Walkerton Independent, Volume 46, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 September 1920 — Page 4

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THE INDEPENDENT Published every Thursday by ! THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. ]i < ISCORPORATEU) Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD Entered at the postoffice at Walk- • erton as second class matter. :i : September 2, 1920. : PROHIBITION HANGING in A THREAD. ■ The prohibition question, although ■ invading every nook and corner of : the country, is not strictly speaking a • national issue. The light will be : staged io a greater or lesser degree pin every congressional district of the : nation and the “wet” side of the conj troversy are keenly alive to the sit- : nation and will make a strenuous j fight to elec; their men to represent : them in the incoming congress. Their j one great aim is to accomplish a ■ modification of the Volstead act and : i give it a more liberal interpretation. ; The “dry” forces, it is apparent, : have a fight on their hands if they : would retain the progress they have : already gained in making the nation j dry. Unless they are thoroughly : awake and aggressive in their fight j for the election of men to congress • who are known to stand squarely upj on the Volstead law as now inter--1 preted and endorsed by the majority : of the members of congress and the : leading authorities of the nation, Ei they stand a chance to suffer a dis- : astrons defeat which will put the : prohibition question back where it : was several years ago, necessitating : another long and hard fight perhaps : of many years’ duration, before they : can again secure the fonthold they : now have. • It is essentially a question for each : congressional district to decide. HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY? : (LaPorte Herald.) E The writer was riding on a Mil--2 wankee bound train the other day, = j headed out tiom St. Paul. His seat S companion was a talkative young fel- - , low of i wenty years. He had been = three weeks in the Dakota harvest x uelds. He had no education beyond X tiie grades. Yet he had been getting = 85 and 90 cents an hour, board and Z lodging, for twelve or more hours a = day in the wheat fields. But he had - had enough. • “Why did you quit?” was asked. g “Oh, it was too hard on the J hands,” was the answer. | He gave his occupation as a fireg man “by trade.” His home was in = Elkhart. He wantd to know “what I they paid” for labor in Milwaukee. § That was his first and only question. I “What do they pay.” || But the boy hadn’t left the Dako- । tas because the work was “too hard | on his hands.” A coal shovel and hot | boilers aren’t notoriously like kid I gloves. He left because he had not 31 the incentive of the joy of prodttc- ■ |tion; because he was too far from 11 the white lights of the city; because B I even the high wages W’eren’t com|.penation. in his mind, for the work 11 he was doing. Today, he is doubtg j less drifting around Milwaukee. He = i has just one question to a progresJ sive employer. “What do you pay”. | And because he can’t get a dollar an 11 hour, the world is all wrong. 1 PROTECTINt; WOODLANDS FROM f INJURY. That young growth in the woods, । known popularly as “brush” is somel! thing to be rid of, is a prevalent but I mistaken conception, since, as forestj|ry specialists of the United States । Department of Agriculture point out, j a forest can not maintain itself long । without reproduction. For the sake | of getting a scattering of green grass | in the spring, it is the short-sighted | practice in hundreds of localities to | fire the woods regularly. This results । in killing thousands of small trees । needed to continue the forest in the । future and also injures a large I; amount of marketable timber. Fm- | thermore, such burning destroys a | large amount of rich vegetable fertil11 izer. | Cattle and hogs in hardwood । stands and hogs in long-leaf pines i keep the so from being restocked. | Damage from insects can be reduced g by cutting timber at the proper time 11 of year and by utilizing lightning- | killed trees without delay, since they |> harbor destructive pests. Cattle de- । stroy the productive leaf mulch 1 w,uch keeps the trees growing during | bm-- dr \ spells. All large openings I '■ " light comes thru into the for- | rsl should be filled with younger I, t | S ’ "oily stocked woods contain s 1,0 Rrass, but afford full l^snade, which prevents the soil dry^JDg out and keeps the trees growing. NOW BECKON TO \MERH A. | Ne ‘ r b ‘ f ,re b is there been such ■ i ■' a ’ Present for the .. i . , n " ed . States so occupy an important E.icaep in world commerce, particularJ y wuh regard to food supplies, say : marketing specialists of the Bureau of Markets, United states Department of Agriculture. i je S(? ^xper“s state that the matter o. national grades is therefor one of paramount importance. In the markets of th e world the seller with the best graded products is the most suc-

