Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 June 1928 — Page 2

_ Walkerton Independent Published Everv Thursday by THE IND EI*ENI> ENT-NEWS_CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPP ND ENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS _ LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIEB Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M, Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES On« Year $1.50 Six Months 90 yhree Months 50 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, jtnd., as second-class matter. A little nonsense now and then makes news of the best of men. History is largely the story of manifest destiny that men have staved off. Oldest things are usually the best because they have stood the Jongest testing. A lot of favorite sons will never get so far away from home as the prodigal one. Who remembers, hack in his boyhood. when the height of daring was to walk under a horse? Detroit chief of police hails music as a deterrent of crime. “Music” was the word lie used, however. The army will continue to wear khaki shirts, and this we take it, will save considerable laundering. You are opposed to capital punishment until you hear a self-made man holding forth in the smoker. Estrangement Item: After going around together for billions of vears, the star Nova Pictoris has split. Chivalry is when the 240-pounder drops her penny into the weighing machine and it refuses to budge. Channel swimmers don’t attract much attention nowadays even when they wear only a suit of grease. Young people must at times grow fearfully tired of hearing themselves talked about, analyzed and dissected. Heathens are slow to accept the white man’s religion, but they see the need of it after they adopt his vices. We never found out whether Doctor Einstein found his baggage which was relatively lost from a French sleeping car. War in China is sufficiently persistent to warrant the impression that the country is entirely free from any taint of pacifism. We must all try to write more plainly on our souvenir post cards. Two despondent postmasters just recently committed suicide. A large city often feels that it has made some progress in reform when it has at least given, in fair play, a new group a chance at the graft. • “You say you haven't slept in six months.” said the kind lady to the haggard tramp. “What is your work?" “I was a bus boy, mum, in an Arctic night club.” A prominent diva says the best singing in opera is done on an empty stomach. Some of the best sleeping is done after a large dinner, also during operas. A young woman in Chicago goes into a tiger's cage and sings a soprano solo. If the tiger shows hostility it is then threatened with a tenor solo. Making fun of the farmer has long been customary. Occasionally, when it comes to a question of supply, the farmer enjoys at least a momentary “last laugh.” Londoh dogs are receiving baths in artificial sunlight. The probable reason for this is that London dogs, like other dogs, need a touch of the sun now and then. After years of observation in the North country. Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson says wolves never travel in packs. It must be playing cards that travel in packs. Nowadays when one does get a glimpse at a real complexion there is the same sensation of shock that used to come when an ankle emerged from under the plaits. Reading over some of the intelligence tests that are appearing in the newspapers, we can't help wondering whether the manufacturers thereof have taken any lately. If Doctor Jelliffe is correct and Irving Berlin’s gift for jazz is rhe result of irregular heart action in his mother, one mystery may be solved. But what awful hearts the motners of some jazz composers must have had. A Detroit husband was given a divorce because his wife threw a dog at him. This type of cruelty is ordinarily taken care of by the S. I’. C. A. Flyers see ocean-landing stations in mirage. The vision is prophetic. It will not be long before landing places are present in practical earnest. Since a Carolina judge said he could always tell whether a witness was telling the truth by watching his Adam’s apple, only 19 defendants have shown up in turtle-neck sweaters. Airplane travel promises more swiftness in reaching a certain point without solving the problem of what you are going to do after you get there. “What are they trying the string around my neck for?" asked the for getful prisoner. “Oh.” said the sheriff, “that's to remind you what day it is.” Horse breeding in America is on the decline, so the reports say. Nevertheless, it is going to be a long time before a stuffed equine will he a va) ued exhibit in every museum.

