Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 March 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE IXDEPEADEN'T-NEtfS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES * One Tear |l.st Blx Months 90 yhree Months to TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, ^nd., os second-class matter. Waves of prosperity, to the spenathrift, are generally breakers. Pedigree: Something that he never mentioned if he had anything else. “Mostly cloudy,” says the weather man. And that’s what the days mostly are. After a day of rain and sloppy weather, even a cold wave is rather welcome. A free people is one that imposes tyrannical laws on itself to make itself behave. American hqldup men seem to get about everything except what is coming to them. Grippe: An Insidious ailment referred to as a common cold when endured by others. “Seeing is believing.” but if motorists would see mo*e a larger number would be living. That 48-letter alphabet is Inspired by cross-word puzzle authors who lean largely to blind squares. The encouraging side is that a Mexican never gets up an office pool on the result of the election. Probably Russia doesn't want any more war because most of its active citizenry is over here dancing. Even in Bible times it was customary to anoint the head with oil, but not by crawling under the car.

Calles says his ambition is to be a farmer. His firing squads have turned a lot of sod during his administration. Some families go right on spending money for beeksteak and flour when they haven’t a fur coat on the premises. It seems that the armistice was signed in a dining car. No wonder the World war turned out to be so expensive. Probably the height of skepticism is refusing to put any stock in Mr. Trotzky’s death certificate until he signs it Let the Kansas man who has succeeded in raising a seedless tomato try something hard, and give us the seedless raspberry. The winter edition of Boston’s telephone director has been enlarged to two volumes, probably to accommodate all the broad A’s. A packer asserts in his ad that sardines are full of vitamine A, although offhand we would have thought there wasn’t room in the can. We await expectantly the first word that some stranger in Bucharest has offered little King Michael a dime to carry his grip down to the depot. Irving Fisher says that 80 per cent of our people barely earn a living. The truth is that they earn an excellent living but it is the 20 per cent who get It. Even when the worst happens in the Balkans the resourceful correspondent can cover the matter pretty comprehensively by cabling: “No change in the situation.” During their lifetime, most of the immortals who are commemorated in large enduring bronze monuments didn't look so hot in crepe-paper hats at banquets, either. Some of the color combinations men are wearing in shirts, neckties and socks are enough to make Joseph’s coat look like a garment in two tones, somber and more so. “Man Who Held Lincoln’s Horse During Civil War Dies Here,” headlines a Canton paper. If that wasn’t patience, we don't know what is.— American Lumberman. Jolin Winder of Keivedon, England, who died at the age of one hundred years, smoked the same pipe for 87 years. The cable didn’t state how long his family survived the pipe. We dare say a fellow around the Rumanian court nowadays could pick up $5 here and there, thinking up cute sayings for one of these contests and attributing them to the child king. A new high explosive was recently discovered by a young experimenter in London. England, but no trace has since been found of either. Mussolini’s latest ukase forbids officers of the army and navy from dancing exotic fads. Nothing is said about dancing to Mussolini’s every whim. The quartermaster general says the army now has one horse or mule for every 3.3 soldiers, and we really ought to get a Shetland pony for that .3 fellow down in the last squad. A great many of the rugged sons of pioneer fathers drive downtown in i the morning with one window of their i sedan turned nearly hallway down. The rumble seat, mounted from the rear, is returning to favor and in France there is a revival of the oldtime tonneau that buttoned up in back. About the height' of futility would be to go down to the shop six weeks later and look for the fellow who inherited $1,800,000 and said he guessed he would keep right on working.

