Walkerton Independent, Volume 52, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 November 1926 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Puor. h ’ Bvery T‘,us tn * THE IX DEPENnEXT-NEW» CO. Publisher* of the WAIJCERTOX INDEI’EMtEXT NORTH LIBKKTV NEWS , LAKEVILLE STAXDOiD THS ST. JOSEPH COINTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCcuilrem Business Manager Ch ar lea M. Finch. Editor 8V bscriptTon - RATES Ona Tear .. •lx Months 90 Thrae Mor.ths ,80 TERMS IN ADVANCE * Entered at the post office at Walkerton. aa —cond-claa« matter. School: A place where children go j to give their parents some relief. France cut off a part of its pay roll in order to make both ends meet. A gentle voice indicates good breeding or that the other fellow is larger. It is gratifying to see that no effort ! has been math* to bob the corn tassels, i A sport car is one that consists of SB2O worth of car and $1,265 worth of ■ trimmings. You never really know h man until you watch him parting with about twenty dollars. Disbelief indicates a cynic. Rut the

unbeliever may not be an agnostic. He may be lazy. There are times when Saturday seems to be crowding Sunday for casualty records. One thing that can be said for the s^SPy ground is that the weeds come out with less pull. The amounts of alimony some women ask are pretty good evidence in favor of their husbands. Certain cities have forbidden flights over their boundaries. Even air travel must have its detours. Yet most of the big Jobs are held by men who never try to do anything to get on the first page. There's one thing about a fly. You never grow impatient waiting for him to carry the fight to you. The most jvopular after-dinner speaker is father when he says. “Well, let’s all go to the movies.” What Europe needs is less suspicion and more brotherly love and corn on the cob. If a girl guest can’t stay more than five days, it is because she has only five frocks. Telephone: A contrivance that enables you to sit lazily at home and annoy people. Ether will put you to sleep even more quickly than some of the speeches that come in on the ether. One of the hardest things is waiting to see whether a hurricane means to keep right on coming, or detour. Another evil result of recent political activities is that the word “rotten” no longer seems to mean enough. It’s time to stand from under when an aviator wires us: “Will fly over your city, and drop down to see you.” The alleged “fire of genius” is not »n all-consuming flame, or there wouldn’t t>e so many live poets around. Carpet tacks, sprinkled around the house, form a fine preventive for the barefoot burglars. But watch your step! What this great republic needs at this juncture is some easy method of removing watermelon seeds from the ears. Some day the persons who announce the new movies are going to have to use some of the old adjectives over again. After a woman has married a man on account of his many tine qualities, the next thing, naturally, is to make him all over. Science demonstrates that earthquakes are beneficial—merely is a eongratulatory way nature has of saying “Let’s shake I” Some one is always describing how the next war will be fought, but makes no prediction as to how the war debts will be settled. After exhaustive questioning by the police, a man in Denver who claimed he was Napoleon was identified as Somebody else. It has bm-n pr< ved that satire can destroy virtually anything except congress, canned spinach and the habit of getting married. “D’Annunzio wonders why ho is so fatally fascinating to women”—item. D Annunzlo? Oh. yes—the poet with the haunted piano Around the old homestead In the Long Ago, the nearest thing to a saxophone was a choir of baritone frogs in the back meadow. The anniversary of the Invention o the phonograph has been observed, ant every once in a while one feels certain he is hearing the first record played. A woman at Providence. R. L. ate two pecks dams at a sitting thereby winning the distinction of eating two pecks of dams. That insurance expert who savs American girls are b«« cn'ng tall- r may have measured only from the ground to the skirt hem. The English and French <!■> not seem inclined rich; now to get together and till the channel a few mile on l>oth sides to accommodate Amer lean girl swimmers.

i/~h - W • 'HSR O A m .. । ~ ♦<4— I—Phyra Vijitavongs, new Siamese minister to America, In full regalia. 2—l nited States navy dirigible Los Angeles moored to mast at Ford air field, Detroit, after flight from Lakehurst, N. J. 3—Queen Marie of Rumania in New York, with Assistant Secretary of State Butler Wright and Grover Whelan, chairman of the' mayors committee, and followed by Mrs. Vincent Astor, Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas.

