Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 March 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Everv Thursday by T1 IE IN DEPEN DENT- NE US CO. Publishers! of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAK EVI 1.1.E STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch, Editor • *” SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months 90 yhree Months 60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, Jnd., as second-class matter. Between radios and planes most of us have been up in the air this year. The only miss that has registered in the Atlantic flights is Miss Fortune. Silk stockings have become so cheap that, even the musical comedies can afford them. What’s become of the old-fashioned parents who told the children they must be home by midnight? “Why did you leave the palmistry business?” ’ “Oh, I don't know—l couldn’t see any future in it.’’ The Skjellerup comet is said to be Invisible to the naked eye as well as being a strain on the naked ear. The frequency with which filling stations are robbed is attributed to the fact that they do a cash business. \ We never did find out really whether Lindbergh cares for genuine Mexican tamales canned in Kansas City. In an office full of new cigar lighters, it is a* little tough being the only old-fashioned fellow with matches. One that seems to have no difficulty rising, ..on a ;ero morning, is the stopper on the milk, bottle on the back po.rch. Those quaint, old fashioned unprogressive states. Massachusetts and New York, have never adopted a gasoline tax. An editor on social usages tells ns it is bad form to talk about the weather. And useless.” The weather speaks for itself. Funny, with all the paving the state । highway department boasts about, that | our car always hits two-foot mud when it rains. . All in all, nothing else emphasizes the need of a paint job on the old boat like a pair of brand-new, shiny 3928 license plates.’ There never was any order in Nicaragua to speak of. so naturally the official excuse is that our marines are there to “restore” ft., Afethod^ of paralyzing a large office force for the .remainder of the day. No. 241 Ask whether anyone remembers the words pf spine old song. If he sighs for the good old days he probably means that with his present salary he could have afforded a swell surrey and, the best pair of bays in town. . . • .. > _. -j “1 think I’ll stay in this evening.” remarked Paul Bunyan, the mighty wo’odsman. as - he filled his saxophone with tobacco and “sat down for a smoke. The man who wrote the songs of a nation was once regarded as a power. The. man who does the flying for a nation is now regarded as the leading influenced Bertrand Russell, the great English philosopher, says love cannot be turned on and off, like an ordinary faucet. It must be more like the one in a pullman. A Belgium woman shot her sweetheart because his dancing made her ridiculous. We'll .have to admit that it is almost impossible to keep step with the times. “If I thought it would enhance the I value of my pictures any.” remarked j the commercially minded young artist i “I would spread the rumor around ■ that I am dead.” • A photograph so small that it is not j visible to the naked eye is on exhibit ; at fife Royal Academy in London. You are perfectly right in assuming ; that it is not a picture of a bathing ! beauty. Wlfat do you imagine would happen if one of these office-holders who are elected chiefs of the Oogawallah tribe decided to go out to the reservation* several years later and assert his prerogative? An artist who for 20 years has been painting American women says they are losing their beauty. Is this mere professional jealousy, aroused because the women are doing so much of it themselves? A “whispering tenor” is reported to be paid an average of $1,350 a week, so probably for a few hundred more lie would refrain entirely. An ingenue is that more or less young party in the movie who curls up in a chair like a kitten, the rheufuatism notwithstanding. But does the lexicographer who urges an alphabet of 48 letters reckon with the powerful opposition of the manufacturers of spelling blocks ami alphabet noodies? The mere fact that an invitation to speak on seme public occasion Ims been accepted is often of more significance than the speech itself. We can have nothing but admiration for a street car that can turn over on its side with 25 passengers in it and never hurt one of them. Dr. Knight Dunlap, professor of psychology, claims that primitive man’s first clothes were mosquito nets Just as we claimed —there is nothing new on the scret n.