Seed Potatoes Grown in Ohio State Association Certifies 6,336 Bushels for Spring Planting. Seed potatoes produced in Ohio last year, by sixteen growers in twelve counties, have been certified by the Ohio Certified Seed Potato Growers’ association, for planting this year. The growers whose seed potatoes have been approved by the association have a total of 6.336 bush els available. The potatoes have passed two rigid inspections in the field and one in the bin. Use Separate Fields. Additional restrictions looking toward the production of high quality seed are being taken this year by the association. Fields in which seed potatoes are grown must be separated from fields, in which noncertified po tatoes are grown, by at least 100 feet, in order to protect against the spreading of virus diseases through insect migration. The stock from which certified seed is grown must be approved after a test made in the greenhouses of the horticulture department of Ohio State university. Abnormality of yield or nature in the certified seed may disqualify it Plant Late In Season. Growers of potatoes which are to be certified as seed are urged by the officials of the association to plant their seed potatoes late tn the seasot, In order to shorten the incubation period for disease germs. The short growing season and consequent short incubation period of the northerngrown potatoes is believed to be responsible for (he freedom of those potatoes from disease, and their desirability as seed. Lists of growers of certified seed, and the varieties and amounts which they have available, are being distributed by the association through the office of E. B. Tussing of Ohio State university, secretary-treasurer of the organization.

Now Is Time to Strike w Weeds Their Death Blow Weeds can be fought to good advantage in the dead of winter by cleaning grain and legume seed by the use of fanning mills operated at the correct speed and having the right equipment properly adjusted. Some back-aching work killing weeds under a hot sun next summer can be avoid ed by fanning weed seeds this winter from the grain and clover and other seed which are to be planted in the spring. “If the mill is not doing satisfactory work for the farmer he should send a sample of the grain from it to the manufacturers,” pays L. B. Bassett, farm machinery expert of the University of Minnesota. “They will tell him the trouble with the machine and the remedy. Sometimes the farmer may have to run the seed through the mill twice to get the results he is after. If the blast is of proper intensity all the shriveled, light chaffy kernels will be blown out.” Sowing of impure seeds has done more to fasten weeds upon communities than any other farm practice or lack of practice. The value of a good | fanning mill in cleaning farm seeds is now well understood by progressive farmers. Sowing Sweet Clover When it gets warm in April or some time in May, take some kind of a screen, a sand screen would do, and go to a sweet clover patch and put the sweet clover dirt through the screen; sandy soil is best. Sack up four or five bushels of this sweet clover soil for each eight, ten or twelve acres. Sow this dirt by hand. Sow every other rod across the field, In stead of sowing the whole field. Dogs, rabbits and other animals, also in sects as well as rains will carry the inoculation over the whole field. £ Agricultural Notes ? A good double disking will put pea stubble land in fine shape for oats and vetch. • • • Several hundred thousand miles of hog-tight fence is one of the greatest needs. • • • After the first few cuttings of rhubarb stems, many gardeners neglect this crop until the following spring. « * « A small bed of Egyptian or winter onions planted either in the spring or better in the fall will produce year after year. Do not fail to take good care of your I rhubarb plants all season, as well as ' in the spring when you are making I use of the tender stems for sauces and pies. * * • Nowhere does the old proverb of “haste makes waste” apply more aptly than in preparation of the seed bed, and in planting. • * » A hundred pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre averaged giving ten bushels more wheat to seven farmers in Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee. Their yields averaged 23.5 bushels to the | acre without the nitrate, and 33.8 bushels with it. Bad Odors Are Caused by Feeding Poor Feed I Occasionally had odors are caused by feeding rancid feed. Some feeds I contain oils that have strong odors. ' Fish meal is one of these. Certain green foods, such as kale, if fed in excessive amounts give poor color. You might have a poor quality of beef scraps. Another cause and one that is likely is that the hens are overfat or because the abdomen contains too much fat delays the passage of the egg, that is. it is held in the body so long that it starts to decompose. These lire some of the theories.

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Artificial Heat Saves Orchards