NEWS REVIEW OF~ CURRENT EVENTS Rumanian Queen Having a Lively Time in Her Tour of America. By EDWARD W. PICKARD MARIE, the beautiful queen of Ru mania, grabbed the front page last week, and It is a fair guess that the men of America as well as the women followed her doings with great i Interest. For three days after her ar ! rival in New York she, with her son and daughter, was the official guest iof the nation. Hurrying directly to J Wash'ngton, her majesty made a for I mal call on President ami Mrs. CoolI tdge at the White House late Tuesday afternoon, which call was promptly re- | turned, according to official etiquette, at the-Rumanian legation, where the queen was lodged. A few hours later Marie was given a state dinner at the ’ White House. Before these official doings, Qu<*en । Marie motored to Arlington and paid graceful tribute at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and then was driven | to Mount Vernon. On We<lnesday she visited the Naval academy at Annapolis and reviewed the 17.5(K» midd es there, and also went to Baltimore. I where she was given a great reception and a lot of Maryland fried chicken and beaten biscuits. Thence back to New York, where, still enthusiastic and untired, she att< tided a great levee given for her at the Ritz-Carlton by William Nelson Cromwell, president of the Society of Friends of Rumania. , Thursday she went to Philadelphia to see the Sesquicentennial exposition. Beginning now her real tour of । America, the queen was in the hands of Samuel Hill, son-in-law of tin* late James J Hill. The itinerary, as revised by him, takes th^ party, after a ' visit to Niagara, through Canada to Minneapolis and St. Paul; to Mary Hill, Wash., for the dedication of a fine arts museum; to Portland. Seattle. i Vancouver, and eastward again to the I Glacier National park; and through , Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield to Chicago, where there will be a stop of several days. On the way thence to the Atlantic seaboard i Marie will see Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Detroit. Cleveland and Pittsburgh. California was eliminated from the list of states to be visited : because the railroads there refused to i carry the queen's train over their lines for a nominal charge, as had all other railroads. Os course, the snobs, notoriety seekers and such like folk took advantage j of Queen Marie's visit to the utmost. ' but she is not to be blamed for that. Her majesty seems to be a “regular feller.” thoroughly Interested in the । people and things she sees and certainly no more pretentious than a queen should be. INTERNATIONAL bankers and in- j A dustrialists of fifteen nations, in- j eluding the United States, issued a ! manifesto in New York and all the European capitals, urging the removal of tariff barriers and other restrictions upon European trade in order to • I place the continent upon an equal foot- I ing, both in living standards ami com- I mercial competition, with the I'nite<l । States. John J. Mitchell of Chicago, I one of the signers, said: “It should be distinctly under-tood that the manifesto in no way refers to American tariffs, either by allusion or by inference.” It involves only post-war Eu- 1 ropean trade agreements and immigra- ; j tion and industrial restrictions. The council of the International ' Chamber of Commerce, in Paris, adopted a report substantially following the recommemhitions of the bank- I ers’ manifesto. The American repre- ! sentatives in the coum-il did not vote on the question. This report urges free movement of raw materials and the abolition of export duties and re- I strictions. It also proposes abolish ' meat of compulsory visas, as hamper- I Ing business as well as tourist trade, ; and condemns all laws discriminating against foreigners, demanding that they be given the same right as na- ■ tionals everywhere, “with complete

Sales on Installment Reach Into Billions Six and one-half billion dollars worth of goods are sold annually in the ■ Unift'd States on the installment plan. Os the debt incur, ed by this vast pur- ' chase <>n the part of the public only $2.7. " i hh i.ooo is outstanding at any These are the two outstanding fig- । ures in a report on a countrywide I survey recently completed by the NaI tlonal Association of Finance com-