’ | Quinn’s Advice to Youngsters * i t f I } X J ACK QUINN, who admits that he is forty-three years old but who Is X I a few years older according to a number of statistical experts, has $ X J been pitching ball for twenty-live years, and sixteen of these were X spent in the major leagues. A > X The other day a newspaper man asked Quinn to name some of the X ’ ♦*♦ essentials that would be of help to a novice pitcher and, among other X things, Quinn said: X • X Get plenty of rest and sleep; eat »>od plain food and drink plenty X ’ of water; practice control with the fast ball; after you master the last 1 X ball work on the curve; later on work on the slow ball and change of X •j* pace; practice fielding your position and covering first and spend hours •> I X in this practice; use your most effective form of delivery in the pinches; V ! *|* indulge in batting practice and develop speed. Try to be a ball player y | : X as well as a pitcher; never lose heart over bad breaks or errors; never X j X criticize your teammates for weak support; be confident. X ) Why confine this advice to novice pitchers? There are many in X the major leagues who could profit by Quinn’s words, writes 11. G. X | ] V Salsiuger in the Detroit News. At least SO per cent of the pitchers in ••• ; the American league would be better pitchers if they followed Quinn’s i : ¥ advice. ¥ i A All that we ever came in contact with get enough sleep and rest. X 'Ye always thought that some of them did nothing else but. X Many of them do not eat the right kind of food nor drink enough I water. X The majority spend no time in trying to extend their pitching y ' ! X repertoire. They do not work for better control. They are not trying X 1 j to improve their curve ball, or their slow one. Many lack a slow ball •> ' ! X as many lack a change of pace. X ' They do not practice fielding unless specially compelled to by the i X manager. They believe fielding is the Job of infielders. X •£ Moriarity compelled his pitchers to ‘ ■ «|« : spend hours practicing the business of cov- X X / K. ering first and it was surprising to see iiow T i ; few were able to do it properly. J. X ■ When it comes to pinches the average X .-. pitcher is generally so confused that he will X use anything but his best delivery. Y *** Most of them lose heart o'er errors or X W "Jw bad breaks. X I v ■ \ ^7 Criticizing their teammates is one of A «« ? the best things they do. Ball players are X X \ ; i j notorious for producing alibis but the ; itchA l' r,,<luce m'ist of them. X Confidence is one thing few of tl . m y ♦j» develop. They lack confidence In certain A X |‘ \ \ deli'"l ies. [f H;. \ followed the lest of * I Quinns a<h ice they would automatically X |I, ’ to-J ♦ y — rrri ^nd Quinn can back up his advice with y X Jack Quinn. 16 years of major league pitching. A A v***^*****************#**#**#*^*^*^***********#**#**#**#*****#******^**************!*****!**^************^********#***^^*** •••%•••**••%•****•*

I Andy Cohen Gives Boys Lecture on Ball Game Andy Cohen, spectacular young second baseman of the New York Giants, has carved a niche for himself in the hearts of Chicago youth. During the Chicago-New York series more than three thousand boys crowded and fought their way into a hall to hear Hornsby's successor give advice on how to break into professional baseball. Most of the boys were members of teams entered in the American League Junior Baseball league. And Andy’s advice was to subordinate everything else to baseball if one wants to make that his career. “Think baseball; talk baseball; pay no attention to anything else.’’ was the advice of McGraw's newest "find.” Wins on Mandell / Ift' \ • Instead of a deficit, Tex Rickard ■ has been agreeably surprised to find out that he realized a profit of about $20,000 on the much-postponed bout that saw Sammy Mandell ward otf Jimmy McLarnin’s bid for the “Rnrki ford Sheik’s” lightweight title. The I photograph shows Mandell. Paris will, in 1930, boast a sports stadium seating 100.000 persons. * • ♦ Some 2,494 golfers joined the Canada Ory Hole-in-One club last year. » » ♦ The United States has never sent a winning water polo team to the Olympics. • • * The Sarah Shank golf course in Indianapolis is crossed seven times in its nine-hole length. * * • Clyde Ponce, who rode in Germany two years ago, has made his re-entry to the American turf. • • * Ohio state has a freshman coed candidate for the American Olympic diving team in Rose Boczek of Cleveland. » • * Larry Nabholtz, who played in the British open, will be pro at a Houston (Texas) country club when he returns to this country late in the summer. • • • The Federal Committee of Physical Culture, founded in Germany in 1595, now embraces over .39,000 separate organizations and more than 4,000,000 members. • • * The race between Charles Paddock. Charles Borah, and Frank Wykoff during the southwestern Olympic track finals in the Los Angeles stadium June 16, is expected to attract 80,000 fans. * « • One writer says that Jack Dempsey was the best-dressed boxer in the country. Yes, indeed, he used to be a knockout. * * • For the first time in the history of track in Minnesota, an individual invitational track and field meet will be held at Hibbing this year. ♦ * ♦ Tommy Walsh, veteran handler who piloted many famous boxers, has returned to the game as manager of Red Uhlan. Pacific middleweight, and Freddie Mueller, a lightweight

