Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 February 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by TUB INDEPEyDEXT-XBltS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE_ STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIE3 Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year |1.50 Six Months 90 Three Months 50 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, ^nd., as second-class matter. The short skirt is substituting for the overshoe the overstocking. One dark horse is worth a dozen striking horses.

x The eventual bride of the prince of Wales will interest no wider public than Lindy’s. Scientists who are searching for lost civilizations should visit Some of our traffic centers. Fairy Story:.’ “The man with a toothache romped up the dentist’s stairs three at a time.” Speaking of solid comfort, what is there that beats a stack of griddle cakes on a cold morning? The Pennsylvania woman who has had two sets of triplets knows the full meaning of the eternal triangle. Still, we don’t know anything that would ruin some men much faster than an answer to their prayers. A college chapel as a war memorial would be still more appropriate where the attendance is drafted. As a general rule the child is cutest before it has begun to understand all the implications in a 25-cent piece. An English railway has named one of its locomotives Sherlock Holmes, but it will continue to run on a single track. A fashion note is quoted as saying, * “skirt six inches above the knee is on the way.” On the way? On the way where? Nothing pleases California newspa pers more than to report under glaring headlines blizzards on the Atlantic coast. Things are settling back to normalcy pretty fast: Several flag poles were observed recently on which no one was sitting. What ever became of the awfully cute picture of the sad little hoy who was going out into the garden to eat worms? * Speaking of companionate marriages, there is the very old one about the Scotchman who went on his honeymoon alone. Canada is having a merry war over a national bird, with four birds in the - running. Allow us to suggest the English sparrow. American exports of automobiles continue to grow, hut let us not export in duplicate our shameful record of casualties. Women as professional wrestlers inay be something new, but many a lightweight woman has had a strangle hold on some big man’s pocketbook for years. Little Mike, the Rumanian king, is paid a salary of $1,000,000 a year and we imagine the door-to-door bakery salesmen keep the palace guard pretty busy. Turkey is much excited over the modern trend of its women, developing into the flapper type. Now we understand why the pasha decreed one wife was sufficient. One of the juvenile stars of the movies already has property worth $1,500,000 in his own right. This very day he could divorce his parents and : still live luxuriously. “Dresses are longer in Paris,” says a fashion item. Well, the women of America, surely, cannot be blamed if the women of Paris are not so well qualified for the short skirt. “Eggs pass for money in Armenia,” says a news item. A Detroit man says I he bought some at the corner grocery j the other night that might interest ! Armenia’s old coin collectors. It appears that a national adver- [ tising campaign is to" be started to interest people in the care of the ■ feet, but nobody has as yet suggested a new word for “chiropodist.” — “On the back of each seat,” a rail- ’ road company announces, describing I its new coaches, “is a rack for your ! umbrella.” Well, that’s as good a I place to forget to take it from as any, , probably. A man in Chicago was shot, but a silver dollar in his pocket deflected I the bullet. It is a good tiling he ■ wasn’t a poet. “Os what use are scholars?” asks the Brooklyn Eagle. For one thing, they help the rest of us remember how little we-know. A witness in a criminal case was j not called, says a New York paper, I “because she was in a historical con | dition.” This is an insidious ailment- | It often leads to memoirs. A company has been formed to market Mauna Loa lava in American drug stores Backers of the project say it’s great stuff for eruptions. Science has done about everything possible for the indifferent young housekeeper except t< put zipper open ers on the tops of tin cans. The mayor of Winnipeg denies the charge from Chicago that Winnipeg flappers’ knees freeze in winter. “And how.” Mrs. Mayor might well ask hPr “do you know so much?”

