Walkerton Independent, Volume 46, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 December 1920 — Page 3

M GIFT K f jSHOPjI ¥ W § • I For the Holiday Season I we are giving | Special Prices on Ivory ! See our selections before you buy j ^0 I -TkA/bI 1 A3 ■—'' j Cut Glass • i Our assortment of cut glass is one of the largest | i shown in the city. It will pay you to take advantage | J of the * - w * | 20% Discount • we are offering on this pretty gift ware ft I S3* H' 3 I w A 8 -- A ft I Large Stock of South Bend tand ElginWatches I Special prices on these fine watches. ft Fine Wrist Watches in gold filled cases I $15.00 to SIOO.OO. |

We Invite You to Visit our Store A I Chas, JL-SaMt- ■A • 113 W. Jefferson Blvd. Op. Citizens’ Nat’l Bank X 30 years in business in South Bend. { • We Want Poultry I | WILL PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES j EVERY DAY. | I Bring your poultry to us. Our quick service and I $ highest prices will please you. I | Producers Union Dairy Co. • ■ a Lakeville, Ind. A

I Badly Fitted Glasses are Useless Even though the lense" may be exactly made for Bh your defect of vision, the ^B effect is spoiled if the m| frames are badly fitted. B A badly fitted bridge causes the lenses to be ^B i laway from their correct ^BI |M»"ition. with the result B that the vision is distort- ^B ed. Also glasses of wrong width between the centers ^B | of the lenses causes dis- ^B * torted vision. f We are very careful ami'* H i accurate with our mean- ^B urements. fjso after the frame is made it is check- Qf| ed and counter-* he< ked— Bw and that is why we can ^BI guarantee a perfect fitI ting. K Dr. Ethelred Curtis £ Optometrist and Chiropractor ^B LA PORTE, I RD. B v if JHIBBBBIBBBBBBRBB®

1 DR. W. C. WISENBAUGH DENTIST OFFICE HOURS: Plate work and fl 1 BA.M. to 12:0* A. M Ings a specialty 1:00p. m. to 5:00 p. m Prices reasonable, Sundaysby Appoint men North Liberty, Ind. EYES EXAMINED I and Head aches relieved without the us* Drugs by H. LEMONTREE South Bend's Leading Optometrist I and Manufacturing Optician Open till 6 P. M. 222% S. Michigan Street Phone Lincoln 6504 Phone E I). WOLFE AUCTIONEER FOR DATES North Liberty, Ind. JR. JOHN A. STOECKLEY Extracting with Anesthetics Oral Surgery and Dental X-Rays. Phone. Main 886. 511 J. M. S. Bldg. South Bend. Indiana.

j WHEN CHRISTMAS WAS YOUNG To Understand Mysteries of the Yuletide, It Is Necessary to Search Ancient History.

N the midst of tne rush and excitement of (hristmas preparations ceria n questions will flash across the

mind, and w<> find ourselves wondering why it is tli.it we do the ’ sery same things ('hrisimas after Christmas. \\ hy do we hang stockings, light Christmas trees, Ir im our homes and have plum pudding? To understand the origin of these customs we must wander tar bark into the forgotten past—ages Ik fore Julius Caesar set foot on British soil, or St. Augustine told the story of the Cross to the men of Kent. Hundreds of years ago—long before the year 1 the ancients, as we cal! the pmp'e of those times, ail worshiped the sun. the great giver of light and life. In the month o f March they built big fires to it. asking it to shine upon the seeds they had planted ami warm them Into life. In the autumn they held another festival, thanking the sun for the harvest, and again, in the winter time, they held tb.e—or the In ancient Egypt, in Assyria, in Greece, on Homan soil -- ’ • . northlands these festivals were celebrated year after year ami always I about the same time, the winter one being held about New 1 ear s time. Wherever the Itoman eagle was found, this feast was called the Saturnalia ami it was marked by universal license ami good feeling. All at once Christianity appeared upon the seem*. As the policy of the I early church was to reconcile heathen converts to the now faith by adopting j some of the heathen customs ami les- I tivt.ls. the new religion accepted amp retained many, and the result, as is ' easily seen. has been the strange] medley of pagan ami Christian rites whit h we use at Christmas time today. After Britain was Christianized by i the Romans, the Saxons ami northern tribes came, bringing their old nor’hI ern rites, and as < ’hristianily at last I replace! paganism the < hrist isms kept | the old pagan rites, merely changing ! their meaning I For many years no two lands ,ele- | brated the same day as the birthday | of Christ. They did not know the । exact day. ami we do not know it; | but this date has now become the | most important one in the world s I history. [ isms®, • { | Games of Heathen Origin

