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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
A LEGISLATIVE SUGGESTION.

The legislature which convenes
this week will undoubtedly find oc-
casion to tinker the laws pertaining
to the conduct of county affairs. If
any improvements along this line are
to be made, it would be well to in
clude modification of that section.
which provides for some evidence of
good faith in submitting bids on con-
tracts.
The present law requires only. that
bid be accompanied by a bond.
Now the weakness of bond is this,
IL may endanger innocent parties
particularly if the bondsmen are
private parties who act as sureties as
matter of friendship to the bidder
and rely on his word as to the reason
ableness of his bid, instead of making
an investigation for themselves: If
the bond is furnished by a surety
company, there is always the posi-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
WHY IT PAYS TO BE GOOD.

1t pays to be good just in health
and length of life.
The wages of sin is death, literally
as we'll as figuratively, for women. II
takes only seven years to send a girl
from the top to the bottom of the
toboggan slide of unlawful pleasure,
and the bottom is in the grave, or
worse.
1t pays to be good because only
good women get any decent treatment
from men.
There are no other human beings
whose lives are SO full of anxiety.
VINO are so abused, insulted and mis-
treated as the women who are the
toys and playthings of men, and
whose conduct gives men the right to
treat them without reverence or re-
spect.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
LABOR NEWSl

Meridian (Miss.) unions are advocat-
ing the establishment of a local tuber-
culosis camp and hospital
The National Civic Federation has
organized national department on in
dustrial mediation laws.
Minneapolis Trades and Labor Coun-
ell is making arrangements for a cam
paign for the demand of the union la
bel
Bangor (Me) Railway and Electric
Co. has just conceded an increase, which
approximates cents an hour
A permanent exhibit of devices and
means to prevent accidents to workmen
has been opened at Copenhagen, Dem
mark.
There will be twenty-five members
of farmrs' and trade unions holding
seats in the next session of the<<S so-
RADIO Legislature. kM
A minimum wage of 25s Is S<na
week for all abIe-bodied me 2
henceforth rule in the municirs~ /.
fee in Glasgow. Scotland.
There is. a .welI-defRed plan to install
women as 5fivers of taxi-cabs and
other power-driven vehicles on the
streets of the largest cities of England.
Street sweepers Of New York city
have petitioned to have their wages
increased from $3.50 year to 1920. Ex-
ira pay for Sunday work is also asked
for.
At Toledo, o., twenty-eight Hum
garian women recently took the places
of the striking core makers in the
plant of the National Malleable Cast
ings Co.
Z Journeymen BARRIERS are engaged in
an active campaign to clean up I'M
sanitary barber shops and to organize
the 1000 journeymen BARRIERS in Chi
cago.
Linotype machine operators of Paris
fhreatn 10 go on general strike unless
a scale of nine hours for a days work
and francs $3.50 compensation 10
granted
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
A FINE Joke. y

Regardless of the wishes of the un
fortunate victim of the outrageou.
joke" played upon him by com.
panion at the Standard Steel car
plant, the perpetrator of the alleged
joke should be taken in hand and
dealt with in accordance with the
Nervousness of his offense.
The act was either the result al
criminal intent upon theipart of the
man who committed the crime. or i,
not, the most charitable view that
can possibly be taken is that the per-
petrator must be insane or imbeciIe
The Joke" has been applied too often
for the man who was guilty of It NOT
knowing that it was a serious offense
and if his morbid mind finds pleasure
in such acts, he should either he
punished as the law provides. or
treated as other insane persons. and
should be taken care of in an insane
asylum. The Standard Steel Car
Company. the police and all concern
ed should take steps to put an end to
these CHASTITY "air hose jokes
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
THAT TURNING BASIN.