I — Washington.—The weather bureau’s frost forecasting service in the Pacific coast fruit belt, which enables orchardists to light their oil heaters and save their crops, is being extend ed to “smoke” forecasting for the benefit of near by cities With the demonstration In recent years of the amazing accuracy of the frost forecasting service, which is maintained Jointly by the weather bureau and the orchardists. confidence in the artificial heating of orchards has grown until now it is utilized on a tremendous stale. In the citrus industries alone, which brings Calif<>rnh. $1UO.(MMI,OOO a year. 2,500,000 oil heaters are used to pro tect about 50,(M>0 acres of orange and lemon trees. Although these heater® ! have been greatly Improved In the last few years, they give off clouds of soot which, drifting Into cities, cause an guisli to housewives and financial loss to merchants. Although thousands of suggestions have been made and numerous patents obtained, the records In the office of J. B. Kincor. chief of the division of agricultural meteorology of the weather bureau, show no satisfactory substitute sot the oil heaters. So the new smoke forecasting service has been undertaken to make the he®f of what appears to be s necessary evil. The frost and smoke forecasts are issued late in the day whenever dangerous temperatures are Indicated and are distributed by telephone and radio in ample time to permit the orchardists to light their heaters. Eight experts are employed In this forecasting, under the direction of F. I). Young, the meteorologist who began I? single handed. They base their calculations on study of the regular daily weather map in conjunction with a hygrometric formula which takes Into consideration local humid ity and temperature conditions In one season, during which he Is sued 96 forecasts, Young has been within two degrees of accuracy (M wr cent of the time. Many of his warn Ings predicted low temperatures In terms of fractions —27^4 degrees, for

Getting Too Close to a Tender Spot ( I" ALWAYS BRINGIM’UP ' disagreeable subjects I Jim brJ A WHY CAN'T YOU READ / n (Ji ' ; VI- 1 J • I SOMETHING BESIDES I .. • % v . I [ c J TAXES OR SCANDALS OX I ^MURDERS ) ) 'A- — I — —— . ^.y,— I ’ jHnwAik ; • Ji'p ..a 11 H 'MAW INADVERTENTLY REMINDED PAW THAT ' i TAXES ARE ABOUT DUE ' Oil Routs “Wolf”

San Angelo, Texas.—The wolf of want that had pursued Ira G. Yates, aged ranchman, since he was a lad of twelve seemed very close last fall when Yates tried to sell his ranch at $3 an acre—and failed. A mortgage of $90,900 hung over the property of the seventy-six-year-old ranch owner and he had hoped to meet this by selling his 26.000 acres and his cattle. ' And now* the land that Ira Yates could not sell has made him a millionaire. Engineers say that there are 275,00,000 barrels of oil under his land. Yates liquidated the debt that had loomed so large merely by leasing a small part of his real estate to an oil company. Then he sat back and let the oil companies bid against each I other for the drilling rights on the rest of the land —no longer the Yates ranch, but now the Yates oil field. Cattle and sheep no longer roam over the mesas and through the ravines, for the old ranchman fears that an oil derrick might fall and kill some of the animals. But he is a ranchman still. He has bought a ranch of 23,000 acres in central Texas and moved his herds there. There is no mortgage over the new ranch and he hopes that he never may be compelled to offer his property at $3 an acre. “Creditors used to be after me for money,” said Yates as he mused on the changes that have occurred. “Now a lot of people try to get money from me, but it’s a different sort of demand.” This Is the first time, he added, I

Instance—and 68 of the 96 were precisely accurate, while 15 others were less than one degree away from the actual point at which (he mercury stopped descending in the thermometer. His largest error in that year was five degrees, and that Is one Incident in his life which tie finds it bard to forget. Most of the cold snaps which | threaten the ('alifornin fruit crop develop when an area of low pressure moves out of Arizona or southern California and an era of high pres ! sure from Nevada swings In. The | frost forecasters remain in this re- ' gion until the danger passes In February, anq then they move north Into the deciduous fruit section of Washington and Oregon. TAKES JAP HUSBAND ■BF CVr. ~ Lucy Banning Ross, widely Known daughter of the lute Gen. Phineas Banning and sister of the late Hancock Banning, who.®* three marriages to prominent California men lune all ended In the divorce courts. Is on tier ' fourth honeymoon with SetFtizo Oto, ] a Japanese student, whom she mar ried In Seattle. This is a recent pho tograph taken In Hollywood.