freedom of movement, right to domicile, liberty to establish any business or industry, and generally enjoy the same legal and social rights us nationals." SENATOR REED of Missouri, sole representative of ids senatorial in vestigation committee, resumed the in quiry into the Illinois primary ami campaign funds, and also took up n r tain features of the Indiana political scandal. Sifting in Chicago, he called I before him witnesses who told the sup ! port the Illinois Anti-Saloon league is | giving Frank L. Smith, regular Repub i lican candidate for the senate, and the | reasons whj that dry organization ha ! refused to back Hugh S Magill, Inde , pemlent Republican candidate. t.e>>r_ B. Safford, league superintendent for Illinois, was heard first, and theetiusth Missourian hud a fine time with lorn ' making him virtually admit that the i league was ignoring the slush fund charges against Smith because he t a dry and had a better <4mnee t» de feat Brennan, the wet Democrat, than tins Magill Then Safford told a long story of his dealings with Rev. Robert O’Brien, one of the originators of the Magill candidacy, which story later re acted greatly to his disadvantage. Tib minister, be said, told him tin- M ig I committee bad raised between thre, ■ and four hundred thousand dollar^ an . | would spend it in the campaign and h • i added a lot of detail <»f this conversa ' tion. Next day Mr. O’Brien went be I fore Senator Reed and branded Saf i ford's story as "an üb-olute false 1 hood.” and Harold L. Ick s. Magill's campaign manager, testified that it was “not even a clever lie.' Tin young minister substantiated his deni i by a complete relation of his met ; it. gand conversations with S tfiord at. 1 Scott M- P.ride. national superintend ent of the league. A full 11-1 of | contributors to ti.c M tgtll campaign ' fund was givtt. Mr. Reed, showing the contribut otis to be .«17.575. When Senator Reed took up the Indiana affair he was told by a former Klansmun, Hugh Pat Emmons of South । Bend, that was offered Emmons if he would lead his fellow members of the klan to the support of Sen utor James E. Wat<.m. Repub lean i candidate for re-election. The offer, l Emmons said, was made bj W. I. j Smith of Evansville, then grand dragon , of Indiana, who told him the klan pro posisl to make Watson President of the l’nlti-d States in VJ2S. Emmons also gave descriptions of the klan's organ, zatlon and ritual which kept the audi- j ence in a gale of laughter. In Indian 1 apolis Senator Watson issued a statement characterizing Emmons' test!- : mony as “preposterous" and declar- i ing he never had any understanding । with the klan by which he was to re i ceive its support in exchange for vot> < | on pending legislation or other consid- : eration. Being confined to a hospital. I he asked that the committ* e go to In- I dianapolis to take his testimony, and i Senator Reed at once complied. SOUTHERN Florida was thrown into panic by jirospects of being swept j J by another Caribbean hurricane, but | I es<-aped when the storm veered' off to I I the northeast. Cuba was not so for- I tumite. for the hurrie: ne passed over ; Matanzas, Pinar del Rio ami Havana , provinces, doing immense damage and I taking a toll of several hundred i | lives. The city of Havana was the I greatest sufferer and many of the 1 deaths occurred there. The material I losses in the capital were estimated j at ?30.<►!*>,< 100. In the harbor scores | of vessels, including two steamers, I were sunk. The lower parts of the I city were inundated. The monument I । erected by Cuba to the Americans I ; killed in the blowing up of the battle- ! ' ship Maine in is'JS was razed, only the i ! base and two guns from the Maine remaining. PRESIDENT CALLES and the Mexi- ' * can government have dm filed that | the never conquered Yaquis of Sonora must be destroyed as a tribe ami people, and the grand council of war, I headed by General Obregon, has laid : plans to carry out the decision. An i army of Ls.OdO is being prepared and it is to be equipped with machine guns, mountain artillery, gas, bombing and photographing planes of the latest types and every other modern device of warfare that can be needed.

' panies and now being prepared for presentation to 500 financiers of America who will gather in Chicago for tlie third animal convention of the association November 15 and IG. The low ratio of the outstanding debt to the total turnover, 42 per cent, constitutes safe and thoroughly sound banking risk, the report states, and reputable firms are rapidly changing their attitude of distrust toward installment buying to one of keen interest and participation in the method.

PREMIERS ami leading statesmen of * the self governing British dominions and delegates from India gathered in London last week for an im perial conference, the purpose of which was to adjust tn ue smoothly the relations between the British centrtil government and the component parts of the huge empire. Tn<> igh several <>f the premiers, notnblv Hertzog of South Afri.-a. were insistent, in their opening nddresst's, on "free nation hood.” "equ-Uity” and ititernationai recognition of Ind-pendem e. it was tielieved there would be no exciting debates at d few if anv rad ■ nl changes <»ne matter caused a lot "f Interest* < anada, Ireland and South Africa were determined t<> t>ri: g about tin d'olhlon of imp-al to tin- privy council <>n matt« rs of domestic concern. 'T'HERE Is small prospect for an 1 e; rly reduction in land armaments in Ev.rojH*. for seven nations notified the prelfadnary disarmament confer eticp in tlenevn that thev would no! limit their trained reservists until a system of security Is organized which will comp'-n-ate for tin- present In qunll' vof thi'lr war resoune* Those nations are Italy. Belgium. France. I'o • ami. Iturm nia t'za i’ho Slovakia and tuco-Sinv in Premier I .Isudski has ncreas. d Poland s armed strength by m-orporatlug the nation's jHilhe force in the army. lE'iN TRtiTZKY and his ns«o .-mte. ~f the oppostt .41 in Russ,., have snv d themselves from j robabh exile to Sil. ria bv publn v rep'idint ing th, r . ppositlon m a statement In ihe press | hey declare th< v still dis agree vith the majority of the central committee or, a number of principal pri hleii • i-;.t I *ve “definitely given up fractional methods of defen-e of our vn-ws ’use of the danger of such meth* d' i"r the unity of the party." V. \ Y :-i a t. dfimal ph blsepe hit ts ? t <m a heavy blow, the people decid'n^ by a b : j majority that the exis'itm law prohibit it. J the use <>f Hq ior exceeding 2^ per c» nt of alcohol wa< unsuitable to conditions in Norway, the general opinion being that there Is nnae drunkenness and the people are p<>< rer. It is believed th“ law will d ! ly be repealed. I'n mier Ferguson of I’ntario. in dis solv ii : the provincial legislature, de dared his government would go to the peop’e > n a policv of government con trot ai 1 sale of liquors and would stand or fall bv the result. He hold the efforts of Ontario to enforce its dry law during ten years have been futile. CXOV. ROLAND II HARTLEY of J Wa-.iln-'ton Is charged with mal fea<ance and misfeasance in office ir. petitions for his recall. The charges are divided into three counts: That he prevented, through the boards of regents of the University of Washing ton and Wtishin ton State college ami the state board of equalization, ex penditure of funds aj>propri;ited by tin last legislature for educational bu hl ings and equipment; that he “mali doiislv and without cause" removed four regents, “falselv eimrgiag em-h of them with m’sci ndm-t and nmlfeasanci in ofiica”; and that he appointed six im-mbers of the state legislature to lucrative state positions in order to obtain their support for his legislative policies. A leg slative comnrttee investigating the q'exas highway commission was told that James E. Ferguson, husband of the governor. Inui offered to ob tain road maintenance con'raets for I, D. Winder of Belleville if Winder would pay him $7,500. which »xvas ap proximately 1O per cent of the contract price. Ferguson said the accusation was an infamous falsehood and that he did not even know Winder. rpI'GENE V. DEBS, for many years * tlio iead.-r of Socialists in the I nited States and five times their can didate for President, died in a sani tarium near Chicago at the age of seventy-one years. During the war he was sent to the federal penitentiarv at Atlanta for trying to obstruct the draft, and was pardoned by President Harding late in 1921. His health was broken and since then be had not been active in politics. Thomas Mott Osborne, noted prison reform advocate, dropped dead in the street in Auburn, N. Y. About 54 per cent of the outstand ing Installment debt at any given tim, l.s for automobiles —a total of abom In 1925 there were 1,000 finsne companies actively engaged in handlim installment funding. These carry oi about one-third of the total business The rest is conducted by dealers, man ufactUHTs and banks. The finance companies confine themselves to au tomobiles for the most part. Most o them will be represented at the coi vention.