n' & "M yT ANY of our most Tamil- « IVI iar Christmas games have « a heathen originti and some of their requiremem^e^^^— I ^^mos t”~ m• । port an i part in the & F heathen rites and mysteries. Ev- f | ery one knows how, when playI x; ing tiie popular Christmas game A । S of “snap dragon." all other lights ; g in the room are extinguished ?> I C while we try to snatch raisins ) from blazing brandy, but prob- ■ ably few are aware that the S; N ancient British Druids were ae- * customed to worship, in a tern- & pie otherwise dark, a flame of v burning spirits into which they <- , § cast ami out of which they C I plmked certain sacred objects - , .» J and that they thus performed ■: ' some of the most awful solem- A | nlties of their r ligion. «t ' ... .. . -

Style Shoes For Stout Women O </ - Jr * - These Specially constructed Shoes give the slender lines and graceful curves to the foot. The Cranford Arch Support is an important feature of this Shoe. It prevents fallen arches. GUARANTEE SHOE CO. South Bend Ind.

J. WILLIS COTTON, Atorney at Law WALKERTON, INDIANA Office Over State Bank. Home Phone No. 1 FARHS and TOWN REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 5,6, 7 and 8 per cent Money to Loan According to amount, time and class of security

PUBLIC L-„, o „~; GOVlOi^^ I L I'FIIATION ! Canvass of 5.15* t 4,466 Commurm ^ ors Shows f Socialistic Exf A g a j ns t | OPPOSITION ( ,ment “ 1 Eighty-seven Per Cen' 0 VJI Nsi i Against 83 Per ’ in 1920 as ff Think Public n 3 . D j 'ent In IS l ® to Radic. Opposed The American publ!^ srn * tensely opposed to Gov, tion than It was a year Vj s more In- J to the newspaper edl f ~’ rnment operatry. Out of 5,154 e a g O , according i a questionnaire sent 3 of the coun- ' Service Company of rs -inlying to or 86 per cent, gave p ment that the peoph . ;ly agalnst 1 ihe 6v,j ere overwi business with Its own ? r. r ” ® Company | on the government 1 ss of editors I roads. That questionn Mon of rail- ’ 83 per cent of the et showed that their communities rs considered ment operation of pu f ns t Govern- | Apparently, then, if utilities. public opinion accurr editors estimate ion In a year, conslio w iy, that opln- , nities, has swung 5 t red by commu- ] away from socialistic er cen t farther Eleven Million C experiments. The combined circul Irculation. pers whose editors re gt’on of the pa- ; 817, Which means, a. v f, e( j | a 11,428.usual estimated ratio cording to the tion and readers, aco between circulu- • least 44,000,000. And astituency of at cy is pretty evenly sc this constituen- ; out the country, no c jttered through- | tion of any state belni jnslderable sec- i The estimate of opinlc unrepresented. | thoroughly diffused 44 J based on this country's population p er ce nt of the be considered a fair r .nay, therefore, the people as a whol» ipresentation of Another feature of k evident lack of part th e result la its major political affiiiat: j saD bias. The pers represented are f ons o f the pa- I vided, being 1,857 I airly evenly dl--1,350 Democratic. Ther Republican and ] ; independent and 462 e are a i eo 1,485 , including labor organs. miscellaneous, ' How little the rest! etc. by the politics of the 1 ts are affected in an analysis by se iapers is shown Southern section, for ctions. In the replies came from 65 instance, where pers and 389 Democ. Republican pacentage against Govern -atlc, the perwas 88; in the Great, ment operation

with conditions r«v«rs« Lake section, llcan and 155 Democn d 47g Repubsitlon was 87 P®r c tic, the oppo7^" n ipiies from thu , West and Southwest «ho»»> that t Is a mistake to consider tho\se sections vastly more favorable to raidfcal Government experiments than the 1 Rast The radicals can get little coimfort cut of the $ 89 per cent of thumbs down —2 per * cent above the average—in the Southv west, including Arkansas, Louisiana, ■ I Missouri, Kanans, Oklahoma and Tex- . as. Texas, once supposed to be much given to Government regulation experiments, returned 92 per cent of unfavorable replies. Ont of the 244 editors replying from that state only three edited Republican papers. The 82 per cent opposition of the Northwest, including lowa, Minnesota, Montana. Nebraska, North Daketa, South Dakota and Wyoming, and the 83 per , cent veto of the Far West group, including Arizona, California, Idaho, “ Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Utah and Washington, are sig-

