Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 January 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS , LAK EVI LLE STANDARD THE ST, JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES ' Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager ~ i rles M. Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES “ One Year 11.50 Six Months 90 yhree Months 60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton. ^nd., as second-class mat ter. Possibly the early bird gets the worm but he hardly ever gets the nomination. The things that come to those who wait are seldom what they started in to wait for. A “hop-off” is no longer regarded as successful unless it can guarantee a “come-back.” In almost every school you will find (the backward boy who is strong on •the forward pass. From Mussolini’s home to the i mikado’s, one touch of baby makes all the world akin. Woman's hair is not coming back to normalcy at the speed expected by fashion’s dictators. A St. Louis man has undergone 126 major surgical operations. He must be the village cut-up. The world may be a million years old, as scientists assert. If so, it is pretty jazzy for its age. The cynic is the man who can see nothing complimentary in being selected as an average citizen. It is said the first mortgage was Issued 2100 B. C. Undoubtedly that was the mortgage on our souls. A sense of responsibility is good for a boy. If there’s nothing else you can do, get him a pair of white pants. A good many skirts look as though the manufacturer had merely dashed them off in a moment of semi idleness. Another plausible statement that will never be proved or disproved is that women are more clever than men. Count , ten before uttering an angry word. Your antagonist’s remarks in the meantime may supply you with ideas. American soldiers in China have been advised to learn at least 300 Chinese words. No doubt they would rather fight. One of the mysteries of the day is the fadt that merchants advertise in big. figures when the goods are selling at little figures. Only experience will convince this country that it can’t amend a constitution without first amending the people to fit it. A martyr is a large, healthy party who works right through a slight three-handkerchief cold and refers to it later as grip. After all, a man willing to classify himself as “average” has a modest quality calculated to lend him especial distinction. A French aviator has a new-style plane, known as the “sea flea.” To operate it successfully, one must first have the bug to fly. Doctors claim that women have fewer headaches since they had their hair bobbed. That’s some compensation for being lightheaded. The Laundry Owners’ association of the United States expects to do an annual business of a billion dollars by 1930. Thej’ sure are going to clean up. According to the laws of proportion, an electrical machine which broils a filet mignon in 30 seconds ought to make what is known as a “boiling fowl” fairly tender in the course of a day. Peace is also that interval in which rear admirals and major generals find themselves occupying a new desk suddenly because they released their communiques through the magazines and newspapers. A St. Louis dealer buys a picture for $250 and then discovers that it is worth $250,000. At least, that’s rhe way he tells it. Skeptics will say that his discovery came just before he spent the $250. A burglar, on his way to commit a robbery, passed by Sing Sing prison. The sight so sobered him that he returned home without completing his purpose. We predict he will never make a good burglar. ‘ South America has a fly that travels 400 feet a second. In the average “cozy apartment” this means negotiating forty turns. Cuba’s problem is how to limit sugar growing enough to help the price without letting the rest of the world take the profit. A magazine writer refers to Stephen Foster, “the composer of ‘Home, Sweet Home.’ ” Do you suppose he means John Howard Payne, the famous fireworks manufacturer? The gang-plow tractor is a good step toward the ideal prairie farm that could be turned over all at once as quickly as a flapjack. The president of Dartmouth says too many young people go to college. .After all, there are only so many raccoon coats in the country. It Is estimated that mr of 13,167 strong men who call up the dentist three hours before the appointment and say they have been called sudidently out of town, only eleven have.

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( HE recent unveiling of a statue of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. F representative and senator from Georgia and governor of that state, in Statuary Hall in the national Capitol at Washington has added one more to the list of American notables who are honored there. This ceremony also brought sharply to the attention