Queen Marie Leads Parade Through New York ■ _ Queen Marie of Rumania in an automobile leading the parade on Broadway, New York, near tLe city hall, while great crowds cheered her.

Alcantara, Largest Motor Ship in the World , tl „»•»■•••• T 4 ***^/ ■■ ~ i I V * ♦— ■ .• a— Ji 1 has mhbbbmb ■ "* • ImKMM m The Royal Mali liner Alcantara, 22.UU0 tons, said to bt» the largest motor ship in the world, photographed at her launching at Belfast, Ireland.

Halloween Changes With the Times w HI I Even the proverbial witch of Halloween has undergone the change that rime brings. Here l.s June Marlowe, screen star, as an exceptionally bewitching witch of this modern era of youth and beauty. World’s Champion Woman Typist I. I a t, .MEEin Minnie Regelmeyer, who won the world's champion honors as the fastest woman typist in a contest In New York. She averaged over 106 words per minute. FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS

! A new kind of moving sidewalk Is 1 being tried in Paris. Dog races held at night aro popular In New Orleans. Almost every nation In the world uses American farm machinery. The earth’s dally rainfall amounts to about 16,000,000 tons a second. An American company Is starting a rubber plantation in Liberia, in Africa.

There are approximately 10,000 mo tor camps in the United States. If Webster’s unabridged dlctionnr were printed In Braille type. It woul fill 128 volumes. Fifty oil companies are to drill so ; oil this summer In the Turner Valle; ' field, near Calgary. Over twenty kinds of harmless bar j terla have been found in the mout! j of a human being.

ANOTHER TIDE MOTOR OpiWW iTT^fe vSkFRsF^ C. H. Brooks, inspired by the fact I that the tides move with an irresistible force, has invented a tide motor which he believes will put the waters of Puget sound to work for the Tacoma municipal power department. The machine consists in part of a floating platform with gears that revolve against the cogs of a vertical shaft as the Incoming tide lifts the platform and a second set of gears that revolve likewise against a second vertical cogged shaft as the outgoing tide allows the platform to descend. This motion naturally is slower, but a shaft is made to revolve with great rapidity through a system of accelerating gear wheels. CAPITAL VISITOR 7^ " "7 CIW - K A f ... A M 1 K- h A WHI / ■' V s a ;;/ *■ * w . Chief Crazy Horse of the Sioux tribe, one hundred four years old and one of the few survivors of the Custer massacre, was an interesting : visitor to the national capital. He ' arrived from Philadelphia by air- । plane. . j Dogs Have Hard L : te Travelers report the Siberian dog ’ Ilves under unpleasant conditions dur- ’ ing his life, being tn danger of star- । must do much active rustling for their