nificant of the prevailing conservative sentiment on this question even in the more radical sections. Judgment Apparently Unbiased. The questionnaire closes with a request for the editor’s personal opinion on certain concrete cases as folI lows: "Do you personally believe that the Federal Government should own and operate competitive Industries to provide: fa) Fertilizer? (b) Clothing? ! (c) Automob les? (d) Farm implements? (e) Foodstuffs? Substantially all the editors who gave estimates of their readers’ opini ions also expressed thalr own by replying to this last questir-'. Proof of considerable effort to avoid personal bias Is found in the fact t^at in many j cases the editor differed from the i opinion be credited to his Icommunity. ! The percentage of “nos" ran: (a) 76; (b) 88; (c) 86; (d) 8p (e) 79. While the questions we u based on ' general principles Invol II In the Government participating n competitive business, the so-cal ed Muscle Shoals Bill now before Congress was used as a concrete example of a Government operation scheme. Under this bill a Government-owned corporation would be given broad powers to operate and develop Government plants and properties. It would produce at Muscle Shoals various fertilizer predj ucts and sell them in competition with producers and merchants in the fer- ! tlllzer business. Tho strength of the opposition to Government operation Is Indicated by the replies from Alabama, where the Muscle Shoals war plant Is and where, of course, there la Intense Interest and local pride In getting Its expected i peace-time operation under way at the ! earliest possible date Fifty editors from that stufe replied, of whom 88 were opposed to Government operation, 8 in favor and 4 doubtful, 1 Our For Sale Ads brings quick results.

——— —»— FOR I CHRISTMAS I Nn other gift would so thoroughly ELECTRIC WASHING MACHINE. And while you are getting one. might as well have the best. ( OFFIELD, with it’s heavy copper tub. oilless bearings and patent water shed makes it the peer of all Washing Machines. So make “Her” Happy—See that “She” has a COFFIELD for ( hristmas. A personal call or a card from you will insure delivery in plenty of time. S. D. Moran & Son 132 North Michigan St. South Bend Ind. The Store of Hundreds of Practcial Electrcial Gifts

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I ' A handkerchief or a tie case, or a pair of ribbon-covered shoe-trees make gifts suited to either men or women. The tie case pictured is a length of ribbon folded envelope fashion and 1 bound with gold braid. The handker chief case employs narrow satin rib bon joined by fancy braid. Satin ribbon is shirred over the shoe-trees. Precious Relic for Reims. The Reims treasure has been enriched by a precious jewel of the ninth, or maybe the eighth century, a generous gift of the Empress Eugenie, says Le Moplteur de la Bijouterie in an article in the Jeweler's Circular. The matter in question is the reliquary of Charlemagne, a round capsule of gold encircled with precious stones, in the middle of which, made out of two hollowed-out sapphires, a piece of the true cross is enclosed. It was found on the neck of the great emperor and the clerej of Aix- ' la-Chapelh (where Charlemagne died and was buried in 814) gave it in 1804 to Napoleon 1. Napoleon 111 preserved this magic talisman, which assured. ! he sai<l. the empire to its holder, in I his he<i t-hamber at the Tuileries, at j the head of his bed. Many Species of Petrels. Tliere are more than 190 spe.ues of petrels scattered in wide-spread areas : of ocean, but among the most inter- ' esting are the fulmars. Sailors of British vessels commonly refer to them as “molly tnawks,” a corruption of mallemuck. The birds in great i flocks follow in rhe wake of ships, and are speciall.v fond of a whaling vessel. ‘ for they like th<> oily substance that is thrown out in the refuse from 1 whale-cleaning. The fulmar ranges over the North h Atlantic from 45 degrees latitude on I tie American side, and lower, to 53 I degrees as the farthest south on the | Eun.pnan side. j I Too Many Missing Periods. I Mary was in the iiospitai for some I time and did not se»- as much of her q mother as she would have liked, and J bewailed the fact by saying: “Oh, I mamma. I only see you at the tops and | bottom of these days and I don't like ( It a bit." ’

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■_} : O. P. NOISOM I Corner Michigan and Jefferson < | ■ | So. Bend's Leading Xmas^JewelryjStore * | WONDERFUL Pearl Necklaces . f PERFECT Diamonds ■ ACCURATE Watches and Clocks * REAL Ivory | RELIABLE Pens and^Pencils | Silverware || EVERYTHING GUARANTEED i 1 r„ ■-’■fji.fl ■ a ■ ■ e a k a ■ ■ a ■- eh ■■ ■ r a -p I 2— I 1 About Christmas Candies We wish to announce that we are making | preparations for your holiday demands, —and ai I reduced prices. Diana candies, made with the greatest ati| tention to purity and wholesome quality, await your wants. I The Diana 117 W. Washington St.. SOUTH BEND, IND. J Episcopal Church i A Local members please him • Rev. H. R. White. 9 A South Bend, Ind t A Name J