I BASEBALL NOTES -

Gene McCann. Yankee scout, hasn't worn any but white neckties in the last fifteen years. • • • The way the New York Yankees are going just now. we imagine they could win a train wreck. Bill Miller, a Chicago semlpro pitch- ! er, was released unconditionally by the Cincinnati Reds. • • • Muddy Ruel, Washington catcher, broke into baseball in 1913, with the St. Louis Americans. • • • An umpire is suing for divorce. For the first time in his life he bad to admit that lie guessed wrong. Bruce Copeland, former Three-! umpire, is now in New York writing race track pieces for the papers. • • • Ty Cobb, in the opinion of President Barnard of the American league, is the greatest player baseball lias ever hail. • • • The business of turning pin hers into outfielders got a lug boost wl en Frank O'Doul made two home runs in one day for the Giants. Archie Edwards, a young amateur pitcher of Battleford, Saskatchewan, lias signed with the Boston Braves and will report for trial in July. . . . In the game of May 16, Atlanta versus Birmingham, not a n an was fanned by either pitcher and the Bar on outfielders had but two putouts. • • • The little boy who used to see ball g^mes free through a knot hole has grown up and lias better manners He listens in for nothing over the radio. ♦ ♦ • "What the other American clubs need,” said a New York expert “is more O ood ball players.” What he means is that they really need less Yankees. • • • Babe Ruth lias played in more world series than any. other major leaguer. Ruth has strutted Ids stuff in three classics with Boston and five with the Yankees. ♦ * ♦ It has been decided by the Supreme court of Minnesota that the fabrication of an unnatural knothole in the tynce around a ball park is a misdemeanor. * * * Outfielder Turner Barber is lost in definitely to the Birmingham Barons. Barber made efforts to shake off a case of tlie flu and then gave it up and .went home for a rest. ♦ * * Dudley Branom, now with Louisville, continues in baseball despite the fact his father-in-law is a millionaire and lias tried persistently to have him give up the game and enter business. • * • Three players were released by’ the Hollywood club of the Pacific coast baseball league. They were Art Jacobs, young southpaw pitcher; Stanley Casper, outfielder, and Elmer Kiumpp. infielder. * * * Charley Stis, scout for the Chicago White Sox, while in St. Paul, where he kaw the Saints-Brewer series, called Oscar Roettger, star first sacker of the St. Paul team, "the best prospect he had seen in the minors this season.” * * * Des Moines has released Shortstop Clyde Bower to Marshalltown of the Mississippi Valley league. Bower was one of those bewhiskered House of David players before Lee Keyser signed him last winter. * • * It’s no wonder the Toronto Leafs are making such a fuss in the International league race. A recent set of averages re’ ealed that nine men were hitting ove .300 for Manager Bill O'Hara. And six of them were regulars.