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Gas Traps Birds

i Yellowstone Park, Wyo.—Natural 5 poison gas, seeping up through* fissures in the earth into caves, is frequently the cause of the death of j birds ami small mammals in Yellow- > stone National park, and Park Naturalist E. J. Sawyer is attempting to find out why the luckless little victims j venture into these deadly traps. I He is disinclined to believe the theory most commonly advanced that the birds go into the caves for shei- > ter as cold weather comes on in the • fall. “It is my present belief that, in general, the bird victims are not particularly attracted by anything at all, > but that in the restlessness characteristic of their spring and autumn movements they venture into all manner of accessible places and are then overcome by the gas. The species affected are small perching birds of various kinds, such as sparrows, warblers, wrens and thrushes; nor has it been observed tha* any species or group of these pays a toll out of ^[-. H --H--H-l--H--l--l-* Illi Ibb ;; “Lifer” Sues Woman; II II Charged Cruel to Cat X II Boston. —Jesse Pomeroy, “lifer.” II -• who entered the state prison at ” II Charleston a seventeen-year-old .. •• boy. nearly fifty-one years ago, 11 II is the plaintiff in a $5,990 nc- • • ” tion in which he denies charges " .. that he has been cruel to ani •• ” mals while in prison. 11 .. Pomeroy remains in his cell •• II while two attorneys represent II • • him before the Suffolk Supreme •• II civil court. II 4- The defendant is Alice Stone “ II Blackwe'l of Dorchester, pub- .. •• lisher of a magazine for women, ” II who told the court that "she fell -I v it a public duty to write a letter *1 I. to a Boston newspapei in 1925 • • ” in opposition to a pardon for 11 II Pomeroy. I'lie letter described •• ” his crime as much worse than II .. that of Leopold and Loeb and •• I repeated a rumor that Pomeroy, II when permitted the companion- •• ship of a kitten, “had skinned .t II alive” t Counsel for P< meroy told the II court that the suit was brought ” to “spike a lie” and said that • • animals had been Pon^roy’s only ” friends in prison.

Sunshine Spreader

Greenville, S. G. —Spreading sunshine is the hobby of A. G. Gower, Greenville bookkeeper— figuratively, that is. For eight years he has made and presented 89.00(1 bouquets to Green ville shut-ins, persons who are ill. and others. Gower estimates that he cuts 250,000 blossoms annually from his garden, all of which are given away. The monetary return is nothing, hut, he says “It is spreading sunshine whole- ; sale, and my reward is so tremendous ! that it is boundless. 1 have a treasj ure house without limits.” He began bis Hower mission in a small way about 20 years ago. It was not until just after the World war in 1919 that it began to assume its present large proportions. At that time he was asked to teach a Bible class in the United States I Army Hospital No. 2(5. at Camp Sevier, i “I'll teach the class,” he said, “if you will let me bring the boys flowers every Sunday morning.” Then the work of spreading suni shine began in earnest. His flower i garden became larger and larger, until today it occupies every nook and

NEW DRY SLOGAN .f^I ?'-o ’ V 4&. "111 n^^Ti■ f®L Miss Helen Pumphrey of Rockville, Md., a suburb of Washington, received the award for the best slogan for the National Women’s Democratic League for Law Enforcement Miss Pumphrey’s slogan cannot be accused of propaganda, it being, “Let the People Rule.” China has 10G moving picture theaters.

proportion to its relative general abundance. “Thal a desire for warmth is not the. main attraction seems further in (Healed by the fact that the Townsend solitaire is so frequently found dead in the caves. This bird, an all year resident in the park and apparently unaffected by even the extreme cold of midwinter, would scarcely be impelled to seek extraordinary warmth in spring and fall. “One of the most abundant species of small birds in this region is the

Nobody Wil! Begrudge Him Trophy Os all Col. Charles A. Lindbergh s _ trophies, undoubtedly he will prize most the Congressional Medal of A ' Honor that was awarded him. Charles Hoffman of Philadelphia is here seen engraving that medal. C L^X— *7 L y hßbk& mW iflHKx-'* w J ■ *

Seeks to Make Blend | of Light and Music i’liiladelphia. — A basic pnl<‘iit for an Invention to blend light with music lias been granted to Mis Mary Hal lock Greenwait. Mrs. Greenwnlt has been conducting experiments in the blending of light and sound for 27 | veurs. She believes that her [latent is ' the first granted for a new means of expressing human emotions In rhyth mic form. While music is being rendered h\ singer, violinist, pianist or orchestra.

cranny of the half-acre plot around his home. For 4S hours each week Gower is engaged with long columns of figures. ' But early mornings, late afternoons and evenings, find him in his garden caring for the flowers that have brought happiness to him and rhe persons who receive them. Saturday afternoons until dark he gathers the flowers for his baskets of bouquets. Mystery Blasts Being Studied by Scientists White Plains, N. Y.—Residents ot nori hern Westchester county are searching to find a solution to the mysterious blast which rocked build ings and spread terror over several miles of the countryside. The heavy, diili roar and the quiver of the earth kept the county police busy answering telephone calls for hours. Similar blasts have occurred at in tervals of exactly six months within the last two years. They always come at night. The ground was shaken and the noise of tlie explosion was heard, but on each occasion it was

