Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 March 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independ ent Published Everv Thursday by' THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON IM)EPEN DENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS _ LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES’ Clem DeCoudres. Business Manager Charles M, Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION~RATEB " One Year J 1.50 Six Months Three Months ........... 50 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton. ^nd., as second-class matter. Georgia’s roads lead in some particular —billhoards and tack signs. In spite of the experts, in their yearly resume, saying business is better, it is. The good old days were the ones when we denied doing what is now being done openly." They may play bridge by radio, but it is yet to be seen if we will have cross-word puzzles over the air. “Papa,” said Little Willy, who wants to know everything, “which is the front of a revolving door?” California has produced a seedless lemon and now just watch Florida produce a squirtless grapefruit. As we understand it, a young murderer is a fox as long as he gets away with it, and after that he is crazy. Disturbances inevitably break out — owing largely to the fact that Lindbergh cannot be everywhere at once. An Egyptian mummy often finds his press agent too late to be of any great service in his practical political affairs. The dollar went farther In 1927 than any time since the World war. But the farther it goes the harder to get back. A forger serving a term In Sing Sing writer blank verse. He had better stick to blank verse than blank checks. A bullfight features the toreador; although students of the sport insist that the “bull” is the essential con sideration. Who remembers when dark colors were most popular in hosiery and a girl in a hurry could fix up a small nun with iodine? • An army officer is to ride a horse from New York to California. As ne gets no money for it we don’t see how Hie mare wilt go. A medical "publicist is asked, “What would you prescribe for psoriasis?’ j\r —perhaps it had better be looked over by a proofreader. “The । bills started coming in this morning.” said a stranger on the bus “I haven’t felt this way since the time I came out of the ether.” While looking through the office die tiorlary for something else, the office ferret has discovered that “bissextile” is -the technical expression for leap year. This thirleen-month .year has its bad points. For instance, those of ns who stay in debt the year around will have to be i. debtor thirteen months instead of twelve. The position of some of us remains substantially, as follows: Anyone .whose affections are worth $30.01X1 couldn't possibly have had them alienated. Os course, we will know more about the virtues of this new’ marriage idea when we see how many golden weddings are celebrated on the companionate basis. The European astrologer who predicts that this year will be famous for the birth ot an extraordinary number of beautiful children certainly knows parents. After his mother called “Edward!” seven times the other morning with no response, although he was awake, he explained that people who knew I him well called him “Ed.” We understand that according to the companionate marriage arrangement, he doesn’t have to slip her gloves' and compact into his pocket when they go to the theater. “Ladies, you must not smoke!” said I Viscountess Astor, thereby demon- I strating that in order to raise a general laugh an after-dinner speech j need not necessarily be humorous. Eligible young women who find themselves hesitant about making use i of the leap year prerogative may be [ interested to know that in Washing- I ton and Idaho there is a shortage of j girls. A promii. ent musician of London • , claims to be able to remember 2.00(1 scores. He isn’t a Harvard graduate or he wouldn’t want to. The linotype says the Chinese gen eral or the foreign potentate whose name is “Etaoin” will win undying fame in the composing room. After all the young criminals calling themselves foxes, lone wolves, etc., are rounded up. they ought to be taken out in a body to a zoo and | forced to apologize. A hundred years from now some | crazy young historian is going to i launch a theory that the Chicago fire I was started with a cigar lighter. The thoughtless boast of somebody down there that there is no rhyme for | Florida has elicited several surpris | ing suggestions, including “horrider.” A newspaper man received a watchcharm lead pencil from an admirer with the Inscription: “Write is might.” He acknowledged the gift with “Mite is right.”

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Police of England Blame Yank Crooks

London.—Scotland Yard’s latest baffling problem concerns an epidemic of big sto^^obberies. An American gang is suspected. During recent months five of the leading establishments In the West end of London have been raided b.v expert cracksmen. It is estimated that $120,000 worth of Jewelry and other goods have fallen Into their hands. Police officials believe It is the work of one gang and are inclined to lay it at the door of an American master mind by reason of the expert and modern methods employed. Another reason for their belief is the warning they received last year from police officials in the United States that a flock of American super,criminals were likely to invade Europe and that their pet hobby was expensive jewelry. Scotland Yard’s conviction became almost a certainty when a fashionable jewelry store in Bond street, the heart of aristocratic London, was raided recently and $50,000 worth of gems extracted from a supposedly burglar proof safe, despite the fact that the safe was in full view of the policemen patrolling the beat. The most modern appliances were used. Acetylene blowpipes were first brought into play to prepare the safe for the steel cutters. Previously a hole had been made In the ceiling above to enable the thieves to lower themselves and their apparatus preparatory to operations. Water w r as strewn on the floor to prevent an outbreak of fire from the heat of the blowpipes. The job was done In a few hours. The cra< ksmen made use of the electric light burning above the safe for illumination pur poses. Not a clew was left. The po liceman who occasionally glanced in to see if everything was in order was innocent of what was happening. In three of the cases of big store robberies the thieves mingled with the customers during Saturday and then prior to the closing hour hid themselves In some convenient spot.

