Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 April 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Everv Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. . , Publishers of the ' WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY’ NEWS _ LAKE VILLE_ ST A ND ARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES - Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M, Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES " One Year 59 Six Months '9O yhree Months '5 0 terms IN ADVANCE Entered at he post office at Walkerton, Jnd., as second-class matter. Companionate marriages would not be so had if more of them reallv were that. Is tiiere any good reason why the tallest building in the world should be the ugliest? A girl.may close her eyes when she Is being kissed but she doesn’t when anyone else is. A conservative, says the Office Cynic, Is just .a former liberal with the nerve killed. “Won’t you agree with me that Smithers is a wit?" “No. but 1 think you're half right.” A cold whve ctyi he sufficiently severe to distract public attention even from a crime wave. That waiter' who was arrested for traveling 65 miles an hour must have been oft’ dii,t.v at the time. Extravagant wives have made more husbands than they have broken. Theii busbands are compelled t.o work. A British scientist says the brain is the only part of us that use doesn’t wear out. What about the tongue? It is a somewhat interesting theory that Eve Was merely urging her old man to adopt the apple-a day idea. One Mexican- general escaped by changing the color ot his hair and whiskers. It was dye or die for turn. Another food whose making this generation has seer; pass from the kitchen to quantity producers is ice "ream. After a statesman has told the world what lie thinks, the radio is liable, very disrespectfully, to turn on the jazz. -x — . . The pons asinorum at which the ra ^dio fan and his wife part company is she understanding of su|»erheterodyne {reception. * That author who says nature pro f vides weapons only for animals that I face the enemy doesn’t know much t about mules. | A f England’s drumbeat goes round the j -world, and if many nations never pay f up their war debts our deadbeat will go round, too. It The years bring us greate ability in > some lines, but the only males who * know how to handle women are not yet able to walk. ? With a new brand of shaving soap ? announced about every fortnight there r isn’t a chance that whiskers can ever stage a comeback. * “Enoch Arden” • couldn’t he plaved on the stage now The audience > would laugh. Who says the human race isn’t changing? Betting—A mild form ot physical ex ercise indudged in by youngsters be cause they are bored and can’t think of anything else to do. The modern girl hurdles all obstacles, yet. with her present foot gear, it cannot he said that she rides rough shod over them. Perhaps when they decide whethe’ the chicken preceded the egg or vice versa, they will also have found whieg came first, the fountain pen or rhe dotted line. Statistics show that there are 1,200. 000 Smiths in the United States alone, and yet the comet that is now in the public eye had to he named after one Mr. Skjellerup. Man may be womans superior in Some things, hut he certainly isn’t when it comes to removing a cardboard stopper from a bottle of milk. — Louisville Times. As a people we are easily touched, especially by the testimony of the party to a divorce suit that his supposedly comfortable fortune is a mere inconsequential nondescript $400,000. Some one wants to know what becomes of flappers when they grow old I Well, when they get along to fifty o. so. some <4 I hem call themselves “sis ty-two-year flappers"- amt tell movi, audiences how to stav voung. We read of an actm whose pridi it is that his show once was snubbed by Ihe kaiser. The h< spian gets a good laugh out of it — now “Do you know hoW to relax?” asks a health specialist. No but long ex perience as the family financier has made us an expert at letting go. The discovery that cabbage is valu able its a base for a new fuel is not si startling. We ■ had ihe impression some ciga rnmkers learned that grea truth long ago Reports on birth rate should allay the earlier worry that the popnlatior of the United States would soon tint standing room only. ।I, , , - Is it too much to hope that a < ig arette can be develofied that is ex clusivelv masculine now that the fa« has become so coeducational? If you think the order ,of litth words unimportant, consider the dit fereuce in the prison yard between “at the end of ids rope’ and “at Ui? •nd of the rope."

House May Be Shrine

Elizabeth, N. J. —One ot the oldest homesteads in New Jersey is the stanch Hetfield house, built on the banks of the Elizabeth river at the foot of Pearl street here before Co loniai limes. Sold recently by a descendant of its second owner with the provision that the house, rich in legend and the home of nine generations, be preserved, it has been offered as u Colonial shrine or headquarters to the historical and patriotic societies IDEAL FOR SPRING Foulard and flat crepe makes the ideal spring ensemble. This model is In red and white foulard trimmed with a jabot of white flat crepe and worn with a red flat crepe coat, lined and trimmed in the foulard.

