Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 May 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS 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 Year |1.50 Six Months 90 yhree Months 50 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, ^nd., as second-class matter. Chicago bellboys organize for bigger tips. They give or take no quarter. Another thing that seems to improve the longer you keep it is your temper. Eating apples may keep the doctor away, but it started dressmakers in their business. The United States and Mexico are now on capital terms, with Mexico needing the capital. A Chicago bandit was shot to death accidentally. Well, even a bandit isn’t safe any more. • A one-eyed gunman has an advan tage. Hh doesn’t have to take time to close the other when aiming. And if there is mUsic In heaven, where do the musicians go when they have to tune their instruments? Who remembers when you could build a good serviceable spite fence the length ot a decs lot for S6O? Brunettes are more emotional than blonds, says a scientist. The rest of us are too smart to say anything. There is a promising field open for . a man to invent a soothirig sirup that will take the howl ou* of a radio set. Give an opportunist enough rope and he’ll have it on the market inside of three-days, in a Sumatra wrapper. It is too bad that a man is not considered "crazy” by his parents or relatives until he commits a horrible crime. , ' It seems that Persia goes the companionate ceremony, even, one better. In Persia the bridegroom needn’t show up. If nature is so wonderful, why does She deny children to the only people who know just how children should be raised? _• ■ , The only difference between Will Rogers’ speeches and thbse of some famous statesmen is that Will means to be- funny. A Nebraska man has worn the same pair of shoes 25 years. But something tells us his pants wore out faster than that • . The “average girl,’,’ who has been discovered in a Texas college, thinks she is quite a bit above it, which proves the point. The earnest Ohio professor who is tinkering with a rocket which he thinks will carry him to Venus from Miami, will either get to Venus or else. Not even the experts aboard the warships of the world navies throw up better smoke screens than many of our American cities throw up every day. # This “low visibility" which aviators call the bane of their profession doesn’t bother the man about town. Instead of falling with it he falls for it Some mornings at eight bells a fellow feels like a 206.95602-miles-au-hour special job, and liter on feels like an early 1920 model, bound in hay wire. A fashion note from London says the latest novelty in womens wear is a garter worn on the instep. This movement for longer skirts is being carried too far I A vice president might be defined as an individual who understands 1 the feeling df the piece of music on the reverse side of one of the "Black Crow” records. The prince of Wales occasionally falls off a horse. lie proves himself a good equestrian by performing the fear with ease and composure and appaijently never seriously disturbing j the! horse. Harry Lust, New York strong man. can tear two thick telephone direc- 1 tories in pieces at the same time. ' When getting a wrong number people often feel that impulse, but haven’t i Harry’s strength. A New York bandit was cured of i criminality by three operations, two j more than were performed by the oldtime Vigilantes. A new European hatred is discov- , ered every day, and the worst of it is they all want to be financed with American money. Too many young men and women are seeking a college education complains the dean of the University ot Minnesota. Cheer up, dean, think of how few are finding it. When bigger and redder tomatoes are grown, the one on the seed catalogue cover will still be 3^ inches larger in diameter. It Is an awful thought that there is a generation now coming to manhood in this country that never fed lump sugar to a horse. Nine men, including three generals in the army, have announced theii candidacy for President of Honduras However, there still will be lots of generals, even if the three resiaa.

