Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 April 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by " THE INDEPENDENT-NEYVs CO. Publishers of the WALKERTOX INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILEE^ STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES - Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M, Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES “ One Year SI 50 Blx Months... ’9O Three Months \ '5 q TERMS IN ADVANCE ' Entered at the post office at Walkerton, ynd„ as second-class matter. Strange that men should call money “dough”—dough sticks to your fingers. Palestine fears a plague of locusts. What a chance for the aviation service! Do' not let your past experience laugh you out of your newest resolutions. Oh, changeful time! For the timehonored “chop house” the chop suey house. An efficiency expert tells other people how to do it. but he seldom does it himself. The helicopter, for all its Greek name, is just an aerial cousin of the corkscrew. Considering the poor shows that are mixed with the good ones, prices are not so low. It must be wonderful to feel so sure of yourself that it isn’t necessary to act hard boiled. Having opened a subway, Japan is going to find out just how devilish civilization really can be. Moscow says it is “weeding out official bribe takers.” The weeding implement in Moscow is the rifle. It’s a sad life and a hard one, and ■ by the time a man gets into pretty good shape, he’s lost his shape. Props are to be placed under the leaning tower of Pisa in an effort to make it lead a more upright life. Do you remember when it was con sidered wicked to slam the door because “it was just the same as swearing?” Aviators say that fog is the biggest problem in an airplane flight. It is also the biggest problem in a flight of oratory. No efficiency expert has attempted to show the average business man how he could eat a quick luncheon any quicker. Fairy Story: “While the theater was burning, the performer calmed the audience with a piece on the ukulele.” Another of the Long Lost Brothhood is the contortionist in the Victorian novel who “laid his heart at her feet.” Assuming that static was virtually unemployed prior to the arrival of the radio, how and where did it put in its time? Fairy Story: “I will accept some more cake, mother,” announced the small child, “if you will first remove the raisins.” Another unsolved problem for the racial psychologist is the reason why Englishmen are alone in enjoyment of the monocle. The stunning thing, every so often, In the report of an aviator’s arrival, is the name of some long lost American ambassador. If she “doesn’t care what people think,” she is like a driver with four crumpled fenders. There is nothing left to lose. When anybody calls the Office Cynic up by phone and asks coyly. “Can you guess who this is?” hg just says “Yes” and tyings up. A missionary rescued his small «on 'from head-hunters in New Guinea just in time to spoil a remark about “a broth of a hoy.” A dispatch says that bad teeth and insanity are linked, giving another indication that a toothache is likely to drive a fellow crazy. What we need is a furnace that will keep the house warm enough for a woman without clothes and cool enough for a man in knit unions. A Washington dispatch says the army ration is now 50 cents “And what.” ask^d the new recruit, “are they using the other 40 cents for?” Two is company, but for a day or two the Minnesota youth who won a championship of some kind by eating 53 onions at a sitting will probably be a crowd. “You monopolize the party line for 14 hours a day!” shouted rhe irate husband. “People will begin to think 1 am a bigamist.” Scientists claim that man’s cycle of life will soon he increased to too years, which will be a great boon to the installment business. A first-class radio program is the one which is on while you cover 37 pages of a gripping novel before discovering that you haven’t retained a word. A handsome illustrated ad for a line of saxophones depicts anil enumerates all the novel appurtenances, etc., except the adenoids. Scientists say our next war will be with insects. The cooties must hive been en'couraged by their efforts in the late unpleasantness. Mr. Art Needham of Corvallis. Ore., can chew 50 st’cks of gum simultaneously while playing a cornet ; and probably. If properly encouraged, could cat the cornet.