that he has been “ahead of the wolf” since he was left an orphan at the age of twelve. 34,000 Names Listed in British Who’s Who London.—Britain’s Who’s Who for 1'328 contains 34,01*0 biographies, 2.000 more than in the 1927 edition. The volume, described by the publishers as “144 cubic inches of facts,” is actually one-quarter inch thinner than last year’s owing to a considerable reduction in the gauge of the paper. George Bernard Shaw and other prominent individuals retain their usual humorous paragraphs under the heading of “recreations.” The man who has millions today doesn’t control a single niinute of tomorrow. The Only Way The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opin ions into his head. — Sir Leslie Stephen. Acorn Oil The source of acorn oil is the fruit of the English oak. It is used in the arts. _

COPY PEASANT MODE I ' I I Peasant fna ks are the latest fad in Hollywood. One of the smartest ns well ns most colorful of these frocks i N worn by llenw Adoree, the motion picture player, in her production. “The Cossacks." It is of ruby red Hut crepe with the Chinese motif on the blouse embroidered in white. HIIIIIIIIIIII I I I I I I I I I I II :: SNAP JUDGMENT | L By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK f Dean of Men, University of T L Illinois. F ■ I I I Illi I-I-4-H I I I I I 1111-ili-lT [ I IGI»ON was taking ls-ue with me * 1 h- to certain -tati tnents which tie alleged I tiad made In one of my bookA lie took the other side and argued fluently for tils polnL "I don t believe what you say; I think y<>u are wrong in your con elusions.” "Well, what are my conclusions?" I inquired, for it begun to dawn upon me (hut Higdon was more than a little vague as to what I had been trying to elucidate. He hesitated, and stumbled In his attempt und got rather red In the face. “When did you read my book?" I asked tinnlly, “and bow carefully did you do It?" "I ve never read It nt nil." he finally confessed “| heard some of the fellows talking nbout it. nnd I formed I my opinions from what they said.”

Fast Flight Soon

Paris.—‘‘Around the world 1n 20 days” will be practical in a few years, accordin- to calculations of French aeronautic experts based on the numerous flights from Paris to the Far East accomplished In the last two years. From a detailed examination of these flights it is apparent that the actual flying time over long distances was only a small part of the time taken, due to delays on the ground. Thus, Pelletier D'Oisy, who flew from P ris to Saigon, a distance of about 7,000 miles, in 18 days, lost three days at Karachi. India: another day at Agra and three more at Calcutta. The Americans, Brock and Schlee. flew from Paris to Rangoon. 6.300 miles, in ten days, having lost one day at Constantinople, owing to passport formalities. Os course, none of these men flew at night. It Is therefore deduced that, even at present, the Paris-Java flight, of a little more than 8.000 miles, can he made in seven days. As the circumference of the earth is 24.000 miles, the entire circuit could be made in three weeks. But for this it will he necessary to arrange the various “jumps,” each of which would be I Seek to Find Trace of “Lost” Indian Tribe o Washington.—Hope of uncov- ft ering traces of a “lost” tribe of g Indians, the Calusa, which dis- ft appeared about 100 years ago £ after having played a dominant g part in the history of southern £ Florida, is taking a Smithsonian g institution expedition under x Henry B. Collins, Jr., to that g state to excavate newly-discov- X lered mounds. g An account of a battle in 1513, ft In which 80 canoes filled with g Calusa braves prevented Ponce ft de Leon from landing his forces £ along their coast, is history's ft earliest mention of the tribe, x Records disclose that later the g tribe acquired great wealth In x gold from Spanish galleons g wrecked off Ihe coast. g The Calusas were known to g have made human sacrifice of 2 their captives, scalped and dis- g membered the bodies of their slain enemies, and have often g been accused of cannibalism.