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t COLLEGE J * FRIENDSHIP ? X • f * By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK * •X . . X X Dean of Men, University of a Illinois. 'T'HE fraternity was celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its founding and they had come back, these three old boys, to take part in the celebration. One was a banker and one was a lawyer and the third was a physician, high up in scientific accomplishment. I was simply an onlooker, a grand officer of the organization. 1 would be introduced at the banquet with the old familiar phrase. "We are very fortunate to have with Us this evening.” etc., but I really didn’t count. It was the three men ,who counted. Past sixty they were, and charter members, and friends through more than forty years. There are no friendships, it seems to me, quite like college friendships. Boys come together at a most impressionable time of life. They are away from home probably for the first time, very often they know no one. and possibly they are desperately homesick. There is the community of Interest im mediately, a bor.d of sympathy, a mu tual understanding and a mutual helpfulness. It was thus these three had met. They came Into the chapter house, gray haired, the slenderness of youth gone, as was the spriteliness of youth. The active men—boys. I might better say—received them with some cere mony as befitted their age. They ex pected dignity and a certain reserve, but rhe old men greeted each other as in the old days. “Hello. Ed.” “Well, you old buzzard, Lige.” ' “And here’s our little Willie boy I” They sat with their arms around each other; they told old tales of halfforgotten escapades, of tricks they had played upon each other, of the clever, ways in which they had kept the wolf from the door, for none of them had an easy .life in college. Each man had succeeded in his own way, but it was not rtf this that thej talked; it was of rhe old days, of the old friends, the old tasks, and as they talked the.v seemed to grow closer together They were inseparable. They wandered over the old college grounds; they sought out the places where thej had lived, they strolled down the old walks as they had done when their sweethearts were with them forty years before. Their speeches at the banquet were all humorous speeches, only at the last moment there was a little ceremony and the doctor was presented with a jeweled pin In recognition of some service he had rendered to rhe chap ter, and some very tender words were said. The judge pinned the emblem on, and there were fears in his eyes, and there were tears in everyone's eyes, and they had their arms about each other, these old men and then they smiled and wiped the tears out of their eyes. "Aren’t we fools?” they said to each other. College friendships! There’s noth | ing like them. ((c). 192 x Western Newspaper Union.)

Unquiet Spirits x < 0 i o /Thate 00 > : Scientists Experiment With Monkeys in Seeking Cure for Yellow Fever

I New York. —Man’s study of yeilow fever, the mysterious tropical disease that once took heavy toll in the west- | ern hemisphere, has been expedited : by the achievements of a little band of scientists now at work in West Africa. The yellow fever commission of the international health board. Rockefeller foundation, has found an Asiatic monkey, similar to the familiar companion of the organ grinder, that is ' susceptible to the disease. Working I with this primate, the commission ; has already made several important ; contributions to knowledge of -the fever. The experts have been able to transmit the virus consistently to the monkey, known as Macacus Rhesus, both by inoculation and by the pri- ; mary infective agent, the mosquito | It has been found that the serum from recovered cases of yellow fever I will protect monkeys against virulent ‘ hlnnd nn Imnortßbt discoverv because

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Washington. — Discarded American automobile tires that once were dis patched to rubber salvaging plants now are being made into shoes lot peasants of Saloniki. Greece. It Is reported that 50.0(M> casings are im ported annually to meet the demand balch tire makes three shoes. "Saloniki is famous as a city ot wfuge.” says a bulletin from the Washington (D. C.) headquarters ot the National Geographic society. "That fact accounts for its enormous peasant population to whom the new foot gear is a luxury. "The original ‘Salonikans are lost in tiie snuffle of nationalities repre seated among the inhabitants.” continues the bulletin. “On any busy cor tier one will see nearly as many dit ferent races as sit in a session of the League of Nations. There are Greeks from all parts of the peninsula Albanians, Italians. Russians. Ger mans and natives of every Balkan state. Some of their families are among the oldest inhabitants, human remnants of the early occupation of the city when It was a football in the hands of empires, including the Mace donians. Saracens. Normans. Homans. Venetians. Bulgarians and Turks,. Rival of Constantinople. “Even with such a mixture. Salo niki has maintained its prestige as one of the most important ports ot southeast Europe. When the Balkan stales are at peace and the port Is used ns an outlet to the sea. it rivals Constantinople. "The tine buildings which form a solid wall on the land side of the quay, pierced only by streets leading up into the city, give Saloniki a mod ern appearance. Here and in the com mercial district there are shops, col fee houses and a few tine old rest dem es. The westerner at once notices a lack of parks and other open spaces, but a peep through an open door to a courtyard in a narrow side street reveals that most of Snloniki s beauty is hidden behind high walls. “In the dirty streets barefoot worn । en plod rhe rough cobble with loads I of wood tied to their backs that one might hesitate packing on a donkey. Smiling, ragged water boys and girls in tatters carry their heavy jugs. Milkmen, too poor to own carts, are weighted down by two five-gallon cans resting upon their backs until

it indicates the possibility of treating human patients in like manner. Motor Police Seen as Most Efficient Swampscott, Mass. —The way to efficiency in the small town police de l partment lies through a completely motorized force, says Walter Francis Reeves, chief of the Swampscott police. Chief Reeves is trying to put his idea into practice here and points out that the town’s force has shrunk from twenty-one patrolmen and officers to fifteen men. With the decrease and diminished expenses have come motor equipment, and, the chief asserts, a far more efficient police service. Reeves believes that every town in the United States should motorize its force. A criminal, he said, can keep tab on the old-time oatrolman. but be