Good Job for Hermit

Washiugtca.—The lighthouse keeper, the prospector, the sheep herder have lonely jobs, but what is probably the loneliest of all is that of the for-est-fire observer. Perched high on some towering mountain top in the cabin of his steel tower, surrounded for miles about by almost inaccessible forest, the fire observer goes for weeks, often months, without seeing another human being. Not all contact with the world, however, is lost, for by the very nature of his work he must be in daily and sometimes hourly telephone gommunic> tion with the ranger’s or forester’s headquarters. Equipped with the indispensable telephone, his maps, range finder, binoculars and meteorological o- such r IS ' Sujhroe | LEADERSHIP I f By THOMAS ARKLECLARK ? f Dean of Men, University of f Illinois. IT WAS Amil the Goth who said to Wulf, the chief of the tribe, when he was hesitating as to his own action : “If the, bison-bull lie down and wallow, what will the herd ’ do for a leader? If the king-wolf lose the scent, how will the pack hold it? If the Ynling forgets the song of Asgard. who will sing it to the heroes?” Example is the strongest influence in leadership. Clayton had charge of seven thousand men wjiose job was ship building during flie World war—untrained, illiterate men- most of them were, who were used to hard work and a rough life, and to be ruled with an iron wrist, and Clayton was a man of education and refinement He nad seen the world; he had known men of prominence and influence; ne was a gentleman in every sense of the word, but for all his refinement of taste and education, he had no difficulty with his men, and the reason was that he lived with them, he ate the food that they ate, he slept as they slept, he worked as many hours daily and as hard as they worked, he lived soberly and discreetly as he would have liked them to live. They respected his character, they recognized his leadership, and they folHOBBY IS LIFE SAVING J?- Wl S ■ fez- Wk 1555 oOi Wilfred Whiting of London, Eng land, will some of the medals tie has received for saving the lives of his fellowmen. Whiting has saved 165 persons from drowning without assistance.

Scientist Wa^es War on Plague "II I I / > J J? > >. % J ■Ayl M i iff 1 i - I L 'wiS M I x I - I ?\ J / - x - u I JlvF’ I /-i I ECT - Dr. Thorvald Madsen, director of tbe famous Serum Institute al ( open bagen, Denmark, where constant war is being wageu against cholera, tuber tulosis and other plagues.

instruments, the towerman keeps constant watch over the thousands of acres of forest land spread out below him for the first telltale signs of smoke. The joh of lookout, lonely and usually poorly paid as it is. nevertheless demands a type somewhat above the average in intelligence and fortitude to till it. He must understand telephone line repair, must be able to read maps and know enough about triangulation to 'ocate forest fires by taking their bearings, must he able to make temperature and humidity read ings on a wet and dry bulb thermometer, and he must be able to cook his own meals. Some states and the federal govern

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lowed us the pack follows the king wolf. The boss gave Williams very g<s>d advice when l;e took him on in a subordinate position. He emphasized the fact that regular and temperate habits were necessary to success. He gave Williams to understand that drinking and gambling were not con sonant with progress In their firm The advice was excellent and Wil Hams listened to it with respect But he had not been long with the firm until he learned that the boss was not following the advice which he had given his subordinates His breath did not always suggest a respect for the Volstead act ; tils stories of what lie had won in a friendly game with one of his neigh bors did not indicate that be himself refrained from gambling, and if he did not. why should Williams'/ The boss find succeeded and had been neither temperate nor always sriupn lons ns to flow lie won his money His example told strangely in mold ing Williams' character. He was Ihe bison-bull lying down and wallowing, and the herd was foliowing his ex ample. Gaston who was head of his fraternity, was worried about the freshmen In the house. It was hard to keep them in at night—they were crazy about dates. It was difficult to keep them at their hooks, and their scholarships were not what it should be. He wanted advice “How many nights a wee . are you in?” 1 asked. He colored a little and hesitated. “1 am out a good deal,” ne con fessed. “And your grades?” "Not all that they should be. I’m sorry to say.” It was the king wolf losing the scent, end I tried to show him <©. 1928 ">«irrn N't-w-iiauzi Union I Baby Bonds Decrease With Partial Payment New York. —Prosperity mid partial payments have reduced the demand for “baby” bonds. During file war days "baby' bonds, as securities of less than *I.OOO do nomination were called became pop ular, especially after nationwide sales

Light on Crabs

Washington. —An Indication that at least one family of North Carolin:, sand crabs has an extremely arista cratic iineage, dating hack about 25. (KXMMMI years, is contained in a re port on new fossil discoveries in rhe Grand canyon by Dr. Charles W. Gii more, noted paleontologist of the Smithsonian institution. Tracks of tbe ancient creature that roamed around in the ooze which formed the foundation ot the moun tail) before it was cut by the Colorado river were first found in IPO3 by the late Dr Charles D. Walcott in th; Coconino standstone on Grand View trail. Another specimen was found 12 years later by Prof. Charles Schuch

ment have employed women observers with good results A woman lookout is quick to delect fires, accurate in locating them and definite when reporting them to beadquarters. Where tire towers are situated near settlements or farms, women will often be found "manning” them. These towers, the more modern of which are of galvanized steel, vary in height from 20 to 100 feet, (hough there are some even higher. When built on the highest peak of n niouti tain range a (iO-foot tower will usually permit a view of all the surround ing forest. In clem weather the ob server may he able to see 40 miles or more, but the averagt visibility is between 10 and 20 miles

