Walkerton Independent, Volume 52, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 March 1927 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday bv THK INDEFENDKNT-N KICK CO. Publishers of the WAIAEKTON IXDei'EMiIXT NORTH I.IBEKT) NEWS THE BT. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES ' Clem DeCoudrea. Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor S tBSCRI PTION RATE 3 One Tear *l.i* $l» Months .. .. .SO Three Months ~,,, AO TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the poet office at Walkerttm. , as second-class matter. The best liked act in a European circus is the budget balancing stunt. Most of the big jobs are held by men who got wary by being stung. Autos of the future will run on coal, and what of those that are running on time? If you can’t love the enemy whom you hate, do the next best thing and forget him. The ladies of Paris are wearing Jeweled corsets. How does such news as that get out? The success of talking pictures will depend to a considerable extent on ' what they say. Those homes are happiest in which the husband is permitted to present a minority report. Philosophers agree that war is foolIsh. And yet philosophers quarrel among themselves. If prosperity doesn’t lead to social, 1 political and moral progress, it is not I entirely- a success. Although unable to love one another battling Chinese can at least combine on hating foreigners. A film comedian may find it harder to evade the tax collector than to dodge the custard pie. The man who was knocked unconscious by his wife's vanity case went down with colors flying. As a rule you can put it down that “flaming youth" is the sort that carries very little fire insurance. The difference is that in the old days the murderer didn’t regard the trial as a suit for vindication. The idea that women are hard to please is refuted by a look at some of the husbands they pick out. A physician says long, pointed finger nails are insanitary, but they come in handy for scratching purposes. • The man who used to be warned against the city slicker now has a son who is warned against the city sticker. Science tells us that 40.000 germs are transmitted by a kiss. Give 40,000; take 40.U00 —it's a 50-50 proposi- — tion. • All theaters have dressing rooms, and well may the public ask. why don’t the young women of the stage dress? “What is the most awkward word 1 in the English language?" We should say “mucilaginousness” came near It. Primitive man was a roamer. Civi- . lization—wonderful thing '.—has en- : abled him to be the same tiling on wheels ’ . Many are the songs to the winter fire, and many are the singers who won’t fill the coal scuttles to keep it going. It isn't that it is so difficult to find the right side of anything; it’s Just that the wrong side always has the bigger kick. One of the mysteries of the time re lates to how the Chinese got the reputation of being a peaceful and philosophic nation. An English author who is visiting this country says he has changed his opinion of America. Good. But, by the way, what was his opinion in the first place? In pioneer times grandma may have gone out at 5 a. in. in zero weather to pour a kettle of hot water on the pump, but she never drove to town in chiffon hose. A stewardess at the White House during four administrations says “Mrs. Taft was the tiniest first lady of the land.” So the family as a whole was probably of fairly average size. — The new Japanese naval construe- I tion program calls for four battle cruisers, fifteen destroyers, four sub- ; marines, three gunboats, one mine lay- i rr, one aircraft carrier and three cheers for world peace. Movie comedy reveals that a bread monopoly is scarcely more remunera- : live than the position of custodian of the custard pie. The Japanese have warned the Chines^ not to ask too much, and I the Chinese, being unarmed for war, ; will doubtless obey. One restaurant man says personal- ! ity has a lot to do with success in his I business. So it has in any business; but in the restaurant business the bill of fare also is a factor. That information about Americans being the best dressed men in the world reminded us that our pants must tie pressed this spring. Mathematical axiom: That the square of the hypothenuse of a triangle is equal to the square of the route taken by the taxi driver. One booster for education says in 60 years every child born in this country will quit school with a college degree. And who'll do the plow-