their bodies are at right angles with I heir legs “Successive fires and pilfering* have destroyed historic lari-hmirks line ot its oldest existing antiquities is Vanier street, which cuts across the city. It was a part ot the old Roman highway from the Adrialii to the Bosporus which enrliei stilt was the Royal way ot the Mace<toni:i kings. Where Ilie Kumari legions rhe phalanxes ot Alexander and the Im mortals of Xerxes trod its surface, an American street ear rumbles. driven 1 by >1 modern Greek or Spaniard In its course it runs under mi old Roman arch "Some ot the Saloniki churches FOR SPORTS FIELD i * - i to A 1 i : ! AB; B < \ O' p t tw ♦ / y An attractive two piece sports out tit for spring and early summer. The taffeta blouse has toman stripes and the plaited skirt is of navy blue crepe.

W heat Without Soil

San Erancisco. —GrowUi of a superwheat that readied maturity in 13 weeks with neither soil nor sunlight was announced here by the University of California Wheat, under field con ditions. often requires five months to mature. The announcement follows romple lion of lengthy resea ch in a laboratory on the university campus by Prof. A. It Davis of the division of agriculture chemistry and I’rof. D. It. Itoag.and of the division of plant nutrition. The experiment is recognized by these scientists as of the widest possible import. The wheat was grown, it was revealed. in a greenhouse laboratory, where artificial light was furnished by means of 12 argon filled lamps of 300 candlepower each ami where jars of water containing rhe chemical elements necessary for plant growth re- * cannot tell when the motor-mounted policeman may show up at any given spot. In suburban and thickly settled town districts alike, he says, police are needed who can be summoned at top speed. * Warns Against Buying * ❖ Seed Corn Carelessly * Washington.— Unless the buy * er knows that the seller is re- T liable and can supply the kind ❖ £ of seed he offers, extreme care ’i* * should be exercised in purchas- ❖ * ing seed corn, the Department £ ❖ of Agriculture warns. * * “Unfortunately.” it says, “there ❖ are likely to be many individ * * uals who will offer to sell * * crossed seed at a high price * * when the seed is little more pro- * * ductive, if any, than ordinary * »j. seed corn.” J* * The supply of superior crossed £ ❖ seed, the department advises, is ❖ 5* comparatively small. X X *

Tribe’s Refuse Is Only Monument

Washington.—When the Calusa In dians, who dominated southern Florida when the Spaniards landed, and who were reported to have grown rich on the shipwrecked gold of the Con quistadores. became extinct, they left behind them as almost their sole mon

surxhed the tiny of the Middle ages and tire the tines! remains ot the past "The Greeks have suffered hy remaining in Saloniki under foreign regime, out one source ot inspbmioti to them has been the sight of Mount Olympus lowering among the bills to Hie soiithwt si ’’ * Flew Rustless Wheat $ on Market in 1929 ❖ 1 *’* ♦ St l'anl. M nn.— With only 4. 125 busheis oi rhe seed avail- •> able, the Mmiie'-ota agricultur-il experiment station will not mar- *•* •> ket its new rust resistant wheat £ until KL!* X <• Andrew Boss director ot the ❖ -j. station, says the present supply £ j* will lie planted in I'J2S unde: ♦ <• i-onditioti' Hint wilt Insure still X greater development mid that •> seed likely will be imide avail X able to Minnesota farmers in *? ❖ 1f29 X ,’f The new wheat Is a cross be- X •> tween Marquis, the standard .I. hreail wheat ot the Northwest. X •> mid Hie durum Itnnillo it <• X highly resisrmn to rust mid at ’J the same time ot good milling ❖ ••• •&» <|Uality When ifTervd for seed X X '• likely will cost 2G per cent | ••• more than ordinary wheat. Two Crowds Anyone who thinks' at all seriously mid accurately soon realizes that there tire two crowds in the world; one thinking somewhat as he does, and the other thinking in a different way. It is fortunate if you belong to the big crowd. I long ago decided I belonged to the minority; not a great many accept my final conclusions, alt: ‘>ugh they are honestly considered. I have decided that in some respects I am better than the average; in others, worse. —E. W. Howe’s 1 Monthly. Tapping Matp:e Trees Tapping only one place on a tree : prolongs the life of the tree. Large 1 first-growth trees may be tapped in ■ two and sometimes three places with out Injury, but it is disastrous to tap in two places near together, in ordei to collect the sap from the two in ombucket.

