Walkerton Independent, Volume 52, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 May 1927 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by Publishers of the WALKERTON IN OKI*KN DENT NOHTH LIBERT V NEWS LAKKVILIJB STANDARD **HE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES ~ Clem DeCoudrea, Business Manager Charles Al Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION KATES One Tear ..*ls* pl x Months .94 Three Months ,** TERMS IN ADVANCE Xntered a: the poet office at Walkerton, a» eecond-claas matter. ••Edison Turns to Rubber. ' —Toledo Blade So did Lot s wife; with famous results. It often happens that few things resemble each other less than two i legal opinions. it appears to us more and more that all the yellow races desire is to be treated white. Another style problem is making n JUO per cent American look at home In English trousers. In the olden days when there was no power but man power, no one was j out of employment. Sometimes It seems as though who- I ever is running the earthquakes had f a grudge against Japan. Ambition used to lead a young man i to hitch ids wagon to a star. Now he j insists upon being the star. . A dispatch says that feminine ears ' will be hidden tlds season, but knees ■ will continue to be visible. — One nice thing about the movie folk ( la that there must be a marriage be I fore there can be a divorce Every ambitious detective should be I encouraged to make his mark, except ; on the evidence, with his thumb. A “get-rlch-qulck” performer used i to show some mental ingenuity. At present he merely turns bandit. As science progresses, so does the ! germ. Influenza appears to he an old fashioned “bad cold” highly magnified Princeton *s raising the question whether chess is a sport. If the chess coach gets a nlgber salary than the President, It Is. A psychologist advances the theory that one reason why young men com mit suicide is that old men talk and write too promiscuously. The skeptic’s position Is sltnply that whatever the young modernist hap pens to call his painting It will probably be an assumed name. — A German scientist states that the | human Jaw exerts 800 pounds pres- I sure in chewing meat. No figures are given on jaw-power when chewing the rag. An “expressionist” Is a young man in the art line who^can depict an ab street idea perfectly but cannot be depended upon to draw a recognizable egg. Whistling Is said by a beauty edl tor to be conducive to Cupids bow lipa, but it also has a tendency to at tract all the alredales in the neigh boriiood. The U. 8- A 1s accused of being backward in literature, but the system of income tax returns cannot fall to make this a nation of expert mat he ! maticians. It is said that there are few whls Kers in the halls of congress nowadays Tlds means more and tier ter crumb ’ trays in the capital cafeterias, we have no doubt. — Sweden and Belgium have agreed never to go so war now that the crown prince of Belgium has married Princess Astrid of Sweden. All the ■ lighting hereaftei will ne strictly with in the family The schoolboy was not far wrong when he wrote: “A talisman is h man who calls every week for the furni ■ ture money. It is a miracle if be gets I the money regularly. A New York publisher says that 88 ' per cent >f fiction is produced at a loss. The fact that publishers nr? i good fellows may explain why fiction ■ nevertheless leads other classes of printed books. in ages past, kings built pyramids : aqueducts. highways. bridges and i great castles, and Just the other day i In Europe one got out a patent on an elastic loop for holding a dower in the lapel The glum locking party over 1n the i corner is rhe »ne who has just been taken up for the first time on his proposition rlmt if everything Isn’t perfectly satisfactory your money will be cheerfully refunded. Buddhists ot \«la are about to send missionaries to America A little ot our religion tor a little of yours, is their max* n of reciprocity. When you ead ot a horseshopr's college gra Imp mg a class of twen ty-tive. you -enow instinctively that J it Isn't situated in Detroit. “Prehistoric peoples scorned eggs as food”—Toledo Blade. However, as a matter of public duty they might have eaten them instead of handing them i down to posterity. A minor poet, explaining his writing ' methods, says he has rhe old-rashioned habit of jotting down ideas on hi" cuff, possibly with a piece of chalk. I An editorial writer lays down the ■ dictum that » man cannot smoke anti think at the same time. If he Is also playing a time, this is probably true Something else that four nut of five have acquired at the age <*l forty is an impression that one tooth paste isn’t so much different from another In any vital ,espeeL