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of the public the fact that our notables are becoming a bit crowded in this national shrine and that before long congress will have on its hands another “housing problem”—that of providing adequate space for memorializing in enduring bronze or stone the achievements of some of our most distinguished citizens. The law of 1864, which provided for a statuary hall in the Capitol, gave each state the privilege of honoring two of its noted citizens with places in this national collection. Since there are 4S states in the Union, the number, therefore may reach a maximum of 96. As a matter of fact, the addition of the Stephens statue brings the number there now up to only 53, but already the crowding is becoming evident. Those installed to date form a complete circle, closely spaced around the walls of the hall, with several standing out in front cf those against the wall. The main corridor extending from the senate wing of the Capitol to the house wing passes through the center of Statuary Hall and. although there still is some o[>en space near the center, the placing of more statues would give the chamber a crowded appearance indeed. While the situation has not yet become acute, it may soon become so. for at least five more states are said to be preparing to fill their niches. However, officials in charge of the Capitol have been discussing the problem and expect to have a solution ready when the need shall arise. One suggestion is that the statues be extended along the corridors running north and south from the hall, but even this may not provide enough space. Another proposal Is to make use of the crypt of the Capitol, a large vault-like chamber beneath the hall itself and one of the oldest portions of the building. If this is done, it will be necessary to redecorate the crypt and install an adequate lighting system. In installing the statue of Alexander Stephens, the state of Georgia has tilled her allotment of two niches. A year ago it filled the first one and honored the medical profession by preset*in” to the nation a statue of Dr. Crawford William son Long, a country doctor, who is declared b> many authorities to have discovered the value of anesthesia in surgical operations as a preventative of pain, although his claim to that honor is disputed. The other man for whom it is claimed also Is honored in Statuary Hall. Massachusetts having erected there a statue of William T. G Morton, a dentist of Boston. The statue of Stephens, carved by Gutzon Borglum from Georgia marble, is a tine memorial to a man who was not only the most distinguished Georgian of his time but who was also a na tional figure. He was born February 11. ISI2 at Crawfordville, Ga,, and was graduated from the University of- Georgia in 1832. Physical!' frail but mentally a giant, he soon made himself known as a member of the general assembly when in the summer of 1836 ho made an impassioned speech in favor of the building by the state of the Western and Atlantic railroad, which is today state-owned property and a source of great revenue to Georgia. On November 14, IS6O, he made another memor able speech at the state capital at Milledgeville when the Georgians wore considering the question of whether or not their state should secede from the Union. Stephens made an eloquent pica for a solemn considoratu n of such a momentous step before it was taken and stated that lie was not then for secession. Other counsels, however, prevailed and Georgia did leave the Union. And when the Confederate States of America wore organized this man, who had opposed secession, was elected vice president and served in that position throughout the war, although his constant effort was to bring about a reconciliation between the North and the South. Arrested at the close of the war and imprisoned for five months, he was released in October, 1865, and returned to Georgia, where new honors awaited him. He was elected to the United States senate in ISGG. but was not seated. Later, in 1873, there was no objection to his taking a seat in the lower house of congress as the representative of a Georgia district, and he served there until ISB2, when he was elected governor of Georgia. It was in this capacity that he went to Savannah in February, ISB3, to make a speech at the celebration of the sesquicentennial of the city. It was a raw and inclement day. Mr. Stephens caught cold and, returning to Atlanta, died March 4, 1883. Mississippi and South Carolina, two other former Confederate states, are also preparing to fill their niches in Statuary Hall with memorials to distinguished citizens who were not only promi-

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nent in the war of ’6l to '65 but also men of national significance. South Carolina Is already represented then* by a statue of John C Calhoun. senator and vice preshh nt of the United st ites. ami she Is planning to give tl ■■ other pli ce to Wade Hampton, soldier ami statesman. He was a distinguished eavalrj leader during the war, governor of his state from 187 G to |B7s. an I later a senator. From Mi- D ippi. authorities at the Capitol are expectir” to receive some li: e in the future statues <>f JetTei-on Davis, an t >m eer in the Mexican war, seer tary of war and president of the Confcdera y, ami J. Z G or^e, a former senator from .'lississi-.pi. Kentucky has taken preliminary st<” s toward filling its two ni'hes. C.nir.- iy to wbat m'jht tie expected. Daniel Boom* will not oecapv one of them. Instead they will b> filled by Henry Clay, the great statesman, and Dr. Ijdiriam McDowell, who won fame as a su: j u. North (; ro iina has tilled only on? of its niches and that With a statue of Zebulon B. Var.ve, soldier and statesman. A number of other states, northern. mMd' - w?>tlern and western, ha\e not yet made their decisions in this matter, but at least two mive recently chosen their representatives for this honor. California lias selected Kev. Thomas S ari King, minister, lecturer and author, and Father .Junipero Serra, a I rancisejn missionary. The next statue to be unveiled in Statuary Hall prob ably will be Wisconsin's contribution Senator Robert M. I.aFollette. who died in 192* utter a long public career. His statue is now being completed in Paris by the famous sculptor. Jo David son, and may be put in place this year. It will show the famous orator of the senate in a scaled pose. Incidentally the only other s ated statues in Statuary Hall are that of Robert Fulton (one of I'ennsyivania’s notables) ami the recently dedi rated Stephens statue. The legislation creating a national statuary hall in what had been the old Lail of the house ot representative-, grew out of a suu <iion mu le us early as 1854 by < l<• tveni r Kemble, a f. rmer member of the house from New York. Bat no action on the matter was taken until ten years Inter when Representative Morrill of Vermont olfm-ed a resolution providing for such a hall, ami another New Englandm - , Ropresi ntative Rice of Maine, reported it from joint committee. In support of his resolution Morrill had said: The expansion of our country from the old thirteen to thirty-six states imposed upon us the burden as well as the privilege of building and extending a structure for the accommodation of the legislative branches of tiie government, and appropriate for the capitol of the fm nost rcpiil.lic of the world. This work is now at reaching completion. It appears to me eminently pi > therefore, that this house should take the initiative in setting apart with reverent affection the old hall of the house of representatives, so charged with precious memories, to some purpose of usefulness and dignity To what end more useful or grand, and at the same time simple and inexpensive, can we devote it than to ordain that it shall be set apart for the reception of such statuary as each state shall elect to be deserving of this lasting commemoration? Will not all the states with generous emulation proudly respond and thus furnish a new evidence that the Union will clasp and hold forever all its jewels—the glories of the past, civil, military and judicial—in one hallowed spot where those who will be here to aid in carrying on the government may daily receive fresh inspirations and new incentives? This was a time when patriotic feeling ran high and congress quickly passed the resolution. For this chamber where the lower bouse of congress met for 40 history-making years was par-