SUCH IS LIFE: By Charles Sughroe - —This Promise Was a Treat X ' T T mjell POP It: ObA; aT y ~ ■ C ^2- \ —- • -* z f— ,w- ‘® ' I X W HST Pi Wrztm Nrwww Vite*

| War Hatred Is Left Off Louvain Library * * Brussels.— War hatred must * be forgotten, is the edict of the * high ecclesiastical authorities * * who asserted there will be no * * anti-German inscription over * * the Louvain library, which has £ * been built mainly by American * 4: donations. * * It is a personal victory for * 4: Nicholas Murray Butler, who * J has opposed Whitney Warren * * the New York nrrhitect. who * * planned a Latin inscription: J "Lmstroyed by German fury and * 4s rebuilt by American generosity.’ * * Doctor Butler agreed to sub * stitute, “Destroyed during the * great wat and rebuilt during * sjc 4« peace time." But the university * authorities have decided there * will be no inscription over the £ new’ building. , * The famous library, which i 4: was destroyed by the Germans 4. * during the early years of the 4« war, will he dedicated July 4 by * * Ambassador Hugh Gibson in * * rhe presence of the king and $ queen of the Belgians. $ * * ************************** ^o^3 succeed if he is afraid ro do a little niore he paid ■s*^^ for. Japanese boil their potatoes in ?irup

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of this city by Mason Kirkland, the present owner. Miss Emily Hetfield, ot the ninth generation of the Revolutionary fam ily, will contribute to the shrine from her store of Colonial furniture, piclures. legal documents and other rel ies. A wealth of historic material remained in the house from the days before Ihe Revolution until 20 years ago. when Miss Hetfield and her moth er moved to a more modern home. Built by Skipper. The hou?e was built in IGGG-7 by Abraham l.uhberson. skipper of a Hud Son river fleet and a resident ot New Amsterdam. After a few years he sold the property to Matthias Hatfield, who had come to Elizabeth from New Haven. Conn., although originally the family lived in Hatfield. England, whence was derived the name. The change of the second letter In the name from “a” to “e" occurred during the early days of the Revolt! tion. Many houses were divided against themselves in those times and the Hatfields were not an exception Several members of the family chose to remain loyal to the Crown and left the homestead to join the British col ony on Staten island. The others, conceived the idea of changing the spelling of the name to sever kinship with the royalists. The revised ver sion tias been retained by all succeed ing generations. Tradition tells? of exciting doings at the house in the days when the Republic was in the making. Many of these are confirmed by the papers and parchments that Miss Hetfield retains. One chapter In the historical lore transmitted tells of the secret tunnel This chapter is sufficiently clear to enable Miss Hetfield to ray that the tunnel once existed, although its location is unknown. Whether It has been entirely filled up. or whether only Its entrances have been sealed by time or by intent Is not known The legend says that It led from the house t<> rhe water’s mlge In the river Anjong the objects In the house were glass platter-' from which five been served; a Hessian cannon hall ••generations" of wedding cake have five inches In diameter, bur of ureal ,

: : Can Count Atoms : :

Uambridge, Mass. — Atoms and molecules now can he counted with greater accuracy than the population of a large eity. Dr. Miles Sherill, professor of theoretical chemistry at rhe Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, re ported in a Society of Arts lecture in the institute recently. "We no longer doubt the existence or reality of atoms.’’ he said. “It is possible to determine the number of moleiailes in one gram molecular weight of a substance which is equal to the number of atoms in one gram atomic weight of any element. This ' huge numfler is six hundred and six | .-in<! tw<>-tentli> sextillions " | The lecturer showed u screen pic I rure ot rhe morion ot mercury [>arti ch'S. Study of this motion. Doctor Sherill said, made it possible to count atoms and molecules. He also dem unstinted the . Geiger counter, an in >trument so sensitive that it will dete< t even a single electron. “Di 11. C. Blumgart of the Boston City hospital has made a very won derful application of the instrument." said Doctor Sherill. "He injects a trace, one quadrillionth of a grain, which is about three million atoms, 01 radio active deposit into the arm of a patient. ’ Then with the aid of the Geiger countei he measures the time taken for it to he carried to the heart and again through Ihe lungs back to the heart and on to a point in the other