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" I ’ • *1 r* ’ that these commonwealths w I cent nue to be “free ami imlepi mient states ’ I or. with the sir: n of" Let's Go"’ on their lips, they are enduing the citizens' military trniidt g e u ps (or ha\e already entered some of ti e > to take mh.tntage of tin opportunity for mental, moral ami phy^i-al Improvement which will n ake them guard in- of the-e free and indvpi mient st.de- In pea •* : : e ns well ns war, for a trait it g who It prepa - s them for t e duties of a _ood citl en as well as the duties of a good s, Idler. Here are the statist'., s on the 19'_'4 citizens’ military training canps, as given in a recent issue of the Ut.in .1 S’ ■ y lie. ruitiu.: Nws. i which slows the "where." "when" al l “hoW 1 man.'" of this y.ar's pr. gram: Local ions Datco Entlmnlrd \ tteßilnnce Fitts । < ORI'S tin y Ft. M K ul. y. Me J- tv 5-Aac-. 3.. Ft. Ad R. 11 'v 5-Amr 3.. , Camp Devil-. M. s H,.v 5-Aug 3.. 7'n I Ft. Ethan Allen. Vt July 5-Aug. 3.. 525 SIFOX I) COR Ps IRim Plattsl. iru Bks, N V Jutv I-Ju'.v 31..1U Flatt-luru- l:k- . N. Y V . 4 .1:' Ft. N: v i. N. Y Julv 31.. ? i Mad -a B\- . N Y \ _• 3->- ; ’ 1. . 2 - Ft. M >nm uth. N. J ..Aus. 3-Sept. 1.. : : Ft. DuP nt. Del Aug 3-S- m 1.. 2 > ; San Junr. I'mt-. E o J .: 22-J . •- 2’... 5l ' T HIRD < ottl’s tin: % I Ft. Wash ngton. Md Jutv 8-Auir 4.. 4 i Ft. Howard. Md Jutv C-A g 4.. 6 : Ft. Hoyle, Md Jutv 6-Ai:g. 4.. •' • Ft. E -t . Va Jut- «-Auc 4..’.; | Ft. M mroe, Va I ily •-A - 4 . • Ft. Myer, Va July «-Aug. 4.. 2 FOl It 111 < OHPS \RI \ Ft. Barrancas, Fla rone IT-July 11.. IM Ft. Bragg. N. C June 17-July 18..1 ■' Ft. Moultrie. S. C June 17-July 16.. S - Camp McClellan. Ala June 17-July l‘>.. 7- । Ft. Oglethorpe. Ga June 17-July 16.. r. Ft. Screven, Ga June 17-July 16.. 300 FIFTH CORPS ARI A Camp Knox, Ky July 2-July 31.. 1500 Ft. Thomas, Ky July 2-July 31..1000 Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. June 20-July 1J..150U SIXTH CORI’S IREA Camp Custer, Mich July 26-Aug. 24.. 750 Ft. Brady, Mich July 26-Aug. 24.. 250 Camp McCoy, Wis July 26-Aug. 24.. 225 Ft. Sheridan, 11l July 27-Aug. 25..1850 Jefferson Barracks, Mo July 9-Aug, 7.. 875 SEVENTH CORPS AREA Ft. Snelling, Minn Aug. 1-Aug. 30..1100 Ft. Lincoln, N. Dak Aug. 1-Aug. 30.. 400 Ft. Des Moines, lowa Aug. 1-Aug. 30.. 850 Ft. Crook, Neb Aug. 1-Aug. 30.. COO Ft. Leavenworth, Kan Aug. 1-Aug. 30..1550 EIGHT H CORI'S AREA Camp S. D. Little, Ariz Aug. 2-Aug. 31.. 150 Ft. Logan, Colo June 20-July 19.. 400 Ft. Sam Houston, Tex June 14-July 13..1000 Ft. Bliss, Tex Aug. 2-Aug. 31.. 100 Ft. Sill, Okla July 6-Aug. 4.. 1000 Ft. D. A. Russell, Wyo June 20-July 19.. 50 NINTH CORPS AREA Del Monte, Calif July 1-July 30..1275 Ft. W. Scott, Calif June 22-July 21.. 155 Ft. MacArthur, Calif July 1-July 30.. 145 Vancouver Bks., Wash June 15-July 14.. 500 Ft. Lewis, Wash June 16-July 15.. 325 Ft. Geo. Wright, Wash June 18-July 17.. 190 Ft. Missoula, Mont June 17-July 16.. 140 Ft. Douglas, Utah June 15-July 14.. 180 The history of the citizens’ military training camps goes back to 1913 when the first college training camps for officers were organized by the late Gen. Leonard Wood, who will always be held in grateful remembrance by Americans as the “father” of the movement for adequate preparedness by voluntary military training. In 1915 lie inaugurated the Plattsburgh training camp which prepared several hundred officers for the services which were soon to be so badly needed when the