I placed the soil which ordinarily con tains them. The quality of the wheat at ma Unity, rhe professors declare, was much higher than that raised under field conditions and could be class! tied as being of a “supernature." The fact that the wheat was grown to maturity in 13 weeks, a previously unheard-of achievement, demonstrates, according to rhe investigators, that the length of the light period is im portant to growing plants. The lights applied to the wheal plants were turned on for 1G hours I a day. and this kept them growing i rapidly. With rhe doubling of the light exposure the plant development was multiplied by four, the professor^ revealed, and when the light was ap plied for a full 24 hour day the 1 growth was “astounding.” Previous experimenters in these pioneer field were troubled by the inI Find Way to Unroll Brittle Manuscript London. —The aid of ultra modern chemistry has been invoked to salvage another relic of the remote past. An ancient leather roll of Egyptian writing itad lain unopened for 50 years in the British museum because it was so brittle that no one dared ^unroll it. Experiments with a broken fragment of the leather in the museum’s laboratory, however, finally gave scientists a clew as to how to handle the mysterious manuscript. Several thin coatings of celluloid were soaked into the pores of the leather, after which it was cemented with strong celluloid on to a piece of celluloid-treated cheesecloth. In this way it was unrolled without a break and pressed flat between two glass plates to dry. It remained perfectly flat after drying and can now be read with ease. What Is Pessimism? Pessimism is idealism turned sour by disillusion.—American Magazine.

ument the refuse of the food they ate. Their principal diet was shellfish and the shells they threw out piled up into heaps thirty feet high ami hundreds of feet long. The Smithsonian institution’s recent expedition under Henry B. Collins. Jr., determined the point about which there had been some uncertainty. that these shell heaps were really kitchen middens and not artificial , structures- with ssime other signiti I rance. The proof is that all the shell I heaps investigated were stratified I with ashes, small animal bones ami otb.er refuse from the kitchen. The language of the Calusa. except for a few isolated words and place j names, is lost, little or nothing Ie known of their beliefs, customs or material culture. Some mounds of soft beach material mill loose sand do exist. some ot which were foundations for houses, and others burial mounds, j Mr. Collins excavated several of these. > His most important find was of twenty five well preserved skeletons in a single mound. Most of the bodies had been folded with H^e knees to the chin and burial was very close together. The skele- ) tons were excellently preserved. The ! burials probably took place before the ! coming of the white man. since only one hone was found with any evi- । deuce of disease mid the artifacts as- । sociated with the burials were purely of native origin. SIGNS WITH INDIANS > ,v /" </ ' I Cleveland will nave a place tor j Aaron Ward this year even though Him place is on the bench. He’s a valmilde kind ot player to have i mound, opines Manager Peckinpaugn. । mill Peck teamed with him last year j <>n file White Sox mid should know. Amon has been fitting himself for reg- i ulur duty in the infield in case there I is 11 n early season vacancy. t DIPPING INTO * + SCIENCE ' * f + + Whirlpools 4 A whirlpool is created by the 4! | coming together ot two strong 1 •f* currents of wafer The greatest + ’ whirlpool in the world is j • t'liarybdis in the Strait of Mes- 4« a <lna. wliich has l>een in exist- j । •r erne thousands of years. The 4» X largest one in the United States j? mid one of Hie most famous is 4« 4. just below Niagara falls. “ -El 192 S W. sr.-rn Npwsnatwt Union. > X

.frared. or heat, rays from the lamps and used a water screen to solve the ! problem. But this was an unsuccessful solution, and Professor Davis found the correct one. He circulated air through the glass chamber by means of an electric fan. Il was established that the sun rays which contribute to plant growth were present in the electric light rays, even to the longer ultra-violet rays.