xt jX u Listen! That’s Your n Goldfish Raising Din fi XJ East Lansing. Mich. —If any xi care to know, they may find out # how much noise a goldfish $ makes when it swims about in § t« its glass bowl. The answer to U w the puzzle, which may or may £ * not have worried folks for xx :: years, was given nt the elec11 trien’ show at Michigan State ♦* XX college during Farmers’ week jj * here * XX nt re - U * Visiters were able to detect the slightest noise made by a it goldfish as ft swam around In Ji || ils medium, which is noted for g Its lack of privacy. Detection 3= 5 was made possible by the prin- 5 cij le of radio control. «3 ;• Another new feature of the q * show this year was a radio- * controlled car. The principle * ♦J also will be worked out in rela 9 ♦♦ tlon to d<H»r helis. A receiving Xi H jet recorded rhe rings from h £ sending set in another room at through u special relay system :: a I laughed, nnd Higdon s method of forming a snap Judgment from few data Is not uncommon. Brown makes no secret of the fact that tie doesn’t put any faith In the Bible either as history, literature, or as the hasla of a religious faith. He laughs when anyone cites the scriptures ns authority for anything. He talks flippantly nbout It but with nn assumption of thorough conversance with Its contents. Now the truth Is flint Brown has uever read the Bible. Excepting for a desultory acquaintance with it® general extermri appearance nnd the recollection of s<»me scattered verses which he learned as golden texts during his brief acquaintance with Sunday school he knows nothing nbout the Bible. He couldn't find the ten commandments tn half an hour. He doesn't know whether It was Moses or William Jennings Bryan who led the children of Israel out of Egypt, and If you would ask him to turn to the hook of Micah he would not know whether It Is in the front or the back of the book. The wisdom and the (M>etry of the Old Testament he has no acquaintance with, and the life arn) doctrines of the greatest Teacher who ha® ever lived as recorded In the New Testament he has really never given any serious attention to. and yet tie throws over the whole thing and will have none of It. Snap Judgment, and unwarranted! Jordan tells me that he does not care for either Dickens or Robert l.ouis Stevenson as writers. There are others who would reach the same conclusion, so that I am not shocked at Jordan's statement, hut only curious.

made by a different machine with a fresh pilot. The airplanes of 1927 are vastly superioi to those of three years ago as far as the motors and radius of action are concerned, but the limit of human endurance has not varied. This is es pecially the case when it Is a question of a constant effort over ten or more days. As far as commercin' flying has progressed it may be taken that 1.260 miles a day is the average distance possible. When special measures have been taken to make night flights safe the time for the world girdling flight will be appreciably diminished.

Called Ideal Youthful Americans I MF ML. * w " ~ IhM W A I ■Mt I > VhT » I J I I • ' ■ ’At."' • J| r-A... ■ a..-. V Raymond Woog, famous French portrait painter of children, has . Ie bis final selections in his search for the “ideal American boy and girl. ’ Ilie boy, of Plymouth stock, and the girl, of German ancestry, are, t p i t; r declared, “idea! symbols” of American action. The children are s -v n :. left to right: G. Weston Watson, twelve, son of Mr. and M <. Wc - m f Forest Hills, and Florence Dueik, ten, daughter of Mr. Hrs. W. iu Duelk of New York city.

“What have you read of Dickens?” I Inquire. “Oh, I started “Dombey and Son." but 1 couldn’t get very far into IL It didn't interest me.” He knew nothing of the “Pickwick Papers.” or “David Copperfield.” or “Martin Chuzzlewit,” or “Bleak House,” or best of all 1 think, “Great Expectations.” He had read a chapter or two of a great author and not liking it had condemned all the rest It was the same way with Stevenson. Os all the Infinite varieties that that charming author hail written he had read scarcely one volume. It is the way we judge people sometimes. From one chance meeting, or from the conversation o* a few moments we form settled opinions and promulgate them. <©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) FAST GIRL SWIMMER This is Corinne Condon, Omaha's best bet among the fair swimmers for the next Olympic games. She’s just seventeen ; she created several sensations in Buffalo at the National A. A. U. meet last year. Besides holding four national records, the young lady also bolds eight midwestern records. + *2* ♦ DIPPING INTO j $ SCIENCE t 5 Volcano-Made Islands + 1 Very Fertile ❖ J The Hawaiian islands are the * ; ❖ result of volcanoes. The soil ♦ । * from the decayed lava Is verv * ❖ fertile. The largest active vol- * cano in the world i? Kilanea in * <’ Hawaii and is a wonderful sight J as it glows red hot in the night. ♦ The islands have been in thj J 4- possession of the United States + since 1898. J (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) 4 Sound Wavet Slay Sound waves inaudible to the human ear will kill certain small anlj mals and fish, says a scientist.