*************************** | DIPPING INTO * SCIENCE 5^ % * ***********************^* * Giant Octopus * * The most horrible monster * known to man is rhe giant 4- * squid of octopus. Some of X these are 20 feet long with >t * groat rasping tongue, lie has * * ten enormous arms often fifty * X feet long and on the ends >f £ * these are suckers and claws. Iheii strength is so great that £ * they could pull down a boat * J tilled wit' men. •£ 19 28 Western Newspaper Union, i & * * World-War Children Held Cold-Blooded New York. —The World war made tin.- children of its day a “bloodthirsty and cold-blooded” present generation. Fritz Kreisler, violinist, said on his return from an eiWH-motil h tour of Europe. He asked reporters what had taken place in America during his absence. Among other tilings, he was told of the Hickman murder case and other recent crimes. ♦ “Il is those young people who were children in the war. and who heard of the gigantic sacrifice of life and seem to have inherited all the bloodshed

Clark erow. or nutcracker, yet I have seldom if ever found a Clark erow in the poison eaves, and yet il would seem a comparatively short step from Ids ordinary habits tor the nutcracker to enter one of these shallow caverns — not so pronounced h departure from routine as it is in the case of the treeloving warblers, which are among the most frequent victims. “It is my belief that the nutcracker does enter the caves, hut, owing t« his greater size and greater power of resistance, emerges with impunity—though doubtless, in each case, an older and a wiser bird. Indeed so far as my frequent observations go, it is a rare thing to find any bird larger than the small thrushes that has succumbed to the gas.”

t Mrs Gre«-n« alt s apparatu* floods (he । performer with lights of varying in tensity. The fluctuations in light are intended to enhance the emotional I mi*! int<‘llectual appeal of the music I Ilie apparatus maj be ojwratcd with a keyboard. lears o f training in mu le, of pro | fessiona) experience as a concert , pianist, of stud.) of ph\si* s. nwchanii-s. physiology and psychology went into the achieving of the results now rw ogiiizcd by the granting of the basic patent. Mrs. Greenwait was horn in Beirut Syria, the daughter of Samuel and Sara Talief Hullock She value to the I’liib'd States when it girl of eleven .After she left school she took up the study of music. unaccompanied by any flare or light ! such as would lune been the case had | the explosion been due to powder or gasoline or other known explosions that are set off by friction or heat. Scientists lune been asked to study the terrain in the vicinity and a<<er tain if the blasts are l>eing caused by some disturbance deep under the earth. Think Farm Children Superior to City Bred Wellington, New Zealand.—Farm children are superior to city reared children, says a national report on a survey of the physical growth and mental attainment of the boys and girls of New Zealand. Superiority of farmers’ children was most pronounced at the age of thirteen. The survey included 29,000 town and country children ranging in age from ten to fourteen and was carrie*! out by Dr. Ada Paterson, director of the health department’s division of school hygiene, and Dr. E Marsden, assistant director of education.

and cruelty of war.” he said. “I know. I see it in their faces and in their actions.” “Thank God it is not the soldiers,” he added. “They came hack tired and weary and settled down.”