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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Kellogg Curtly Refuses to Discuss Mellon Letter With England. By EDWARD W. PICKARD XX T HEN Secretary of the Treasury I ’ ’ Mellon In a recent letter to ! President lUbben of Princeton unlI versify stated that “all our principal 1 debtors are already receiving from ■ Germany more than enough to pay their debts to the United States,” | there was immediate protest in England against the accuracy of the statement In so far as it applied to Great Britain. Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill and others made heated speeches, but it was not supposed that the government would take formal notice of the matter. Last week, however, Washington was surprised to receive from Great Britain a long note attacking Mr. Mellon’s letter and asking that the United States government “take steps to remove the unfortunate impression that has been created by the issue of this statement.” Secretary of State Kellogg con- . ferred with President Coolidge and j others and then handed to the Briti Ish ambassador this decidedly curt reply: “The government of the United States regards the correspondence between Mr. Mellon and Mr. lUbben ns a purely domestic discussion and does not desire to engage In any formal diplomatic exchanges upon the subject.” Mr. Mellon, believing the attacks In the British note should not go unanswered, gave out a statement justifying and explaining at length the position he has taken In the discussion. Diplomatic circles tn London were as much surprised hy the British note as was Washington. In government opposition circles there was an Inclination to suspect that the note was j meant largely for home consumption ' and for the benefit of the Conservative party, which has difficulty In explaining the budget deficit. AMERICAN correspondents In Geneva say that the underlying j Idea of all delegations (except the । American) at the League of Nations economic conference which opened last week Is that the most practical step toward world reconstruction and general prosperity would be the cancellation of all war debts and reparations. Some of them also had schemes for the limitation of production of wheat, corn, cotton, copper ; and other goods, chiefly produced In ■ the Unifed States. The American ; delegates, headed by Henry M. Robj inson of Los Angeles, were prim'd to ' meet all such suggestions. Soviet j Russia, having settled her quarrel 1 with Switzerland, sent a bunch of I economists led by Valerian Osslnskl. 1 That gentleman said they would sub mit “concrete proposals to alleviate [ the difficulties of the bourgeoisie : world and give a full report on what I was accomplished in Soviet Russia.” I M. Theunls of Belgium Is presiding over the conference and 50 nations are represented. The conference will : adopt resolutions and make recommendations. which, however, will not ! be binding on the countries repre- : sented wliatever may be the attitude ; of their d( legations. F?ACTS and problems of commerce " and trade on the Western contlI nent wore brought out ami discussed ■ in Washington where both the third I’an-Ameri<-nn commercial congress and the annual meeting of the < liami her of Commerce of the United States I were in session. President Coolidge was chief speaker at a joint session of the two bodies and set forth the development of trade between the United Stale-; and the countries of I Contrail and South America. He said that not only 1. . the United States purchased more from Latin-American countries than it lias sold to them, but , It had for a long time been the chief . foreign purchaser of their products.