Home Seems to Figure Last on the Program

“I wonder what has become of that charming old motto ‘God Bless Our Home?’” asked Biehop Mathews of his congregation. “It is a sign of the times, that one has difficulty in finding it, or similar ones, in most of the book stores. Indeed, to many people, home seems to be scarce more than a name. Like the Bannings. “MV. Banning came home from work

year and most of us take a day off to celebrate that historic event 152 years ago. w! en a group of men met In I’ldlmlelphla to sign a document declaring that "these united Colonies are. and of ri rht ought to be. free and indepenihmt states," It finds sever;:! thousat -1 husky young Americans t.iking the steps width I.dp guarantee

But it was the le-soi,- learned in that great cor di t which brought about the citizens’ military training eamps ns they now exist. In 1920 the Na’local De;.-use a< t was passed by congress and in that same year the Military Training Camps A-sociation of America, an organization made up of i n who had then.selles enrolled in prewar camps in the four years from 1913 to 1916. apjeab I to the War department for the establishment <>f camps for the voluntary training of y-’Ui g : en. authorized under the National Defense mt. The secretary of war, the late John W. Weeks, approved the request ami an appropriate Item was included in the budget for the next fi-'.al year. When the proposal was presented to cong”e-s by the military affairs committees it was h-ariily supported by James W. Wadsworth, cliairn ; n of the senate committee, and by the late Julius Kahn, chairman of the house coinii it'", both of whom remained ardent friends of the eaiaps during -m feeding years. 'llie first appropriation was sufficient for the training of young men at ten different centers throughout the country. The minimum age of adisi-sion was fixed at sixteen years and plans were m de for a series of three courses—’he Red, the White and the Blue, giving one months’ training in su< । essive years. Later the minilnum age was plm ed at seventeen and a preliminary course, the E. -h-, was jolded. Congress made the graduates of the last, the Blue course, eligible for examination leading to a commission in the organized n-'-t'es. The citizens* military training camps have uniformly r i'.' d favorable consideration by con- _ ■ vJ I- !i year by year has granted larger funds f"F •' ■ ir ii 'i.ti- am-e. T o only difficulty has api- • ■ . ■ - | • e bouse and the sen- : ’e of p. pr'ir demand f r this training. A cona’.t'y im rea-ing appropriation for this purpose has l»eon insufficient each year to provide room for all the young men who desired to enroll. Camp • ; i’y has g own from lo.noo in 1921 to 39JkMl in 1927, but even in this last year there were 2o.'">’t ::<Te d< ati a s than places. In fact Mie bdai • fop the six years show the amazing fact that 1.--'u"i young mon have enrolled in these camps since their establishment in 1921. Ninetysix thousand more, an average of 16Jk*1 each ye. r. ap. Ib-d for admis-ion but could not he train -1 t -r bo k of room. The “< a'l of the camp-” drew a quarter of a million young Americans to seek admission ; There can be no doubt that the growth of the camps and the numbers seeking admission each year has come about through a greater appreciation by our youth and their parents of the opportunity that their government, in providing four weeks’ training course with all expenses paid, is offering them. For the attractions of the camps are varied and many and the thousands who have enrolled have done so for any one or more of the following reasons: A desire for change, for physical development, for athletic training, for greater capacity, for advancement as students or employees, or because they responded to the judgment of men whom they respected and to the wishes of their own parents. Athletics, no doubt, bring a large part of the enrollment, for one of the features of the camps is a chance to participate in a large variety of sports and games under skilled instructors. The government furnishes much necessary equipment and this is supplemented by donations from the Military Training Camps association and other patriotic societies and civic committees. Many of the training camps are located on the seashore or on inland lakes and rivers with ample opportunity for bathing and water sports. At other camps the War department has established adequate, hygienic and attractive swimming tanks. The Red Cross arranges systematic courses of instruction, leading successful candidates to final credit as life guards. Baseball diamonds and equipment are provided for all men who seek to qualify for the company teams and to take part in intercompany and regimental games. Tennis courts are to be found everywhere; boxing is taught for men of every

very tired and exclaimed: ‘lsn’t it grand that we can stay at home tonight I’ “ ‘But we’re not,’ stated Mr*. Banning. ‘The Grahams have invited us over to their place for dinner and after that we’re going down to the show.’ “‘And after that?’ asked Mr. Banning hopefully. “ ‘After that we’re going down to the