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Virginia Restores Historic Chamber

Richmond, Va. —The hand of time Is being turned back many years' in Virginia’s aged capital building. The old hall of the house of delegates iu Rich mond, which has perhaps beeb the scene of more events of prime importance than any other room in the South, is undergoing complete restoration after long neglect. The great ball with its classic columns and cornices served us a gathering place for the representatives of the people for more than a hundred years. But in the early part ot the present century it became evident that the structure for which Thomas Jes ferson bad drawn up plans and made a model while in France was no longer adequate for the needs of the stale. In 1904 and 1905 wings were added, in which new quarters were provided for the legislature; and the old hall of the house of delegates became a museum for the state's agricultural exhibits. At its 1926 session, however 1 , the general assembly decided the halt deserved a fate more In keeping with its history, and the work of restoration then authorized''is now approaching completion. Stirring debates, grave crises and picturesque events have gone to the making of the hall’s history. All the Constitutional conventions were held , there, and there Virginia voted rati ' fication on June '25, 1788.’ The hall was the scene of the trial of Aaron Burr for treason, with Joba Marshall presiding, in 1807. The former vice president bad been at mysterious schemes In the West, out of which, it was charged, he designed to evolve an empire for bimself, with the loss to the Union of the great Mississippi valley. A grand jury for the District of Virginia, where his expedition virtually started, indicted him. and his case came up before the Supreme court, sitting tn Richmond. The crowd of spectators was so gre- ‘ that court had to adjourn to the more commodious hall of the house of delegates. For months the crowd gathered at each session to follow the fortunes of the man whom Winfield Scott described later; “There he strod. In the hands of power, on the brink of danger, as com-

High Honors Accorded Army Mule IO BP'S z I YnJ ylr viz"* ■ • to? ..] pr jr zJ ■ ornirirrtMirTr n cior. - Here is “Arizona,” fa.nous mule ot the Thirtieth infantry, San Francisco ; Presidio, who did a lot of braying overseas during the World war. Because of his notable record “Arizona” was Jv?n an official petting party at the ; Presidio, during which he was decorated with a gorgeous new blanket ■ adorned with his name and six wound stripes. In the picture with j “Arizona” are Miss Pauline Harper, who helped in the petting, and Brig. Gen. Frank C. Bolles, commandant of the Presidio. Volcano Threatens

Washington.—ls Krakatoa lighting I the fuse for another explosion? The tiny island volcano in Sunda strait, between Java and Sumatra, already has tossed out another little land inass into the adjacent waters. The Dutch government, recalling the terrific eruption of 1883. has sent out radio warnings to both the Sumatrans an<i Javanese. That explosion was the most violent in modern times, according to a bulletin from the National Geographic society’s headquarters at Washington. It has been said that it “made the biggest noise” ever heard by the ear of man. Men and women still live in the Americas who recall the eruption, for, while they did not hear its record detonation, they saw the marvelous sunsets which its dust, circulating in the upper atmosphere, helped I create. The sound of the eruption was heard on Rodrigues island, 3,000 miles distant, four hours after the catastrophe. It shot volcanic dust 2*l s miles high and It was this dust that was caught up in a lofty wind and । | i^*.wrCXLV ku I In race for 1 wealth too much ' money seems to be : an impossible quantity.

i posed, as immovable as one of Canova’s living marbles.” Burr was eventually acquitted. The convention which passed the art’eles of secession, precipitating the Civil war, sat in this chamber, and here also the Confederate congress met. Here (leu. Robert E. Lee received formal command of the Con federate forces, and here Gen. Stonewall Jacksm s body lay in state after he had been shot accidentally by one of his own men at the Battle of Chan cellorsville. <>n April 27. 1870, a calamity occurred in the hall that lias peopled its memories with ghosts ever since. “Sad. sad. indeed. Is the duty ot the chronicler of the events and terrible scenes tn our state Capitol on yesterday.” runs an account of the time “Unprecedented In their awful results, heartrending In their every aspect and bringing mourning to our SEEKS FISTIC HONORS I I J ' * The photograph shows Juun Firpo. brother hf the one-time hard hitting Luis Angel Firpo who is now grown so corpulent that he apparently can not stage a comeback. The “Wild Bull o! the Pampas” is grooming tils younger brother for an appearance in the United States. Juan Is a middleweight