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Next day the Chamber of Commerce heard reports from the principal sections of the country, all showing present prosperity with prospect of its continuance, except In the case of the fanner. His plight. In the Middle West and the cotton-growing part of the South, was described as discouraging. r?LOOD conditions In southeastern * Arkansas, northeastern Louisiana and westerti Mississippi grew worse steadily during the week. The water, pouring through new crevasses on the Mississippi, Inundated a region about 5,000 square miles in extent, only a few narrow ridges being left above i the surfme. Most of the population I already had been gathered at concentration points, but many hundreds : were left stranded on the levees ami small high places. The rescue of thes.* unfortunat'-s was being carried <>n as rapidly hs possible, being direeti d by the scores of navy aviators sent there | by tile goM*rnmrnt. Civilian Dictator : Parker was in general charge of the | rescue operations mi l was doing ■ splendid work. Secretary Hoover re- | turned to Washington long enough to report to the President, and the result was a <all for another .<.“.«*• 0.00 subscription to the Red Cross relief fund. Tlie spread of disease in the flooded states was the cause of great anxiety nnd of such precautions as could be taken. “We have definite reports of 25 eases of typhoid fever tn the refugee camps, and there probably are many others,” said Dr. William R. RerMen, medical director for the American Red Cross. “And the worst part of the health problem l.s to come In a week or ten days, when the disease has had an opportunity to manifest Itself. The health problem will increase as the waters recede.” A hundred thousand persons were immunized with typhoid nnd smallpox antitoxin, and the Rial Cross obtained from the army ten mobile laboratories for the purification of water. President Coolidge has Indicated that he did not think it necessary to (•till a special session of congress for providing for relief and rehabilitation i in the Mississippi valley. Senators Copeland of New York ami La Fol- , lette of Wisconsin disagreed with liim 1 and both of them appealed to him by i wire to call congress together. They I asserted that funds from private re- I sources would not be sufficient and j that the flood victims were entitled to j look to congress for assistance. When Mr. Hoover returned from the capital he was accompanied by j Secretary of War Davis, who was 1 asked by the President to make a ! comprehensive study of the problem of flood control, in conjunction with i tlie tinny engineers, and to submit recommendations for remedial legislation prior to the opening of the next congress. A flood-control conference also was held at Peoria, 111., with numerous experts and officials In attendance. The people of the Middle West are so aroused by this disaster, described bv Senator La Follette as tlie greatest In our history, that the national and state governments may be led at last to provide adequate protection against a repetition. Patchwork measures and dilatory tactics in the past have combined to make unified flood control Impossible, according to those who have studied the subject. Tlie federal government Is held primarily responsible. ■KTINETY-FOUR men were entombed ; in the Everettville mine near j Fairmont, W. Va„ by an explosion. At : tlie time of writing 29 bodies had been | brought out by the rescue crews, and I it was thought certain that all the rest of the unfortunate miners had perished, for fire was raging in parts of tlie workings. THOUGH the peace conference In Nicaragua failed to accomplish its purpose, because the liberals would not consent to the retention of the Presidency by Adolfo Diaz, a two days’ truce was arranged with tlie prospect of further negotiations. General Moncada, commander in chief of tlie liberal army, represented Doctor Sacasa at the conference and he said he was willing to treat further with Henry L. Stimson, the emissary of President Coolidge, provided tlie government troops were withdrawn from the Boaco and Teustepe regions

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where most of the liberals nre concentrated. “Mr. Stimson told me,” said General Moncada, “that the United States government Intends to restore peace in Nicaragua immediately and to use force If necessary to do so.” A number of the general's staff declared that If the United States formally ordered the liberals to lav- down their arms and cease firing. they would be compelled to accept. But, he lidded, so long as the United States attempted to lav- down terms, which Included tlie continuance of Diaz in office, the liberals would tight f*>r “constitutionality and Justice for Nicaragua.” j \ f \RSH \L ('ll \NG TSO I IN S Pe 1 * king government executed the Chinese Rids Cfiucht In the raid on the Russi n embassy grounds, and Ilie other day it was reported that the Russian p:-..i ~_.ind -t< tiahb. d at the time were to be tried by court-mar-tial. Tlie Moscow government tL-ro- | fore transmitted to Peking a strong I note warning Cheng that If the Rus- ■ slims received the same sentence hs I the Chinese Communists. Russia would “immediately take the inevitable stejai.” The trials were postponed and a conference of Chinese officials was held at which, according to rumor. ft was decider! that the Ru«s| Jt nj| should be dejHvrted. Mme. Michael P.orodine. the captured wife of the Soviet adviser to the Cantonese government, presumably will have a separate trial. Miles Lampson British minister to China, has reported to his government that the Hankow faction of the Cantonese has offered to oust tie Reds and make common enu-e with the Nanking moderates If the powers will cease further acthm against It The offer was made by Foreign Minister F.ugene Chen himself, but tlie London officials were suspicious that It was a ruse to gain further delay. Some person or pers -ns in Peking, apparently desirous of creating tlie impression that there was lack of harmony in the American government over its Chinese policy, sent out the report that Minister MmMurray had ! resigned. This was flatly denied in i Washington and the administration j showed considerable Irritation over ■ this and other false press stories from i foreign sources. At pn-ent Mr. Coolj idge do.-s not see that any advantage I could be derived by sending another 1 note concerning the Nanking outrages, and he does not b< lieve The other powers have agreed to follow up the former note and press for compliance | because conditions in th ' ranks of the I Nationalist party are too chao'ic. PREMIER POINCARE elc trifled ' * France by the announcement that the government was planning the construction of a vast system of fortifications <>n its northern and eastern frontiers, so powerful and extensive that another invasion would be next to impossible. The northern gateways will be adequately safeguarded and the eastern gates at Verdun, Tool, Metz. Belfort ami Strasbourg will be modernized. Tlie plan also envisages the establishment of fortified works straight soutli to the Mediterranean. ISIGHT army aviators, the “good will” flyers who have been touring Central and South America, returned last week to Washington. President and Mrs. Coolidge and numerous officials went out to Bolling field to welcome them home, and to each flyer the President presented-w certificate for the distinguished flying cross. It was announced, too. that posthumous award of the cross had been made to Capt. C. F. Woolsey and Lieut. J. W. Penton, who were killed when their planes crashed at Buenos Aires, DETACHMENTS of the Arkansas National Guard were sent to Little Rock by the governor to avert threatened race riots as a result of the lynching of a negro. The victim of tlie mob had been identified as tlie attacker of two white women. After a few hours of strenuous work the militiamen gained control of the situation. PRESIDENT FIGUEROA of Chile has resigned, and President Kondouriotis has withdrawn his resignation, agreeing to remain in office at least until September.