May Utilize Pillar of Lot’s Wife This is the famous Pillar of Salt in Palestine that, according to legend, jAA was Lot’s wife. It is reported that —— the pillar Is tn danger of being torn down for the manufacture of table "A salt by the company holding the con- -y cession for the Dead sea salt deposits. St ‘Oiu® A h A ■ K

Dogs Leading Blind Make Rules at Berlin Berlin.—Requests by the lead dogs for the blind are contained in a pamphlet which lias been widely pub lished by the association of Berlin’s blind “Do not pat us. “Do not feed us. Our master sup plies us with sufficient food and deli I cacies. “Facilitate our crossing a street during the hours of busy traffic by cal! Ing to us the moment the street Is i clear. “Do not try to lure us away from i our masters. “If you want to help our master, do It on the other side, not on the side on which we are leading him “Keep a watch on your own and ! other dogs lest they annoy us. “If you have a complaint to make i about us do it with the organization a § Plowing for 110 Hours « Called World Record :: £ Tamarac, Minn.—Harold An- « H derson of Tamarac claims the 2; St record for continuous plowing. % He remained at the throttle of t? X his tractor for 110 hours with- «♦ If out sleep, and left the machine it only long enough to eat and fill jj the fuel ranks of the machine. * The youth left his home with ♦♦ £ the tractor and two bottom »♦ g plows at seven o’clock on a Mon- # tj day morning and plowed con § tinuously until nine o’clock the " I ~ following Friday night. Farm- ti ■ ers in the neighborhood timed if the operations. j. In the 110 hours he plowed GO ’ * acres with the tractor running ft at slightly under normal operat- ♦♦ ~ ing speed and covering a dis- * jj tance of about 240 miles. An- % g derson lost eight pounds during ♦♦ # the five days. । ^tt^ttx-ttiif'tt .V-tt i^-ttA-tt ?f-tt^Jt <^tt>rttil^tX^tt

They robbed the store at leisure during Sunday and escaped before business began Monday. Acrobatics, eclipsing the feats ot the renowned “cat” burglars, played a prominent part In the latest store robbery. Finding the floor on which they had hidden Inclosed by locked doors and powerful steel shutters, the thieves knotted hose pipes and hung them down the parcels chute. They then slid one by one down the dark spiral passage, ransacking floor EXPERT SKI JUMPER <- The photograph shows Leonard Lehan of Montreal. Canada, who !s leading the Canadian ski Jumpers nt St. Moritz. Switzerland. by floor. For their escape to the street they utilized the same knotted hose pipes. Burglar alarms availed not hing. Police officials declare these cracks men set a new standard in burglary without noise or violence. They paid tribute to t ip manner in which the burglars swung themselves inside the building by means of the hose pipes.

of wlii< h our master is h member; the local association of the blind ” “Don’t molest us by your inquisi tiveness. Young Turkey Wearing America’s Old Clothes Washington.—Due to the young Turk movement sot the wearing ot Western styles of clothing, about 2.51 M) bales of old clothing are being imported annually into Turkey, the Department of Commerce reports. The value of the annual imports of old clothes is fixed at 815O.(X)O. Inherited New York.—Joan Taylor, thirteen months old, plays real tunes on the piano, whistles and sings. Her dad is Deems Taylor, composer and critic It is easy enough for a millionaire to believe that contentment is better than wealth —for he finds that it is much harder to acquire.