The report to the effect that Con-
gresham Mann of Illinois proposes to
introduce a bill providing for the
building of turning basin at 10th
street in the Calumet river, has raised
the question as to whether this would
have any effect on the improvements
contemplated and under way in Lake
George. The idea being ultimately to
connect Lake George with the Calu-
met river, thereby providing
through channel inland from Indiana
Harbor to the South Chicago harbor.
1t was suggested that if the govern
ment build a turning basin at the
point designated by Congressman
Mann, it would be averse to doing
anything in connection with a similar
Improvement in Lake George. This
being the case it was suggested that
the property tributary to the Indiana
Harbor canal, would be the sufferer.
AS matter of fact the proposed
turning basin at 116th street has no
bearing whatever on the local situa-
tion. What has been termed the
Lake George turning basin is being
put in at private expense, the East
Chicago company bearing the cost of
the improvement. 1t is five or six
miles from the point in the Calumet
river proposed for a turning basin bv
Congressman Mann and even were
the lake and river connected by an
artificial waterway, which it is inn
probable will be the case in many a
long year, far from being too close
together, it is quite likely other turn
ing basins would be built between the
one proposed by Congressman Mann
and chat Lake George
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

| blllty, ina case where a company or
its agent is approached by competing
| bidders, that one or the other may get
the benefit of inside information
which the others had to submit in
their application. The company or
its agent would be In position of
knowing in advance what figures it's
chents Will submit. Under such cir
cumstances 1t would be possible for a
favorite client to get his competitors.
IN pointing out these possibilities
with reference to surety companies
there Is no intention of conveying
even a hint that any of the companies
or their agents doing business in Lake
County had been guilty of such con-
Duct point out as possibility. The
situation in regard to private bonds
men has not always been unclouded,
for even within the past year bonds
men are said to have been ON the
anxious seat, waiting to see whether
the contractor whom they secured
was able to make good.
1t might be said. that it is their
own lookout, but then. we have many
laws to protect us against our friends.
The only business like method in
the way of requiring evidence of
good faith, is to ask the bidder to ac-
company his bid with his check for a
certain per cent of the figure bid.
There is nothing radical in such a
law. The federal government in ask
ing bids requires cash or check from
the bidder equal to five per cent while
under the Indiana cities and towns
law, bidders check representing
two and a half per cent of the bid ON
municipal contracts is required.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
Heart toHeart
Talks.
THE MELIORISr.
BY EDWIN A. NYR.

Which are you-an optimist a pes
simist or meliorist?
The optimist believes in the ultimate
outcome of good. Which is a reason
able and satisfying belief. But
Many optimlsts go further and try
to make themselves and their fellows
believe that all is right with the world
This sort of optimist asks you to smile
because there is nothing anywhere ia
be miserable about.
Which is mere soothing strip.
And the pessimst? The pessimlst
sees only the seamy side. He refuses
to smile at ALL He is like the old wo-
man who always felt bad when she
felt good for fear she might feel bad.
In his view everything is going to the
eternal bowwows.
Now
There is sort OF honest pessimism
that is more or less worthy of praise
1t Is the pessinisrn that is deeply con
cerned about the real evil that is In the
world and cries out against it. He who
notes the wrong conditions and tries to
wake up his fellows to a realization of
these conditions is-if I may use the
term-a good kind of pessimist.
However,
As between the optimist who bids
you smile and smile. regardless of
what may be. and the pessimist who
scowls and scolds because all things
are bad. what view shall we take?
Why not he n meliorist?
The meliorist says to the optimist.
"All things are not good" He says to
the pessimist. "All things are not bad"
Says the meliorist: Things are good.
bad and Indifferent. Let us not deceive
ourselves. Let us face things as they
are. And. above ALL" says the melio-
rist-
Let us help to make things betterr
1t is easy TO sit down and smile and
declare that ais well with the world.
Also it is easy to ind fault with all
things and to declare that tendencies
are toward evil. and evil only.
The optimist may smile to his hearts
get nowhere
The pessimist may glover and chide
to his hearts content-and effect moth
ing.
But the meliorist does not smile when
there Is nothing TO smile about. nor
does be scod when scoIding will do no
good He puts his shoulder TO the
wheel and helps.
Why not be meliorist2
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
this is Ny eUTH BIRTHDAY"
NoodbrflGc n. Eerrfs