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Mayor Walker and a Bunch of Admirals I I a- -'1 ■ n / I * * y;’ - - i Mayor James J. Walker of New York surrounded on r the steps of the city hall by the admirals and aides who arrived there with the fleet. The largest array of battle cruisers in history entered the Hudson river. The warships In the fleet numbered 116, and they carried more than 30,000 sailors and 2,227 officers. The men had a fine time ashore for some days. They and their vessels were fresh from the war maneuvers In the Carrlbean sea. Dynamiting the Levee Below New Orleans 5r ft . * ■■ ■ ■ 1 s ; !u>t graph, trade at th- instant <>f tlie explosion, shows the actual dynamiting of the Mississippi levee in sr I' ! parish when that ami adjoining parishes were sacrificed to the flood waters of the Mississippi river to save ti city of New Orleans. Afterward it was necessary to blast other openings in the dike and the operation was m: i . ssful n> fur as New Orleans was concerned, but, of course, the farm and trapping lands between there hl 1 Lake P.oigne were inundated and the loss there was considerable. All the inhabitants had been evacuated.

Explosion Cripples the Langley ." — X > ■ a?fl ‘ Ct I - <■ j I ' - --i I.*; " II ' ' if £ « " > , g . -■ . - — IS -- -- • ' 1L L The U. S. S. Langley, flagship of the fleet's air forces, being towed into Brooklyn navy yard for repairs after the explosion off Ambrose light. Electric I machinery aboard the craft was paralyzed, but no one was hurt. .Apple Blossom Parade Prize Float r v " AT'" ' 1 |r . Pfeur ■ '■ ' aaj i ,L::a - .■ V • ■ ■ ... This float won first prize in the A;>ple Blossom parade at Winchester. a. Beauties of the Shenandoah valley were garbed In old-fashioned dresses in the apple blossom colors, pink, white and green.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS

Whale meat tastes very much like beef. Tarantulas sometimes kill young rattlesnakes. Chimpanzees are right or left-handed as men are. Distemper In dogs Is similar to Influenza in human beings. Falls kill more people than battles, according to the National Safety council. . 1

Log Angeles contains 391 square miles. California’s farms and Industries produce a revenue of about $3,500,000.000. The longest pipe line In the world shoots oil from Texas to New ,h -o . I.TIMI miles. There has been n va«t In reuse in the transportation of freight by i < j since the war.

PILOT CHAMBERLIN I'l H> y r ”•* pl y J ,pn y j AjlWfl &a «r « „_'.«■’"“tv* 4 -L i >1 r&Wp Clarence Chamberlin, selected as pilot of the Wright-Bellanca plane In I the projected nonstop flight from New ; York to Paris, is seen above in the ! cockpit of the machine. — MICHIGAN BEAUTY , - - P Mr " - > •p'" ( F \ 1..— Miss Lillian Rowett, seventeen-vear-old hi°ii school "irl clwson bv I the Bessemer (Mich.) Chamber of • the International F.eauiy contest at ■ Galveston, Toxas ^lav 121-123.

Early Education Board The legislature of Massachusetts ■ created a state hoard of edn m n April 20, 1537. H o M w:^* । elected secretary of th,- new Ixu . it Excellent Definition but carefully oils it to keep it from get ; t.v. s 'id . > •»- s a spade