To Make Sun Work

Stove Pipe Wells, Calif. —Death valley may be made to give up a far vaster treasure than ever has been dug from its blistering hills. It is about to he made to pay the piper. H. W. Eichbaum, desert lover and believer in nature is making plans to entertain a group of scientists who will make some tests to ascertain the best methods of imprisoning the energy developed by the sun in Death valley. An effort is being made by Eichhaum to bring to Stove Pipe Wells, here in the heart of the valley. Prof. Daniel F. Comstock, formerly of Mas-

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The Week-Ender - By THOMAS ARKLECLARK " Dean of Men, University of Illinota. 4 l-l-H-l-l M l 11 I I 1 I •l-H-H-l-H-H I VISITED a college a year or so ago 1 situated within an hour’s ride of a big city. Few of the students live outside of the state in which the in stitution Is situated and most of them live within a radius of torty miles. There are no classes on Saturday, and Sunday, of course, is a holiday. When the last class exercise on Fri day Is ended, the campus is Hi! but deserted. There is a mad rush for trolley cars, and motor busses and broken-down flivvers and suburban trains, and the pseudo student Is off for a week-end at home. The student likes to go home, because the duties and opportunities which home affords frees him from any college ot scholastic dut'es. He may take a book or two home, but he seldom looks Into them or It He is b<‘tter fed at home, he can sleep later in the morning—mother sees to that —he has h better time Parents are gratified to have him at home He is safer, they think, better looked after, am) the weekly visit keeps him from immediate weaning from the tmim* Influepc,*, am) keeps dive the sentiment tor the home girl There is no spirit In a college of this sort, however The students of such an Institution are iot going to college In reality ; they ar • picking up a few stray crumbs of Information

Triumph of Science

Washington. —An event of great In terest to the scientific world occurred here when the largest piece of optical glass ev» r cast In rhe United Start's was uncovered at the bureau of stand tirds nnd found to be flawless. The great disk. “<» inches In diameter. 11 Inches thick nnd weighing 3.s<kt pounds wns cast In May. 1927. nnd Ikis been cooling for nine months. The glass Is destined for the Perkins observatory at Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio, for use ns n concnve mirror In n new reflecting telescope. An entirely new pr«xe^. deviled b.v A N Finn, n scientist, was used. Four unsuccessful attempts to cast the piece were previouslv made. A thousand pounds of special brok en glass. 4.0)0 pounds of sand am) chemicals were poured into a single pot in a gns-fired furnace nt the bu rent) on May 7. The molten mass was DIPPING INTO SCIENCE g CKt 0000 >OOOO -o $ g Egyptians Good Dentists “ Q The science of dentistry was O 0 far advanced .n the age of the $ 5 ancient Egyptians. Mummies $ p hnve been found with gold fill o ° ings in their teeth, crowns and S 5 even bridgework. The art, how- S $ ever, was lost later and an- g p known until comparatively re- b x cent years The first American § o school of dentistry had its be- O x ginning in Baltimore in 1839. £ ft fcl 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) ft , OOCOOOOOOOOODOOO'OOOOOOOOOU New York Once Capital New York was the capital of the nation for approximately one year and a half. George Washington was inaugurated in New York April 30, 1789. New York erased to be the federal capital August, 1790. Pedigreed Curios Chinese collectors do not ) ppreclate a curio unless it lias its pedigree, comments Vanity Fair. It must be accompanied by a hoary list of purchasers elating from the time of its birth.

sachusetts Institute of Technology, now a consulting engineer, who has developed ideas as regards to the controlling of solar energy. He is expected to overcome the difficulties the problem presents. The solar constant, says Eichbaum, corresponds to one horse power per square yard, or 3.(MMMJOO horse power to the square mile. Here In Death valley it is believed there are greater opportunities for the testing out of this new process of developing power from the sun's rays than anywhere else In the world, save, perhaps, on the Sahara desert.

See Ghostly Faces

Birmingham, Ala. —Seemingly from the world of spirits an unseen hand has impressed the pictures of two faces upon panes of glass in windows at the Pickens county courthouse at Carroll ton, Ala. Such men as Probate .Judge B. G. Robinson, Sheriff Lester May, Rev. W. A. McCain, pastor of the Baptist church, and other well known citizens of Carrollton, vouch for these pictures. They have been viewed by

several hundred citizens of Pickens county. One face, they say. has been visible on one of the windows ever since the courthouse was built in 1870. Recently a second picture ap pea red on a new pane of glass insert ed in an attic window by J. E Ogles try. carpenter, to replace a pane broken by a storm. The old face Is snid to resemble Sam Rurhalter, a negro, who was killed many years ago while trying to evade arrest for burning the old Pickens county courthouse. This face while still living nt home. They come back to their work Monday morning weary, bored with the thought that they will have to tilt the books again By the time they get settler! down to work another week-end has arrived nnd it is time to go hotm There Is little organization In such an institu tion. little class feeling, fraternities are mere boarding houses, college activities arouse no Interest, nnd there is little or no rending, or thoughtful discussion excepting what is absolutely necessary to meet class requirements. No man not even a college student, can desei t his business to go off on a pleasure Jaunt every week end and have It amount to much He must give It some serious thought nnd attention even w hen he Is away from it If tie is to get on. The week-ender is n poor business man and an Indifferent student “But one should drop the worries ; of business when he closes Ids office doors at night.” you say. There is a good deal of truth in such a state- ‘ metit. but there are always incidental