I whirled around the earth in 13 days It raised a tide in South America. 10.000 miles away, and, nearer by, it threw up a wall of water more than a S $ o America’s Motor Bill Takes a Great Leap g X Chicago. —William M. Web O g ster, commissioner of the Auto g I mobile Equipment association. 5 estimated America’s automobile £ bill for 1028 will top by millions g the SB.OI M 1.000.000 spent in 1027, $ following a survey of advance g orders. Out of the total he es- g timated 00 cents of every doOai g will represent service, supplies. S g labor and maintenance parts g £ ami only 40 cents actual car <5 I sales. • | “The American motorist now g leads the world in spending g money on his car,” said Mr. g Webster. “Where the motorist £ of 1015 spent 20 cents of every g £ dollar for service, today he is « S spending 57 cents of every dol- g S lar ” § g Lie estimated the world reg- g 5 istration of motor vehicles g g would pass 30,000,OIK) by next £ S December and that the year will & g witness the greatest movement 5 of motor vehicles on the roads g g of the United States. §

entire city, we almost halt in palsied horror. To describe it would be beyond the power ot man; and with those who witnessed it its recollection will remain indelibly vivid as long as life shall last.” It was the day when the Court of Appeals, meeting in the chamber above the hall, was to render decision as to whether a citizen of Richmond elected mayor under the recently passed “enabling act” was entitled to the office or whether the military appointee of reconstruction times, a one-time camp follower of the federal armies, had a right to hold on. Everybody who could squeeze into the chamber was there. Suddenly a panel fell from the ceiling, a girder was seen to give way and the balcony fell to the floor. The floor was In sufficient to support Its weight and In a twinkling 350 persons in a mass of debris were precipitated 25 feet into the hall of the house of delegates, below. Sixty two were killed and 250 injured. When the work of restoration has been completed the room will be fur nished In the style of 1860 and will be used In connection with the work of the house of delegate^ Provision will be made for historic and patriotic societies to put up tablets or monuments commemorative of the various historic

Huge Flying Boat

New York.—Germany has developed an amazing flying boat with !(• motors and wings with a spread of 252 feet that Is expected to make regular 21 hour transiiilan’lc flights. The machine weighs 256.1M10 pounds —l2B tons. |t will be able to carry 165 versons and 13,imm» pounds of freight. Its maximum sjteed will be 165 miles an hour. These details were heard from Fritz Doering, chief pilot and per sonul repremmtHtive of the Rumpier Airplane works in Berlin, and Consul Louis .1. Sklnitzero. who have arrived here to complete negotiations witn a group <>f American business men from New York, ( hic.’igo and Sun Francisco for formation of a company to finance the enterprise. Dr. E Rumpier, head of the organ Ization bearing his name, is one of the leading plane builders in Europe. He lias built airplanes since I'.*ts and tins worked <>n the problem of trans ocennlc flights since the end of the war. Doctor Rumpler lias invented

OOCOOOO 0-0-00 00 000 0000000-000 ;■ GREATNESS AND | SLANDER S § 2 By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK g ° Dean of Men, University of £ O Illinois. 0 <5 O 0000000000000-0000000-000000 ONE if the most interesting situations in biographical literature within recent years is the tendency of the biographer to unearth Incidents of a disreputable character about the men whose greatness In history we have been accustomed to revere. It had Its beginning In England first, as ' I recall, but soon spread to our American heroes. Washington, who since we first j heard of him has oeen held up to every school hoy as a model of propriety and veracity, lias been shown by his recent biographer to have had all sorts of vulgarities and dissipations. Franklin and Lincoln and Webster and a host of others less noted, perhaps, have been featured as e ar from the perfect mtn that we were wont in our childhood to think them. We measure buildings by the shadows they cast and great aen by the slanhundred feet high which traveled 400 miles an hour. Two months before it exploded 1n ISS3 Krakafoa was regarded as an extinct volcano. No person who saw the eruption lived to tell the story. It snuffed out 36,000 lives. Hemp was grown in China as early as 2,800 years before Christ.

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:: dipping into :: science :: ••T~T i* iT.»TT.T.>T..!..T.>TriT..Tii iTi.!. * • • • • ■ t. • -4- 4 1 "4 J 4 J I'T . li: F Heat and Brilliance of F ” Stars " ” The heat of a star Is deter- ” • • mined by its brilliance. At the •• ‘‘ hottest stage it is brightest be- *’ • • cause the light from it is white. ” But as it cools as all stars do in '* •• the course of time the light be- •• ” comes yellow and then red and ” •• so cools down until it becomes •• ” a planet such as our own earth. F • • ((F). 1928 Western Newspaper Union I-I- DH- l-l -l DD» 111 1I i -Hassociations of the hall. Gov. Harry F. Byrd Is sponsoring 11 proposal to place a life-size statue of General Lee on the spot where he stood In assuming command of the Southern forces. Bicycles ax Killers Paris. — Police statistics for a year show that bicycles are worse killers than the heavily loaded autobusses that weave their fast and ponderous way through Paris traffic Jams.