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ticularly appropriate as a memorial hull. In the words of Gilbert Gt o" eimr, pn udciit of the National Geographic society : Here I.ln- Un. J hn Quincy Adams. Horace Greeh*y and Andrew Johnson oruj in the same cunro •• H<re Hrnr> <’la> welcomed Lifayetje. who repUid in asp .ch said to have loin written bv <’ i- Here .1 hn Marshall nd mistered the oath of othce t > M; dis' n nn.l M mros Winn. In I v Ge h-.uie billeted In th‘«, room for I’n - idi nt. John <‘uit y Adan m won over Andrew Jack- .n Tie f rn . r. tie unit man to be elected to the house after bel: u Pr«sl<! nt. was stricken v ith pa t al.’ sis suddenly, tn this chamber, after deIKerinu: nn Imp iss •n. d d in-s ti ~ latter, while Ing this room, where he had attended the funeral of a congr. ssional friend A bronze star n .irks the locathm of Adams' d■■ • star 1 ■• • - o- . t.. note a apt t - nds in the co i. por iir? p -ition on the opposite Sid. ..f the had >ve a a y from ti e spot and the sp ak-r « voice falls to carry, even when he sj,< a! < 1. udly. Clo. rd to \ sit TS now is ti e narrow gallery of the old house, r. u-he.l bv dark, tortuous steps, w .rn deep by the tread of many feet. In this gallem [o. km s t h ' d i .t.s r his e. m- cits on Xmeriea's ernrre s H, . Gled V a hlngton "a city of magniflc. nt intentions.” your ey. s :•■ I see John Itandolph stalk in. with -uirrel cap and hom< spun suit, wl ite boots ami igiviirg spurs; he has just calloi.d through muddy streets t'..m < b ■w n. Throwing cap and coat to his desk, he drinks a glass of porter handed him bv an attendant and cuts in on any debate, in thin, qut rub im. pini’ :: '•• .e. Here another tvp.- of orator. Ihlw rd Ev. rett. just out of th.- pulpit, charmed b s hear, i For some years religious services were held in the old hall of rm.ri - • nt? t ives on Surdy afternoons: Lincoln att. i led them during the war period. when the hall was crowded because many churches had been conx rted into barracks Tie floor of this room was raised to its present lev. l when the hall was conv. rt d into nn American Westminster abb.y. Tradition has it that the lowr bv. I of the old floor led to the popular d -ignn’ion of the house of representatives as the ' lower house.” It is interesting to not? tlmt despite the patriotic impulse which erm'l I Slatimry Hall, the responsi s of the states to the invitation to honor their (lis'.inguDhod citizens w re rot - s prompt as might have b • n exi><- t d. Rimd'? Island was the first to respond by- tiding statues < f its founder. Roger Williams, and its hero of th*? Revolution. Nathani 4 Greene. However, after the lapi e of 19 years from the time of the ere.-tion of the first statue, but 18 statues were to be found in the hall and even after more than 30 years there were but 21 monuments in position. At that time (1895) the display was so small that it was thought hardly sufficient to give the large space allotted a uropcr dignity as a collection of statuary. In order to make the barren appearance less noticeable, other statues, such as those of Jefferson, Hamilton. I’aker and Lincoln, a plaster statue of Washington and busts of Lincoln. Kosciuszko. I’ulaski and Crawford, were exhibited there. Since that time, however, the states have responded with more alacrity to the opportunity. To Illinois goes the honor of being the first to honor a woman—Frances E. Willard —and to Oklahoma the first to honor a “real American” — Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. Soldiers, statesmen, ministers, pioneers and others whose services to their states have been great have been immortalized there and the renewal of interest in Statuary Hall, which seems now apparent, is in 1928 likely to give the place as much of an over-supply of statues as it had an undersupply a third ot a century ago.