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of l.lb(‘rly bonds had taught the pub r lie to invest When the l.ibtrtv bonds I were called for redemption, however : Wall street bund dealers say. the holders were hirlin«>d to favor the Sl.tXMi d< nominal ions for reinvest ments. especially If It was possible i to pt base the target bonds on the ; partial payment plan It wis snid that the firms also found that the cost of printing and bool keeping was i as gt uit for the "baby” as (or (he larger Iwmds. • »f late borrow In: corporations haw I ' shown ri tendehey to Issue only bonds ■ of larger denomimuio'ns The same I has becti true of the miinhfpais hotid , ■ houses evhlently having ootne to be I 1 Heve that appeal* to small investors ■ are not now prnrMral. I “Modern Atlas’’ Again Testing World’s Heft Washington. —Another attempt f. determine the exact weight of the world Is under way at the bureau of Standards. Dr Paul R Hey I. a bureau physi cist, who made a series >f oh-iTva lions on the subject a year ago, is I now undertaking a check of his for ' liter work, with some modifications of ’ । the apparatus used By bis original work, Ilie weight ot ' rhe earth was figured in tons to la I 6.0!»2, followed b.v 1* ciphers. The 1 new experiments will not change hi- । original figures much, the scientists say. but the difference will neverthe less be important from a scientific standpoint.

ert ot Y de. and a third was discov ered last year by Doctor Gilmore Using this as a type speciuivh tot itis -tudy. he has concluded thal Hu trackway probably was made by some ci nstm ean in the Permian period ot geclouicn| time The sandstone sial ! -hows two parallel lines of imprint- ' in groups of four, arranged in a row : of three regularly spaced tracks with I 'he fourth offset inward The similarity of this arrangement to the tracks of living sand crabs wa* called to Doctor Gilmore’s ittention I by Remington Kellogg of the United States biological survey, w ho observed these creatures recently on Hatteras island. N. ('.

12b j । * le ’('ernge man spends a 10l of rime prosecuting the work 11 of others that tie would better spend in prosecuting his own ♦** **♦ «j» ♦** *J» •** •** **• *x* **• <• ❖ Chinese Reds Torture, Then Massacre Rich < ❖ Hankow. —Chinese sources, in »;« X iriving details of rhe recent mas- *♦' ❖ sacre at Leiyang. said Comma- <• X rusts and disbanded soldiers fired the houses of all rhe well- ❖ to-do citizens wl.o were penned "J* inside with women and children. ❖ and burned to death ’f. J Everybody w 1.0 appeared to be prosperous was murdered tn the X southern Hunan city Usually ❖ the victims w, re tortured first, »♦. X their eyes being gouged out. ❖ their ears cut off. Whole tami »;• X lie- were so Dented, parents be- X '•* ing compelled to watch their ❖ children being mutilated and £ children so watch the torturing ❖ 4* -I* of their parents. 3, ■?* Several foreign missionaries 44* . , r • , <• 4- were tn the Leiyang area at the 4. X time and theii fate was not J ❖ known. 4. *♦* *l* *♦* *♦* *♦* *•* *♦* *♦* *♦* *** *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* ‘ *♦* *♦* *♦’ *♦* *•* *♦ '♦* *•* *♦* *♦*

Goblin on Guard?

Natural Tunnel, Va.—Weird leg ends of a goblin, deranging the minds of marauders seeking treasure wl.ich tradition says is buried far up in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia where nature has formed a natural tunnel for railroads, are told by residents here. The treasure Is said to have been buried in a cave in the rock walls of the tunnel. White men pursued by Indians, placed the treasure *herp. the legend says, and only one at tempt has Iteen made to recover it A box, rigged with ropes, was low ered from the top of the wall The man in it was about fifty feet down when lie saw the cave contained an eagle’s nest. Ihe eagle attacked him and in striking m the bird .me of the ropes was severed, suspending the treasure seeker above the yawning cavern. The other rope field, the story re lates. but when the man was pulled to the top lie was found to be demented as a result of the terrifying experience. Another tale is that an Indian prin cess leaped from the towering wall of the tunnel to her death SIXI feet below, because of her love for I’ochesa, an Indian brave from the sea. whom her father, a Mingo chief, refused to permit tier to marry The spirit of the girl is said to live In the tunnel. The waters of Stony creek flow through part of the tunnel into I.inch