Noodbridge n. Ferris who was
inauEurated governor of Michigan la
week. was born in Spencer, N V,
January 8. 1853. His education was re-
ceived principally at the normal school
In csweso. \. Y. which was supple
mented by year of study in the medi-
cal department of the University OF
Michigan. Deciding that educational
work would be more TO his liking than
the practice of medicine, Mr. Ferris
quit the university to accept a position
as principal of a business college In
Freeport. Ill. After spending about ten
ye~-. with business institutes in vari-
Gus Illinois cities the future governor
removed to Big Rapids. Mich, which
city has since been his home. In Big
Rapids he established a business col
lese which proved very successful and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

enabled it's founder to embark in in
dustrial and financial enterprises from
which he later accumulated fortune,
Congratulations to:
Henry E. Dixey. the well known ac-
tor, 81 years old today.
Duncan u. Fletcher. United States
senator from Florida. 81 years old to-
day
John C. Spooner former United States
senator from Wisconsin, 10 years old
today.
Alexander III. Revell. Chicago mer-
chant and one of the Western managers
of the Roosevelt campaign, So years
old today.
Ellsworth r. Bathrick, representative
in Congress of the Nineteenth Ohio
district so years old today.
Most Rev. Charles Hamilton, Arch
bishop of Ottawa and Metropolitan of
Canada, 10 years old today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
III e A X ID
BY
r u b E

ARE you still writing it 1912?
SOMETHING must be wrong down a.
Lowell None of it's natives has seer
the first robin yet
WHEN mans sons begin to giys
MIN their old neekties he must realize
that he is about ready to be Oslerized.
TWO Idaho editors have been pu,
into Jail for printing t. R'sspeeehes
Some OF those who have to read the
speeches would just as lief be in Jail.
'LIKENS BECKER TO A. ]. BEy.
ERIDGE."-TIMEs' headline. In Tins
case the judge has our heartfelt sym
pathy.
ACTRESS announces that the real
stage kiss should last five minutes
Hardly for hubby when he is late eor
work that stage rules don't apply in
the home
SIDE whiskers of 1870 are coming
back into style again. This will vindi-
who has stuck by the side wheeIers
through thick and thin.
Another Little Surprise.
Iowell correspondence to THE TINES
A baby son has been born to Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Surprise This makes
eight healthy boys and one daughter
for them. Congratulations.
UNIVERSAL suffrage now extended
in Italy so that even the king votes.
THAT LOUD dropping noise you hear
IL front oe Your house at night is an
other poor soul dropping from the
water wagon
NEW YORK priest found FIVE 81 900
bills in the collection box yesterday.
Let's see where did the Hon. Tim En-
giehart attended church yesterday?
INASMUCH as hizzoner. the Hon.
Tom Knots, has decided that the pc
pull of Gary are to give him a home
coming reception. we venture to sus
gest the following:
Masters of ceremonies-Bill Cain and
Cy Howell
To lead the observation-disclosures Cas-
tleman and feeced taxpayers.
To make the chief speech-Governor
Marshall
To do the praising-Hon. Bill Crolius.
To chant the chorus-Members of the
Blind Pig association of 1909.
Letters of regret from-Harry Moose.
Oscar Schmidt, "Dog-Face Charley and
Diamond BILL
In charge OF the guard-Ex-s Sheriff
Grant
In charge of the cloakroom-w. f.
Hodge
To watch the safe--Detective 7. Il.
Dean.
BATTLING NELSON, losing his
latest scrap tue otner night. makes
Hegewisch look as gloomy as a dark
lane in London fog.
JOB hunters aren't the only ones
Think of the small boy who
got skates and a sled for Christmas
and who has been waiting several days
for snow.
THE way the auto bandits get away
with II in Chicaso we can't see where
the police OF thst cisy have any kick
against having their pay being 90 per
cent.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
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| EMJ--1DAY]
LOVES PURPOSE.