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failed to amass a fortune. Some hunt love only to kill it. Asquith Town The name of the late Lord Oxford and Asquith is likely to live not only in history but in geography, for two far-sundered places on the map were named in his honor during his long premiership. The fir<t such honor was paid him ' by Sir Ernest Shackleton, who named , a newly discovered peak in the vicinity of the South I’uie Mount Asquith. The second was the bestowal of his name on Asquith Town, near Regina, Canada, which is said to be the exact geographical center of the British empire. Reason Enough A pretty and shapely actress was learning golf from a pro. She played surprisingly well. At the ninth hole the pro said: “Well, it’s a funny thing. Y'our stance is all wrong, but your form is wonderful.” “Os course,” said the girl. *T»< got to diet carefully to keep it that”

'How MuchWate? Should Baby Get? Famous Authority's 'Rule ‘Uy Huth Hrittain * Avk Baby specialists agree nowadays, that during the first six months, babies must have three ounces of fluid per pound of body weight daily. An eightpound baby, for instance, needs twen-ty-four ounces of fluid. Later on the rule is two ounces of fluid per pound of body weight. The amount of fluid absorbed by a breast-fed baby is> best determined by weighing him before and after feeding for the whole day; and it is easily calculated for the bot-tle-fed one. Then make up any deficiency with water. Giving baby sufficient water often relieves his feverish, crying, upset and restless spells. If it doesn’t, give him a few drops of Fletcher’s Castoria. For these and other ills of babies and children such as colic, cholera, diarrhea. gas on stomach and bowels, constipation. sour stomach, loss of sleep, underweight, etc., leading physicians say there’s nothing so effective. It is purely vegetable—the recipe is on the wrapper—and millions of mothers have depended on it in over thirty years of ever increasing use. It regulates baby’s bowels, makes him sleep and eat right, enables him to get ;ull i nourishment from his food, so he inI creases in weight as he should. With each package you get a book on Motherhood worth its weight in gold. Just a word of caution. Look for the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher on the package so you’ll be sure to get the genuine. The forty-cent bottles contain thirty-five doses. Health in Honey There is nothing in the world to beat a little honey as an aid to defy old age, says John Anderson, lecturer on beekeeping at the University ■ of Aherden. “Keep bees and eat honey if you 1 want to live long.” was the advice he I gave. Beekeepers live longer than any- । body else, he contended. -C That Stomach of Yours! Fort Wayne, Lnd.—“l was terribly rundown in health. I had indigestion and

gastric stomach trouble. My food did not digest, would 4 iust seem to lie in a r lump, gas would form ' causing distress. I was anemic, grew thin and pale and weak — had no strength or ambition. I doctored but got no better. My druggist advised me to take

Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and it helped to make good red blood, relieved me of indigestion and stomach trouble and I have had no trouble from these ailments since.” —Mrs. Ina Waldschmidt, 439 Poplar St. Many Druggists advise the use of “Golden Medical Discovery” in either liquid or tablet form, because it is r»E■ I H For Barbed Wire Cuts Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh Money back for Erst bottle if Dot suited. All dealers. What’s the Use Lucien Hubbard, a supervisor of M. G. M. productions, was patiently explaining the wonders of Yosemite to tiie leading lady of his company while they were “on location” in the wonder park. “Yes.” he explained, pointing to El Capitan, “that was undoubtedly left there by some giant glacier.” “But where is the glacier?” asked the girl doubtfully. “Gone back for another rock I” snorted the disgusted Hubbard—Los Angeles Times. HELPED DURING MIDDLE ACE Woman Took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Denver, Colo. —“I have taken six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege-

table Compoun 1 and will take more. I am taking it as a tonic to help me through the Change of Life and I am telling many of my friends to take it as I found nothing before this to help me. I had so many ba<.

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feelings at night that I could no. sleep and for two years I could nc go down town because I was afraid of falling. My mother took the Vegetable Compound years ago with good results and now I am taking it during the Change of Life and recommend it.” —Mes. T. A. Miiler, I€ll Adams Street, Denver, Colorado. Your Opport unity. Independence. Hai; Homes ou Choice Central South farms priced right. Produc'ive soil, delist tui climate. Guilders n and Kiig. Pierre. 8.1Pecos County Texas New Shallow Mammoth oil wells, ten years paid up leases, this cour tv. $4 M per acre. 2*. 4® or Terr - tory not proven or condemned. Big op-, rators your neighb-.rs. Anderson H Warren. Jenkins Arcade Bldg.. Pittsburgh. Pa. ~W. N. U., CHICAGO, NO. 17-1928.