*A****.N***<.*<**<.*<.*<.*****^ ’ * Explorer Discovers * Strange Wild Race i New York. — A visit to •• tnys ; •i ,|s nice d warriors, possibly X I the ilesivndants of South Sea <• ‘f islandir* who came to South X 4* Amerita many centuries ago. <• X was dv« ribed by .A Hyatt Ver- X 4- rill of tiie Must urn of flit Amer- 4ban Indian Ih ye fomi billon, on 4- his return fron Ids six ieth trip 4* io South America. | j Verrlll said In- found the tribe. 4- • .j. o .mbt-ring about 350 men mid X wom*n. in almost impenetrable X wilderm -s befwi t n Brazil and <• X I- iv. 1 Norn- o> the tiibf wears X clothing. Verril. said and the en have d< • ■ 1- x <• of the type commonly -cun In

X the Solomon Islam - The tribe X 4- members are nature worshipers. ❖ he said V • ~ Man Not So Hungry After Eating Sixty Eggs [ Uay etrev ille. W. V.i — a West Vit minimi has entered for national lion ors in egg eating. He is J. W. Carni fix of Hico Fayette <<>unty. Il L S: ndige. who conducts a gen I oral store at Hico and who furnished the eggs, says Camifix. who is seven ty two. came into the store and after : exchanging greetings said his appetite : was unusually good, adding that if j there was any thing to eat on hand fie would |>rove it. Sandige said there was notliinc : niib h to eat ex<-e[>t eggs bur that I . Carnitix could have all he wanted’ Sandige made good on the proposi .ion, hut it ruined his stock of eggs i ' Carnitix ate 6h A little figuring l I showed the lot weighed eight pounds i It took him only 15 minutes to <]<> it Ihal last egg tasted as good as I i rhe first.” Carnitix told the crowd rhar had gathered "I never felt better in i my life, only Um not so hungry." Bad Spelling Shows How Jews Talked Latin Austin. Texas. — Bail spelling on ; tombstones in the .Jewish catacombs ■ d Rome indicates how rhe Jews winlived in Rome in the early Cbrisfian centuries pronounced Greek and Latin I according to Dr Harry .1 Leon, of the University of Texas. Scholars have wondered whethei j Ihe Jews who formed a settlement in । Rome clung to their Hebrew ways <>l I whether they did as the Romans did. I Doctor Leon explains Six Roman cata 1 combs where Hie Jewish residents 1 buried their dead are novv known, and study of rhe inscriptions on the slabs J and tbe gallery walls shows that the • writing is three-fourths Greek and one- '

Getting Their Master s Voice Sr 1 * Osm ,‘^JU

river. The picturesque beauty of the section and the many Indian legends attract numerous tourists. Superb Mosaic Found Washington.—Burieo under the dust of centuries, a superb mosaic disk containing a thousand or more beautifully polished pieces of turquoise lias been discovered by excavators in Yucatan. Cork Industry Hurt Madrid. —After supplying two-thirds of the world’s supply of corks, the Spanish cork industry finds itself in straitened circumstances, d’ge to a greatly reduced demand. •*< ♦*« **• **< ♦J* V *l* ❖ DIPPING INTO | ❖ SCIENCE » *J •* *l* •!* v •!♦ •**♦*♦•** ►*• ❖ Volcanoes J* A very plausible theory re- ❖ * carding the activity of vol canoes is that the water ot the ❖ ocean enters an opening in the •J. earth caused by an earthquake. X forms gas or steam under great ❖ pressure, and finds its outlet ♦ through the crater of ttie vol ,5. cano which seldom lies far •> fro t the sea. ♦ <©. 192 S Western New.-.f«per Unton > <•

fourth Latin. Often words in the in scriptions tire confused with other words of similar sound, so Hint they ire misspelled in cKaraclerisfic wavs Jewish ritualistic symbols on the tombstones were indeed written by Jewish peofile using foreign languages. Doctor Leon points out. Ilie Jewish |H>pulalioti in Rome, v. hid) grew to about 4O.(MM», was no more familiar with Ilie Hebrew lan juage Hiat) the average Jew ot tiwlay The more cultured among them spoke l.atit) ns well as the popular Greek the recent investigations indicate I heir inscriptions afford valuable material in tracing the history of the Greek ami I.at in languages in their ilevelopmenl from the classical tongues of antiipiiiy io rhe modern Greek ami the romance languages of our day. Doctor Leon states.

