convention, March 80.
ALBERT J.. SWANSON
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18

REGRET to report that there are
absolutely no figures in sight from
General Grosvenor of Ohio on the
presidential situation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18

Editor TINES: Please announce that
1 will be candidate for the republic
can nomination for Representative
from Lake county subject to the de-
cision of the Republican primaries.
G. s. WIDHOI4M.
Gary, Ind.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
FRED FRIEDLEy.
COMMISSIONERS. End DISTRICT.

Editor TIMES: You are authorized to
announce that will be q candidate for
the Republican denomination to the Of
fee of County Commissioner from the
Second district, subject to the wishes
of the Republican primaries on March
IS. LEVI HUTTON.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18

NEWSPAPER publicity is a de-
terent to crime and wrong doing,
therefore the better a city thinks of
and treats its newspapers, the better
city 1t will become.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
FoR CORONER.

Editor TINES: Please announce that
! will be a candidate for denomination
for the office of County Coroner. sub
Ject to the will of the Republican
nominating convention. March 20.
DR. FRANK SMITH
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
FOR RECORDER.

Editor TIMES: You are authorized to
announce that I am q candidate on the
Republican ticket for Recorder of Lake
county. subject to the will of the Re-
publican primaries. and I ask the sup
port of the voters.
EDWARD c. GLOVER
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18
COMMISSIONER, FIRST DISTRICT.

Editor TIMES: Please state that I
will be a candidate for denomination
to the office of County Commissioner
from the first district. subject to the
Republican nominating convention.
RICHARD SCHAAF, SIR
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-18

Editor TIMES: You are hereby au-
thorized to announce that I am a cam
didate for the Republican nomination
for Auditor of Lake county. and I ask
the support of the Republican voters
of Lake county at the primaries to be
held March 20.
ALEXANDER JAMESON.