weight ; sconces, elaborate in gilt about the huge, round mirrors; a tomahawk left on the homestead by a marauding Indian and pictures made by processes no longer known. Better Grade Diamonds to Be More Expensive London —Good diamonds are to lie more expensive, at cording to S. B. Joel, member of the diamond syndi cate here which controls the price. “Stones ot three carats and upwards will he affected and the minimum increase will he 5 |«er cent." he said. “This increase Ims resulted from the big demand for good stones. There is a glut of the small stones produced from the alluvial workings, but for the big stones there Is n big demand. ONCE MORE CHAMPION Ihe photograph shows Ralph Green leaf. who. failing to crack under the strain of a hurd tourmiment nt Chi cago. regained tils national |H»cket bll Hard championship Iti addition to giving Idin the title the major share of ss.<nri prize money, and h large percentMgv of the gate re ••elpts Greenleaf won the $250 month i ly pay which g«-e« with the title.

arm corresponding to the original ' point of injection. •"riie counter, protected from prema ture radiations by a sheathing of lead is placed over the heart where it detects the arrival of the radioactive ’ substance, and again in the other artu by means of a second instrument. "lie is tints able to measure the ; rate of (flood flow through rhe lungs j Such studies I.old far-reaching possi , bilities for research in diseases of the heart.” New Idea Found Built in Microscope Made in 1825 Washington - The old adage. “There's nothing new under the sun.” was proved again in the National mu seum of the Smithsonian institution the other day. A stranger wandered into the mu seum and halted with an exclamation before a microscope made about 1825. Ue exam ned the instrument carefully and then rushed excitedly to officials of the museum and asked to borrow it. Investigation disclosed he was tin officer <>f one of the largest optical firms in America. Experts of the com i pany had been laboring for three years to perfect a microscope having a stage to hold specimens that would be movable in all directions and capable of minute adjustments. They had just completed a design and were preparing to ask for patents. The official's excitement was caused by his discovery that rhe museum instrument would do all the things the “new" microscope designed by his ex perts would do. and was much simpler ’ In parts of South America it is still the custom to erect wooden crosses on the outskirts of the villages to frighten away evil spirits ************************** * * * Sweden to Teach J Children to Save * * * ❖ Stockholm. — For the benefit 4= * of Swedish school children with * out money in the bank, the pos 4= £ tai savings authorities will open £ * 25.000 new accounts, depositing * two crowns in each. Permission J * has been asked from ttie gov * * ernment to use $13,403 of the J * postal savings income for 1927 * * to defray the expenses. Swe * * den s private savings hanks have * * made similar distributions of 4= J money for several years in or- * der to teach the school children * * how to save. * *****************

Marines on Their Way to Nicaragua j.' A view taken from the bow of the U. S. S. Milwaukee, en route from Charleston, S. C., to Uorinto, Nicaragua. The Forty-seventh company of marines. Itto men and 3 officers, was aboard. The U. S. S. Raleigh is up ahead. The ships are passing through the I'edro Miguel locks in the Panama canal. College Men Give Advice to Coeds

<•- Rochester, N. Y.— Feeling that It Is easier to tell a woman "what not to do' than “what to do." members of the men s college of tin* University o', ( Rochester have as-umed the role of I tug broth, r to their fair sisters of the women’s college. Through the medium of the Campus college undergraduate publication, the - men are offering their advice to all vmsls —free. Some advice has !-e<-n offered In the following list of “doti'ts." which ip i l»e:ired in the t’ampus: I’on t look over our shoulder to read | our new-paf-er. G<» buy one—they only cost n few cents. Ihm t aay you “just adore" any girl who is your rival Pon t tu-iept an Invitation to have a sandwich ami hen order a whole meal Ibm’t keep us w-dting more than a half hour. est»eclaHy when a so-he- i