the new “multi motored” flying boat. Tiie basic idea behind this machine IhuTing explained, Is decentralization of weight and nil motion units Use of n large numtier of motors assures greater safety, he said. Six motors would be sufficient to lift the ^lmie and its cargo from the ground. «nd four motors would tie enough to sustain flight. Therefore, he said, motor trouble Is likely to be forgotten, ns there always would lie sufficient re serve motors. These bonis will cover the distance from Europe to the United States in 24 hours, (be sponsors say. It is planned to make nonstop flights which will pass over the Azores on the way to Aaierhu. mid over New foundland on the way to Europe. Doering, one of Germany’s flying aces during the war, was the first to import American motors to Germany. Doctor Skinitzero, who has been acthe in extending the market for American goods, represents several great American companies in Europe.

derous things said about them, an Asiatic proverb tells us. If you want to find out whether or not you amount to anything, run for a political office or fry out for the presidency of the Daughters of the Americatior involution. Even good men who are great as NEW PRESIDENT N. E. A. I '7. w i i > 7 < , Cornelia Storrs Adait is the new president of the National Education association. Miss Adair, who is a native of West Virginia. Is the first classroom teacher to become president of the association since it was organized in 1857. She was formerly teacher of English at Bainbridge Junior high school at Richmond. Va.

River Bubbles Like Wine and Match Sets It Afire Grenoble, France. —A boiling river and a buried forest were the unex- j pected rewards of men digging for springs in the Interest of the water supply of Coreno. Instead of a spring they discovered a stream of water which bubbled like champagne. A match was touched to the water wnlch became ablaze from the gas which It contained. The source of the gas was found by sinking a shaft ItM) feet where giant oaks and pines were discovered decomposed. FOR COUNTRY CLUB v •> The sweater and skirt outfit shown above Is typical of what the smart women will wear at country clubs. The blouse Is of ^ray angora Jersey trimmed with stripes In three shades of red. The skirt is black and the scarf is of a darker shade of gray, fringed at the end. It is worn by Dorothy Sebastian in “Wyoming.”

well are not exempt trim the attacks of those who would like to blacken their character and ruin their reputation. I am old enough to remember distinctly the great scandal which connected itself a halt century or more ago with Htnry Ward Beecher, one of the greatest preachers which this country has ever had. Even in those days when yellow Journal!: m was not so widespread and murder and Itnmofality were not broadcast under such heave headlines, the newspapers were full of the vulgar details of the stories which in the end only went to show what a great man Mr. Beecher was. If he had been otherwise less fuss would have been made over his lack of discretion if it really was as much as that. Jordan decided last spring that he would come out as a candidate for one of the undergraduate offices. This did not signify greatness on his part, but simply a desire to become great. He had been rather insignificant before. quiet, modest, unobtrusive—a boy about whom no one had much of anything to say. But the situation changed when be put himself forward for recognition and lared to aspire to a position of prominence. They began to say things about him, to dig up his past and to feature his mistakes and his irregularities. What they didn't know they made up until, if one believed half he heard. Jordan was one of the roost disreputable members of our community. He came to me almost in tears. “What would you advise me to do?” he asked. “Should I withdraw?” “By no means.” I said. “The more evil they say about you. the more they fear your power. Just so it isn't true, you are all right.” I was right; Jordan was elected. Whoever is not talked about is likely to be commonplace; it is inevitable that envy or fear should cause the great to be maligned. (© 1925. Western Newspaper Cn’oo.j Daughter’s Name Used on Sign Outside Firm % Caterham. England.—H. MarX merit & Dauchter. Limited, is a g -A new sign which is attracting at- -.? tention oxer a local fish, poul- S try and fruit shop. % ?? Miss Amy F. Marnrent is the ;Z daughter. “?.Iy da tighter has been inter- £ ested in the business for a good Sr many years.” said her father :£ # “During the war she kept the S business going, and 1 have % Jr given her an interest in the $ % firm.” % Father and daughter are the £ sole directors cf the corpora it tion. x”# •” ■? -s' I .'■'J•'ft-£ ” x” x”~ Raindrops are rarely bigger than one-Qftn of an inch tn diameter.

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