=
Love brings the blush into the fair
wild rose;
And paints the white upon the heron'a
plume;
And filings into wild dream the
prophets prose,
And paints the starry lights in MIDI
nights gloom.
Love sends the gieam into the infant,s
eyes
And makes the rustic in the bIadeJ
Instfiis the sweetness I'm the young
girls sigh,
Flashes the red into the whitening
And III love did not with her shining
Entrance the earth and sea and rou-
drous sky,
Chaos would break his old restraining
And bee. and bird, and flower and man
would die.
Henry Meade Bland.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
IDENTIFYING THE DEAD.

The Chicago papers of Januar,
carried this paragraph:
"A bureau to make possible the
identification of unidentified bodies
is to be established in the Coroner's
onlce Photographs, full face and
in profile. and data of measure
ments and distinctive markings on
the dead will be kept on file so that
from a description of the decedent
clerks Will be able readily to turn
to the photograph. A recent pro-
posal by Coroner Hoffman for law
providing that an extra man ac-
company every funeral Procession
and act as a guard at unprotected
railroad crossings will be discussed
at a meeting of undertakers Janu-
airy 10 in the Masonic Temple
On December 20 the Associated
Press carried the following Mime
apolis dispatch:
fBy identifying a photograph
taken Twenty-Five years ago Mrs.
Edmund j. Longyear. wife of
mining contractor here. has learn
ed that her brother. John Patton.
who disappeared then, was drowned
In the wreck of the City of Vernon
on the west short of Lake Michi-
gan. Six bodies from the wreck
had come ashore near Two Harbors
and had been photographed before
burial"
Here is demonstrated the efficacy
of the photography system of identi-
fcation. Every year dozens of dead
bodies, the identity unknown. are
buried in Lake county. Why not
photograph bodies in this county?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

Khy Der Pass
lS51-Dispersion of the Free State leg
islature at Topeka, Kas, by Fed
eral troops
lSs3-completion of the Great North
ern Railway extension to the Pa
cifc coast
iss5vProperty to the value of 81. O00.-
600 destroyed by fire in Toronto.
1sO2-Professor Nicholas Murray Rut-
Ter chosen president of Columbia
University
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
BAT Nelson is said to have

BAT Nelson is said to have been
converted by Billy Sunday at
Columbus, O.. but he will not give
up the prize ring. No doubt he
intends, when his antagonists
smite him on the right cheek. to
turn to them the left cheek also
Fort Wayne News
As long as he doesn't smite them
where Billy Sunday hates to be smit-
TENN the pocketbook.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
HOW ABOUT TT

What should young girl know?''
asks Cosmo Hamilton.
He then proceeds to tell US that
she ought to know everything
But
Then she wouldn't be a young girl
would she?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
VERY WRONG OF COURSE.

No of course not, it is quite wrong
for President Taft to appoint any re-
puDllcans nowadays. He gave his best
cabinet positions to democrats but of
course that is a horse of another
color. President Taft is probably not
aware just how hungry and thirsty
the democrats are.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

DOES Mr.. Roosevelt's criticism of
the army extend back as far as the
Kettle nil and shot 'em-in-the-
back episode or from Las Quasimas
where his command was ambused.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

London, Jan. s.-With the Turks
agreeing to give UP practically all their
territory In Europe with the exception
u Aoriahopie, peace seems very near
In the Balkans. Adrianople, for sen.i-
mental reasons, the Moslems wish to
keep 1t is to them a holy city, the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

lows:
FIRST: The rectification of the
Turko- Bulgarian frontier by making
the boundary west of the line now oc-
cupied by the troops of the allies in
the vilayet of Adrianople.
SECOND: The question of the status
of Adrianople to be settled by Turkey
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

PENNSYLVANIA preacher caught
one of his converts in a neiebbor,s
chicken coop. Pardon us for inouir-
ing what the preacher was doing in
the coop.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
The Day in
HISTORY
"THIs DATE IN HISTORY

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY
January O.
l7b9-Marriage of George Washington
and Mrs Martha Custis.
1S11-Charles Summer. statesman and
abolitionist. born in Boston. Died
in Washington, D. c., March Ii.
1874.
1S14-An English vessel arrived at An
napolis, Md, bringing an offer for
peace.
1S32-Gustave Dore, famous illustra-
tor born. Died Jan. 20. 1883
1S42-Massacre of the British army in
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