,♦. • i COURAGE * By THOMAS ARKLECLARK | f Dean of Men, University of j | Illinois. j nV* pW be u mave boy,” mother ' used to say to me when, in sending me to bed alone to the awful dark rooms above, she saw that my heart beat a Title faster and that fear of something unexpected and unknown gripped me. “Tiere's nothing up there I to hurt you.” Ani I went, not realizing that in going and facing the dan ger that I feared. I was not a coward, but that I had courage, for courage consists in facing danger or supposed danger that you fear. Aristotle, one of the wisest men in the world, has said so. ‘•Courage." he tells us, “is not fearlessness. but the recognition of danger and the power of self-control in spite of fear." The man who faces danger without fear is not courageous; he is foolhardy; tds judgment is faulty. After the marines had made their courageous attack at Belleau woods I I had a long letter from Martin telling me all about it. though I had before seen an account in the newspapers of what hap|>eiied. “If anyone who was in the awful carnage tells you that he had no fear.” Martin wrote, “don’t believe him. for lie is either not tinman or a liar. Every man kn >w when he went into the attack that tie faced death, or. if not death, a torn, mangled body to be carried through a life that might tie worse than death As fjr myself. I was white ami trembling for a time, and then my heart began beating like a triphammer, but. terrified as we were, we went on. and you know the result " Here was courage of the highest order —not fearlessness but the recognition of awful danger, and the power to go on and meet it. There w,is a tire in one of the apart merit houses in town not long ago. Three little children were alone in one of the rooms, helpless and stupe tied by the smoke. Their case seemed hopeless when one of the young fire men forced his way through the flames and smoke and brought them out and down in safety. He realized his dan ger more even than the crowd did who stood at a safe distance and ap plauded his action. He had a family c, his own at home, and he must have though* of his little boy and girl and the possibility of (heir being father less if he risked his life. Mora) courage is not unlike physical

paid-for chariot awaits you without. On the way to a picture show, don’t rave about what a wonderful musical , comedy is in town. Pon t say you are reducing—and then ear everything in sight. Pon't a-k us whether or net to let your hair grow. Pon’t explain that you know it’s had form, but that you just like to I < hew gum. anyway. Pon't poise your cigarette grace--1 fully and then ptiff the smoke out before you have time to taste it. Pon t t>e afraid to accept a date at the last minute, especially when you want it Ue know we’re supposed to think you’re popular. Pont be avidly interested In the things you say shock you. Nay everything is “cute” if you he was net afraid? Ho could not have her-n otherwise, but fie had jourage in spite of fear

There is a gambling game going oti in the dormitory in v hich Blake lives, with drinking and sa’acious talk. “Come on. hoy.” one of the fellows says to Blake, “and sit in with us.” He will be laughed at if he says no. and Blake, like most young boys, fs sensitive to ridicule. He fears tire Jibes and the Jokes of his companions. They cut him like whiplashes, hut he has the courage to say no. and if does I rake courage in such instances. <(cl 192 s Western Wewspaner rnlon.) WINS HIGH HONORS ?", » V I Miss Rutii Houghton of Westfield. N. J., of the class of 1929. who was elected chairman of the judicial board —one of Smith college's highest honors. She also was elected to Pbi Beta Kappa recently Satisfied! New York.—Jordan King, twenty-three years old. was taken to the hospital the loser in a tussel with the “Mrs.” “Want to make a complaint:” the police asked. “No.” te replied. “I got what I deserved.” l * DIPPING INTO ♦ * SCIENCE * •I* * Storms on the Sun * The flames of fire which shoot out from the surface of the sun X X are often ten times as long as ❖ the earths diameter and scien- X X fists in their vigils have seen ❖ one flume which measured more X than 33.(MM» miles and traveled X •j at the rate of 3.000 miles a min ❖ X ute. These flames are seen only X * through a specially constructed *> .j, instrument. X X t®. 1928 Western Newspaper Union » X