F tv - JhiJII ■ vI—United1 —United States marines land in Shanghai. 2 —Radio commission, left to right: O. 11. Caldwell, Eugene O. Sykes, John F. Dillon and H. A. Bellows. Admiral Bullard, chairman. Is on his way home from China. 3 —M. Paul | Claudel, new ambassador from France.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS — $700,000,000 Surplus for Fiscal Year in Sight, According to Mellon. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY Mellon has officially admitted that the largest reduction in the public debt on record may be accomplished in the present fiscal year ending June 30 next. A surplus considerably in excess of $500,000,000, representing the difference between ordinary receipts and ordinary expenditures, is assured. Heretofore, while members of congress and others have insisted that the halfbtllion ffiark would be reached. Mr. Mellon has been unwilling to boost his estimate beyond the $383,000,000 total announced by the budget bureau last December. That the surplus will actually ex ceed $600,000,000. and may go as high as $700,000,000, is now asserted hv some of the exports whose estimates have usually been considerably above those of the treasury and whose pre dictions have been made good in pre vious years.' A surplus of $500,000,000 will mean an actual debt reduction for the fiscal 1 year 1927 In excess of $1,000,000,000. Debt retirement through the statutory sinking fund will amount to nearly $340,000,000 and retirements from payments from foreign nations will reje resent more than $230,000,000. Debt retirements otherwise than by means of the surplus will amount to about $570,000,000. Adding a SS<M».O(KUMM», surplus to this amount will mean a total reductipn In the publie debt of $1,070,000,000. The debt reduction has exceeded $1,000,000,000 in only three of the last seven years, the highest total being in 1921'. when the debt was cut down by $1,185,000,000. In 1922 the debt re duction amounted to $1,014,000,000, am! in 1924 to $1,098,000.0**0. The deb! was reduced in the fiscal year 1925 by $735,000,000 and in 1926 by $873,000. 000. The total debt on December 31. 1926. was $18,975,349,765. If the surplus runs as high as $615. 000.000, and many financial experts believe It may. the record debt redm tion of the year 1920 will be equaled A surplus above this amount will mean the breaking of all records in annual debt retirement. While the treasury still lacks ac curate totals on income-tax receipts It was indicated that at least SSBO. 000.000 has been collected. This amount would represent an increase of $85,000,000 over March income tax payments in 1926. Complete reports from the internal revenue collectors may bring the total up above $600,000,000. ON MARCH 16 Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil magnate, was found guilty of contempt of the United States senate by a jury in the District of Columbia Supreme court. The case grew out of the senate investigation of the Tea Pot dome oil scandal three years ago. when Sinclair refused to answer interrogations of the senate committee. Found guilty on all four counts of the indictments against him. Sinclair faces a jail sentence of from one month to a year in the District jail and a fine of from SIOO to $1,009. The sentence has not been imposed, pendi big the disposition of the motion for a new trial made by Sinclair’s coun- ' sei, and its execution will bo further i delayed by the appeal which will be taken to the District Court of Appeals, and ultimately to the United States Supreme court, according to defense attorneys, if the new trial is denied. Sinclair, whose contempt trial is the ! first of the criminal proceedings growing out of the oil investigation to h-* i decided, was indicted under Section I 102 of the Revised Statutes, the same section which will be invoked against Samuel Insull, the Chicago utility mag j nate; his attorney, Daniel Schuyler i of Chicago, and other witnesses who ' refused to testify before the Reed I slush-fund committee, if they are ever brought to book. Sinclair, refusing to answer the committee's questions on the advice of his

Heads National Body to Aid Hog Breeders The swine industry of the United States is to have its “Judge Landis” —an administrator to guide a nationwide movement to promote the production of better hogs, it became known when A. F. Sinex of Tama, lowa, president of the National Swine Growers’ association, announced the appointment of Robert J. Evans of Chicago, known as ‘‘dean of hog Breeders.” as national administrator