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Cholera Serum as Protection Unusual Prevalence of Disease in 1926 Impressed Farmers With Danger. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Special reports made to the United States Department of Agriculture from 30 states in which co-operative hog-cholera work is being conducted indicate an increas , ed use of antihogcholera serum as a protection against hog cholera. Apparently, the unusual prevalence of the disease in the fall of 192 i; did much to impress farmers with tlie protential danger of the malady and stimulated action in the adoption of preventive t lethods. Protection by Serum. The spring crop of pigs received extensive protection by the preventiveserum treatment, the number immunized ranging from 10 to 75 per cent of the entire production in the 30 states, according to the reports. ; There was also an increase in the number of herds immunized. These factors, no doubt, are largely responsible for the sudden drop in the death rate from cholera compared with that of last year. The reports also indicated at the time they were submitted that, with the exception of Arkansas, Maryland. Michigan. North Carolina and Kentucky, the other states had suffered no greater losses from cholera this year than they had in 1924 and 1925, showing a sharp decline in the disease from the destructive wave of 1926. Urge Sanitary Measures. The department stresses the Importance and value of sanitary measures in the raising of swine, not only as an aid in the prevention of hog cholera but ir preventing other diseases. It also calls attention to the fact that cholera infection may reach well-kept herds as well as those in insanitary ’ surroundings, and if not Immunized one will succumb as quickly as the other. After all the use of the simultaneous treatment is the only reliable safeguard against attacks of

hog cholera. Water Warmed for Fowls Increases Laying Power . Experiments emphasize the Importance of warm water for laying hens. A summary of results follows: Pullets drank 25.4 per cent more warmed water than cold water dur Ing freezing weather. Water consumption was increase!, 5 per cent per pullet ami 4.2 per cent per lOU eggs laid bv warming it dui- i Ing average western winter weather. Temperatures were above freezing 90 per cent of the time. White leghorn pullets laying at the ■ average rate of approximately 60 i>er cent in midwinter drunk 0.26 pound of water per pullet per day and 44 pounds of water per 100 eggs laid. Drinking water for poultry may be conveniently warmed with several styles of simple electric heaters at a cost about the same as for lighting two electric lamps. Heaters of 75 to 100 watts capacity are about right for "arming two gallons of water. Specially constructed heaters to be immersed in water can be secured for a few dollars. In case of emergency a hermetically-sealed electric solderine iron makes an excellent water^heater. Electric lamps may be used for water heating if tliey are supported close to (he underside of the pan ami both the pan and lamps protected to avoid heat losses. Alfalfa Is Best Legume for Soil Improvement Alfalfa can hold its own with the best of the legumes in the matter of soil improvements, judging by actual yield records from the soil experiment fields of the college of agriculture. University of Illinois. on the Dixon soil field, for Instance, untreated land made 4S bushels of corn an acre in a clover rotation as compared to 57 bushels an acre, or 9 more, in an alfalfa rotation, according to figures cited by F. W. Gault, of the I agronomy department. At Mount Morris untreated land yielded 51 bushels of corn an acre in a clover rotation and 68 bushels, or 17 bushels more, in an alfalfa rotation. These yields are I not just for one year, but instead are an average for six years. Oil Hole Cleaner ■ Every farmer that rides a binder has spent many precious moments trying to pick grain and dust out of the ' oil holes to the rollers in order to get oil to the moving parts. > To hasten the job, take two pieces > ! of baling wire ten inches long and i j twist them together as a rope "Is ; twisted. They will rend'ly m si-re--.' * one from the other and make two auger? that just fit the oil holes and | 5 will clean them rapidly and thoroughly. — i , Keep Out Weevils » ' Probably the best way to treat bean" and peas to keep weevil and > । other insects from working in them > is to heat them and dry them. Keep them at a temi>erature between 125 degrees and 130 degrees. The heat 5 and drying will kill any insects that t are inside and will also prevent atf tacks from the outside. If to be used -for seed the temperature should not i reach higher than about 130 degrees. - Another method is to put them into a tight vessel and treat them with i carbon disulphid. .

Cement Sticks Tight Some recent tests on the strength of the bond between concrete am! , building tile show that the stronger the concrete, the greater strength of the bond. Specimens cured dry had a slightly higher average strength than those cured damp. Furthermore, the greatest strength of adhesion was where the mortar bad been applied to • dry tile, was slightly less where the tile had been sprinkled, and was weakest where the tile had been saturated.

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