NEW IN SPORTS WEAR 0 1 ; h A V /I ' ! : 1 ’ ■ I 1 ri' -1 5 £ T v \ I » ' I • J For practical sports wear the I brushed wool costume Marceline Day I wears for golfing is e .tremely g«M>d. I It is a two-piece model with the । blouse striped with peasant colors ! A brown leather belt i«- worn with j the frock Pays for His Soap Birmingham. Ala.—B. D. Duncan manager of a local hotel, has received * five cents b.v mail in ftaymei t for a ■ bar of soap a guest took away from tlte hotel five years ago.

improved Uniform International Sunday School ’ Lesson ’ (By REV H B FITZWATER. DD. Dean Moody Bible Ibsiitute of Chicaco.» (©. 1928 Western Newspaper Unlon.r '' I . Lesson for April 22 JESUS AND THE HOME LESSON TEXT.— Mark 10:1-16 GOLDEN TEXT—Honor thy father and mother, which is the first comniandmenl with promise. PRIMARY TOPlC—Jesus Loves Little Children. JUNIOR TOPlC—Jesus Wants Children to Come to Him. INTERMEDIATE ANO SENIOR TOPIC —Being a Christian at Home. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —The Christian Family. In this scripture we see Christ as a teacher. I. Concerning Marriage (vv. 1 12). The question touching divorce, which the Pharisees temptingly put to Christ, brought forth teaching which exhibits marriage in its true light. 1. Marriage should not be degraded by divorce (vv. 1-5). Divorce was not instituted by God. God ordained the marriage relation and intended it to be indissoluble. Moses did not originate il or authorize it. but suffered. limited and regulated iL The reason Moses e'en suffered it was because of the hardness of the hearts of the people. The existence therefore and practice of divorce indicates the coarseness and |»erverseness of man. The real cause is sin. There is no more real evidence of the blighting effects of sin in the world than the increasing number of divorces. 2. Marriage Gods primal law (vv. G-8). The ideal law of life for the subjects of Christ’s kingdom is marriage. This is proven by the fundamental fact of sex. "God made them male and female” (v. G). The union of the male and female natures is physical, mental and spiritual. In marriage the male and female natures are mutually complemented. “They twain shall be one flesh, so that they are no more twain, but one flesh.” Ged’s plan is that man should not be without the woman or the woman without the man (! Cor. 11:111. 3. Marriage has God’s sanction (v. 9). When God created Eve and brought her to Adam He performed the first marriage ceremony and declared that man should leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife and that they shall be one flesh. “What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” 4. Marriage of the divorced forbidden (v. 10-12). The marriage relation should only be broken by death and sin. In response to the request of the disciples for further information He declared : (1) "Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another committetb adulterv against her ” (2) “If a woman shall put away nep h.'^band and marry another she gommitteih adultery.” 11. Concfirning Children (vv 13 16) The union of the male and fema'e natures, according to God's primal law of marriage, lavs rhe foundation of family life. The normal issue of such a union is children In connection with rhe divine law of marriage it is fitting tiiat .les is should set forth His estimate of children and show His interest in them. Those who think if beneath their digni’v so give attention to children should ponder well the words of Jesus. Christian me” and women will regard children as the properly of the Lord and will esteem it a high and holy privilege to train them for Him observe: 1. Children brought for the touch >f Jesus (v. 13). It is incumbent ti|>on all parents to seek for their children personal Contact with Jesus. 2. The parents rebuked by rhe <lis<iples for bringing their children (v. 13) They seemed to think that attention to children was beneath the dignity of Christ, or. at any rate, they esieeme’ children of not sufficient importan e to warrant the interrup tion of Christ s ministry. 3. Jesus' reply (vv 14. 15) He was displeased — really indignant at their words. He is displeased today over those who are hindering their children from coming to Him. (1) "Suffer the little children ro come unto Me and forbid them not. for of such is the kingdom of God" (v. 14). The kingdom belongs to the children. (2) “Whosoever shall not receive rhe kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter therein” (v Those who count themselves morally helpless, and cast themselves m>*n Jesus Christ, the King, really enter the kingdom. 4. Jesus’ action (v. 16). He took the children up in His arms, put His hands upon them and blessed them. Christ is the Sanor of children. Where Christ’s spirit rules, childhood Is sacred and cbil- , dren have great care. To Live by Faith The all-wise God. whose never fai!ing providence orderetli every event, usually makes what we set our hearts I upon unsatisfactory, and sweetens ‘ what we feared; bringing real evil ! out of seeming good, and real good out lof seeming evil, tc show us what ■ short-sighted creatures we are and to,^ teach us to live by faith upon His ’ blessed Self —Toplady. Cast Down We are cast down, but we are not , destroyed: nay. we are not even injured, for if for a little time we seem to be losers by our castings down, we erelong discover our greater gains. Happy are the people that are In such a case. yea. blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.—Spurgeon.