WHAT is there about a fellow who
is always tell you that we will have
to pay for the fine weather we are
having later on, that you don't likeq
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

BULLDOG in Hammond, Ind, was
beaten in a battle with a rooster. We
know the kind. Seen them so tough
you couldn't dent them with an axe.
New York Herald.
Nor blow them up with soup"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

and Bulgaria direct.
THIRD: The cession of the remain
der of European Turkey includin &
Janina and Scutari, to the allies.
FOURTH: The Albanian and Gre
tan questionus to be solved by the pow
ers.
FIFTH: The Aegean islands to re-
main Turkish.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

GREAT aux egg has just sold for
$500. Probably labelled very special.
guaranteed country fresh. If if is II
probably smells like last years bird
nest.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

DOUBTLESS the railroad men who
struggled Bill Rockefeller through
Lake County are laughing in their
sleeves at the reports of his invalid
ism.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

FUNNY world, President-elect
Wilson has found SO far three women
who handled him upon their knees
when he was a baby. Suppose their
husbands either want pension or a
postoffics
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

PHILADELPHIA is Offering, boun-
ties on rats to get the fieas off them.
We should say this is a ticklish propo-
sition.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

LOTS of onions are said to be ac.
tualiy going to waste at Plymouth
Wasting their sweetness on the
dearest air, )" as it were.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

Hammond Commandery No. Al K T.
Installation of officers Monday Jan.
6th- Wednesday,, Jan. Sth, free
illustrated lecture on Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. AL Master Masons and
= --erdially invited.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

earliest site conquered by Murad 1. in
1861.
The Balkan delegates still insist up
on the session of Adrianople, but it is
more than likely that they will yield
on TINS point, and that peace will short
ly be declared
me terms presented by the Turkish
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

UNSCRAMBLING an egg having
gone out of date, the very latest is to
uncuss custard pie.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

Hammond Chapter No. 1T r. A. NJ
rext meeting Thursday. Jan. 10th. In
stallation of officers by Past Grand
High Priest John ]. Glendening of III
diana polls.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

HOWEVER few farmers wives
who have automobiles are going crazy
through loneliness.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
ABOUT THIS TIME

Some men swear off for New Years
day, and some among the bills forget
the off part of it.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
ROB posToFFIcE DURING FIRE

Thieves broke into the postoffice at
Harrods burg early yesterday morning
and obtained about $50 in stamps and
cash from the safe. The robbery was
made while most of the residents were
a the scene of fire which DESTROYED
the home of Albert Burkhart.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

Hammond Council, No. 90, r. S. NJ
Stated meetings first Tuesday of eaek
month.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

smoking or chewing. Big package
Sc. (cHie-S. Tob. Co. Save the tickets
and see our premium Iist.-idv.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
TAkEs sUPpLY PLANT OPTIONS.

Options are being taken on all of the
lighting and water supply plants in
northern Indiana towns by representa-
tfves of a Chicago syndicate, the per-
sonnet of which has not been made
public. Fully a score of towns will be
affected If the deals are closed. The
company believed to be taking the OPP
tions was recently Incorporated under
the laws of Illinois for extensive opera
tions in that state and Indiana.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

BY the way what has become of
| the old-fashioned man who insisted
On standing at Armageddon
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
A MICHIGAN house can,

a MICHIGAN house caught fire
from fireless cooker But a firelesg
street car will not do that, even If il
does make the passengers hot.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06
HOLDS rosTMAsrERsHrp 20 YEARS

CASTOR Fuip. who for twenty years
has been postmaster at Taylorsville
and who for five years has been trying
to get rid of his job by the resignation
route. is now assured that he is short
ly to be relieved. A postmaster inspec-
tor. called at TaylorsvilIe and forward
ed to the Postoffice Department at
Washington the names of John Stitt a
Democrat; John Sublett a Prohibition
list. and Mead Hartley. who are appli-
cants for the job, and a selection of a
postmaster is expected to be made
within few days.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-01-06

Garfield Lodge. No. 46s, r. & A. NJ.
State meeting every Friday evening.