counsel, denied the pertinency of the queries, asserted that answer might jeopardize the outcome of litigation in ! which his company—the Mammoth < »il company—was engaged with the government and denied the authority of the committee to question him on matters which had become the subject of litigation. Justice Hitz In his charge warned the jury that the pertinency of the questions had already been decided by the court as a matter of law and that neither the fact that Sinclair, in refusing to testify, acted on the advice of counsel or may have believed he had a legal right to refuse if he wished, could be considered as a defense for the oil man. THE first meeting of the new federal radio commission was held at Washington on March 15. fine of the first acts of the now commission was to announce dates. March 29 to April 1, for public hearings, the purpose of which will be to obtain methods of reducing radio Interference. A tentative schedule of topics for discussion includes proposals for widening the broadcasting hands of wave lengths, a limitation of power, and reduction in frequency separation, simultaneous broadcasting with the same frequency, a division of time broadcasting stations. a consolidation of broadcasting service and a limitation of the number of stations. The hearings will not be open for individual claims or com plaints. O ITAUSE he published an article in the Chris!lan Enquirer declaring that the God of the Bible “preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boih'd cabbage," Ernest \ . Sterry nt Toronto, Canada, was found guilty by a Canadian jury of blasphe , mous libel under an ancient British statute making it a crime to criticize the Christian God. Sterry s def' ns" was that lie was merely trying to lib erallze public opinion and that tie thought his article would clear the controversy over the personality of the Deity. \ UNITED STATES Supreme court decision of considerable impor tance to many communities, especially in the southern states, was handed down on March 14. The court held as unconstitutional the Louisiana state and New *'cleans municipal segrega tion codes under which negroes are barred from residence in predominantly white communities where a major ity of the white residents have no', given their consent in writing. PREMIER MUSSOLINI has under taken to organize a vast insurance organization to guarantee longtime credits extended by Italian manufacturers to foreign purchasers of Italian made merchandise. It is estimated that before the plans can he fully carried out the new credit insurance institute must have a fully ptiid up capital of 1 o.«mm>.<MX>.<f> lire —nearly $450.*•• Mi. 060. The field of operation is so largo it is thought this money will be easily found. Fascist circles insist that all the money invested in this organization should b-> Italian, thus freeing it from tiny foreign influence whatever. In conjunction with the credit insurance the government plans to station able business men abroad to keep in closest touch with market conditions throughout the world and to assist in placing large accounts for Italian firms. These “observation posts” would maintain constant touch with the homeland through the c< nsular .service ami other agencies. Italian industry is in a serious condition. Many factories are closed or running on short time or with limited crews. It is estimated that 2.>O,(MM> people are out of work, or five times as many as could not find employment a few months ago. It is to remedy this condition and to insure an increase in Italian markets that the Mussolini government is making strenuous efforts to find foreign markets. THE completion of the Moffat road tunnel through the Rocky mountains near Denver may bring about a new grouping of railroads and produce one of the most gigantic railroad combinations in this country. The tunnel is now nearing completion. When it is ready for use it will mean the short-

' of the swine extension plan to moI bilize farmers, breeders, packers, retailers, veterinarians, feed manufacturers, agricultural college professors, county agents and consumers to improve the quality of pork. Mr. Evans, who has- been authorized to open headquarters in the Pedigree Record building. Union stockyards, Chicago, has only recently returned from Tama. “The hog population decreased from 68,189,000 head in 1923 to 52.536,000 on January 1 of this year,” said Mr.

> ening of the distance between Denver ami Salt Lake ('ity by approximately i 3*'*' miles, and will also eliminate much of the heavy grades. The tunnel, while built by the state of Colorado, Is un der lease by the Moffat line, a road that of itself Is <>f no importance ex- ’ cept that it controls this new way to the West. A fairly well-founded story current In Denver is to the effect that ■ lines are being laid for the linking up by control of traffic arrangements ol the Burlington, the Denver A Ric Grande Western and the Western Ua- । cific with the Moffat road. If such a ' combination of Interests should be es i fecti-d. it would constitute a part of the Burlington. Great Northern ami i Northern Pacific combination. If in I addition to tills federation of northern ; and central transcontinental routes there is anything in the reports ol Burlington Inspiration behind the | gradual linking up of short lines from the Ohio river to New Orleans and the Gulf, there would l»e in prospect a rnll system of a magnitude never Imagined before In America. LTNITED STATES SENATOR WH, liam II King of Utah, on a Visit to Porto Rico and other Carrlbrar ’ islands, proposed to visit the republic of Haiti, but the Haitian government ' refused him permission to hind. The Haitian government h»!d ft was free to bar Mr King, as he was making the visit as a private citizen, not as a sen ator. S> miter King has t»een outspoken in his criticism <>f the present regime In Haiti h< uded by President Luis Borno. The Haitian administration Is under the guidunce of fhr American government, represented by a force of marines. The State depart merit made an effort, through Brig i Gen. John 11. Russell, American high i commissioner in Haiti, to exert its In fluence in an effort to have the order changed, but without success, the Pres blent of the republic claiming that the presence of Senator King would he a . menace t<> the peace and prosperity of . Ihe people las nuse of the feeling ot the public In relation to bis efforts to recall the American troops from Haiti. Senator King \ isjted Santo Domingo, but did not make any effort to land nt Puerto Prince. The senator said he abandoned his plans to visit Haiti, as he feared his visit there might cause a clash between the American military forces and the people. ’T' HE libel suit of Aaron Sapiro 1 against Henry Ford for sl,<'**,>.<•* Ml because of the charges it is claimed were made in the Dearborn Independent. owned by Mr. Ford, that Sapiro was the head of a Jewish combination organized for the purpose of defrauding the American farmers, opened at Detroit on March 14. and it is expect-' ed to continue for approximately 60 i days. Attorneys for Sapiro stated in their opening arguments that testimony covering 141 points would be Introduced. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE has indicated that thb United States government will not consider the establishment of a protectorate over the government of Nicaragua as requested by President Diaz. The President Is desirous of encouraging peaceful conditions in Central America, but feels that to take on a permanent obligation to maintain order in Nicaragua ' would be too much. The proposed alliance is described as somewhat similar to that entered 1 into between the United States and ' Haiti in 1915. it would allow this government to intervene in case of revolution to maintain order, and give tbe United States limited supervision over Nicaraguan conditions. Another condition of the Diaz-proposal is that a । big loan should be made to Nicaragua. ' I 'HE Mexican government is trying to induce the American government to await the decision of the Mexican Supreme court on the question of , the constitutionality of the Mexican land laws before lifting tiie arms em- ' bargo. American oil men have aske,d for injunctions against the enforcement of the law that would deprive I them of the petroleum interests, and a decision in this case is expected with I i ing a short tme. It is intimated that । • President Calles may find this de ' cision an easy way out of the diffi | culty, as the courts may decide that the laws creating the difficulties are unconstitutional.