J United States broke off rvlatioii- with Germany and entered the World war.

beach to take in the new night club.’ “‘And after that?’ “ ‘Oh, home I suppose,’ said the wife despairingly.”—Los Angeles Times. Irish Sprigging Passing Sprigging, once popular, but now so out of date that even many in the industry do not know what it is is deemed to pass. Springing is a form of lace making peculiar to Donegal and some parts of the southern and western parts of Ireland, where lace

weight; volley ball, pushball and fencing are equally popular. Each year an increasing number of high school, normal school and college football teams, sometimes with their own coaches, find in the summer camps a fine opportunity for preliminary practice for their regular schedules. In the daily program they find means to greater physical vigor ami control. Military drill brings proper carriage, quickness of response and exact co-ordination of nerve and muscle. Mass calisthenics emphasize these qualities through rhythmic movement. Adequate, varied, nutritious and apiadizing diet for thirty days contribute its share to a bodily growth, measured by inches of height and chest expansion and many pounds of weight. Regular hours establish a proper habit of life. Systematic medical inspection wards off any danger of undue exertion and it is supplemented by hospital care in case of need. Academic credit and rewards are a definite incentive for thousands of high school and college students who always make up a large percentage of the enrollment. Boards of education in many states have authorized high school credit for camp enrollment and a considerable number of higher institutions have recognized this training toward graduation. In addition, many military schools, public secondary schools, colleges and universities offer for competition in the citizens’ military training catsip of the various corps areas scholarships bearing free tuition. M st of these are renewable, on the basis of good scholastic record. to the successful winners throughout the course. Sixty or more institutions have united in this patriotic plan with a forecast of a total annual value of fifty thousand dollars in these scholarships within the next two er three years. Economic considerations lead many young men to the summer training. A large and increasing percentage is made up of young men from offices, stores ami factories, who go to the camps under the expressed approval of their employers and with the sound conviction that a good record in the training center will be a factor in future pay and advancement. Some companies grant an extra two weeks without wages; most give the full month with pay am! a few allow attendance for four weeks with pay in addition to the usual two weeks’ vacation. <ix years have demonstrated the value of the citizens’ military training camps, for wbi- h there is no better proof than the increasing desire of young men to return for a second year, coupled with the unanimous approval of parents The government stands today firm in this definite policy of voluntary training—physical, civic and military—of young men. It offers in the ilizens’ military training camp no vacation in the sense of purposeless -q.mmlerh g of the in idle pursuits or useless diversions, sub a> im ♦•: t youth may fancy. The camp schedule is not a luous, but for every hour there is a definite dm am! occupation. Military drill tills the n or : h short intervals for rest and for the ever-weh- -me milk period, wisely ordained for those s id I<-i---growing youths. Afternoons are deemed to av.; 1> variety of sports and games, in one or more o* which each candidate must take his part. After a long day of outdoor w >rk and play, men velcome eagerly the recreation of ti e evening hours. The hostess house, under the direction c sy pathetic and experienced women, affords the comforts and quiet enjoyment of a home or club. Chess and checkers, billiards and card games till many a happy hour. Dances are organized at every training center with partners furnished by committees and clubs of neighboring communities. The Liberty theater offers moving pictures with professional and amateur concerts am! pl ivs. Most camps have their own citizens' miliarv training camp band and sometimes their own orchestra and dramatic and debating clubs. From reveille to taps the program is full of earnest work and w holesome recreation, inciting e: andidate to full performance of duty through the day in order better to enjoy the resultii g leisure of the evening. What was a dream in the in ! of Leonard Wood in the days before ■ . eat war and an experiment in the • .. >"y training camp of 1921 is now an- ?r in . citizens’ military training cat the cal! of w Ph is written large in the history of the p. six years.

making is prominent With t 1 ■ resignation recently of Mis M. Menamin, sprigging instn: ■ tn<s at the County Donegal Technical school. it was reported that because of new customs duties the art was passing out to such an extent that pupils were few and an instructor was untie . Home of the Potato South America Is named ! i s ■ o authorities as the original fa e of , the potato.