Warming Up in Great Shape Go '. vCh C\ i

Not Able to Play By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. I I IS said that the little six-year old ■ prince of Rumania, when it was first announced to hltn that he was king of u great country and heir to seventy millions of dollars, did not take kindly to the idea. Young as he wits he realized to so:m extent the responsibility which -his new obligation placed upon him, and a serious, sad look came over his little face. “I shall n >t be able to play any more.” Ite said. It is n serious situation when, whether frem lack of opportunity or from luck oi inclination, one is not able to play Nothing more than play recreates a man. We are in a sad state, indeed, when we can no longer play. A well kn< wn business man, successful. energetic, and still full of vigor, retired from the active duties of his business two or three years ago. When asked why when he was still so able to carry on his work he Imd determined to give it up. he said: “Just because I want to play.” and playing for him meant work of another sott. fretajoni from the hampering restraints of business obligations. Those who are following fils movements since he resigned from the position which for ninny years •if held cannot see that he Is any less busy Unit) he was before. He is playing to good effect. Some people d<> not know how to play For two or three summer* I have been at the same hotel with Craves, when lie was on what he called his lucntion. He did not know how to (.lay He was resthss in rhe nioitiina until the mail came in. He wandered about the grounds meditating. his head down, hfs mind taken up wilb problems that should have ^>o€-000<->O->:>OOChXhX><hX>C)hOO< i <> Will Written on Egg Shell Termed Valid $ O Brooklyn.—Wills have been X X written on eggshells, coalbins V and bedposts, and might possibly $ p be tattooed on the shoulder of V X no heiress am) remain valid o O Crvnna Skellers told of these 2 X among other unusual legal doc- X O uments In a talk on “The Pow 2 2 er to Make a Will," given at the Q 2 Academy of Music. 2 X Among surprising provision* 2 2 in wills ot historical people X X Miss Skellers announced that 2 2 Cotnerneur Morris willed that X X his wife s income be doubled it 2 X she married again. Tbomi» X C> Paine, she stiid. although com- 2 2 monly considered an atheist, he- O 2 queathed his soul to G<»<l. Many £ X Southerners. Including George O O Washington, she revealed, freed § X their slaves in their wills. C’

Money in Odors

East Pittsburgh. Pa. — Mouern diem istry is demonstrating that even odors can he turned into dollars and cents. Gases that have polluted the atmosphere are now being captured and con verted into the liquids from which they originated, to the profit of both industry and the public. Experts of the materials and process engineering department of the Westinghouse Electric and M:.rufacturing company decided that too many smells were going up the chimney in the process of treating insulation with resinous materials. So they trapped the gases as fast as they were gen erated mixed them with water and then distilled this l.quid, recovering from 89 to 90 per cent of the solvents used in the formula. How far chemical engineers can go in eliminating and using fumes by liquefying them before they are dischargeo into the air lias not yet been determined, but experiments now un

I been left a thousand miles away. If he engaged anyone in conversation it । was to discuss matters of business । or to reveal his agitation and worry over the unsolved difficulties which he should have forgotten when he shut down tils desk and left his office for a month of resL He wtis like a lion shut up in •« cage, pacing backward and forward throwing himself against the bars, or sleeping gloomily in his cell. He took no interest in sport of any kind. He was happy only when he got back to the regular routine of work, for he did not know what it meant to play. There is an old man down the streets—not so old either as years go—who has moved in from the country. He has many years yet ahead of him, if he takes life as he should. But he has nothing to do. and he has not learned to play. He ought to have a garden, or a dog, or an interest in chickens or tools or golf—anything to amuse himself. He might be happy if he even had an interest in hooks. As it is he walks up, and down between the house and the street or wanders about the back yard picking up a dead branch here and there. Sad. it is! He doesn't know bow to play. One should learn early in life. <©. 1925. Western Newspaper Unton.) SMART ENSEMBLE A. I \ ■ I • \ I t & 4 ;•«' ft! ■lt I i i This smart French beige costume ensemble, worn by Ma.. McAvoy. Warner Bros. star, consists ot a simple two-piece satin frock and a velvet coat The collar and border are of red tox. and there is a trimming of metallic brocade above the bonier.

der way suggest that far reaching results are possible. The saving already effected by the capture of used sclents is said to be considerable. Chemists point out, however, that recovery methods might be too well perfected, for it is possible that some of the agents recovered from gases would themselves be difficult to destroy. KEEPS FIT ON LINKS i A, - ' si WJ) ■ Photograph shows Johnny Weis muller, worlds ehampioi. swimmer । enjoying a round of golf at the Bay I shore golf links at Miami beach. Some marriages are failures berouse parlies quit dishing out fedite : £2= falsehoods after the ceremony. America’s Scenic Wonders Tiie list of so-called seven scenic i wonder of the United States generally includes Niagara falls, Yellowstone park. Garden of the Gods, Mammoth cave, Yosemite valley, the giant trees of California and the natursj bridge