Evans. “Farmers are able to market their GO cents corn most effectively by ■ the hog route. At 60 cents a bushel. a long price, hogs are now costing , farmers $6.25 a hundred-weight to pro- j duce. At sl2 a hundred-weight this ■ means a profit greater than any other ; farm enterprise can show. “All farmers are not standing help- ’ lessly by and waiting for legislation to remedy their economic condition. i The swine growers at least will at- • tempt to organize the whole Industry . for efficient self-heln.”

British Troops Land in China i IS I sJFwto I : HWU t S 5 British troops bivouacked In Shanghai. They are part of a new British defense force that has just landed there. How Bandits Blew Up Pay-Roll Car . "iWi io l l JmTv WWH I . ' l Photograph shows the scene of the $160,000 pay-roll robbery near Pittsburgh. Bandits planted dynamite charges In a dirt road, which they exploded by electricity. Five drivers and guards were Injured.

Dawes Visits Sister in Florida i I%."UH .^Sk x v / wMI-- * H ? Ab A ice President E'awes and his sister, Mrs. Harry B. Hoyt, at Jacksonville, Florida. Eastern Girl Shows the West IP ® I xi|l i Sn 4 j a J I hI I c I ax-arad a Photograph shows Mabel C. Oggeson, a Buffalo (N. Y.) girl, who never was on a horse before, who rode a broncho 200 miles over the Rocky mountain trails of Glacier National park, setting a new park record for “horseback hiking.”

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

About 90 per cent of the fires originate inside structures. Adept Aztec surgeons sewed up wounds by means of hair. Prehistoric cave men of the Alpine region depended on the bear for food, clothing and hunting tools. In the Newcastle district of England, school authorities often provide bicycles for pupils who live far from gchool.

Elephants work at plowing in the Belgian Congo. Hogs are now tattooed as a means of identifying them. Women combat the severities of the English winter by wearing short sleeveless jackets of scarlet flannel. Philadelphia is to have anti-nolse squads of police to reduce noise of motor vehicles in the center of the city and near hospitals.

WEALTHY WIDOW WEDS Mrs. Edward Russell Thomas, widow of the multimillionaire publisher of the New York Morning Telegraph, whose marriage to Col. L. G. Ament, former chief of investigation for the United States veterans’ bureau, has been announced. IS ARCHBIGAMIST I • * V v - \i'T* I a ■goEgsSr AA <ag : . J A A ^gs®Rs ^VW John Kearny, captured by the San I Francisco police after he had escaped • from a closet in which he had been j locked in by a woman who caught him , robbing her home, confessed to having i been married at least 14 times. Load 'Em and Eat Young Bride—-Do you keep ice • cream freezers? Hardware Dealer—Yes, we have the exclusive agency for this city. I What size do you want? Young Bride —I already have one—a present. What I need now are some i refills —half a dozen vanilla, three : chocolate and three orange sherbet. — i Good Hardware. Hott) to Torture Tourist The Maid—Yes. sir. your suitcase « | looked so untidy with all those old labels on It from Japan and America I and Egypt and Africa that I t o .^ht i I’d clean them all off. —The Passing Idleness Has Value Certainly work Is not always ceI thing as a sacred Idleness —rhe cultivation of which is now fearfully j neglected. —G. Macdonald.