stirred by hand for six hours and run into a special electrically controlled mold at a temperature of 2.400 degrees ; Fahrenheit. Throughout months the j temperature lias been gradually lowered. over periods as slowly as 4% degrees per day. — Japan Will Protect Buyers of All Gems Tokyo. — Dishonest pearl dealers and Jev elers in Japan are to be put out of business if the government can accomplish it. The department of commerce, at the request of legitimate dealers, intends to stamp all genuine Jewels with the words “guaranteed by the govern ment.” Jewel inspectors will be at tached to the department ami every gem examined and attested will be properly stamped. Num-'rous foreigners touring In Japan have been the victims of nn scrupulous jewelers, paying exorbitant prices for imitation pearls. Probably no other people are as adept tit “fak ing" gems as the Japanese. The imitation gem dealers are located principally in Tokyo, Yoko tiama. Osaka and Kobe. Government inspection offices .ire to be located in each of these cities, beginning in April. Thereafter foreign buyers may assure themselves of some measure of protection by watching for the government stamp. CAN SWING HAMMER i ' War Miss Hildegarde Schwlngha miner of Albany, Minn., lived up to her name when she won a nail driving contest. She Is the best hammer swinger among the girls of the Minnesota School of Agriculture, her record being ten nails in 44% seconds. Going Too Far Des M< ines, lowa. — A husband moved to wrath by a wife’s bob may not chastise her. The state Supreme court so held in confirming a divorce granted to Mrs. Nona Harden O’Brien.

is full of troubles and crossed with pain. The new. face resembles that of Lee Summerville, a negro who killed Deputy Sheriff Burt Johnson In November, 1920. He was shot to death recently by a Sumter county deputy sheriff, at York, Ala. The face may be seen distinctly at a distance of two blocks. Neither picture indicates whether the faces are white or black. They

are Just merely studies of expression. Soon after the second face appeared, the glass was removed from the window. washed with acid and Replaced At a close* view of the two panes of glass nothing can be seen “These pictures are not an hallucination.” said Judge Robinson. “Any one who cares to do so may see them at any time. Just ns many hundreds of people have seen them in the past.” He says the Images move from place to place on the glass when the sky is cloudy. tilings to be done. unexi»ected occurrences which must be attended to and one must be at hand to do this—not fifty or n hundred or a thousand miles ■way. One must associate with business men and learn business ways, and get Into the spirit of what he Is doing, and this is true in college quite SMARTNESS IN PRINT & Ay Bi ■ I Tn I ip I I bC " I -1 The vogue for printed fabrics tor next season’s spring and summer frocks has included varied striped materials. Stripes horizontal, diagonal, vertical and almost every other Kind will be used in fashioning or trimI ruing some of the new sports frocks. For the slender person who can afford to wear horizontal stripes, the frock shown above is very fetching and youthful. The skirt is of black satin, plaited aroum and the , striped blouse Is of red and white. Note tire smart tittle collar, cuffs and pocket ornamems fashioner) of white grosgrain ribbor. edged with the red. It is worn by Marceline Day, MetroGold wyn-MayeP Mayer. as much as 3a any other business. There are lons vacations at Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter and during the summer when complete freedom from academic obligations may be enjoyed, and these are quite adequate. Tt^ student who wants to go home everr week-end and the parents who encourage him to do so are to that extent weakening his college interest. (©. 1928. WeO-n Newspaper Union.) White House Wedding The first marriage which occurred in the White Htvse was that of Mrs. Washington, sister of Mrs. Madison, and Judge Toil* of Kentucky, Maren 11, 1811. Otherwise It’s a Zephyr A scientific observer defines a blizzard thuswise: “If five men can hold a blanket over a gimlet hole in a door, it is not a blizzard.” £ Metal Makes Suits ~ Last for Lifetime a S London. —Gloom held forth in the London tailor shops recently g despite the fact that the day was the sunniest of the year. The ~ £ bad outlook was caused by the n £ announcement that “metalized” S suits, that won’t wear out, were * S possibilities of the future. # Demonstrations of the new ~ ~ mctalization process were given ~ •I by W. L Einstein, said to be 3 § related to Professor Einstein, of ~ relativity fame. They were at- § 7ft tended by many scientists, who Ji ~ saw suitings and other mate- w Ji rials treated, which, *.t was claimed, would last a lifetime. * 3

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