Improved Uniform International SiindaySchool ’ Lesson ’ (By REV. P H. FITZWATER. D D. Deaa Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) <© 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for February 19 TWO MIRACLES OF POWER LESSON TEXT—Mark 4:35-5.Z0. GOLDEN TEXT—What manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey him? PRIMARY TOPlC—Jesus Stills the Storm. JUNIOR TOPlC—Jesus Rules the i Storm. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —The Universal Power of Jesus. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPlC—Jesus’ Power over Nature and Human Life. I. Jesus Calms the Sea (vv. 35-41). 1. Crossing the sea (vv. 35. 3G). Wearied by teaching the multitudes. He proposed that they take ship at evening time to the other side of the । sea, doubtless to escape from the throngs of people. 2. Overtaken by a storm (v. 37). Even though Jesus was in the boat with the disciples they were overtaken by a storm. It is not God’s will that we should escape the storms, but those who have Christ on their boat are safe because- that boat cannot go down. 3. Jesus aslqep tn the storm-tossed boat (v. 3S). In the midst of the turbulent elements He was resting in sleep. The day had been a very strenuous one and He was weary. He who made the sea could well lie down and sleep, I though the storm violently raged. 4. The terrified disciples (v. 38). In their minds nothing but disaster and death awaited them. They were not only terrified, but they chided Jesus for sleeping while they were in such great danger. 5. Christ’s rebuke (w. 39. 40). (1) The wind (v. 39). This showed the Lords mighty power to control the forces ot nature. (2) The disciples (v. 40). He rebuked them for their lack of faith. He showed that they were looking upon their circumstances instead of upon their Lord. 6. The effect upon the disciples (v. 41). They were filled with great fear. A little while ago they were afraid in the face of the storm; now they are afraid in the presence of rhe Lord. 11. Jesus Heals the Gadarene Demoniac (5:1-20.) After the stilling of the tempest, \ Jesus crossed to the other sine of the ; sea info heathen territory. 1. Met by a demon possessed man (vv. 1-ff.) This man was In a desperate condition. He was so tierce that no one | could safely pass that way. He wore no clothes (Luke 8:27). No chains were str ,ng enough to Gold him and no one was able to tame him. In the night time his hideous cries could be heard while he vented his rage by cutting himself with stones. Many today are demon possessed. Much of the insanity of the age is traceable to this cause. As the coming of the Lord draweth nigh these things will i increase (I Tim. 4:1). 2. What the demons knew about Christ D v. 7-9.) They knew that He was the Son of God and that He had come to destroy the devil and 'is works Among ■ the demons there is no douht as to th“ deity of Christ and the judsment to come, though we have many theologians and preachers who say ihey do not believe it. The devil blinds their eyes so they cannot un lerstand (II Cor. 4:4.) 3. Christ's power to deliver from the devil (vv. 10-13.) He cast out the demons from the man (v. 8). The demons quail before Christ, not daring to dispute His power, so they begged to be permitted to enter the swine. As soon as the Lord issued the permit, they hastened away to hurl the swine to destruction. 4. The effect upon the people of the I city (vv. 14-17.) The keei>ers of the swine fled to the city and made rejMirt ot what had occurred. This miracle brought the people out. but when they realized the loss of their hogs they besought Him to leave their coasts. They cared more for their hogs than for Christ and the cure of this man. These Gadurenes have many successors today. The man who was healed sent home to testify (vv. 18-20). No doubt it would have been safe and pleasant to abide with Jesus, but his friends needed his testimony. The best witness for Christ is one who has been saved by Him. The best place to begin that testimony is at home where one Is known best. The Lord and Pain I think that our Lord must have been specially sensitive to the appeal ■ of pain, because he did not (wait for stricken folk to cry out to nim; his healing energy went out to them bei fore they asked for it. Our Lord never disparaged the body or made light of its pain. The body was a sacred thing to him. To minister to it was part of His calling.— .J. D. Jones. Guided by Him I do so fee! that every hour is distinctly and definitely guided by Him. I have taken Him at His word in every- . thing, and lie takes me at my word in i everything. . . . So, having entrusted my very trust to Him, I look forward ever so happily to the future (if there be yet much of earthly future for me) as “one vista of brightness and blessedness.” —Frances Ridley Havergal. His Nearness Ta hours of darkness. He ever brings the cheer of His nearness. When He i does so, prisons become sanctuaries, dark nights become golden days of •unlight.—G. Campbell M rgan.