Interest Taken In Poultry T. B. Many States Plan for Control and Eradication of Dread Disease. (Prenared by tn* United States Department vt Agn< uiture.i Tuberculosis in poultry is receiving ; considerable i.tt ntion by live-stock interests in many states because of the danger of transmitting the dis- : ease from flock to flock and from poultry to swine. Many states have adopted a working plan for the control and eradication of the disease from |M>ultry and much is being done to combat it. Considerable tuberculin testing nf flocks lias been done, chiefly with the view of determining the possibilities of the test and its value in the cleanup campaign. Limited Survey Made. Incident to the studies inaugurated elsewhere, the United States Department of Agriculture, through its tuberculosis eradication division, made a l.mited survey to determine the ex tent of avian tulierculosis. The purpose of the survey was. principally, to obtain information relative to the prevalence of the disease in the states believed Yo be comparatively free. Nine stares known t.. have a high per cent of infected poultry were not included. Os the remaining 3b states 27 were found to have some infected poultry; approximately 25 t«er cent of the 1.874 flocks tested were found to have some infection More than 85.000 birds were tested, resulting in more than teactors being obtained. Examination cf Flocks. The usual physical examination of farm flocks incident to the tuberculin testing of the cattle was continued by the field men. During the fiscal year 1927 inspections were made of more than 211.G00 flock.-*, containing over IG.s<ni.ooo birds. This gross ins|>e< lion indicated nearly 6 pt r cent of flock infection in the states covered It is helievetL ss:ys Doctor Wight, acting chief of the tuberculosis eradication division, that under the plans now in effect, and with the work being conducted simultaneously with the testing of cattle, marked progress will be reported in the near future. Plan for Keeping Crows From Ravaging Crops Following Is the best method of keeping crows from ravaging crops: Make a paste of one ounce of powdered strychnine, two tables|>oonfuls of starch and one »;no one-I.alf pints of water, putting the starch and strychnine into the water, which is heated to boiling, and stirring well when the starch begins to thicken. This amount of paste is poured onto twenty quarts of *orn and stirred into it until the poison is thoroughly mixed with the corn. A little of this poisoned corn scattered over the field will kill a few crows and tlie rest will take warning and leave. Using whole corn for bait lessens the danger of poisoning smaller seed-eating birds. Care should be taken not to scattei the poisoned corn near buildings where domestic fowls or animals will pick ir up. It is always advisable t»efore using rtiis method to look up laws and local regulations regarding rhe distribution of poison I oral -ondirions may m«»dify practices a great deal, especially in thickly populated districts. Extra Fine Alfalfa May Contain Much Protein Extra fine quality alfalfa hay may contain one-third more protein than wheat bran, while p*n»r qualify alfalfa hay may contain one-third less than wheat bran. The first cutting of alfalfa has. as a rule a smaller proportion of leaves than the later cuttings, and rhe last cutting usually has the highest projtortion of leaves. The leaves contain from 2t* to 25 per cent of protein, while the stems contain from 6 u» I<l per cent. Exp«isure of hay to rain during curing may result in rhe loss of one-rhird of rhe protein of alfalfa hay. This greatly reiluces the qua'ity of the Lay. and then. too. one ot rhe least valuable nutrients, the crude filler, is little affected by rain »n<’ thus forms a larger proportion • f the hay. Agricultural Hints Guard against dog? and predatory animals. • • • Alfalfa or clover hay should be supplied to pigs being fattened in the dry lot. • • • Keep the sheep off low. wet land. Provide shelter in winter and shade in summer. • • • Sweet clover is a special purpose legume, especially adapted to soil improvement and rotation pasture?. • • • Farmers shouldn’t buy feed at re tail if they sell milk at wholesale. • ♦ • The Savoy cabbage is highly esteemed by many and is superior in flavor to most al the drumhead type. • • • The silo is a real enemy of the corn borer. When corn Is put in the silo, any borers it contains never come out alive. • • • While feeding and housing are very importaiii fm-tors in securing better eg_ production it is tuiidamebtally a matter of breeding. • • • Exer< ise pregnant ewes whenever i weather permits. Dip the whole flock at least on<e a year to keep it free from ticks and lice. • • • Burning over pastures and meadow® to get rid of weeds and old trasa does not pay. it injures the grass roots and removes desirable humus. • • • Sowing the onion seeds where they । are to remain to grow Into plant? is the way to make this crop p ufitaHe j for the seedlings are expensive to buy.