common language between the buyer in one country and the seller in another; in fact, experience has shown that the decisive factor in the development of foreign business often hinges on proper standardization and grading. RELATIVE ATTITUDES OF THE PARTIES ON THE LEACH E. The following is a brief statement of the attitude and interpretation of the republican and democratic parties on the League of Nations, as given by Leslie’s Weekly; The republican proposal is that we join the rest of the world in building up a body of international laws, en-‘ forced by properly constituttd international courts, with each nation free to act as it seees fit within trie scope of these recognized law’s. The democratic method is to tie ourselves up in a political organization to be governed by a written constitution known the Covenant of the League of Nawons, our freedom of action to be determined by vote of the various parties!to the plan. No matter howl worthy a cause may be, there are ays plenty of opponets to fight it! tooth and toenail. A striking illustration of this is the frantic efforts of,’ anti’s to block the certification •Un' woman suffrage amendmelfl Iter it had been duly ratified by Tennessee, the 36th state. People canlt always see questions from the sat^e standpoint, but there are somet’Aes outstanding questions of morj^ity and justice that would seetfCtp Fdmit of no pronounced diversity of opinion. Some old fellow in Illinois who is without near relatives wants to bequeath his estate of about sloo,ooc to William Jennings Bryan, of whom he is an ardent admirer. Bryan, tinpoor fellow, is worth only a million or so, and he needs the proposed bequest very badly. The new wage scale has been accepted in the three hard coal mining districts of Pennsylvania, and our chances for not freezing to death this winter are getting better every ’ day. Everybody register, if possible, Saturday, in order to make sure of । it, as something might prevent you r from doing so on the second regis- ( nation day, October 4. t । The man who knows least about the history and geography of Europe is the man who talks most positivelj ? as to what will be the outcome over there, Cox wants the United States to 1 speak language the world can un-derita^jd.’-1 ii*lcMcuud any language buj that which force • speaks? Professor David Starr Jordan says ‘ no important difference separates the • two parties. Doesn't he regard the 1 possession of the offices as im- ’ portant? 1 Something to be thankful for: Six- ? ty cent men’s paper suits —or men’s • sixty cent paper suits, as the case t may be—are coming into vogue in - some places. Amos Pinchot says Cox and Hard- ■ ing are both mediocre, but that will 1 not hurt them with the voters, nearly all of w hom are in the same class. When you hurrah for Cox vou had 1 better specify which Cox, as the name of the Socialist-Labor presi- , dntial candidate is also Cox. Reed and Bryan say they are dem- • ocrats still, but maybe Cox would ; prefer them to be still democrats , during the campaign. “ Gov. James M. Cox has no trouble । in keeping the well know’ll “wolf from the door.” iHe is rated as a 1 millionaire. *’'• i Mr. Gompers 1-finding something ■ to attack every day. He is the ■ champion attackel’ of the country. On September { 7 25,000 republican orators are tflAbe turned loose on the country. Dti^k for the cellar. There are five Rational parties in the field—the deipocratic, the republican and the three third parties. Will the “favorite daughter” supplant the “favoriti? son” in the nomination lime-light in 192 4? The “self-determination of smaller ■ nations.” Sounds well, doesn’t it? But how about Ireland? The next war promises to be between those w’ho want 2.75 beer ana those who do not. The brotherhood of man might prove a success if ever given a trial. Mrs. Keach Tells How She Got to Know Rat-Snap. “Have always feared rats. Lately noticed many on my farm. A neighbor said he just got rid of droves with RAT-SNAP. This started me thinking. Tried RAT-SNAP myself. It killed 17 and scared the rest away.” RAT-SNAP conies in three sizes. 25c, 50c, SI.OO. Sold and guaranteed by st-s3O. Price & Houser. Hoffman Bros^ C. M, Carter, C. E. Houser.

“GOD BLESS YOU’S” MEANING Expression of Solicitude That Can Be Traced Back to the Decline of Athens. The Greeks and Romans had their •‘Long life to you!” Gesundheit! is now verboten. But we still say “Saute" and “God bless you!” after a sneeze. This expression of solicitude can be traced back to the decline of Athens. One of the terrible devastating plagues which darken the pages of European history was raging in the famous city. The flower of Greece, her foremost writers and artists, the founders of much of our modern culture, were ruthlessly cut down. The dead piled high, and daily Athenian courage was taxed to the fullest. But to every home where lay a victim, the elixir of hope, the rainbow of promise, was the sneeze, for it indicated to the watchers that the danger was passed, that the^patfent would recover.

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A few centuries later another epidemic assailed Europe, but this time the sneeze, being a symptom of the malady, was a bad omen. In this age of witches, goblins, medicine men and leeches superstition flourished. Some of the most intellectual minds, of the time accredited charms and soothsayers. It was therefore nothing extraordinary for the pope to decree the exclamation “God bless you!” by anyone who heard a sneeze. This was supposed to combat its evil powers and prevent the spread of the disease. And “God bless you!" with its kindly human interest has come down through the ages. tn Other Words, Concentrate. The great secret of both health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one’s consciousness to the business and diversion es the hour —never permitting one to infringe in the least upon the other. —Sismondi.

TAKE IT IN TIME Just as Scores of Walkerton Ih >ph Have. Waiting doesn’t pay. If you neglect kidney backache. Urinary troubles often follow. Doan’s Kidney Pills are for kidney backache, and for other kidney ills. Walkerton citizens endorse them. Mrs. F. O. McAllister, Church St., Walkerton, says: “Whenever my kidneys show signs of being disordered, I used a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills and I am quickly relieved. At such times, my back becomes lame and sore and sharp pains pierce me when I bend. I also feel generally run down. As soon as I have such troubles, I use Doan’s Kidney’ Pills and they put my kidneys in good condition.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply- ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills— the same that Mrs. McAllister had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.