Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 July 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Everv Thursday by THE IX DEPENI>EXT-X EWS CO. Publishers of the WAUvEKTON 1N D EI’EX DEX T NORTH LIBERTY NEWS _ LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEP 11 _COU NT Y WE E K LIES~ Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES On® Tear 11.50 Six Months 90 Three Months ,50 TERMS IN ADVANCE , Entered at the post office at Walkerton, jjnd., as second-class matter. Mussolini must be part American. When he doesn’t like the constitution, he just ignores it. A scientist believes we could abolish sleep. Some folks are always taking the-joy out of life. Beauty experts wish to be known as “beautitians.” But will that make their work any handsomer? There is satisfaction in knowing that no matter how an election goes it is pleasing to the majority. The selr-eonfldence you teach a boy goes to his head; what he learns by himself goes to his backbone. Flood control cannot be disregarded as a public question. Every time a dam brqpks it comes to the front. A convention keynote is impressively sounded. The matter of harmony or discord remains to he regulated. Bright lights are said to be exceedingly beneficial to wheat. For wild oats they are almost indispensable. Much attention is given to talk ot “How to reduce.” An important tine of comment is addressed to the income tax. When two or three are gathered together, there is one in every office who thinks they are talking about him. An eminent painter says nothing is so offensive to the soul of a true artist as a straight line. Well, there is a dotted line. Gratitude is not a lost virtue. An Atlanta man married four women in as many years and only one of them recoursed to law. More power is sought by aviators in each gallon of gas. There is no kind of human aspiration in which oil does not assert itself. The body of a slain brigand near Peking was found to have been perforated with 119 holes, one less than a cribbage board. The German flyers, during their triumphal march through the streets ot New York, learned the American use of scraps of paper. Willy always supposed the Order of the Bath was when toe king of England sent his little boy upstairs to wash those wrists. Little Willy’s notion of making the world air-minded is to sail a half a dozen pasteboard planes across the living room into papa's ear. A fellow who put in an ad for a lost airedale. and received 28 callers with dogs, is now thinking of advertising for his runaway wife. Perhaps success magazine writers are ignoring something unusual in neglecting the oil multimillionaires who don't take receipts for “loans.” It takes all kinds of wants to make up a well-balanced classified page, and a man in Milwaukee is advertising the loss of a large yellow tom cat. Another fact elicited from many researches is that even when the writer of the average anonymous letter is known it is still almost anonymous. An anthracite fire has been burning in the Pennsylvania mining fields for 69 years without, as far as we can ascertain, anybody carrying out the ashes. “I used to wonder,” said the Old Crab as he sent the waiter back after a steel knife, “what the T stood for in T-bone. Do you suppose it could be ‘tough ?’ ” General Summerall says, “Desire for peace does not insure it.” No. and desire for a meal doesn’t satisfy hunger, but it does start you toward a restaurant. It is an appalling thought that a generation now growing up in this great republic wouldn't know how to go about trimming the wick of a kerosene lamp. And now a German actress plans to fly from Germany to America. It is to be hoped that she doesn’t land in Labrador, because if there’s anything an actress can't stand, it's a frostOne day we are told that the number of idle men is abnormal, next normal, and then subnormal. Looks like we are getting back to normalcy. A young lady of Atlanta was awarded first prize for speed on a typewriter which proves there is one stenographer who doesn't powder her nose. The continuous crop of Scotch stories, mostly invented by Scotchmen themselves, shows that literary ingenuity is another attribute of the race. Income tax officials say that the public has mastered the intricacies of making out a return. So that’s why a new form is planned. Japanese cherry trees inspire a reverence for beauty. If the blossom crop is a success, failure of the fruit crop may be regarded with patience. Sing Sing lets inmates write all the poetry they want to. but prohibits publication. We thought the old law of supply and demand would attend to all that.

SUCH IS LIFE Easy for Junior By Charles Sughroe 5m CO A -w n II I y ll s —>

Will Help Aviators

Schenectady, N. Y.— A brilliant red arc light that makes use of the rare atmospheric gas neon, and which can shine through thick fog, has been de veloped at the research laboratory ot the General Electric company here The new lamp is the result of the work of Dr. Clifton G. Found, in collabora tiou with J. D. Forney of the Cooper Hewitt Electric company, and has just been demonstrated by them to engi neers. Airplane landing fields will prob ably lie among the first to make use of the lamp, for by outlining the fields with them aviators flying above through fog will be enabled to make a safe landing. Such an occurrence as that of Commander Byrd on his flight to Baris, when he actually flew over Leßourget. but could not see to land, would probably be prevented. Useful Also In Harbors. Docks in harbors may also be marked with the lamp. According to Doctor Found, the light has been tested for this use when one was recently placed on a pier in tile Hudson river. “Observations from boats during fog,” he says, “have shown that it was possible to pick up the red neon light before any of the other lights in the vicinity were observed.” Earlier forms of neon tubes, which give the characteristic red neon light that is now so common tn advertising signs, suffer from what Is called the “cathode drop.” This is the great difference in voltage between the electrode through which the electric cur rent enters the tube and the near-by gas. On account of it. also, tubes , must be operated with a high voltage, *

Blood Tests Seen as Aid to Police

London.—Suspected persons who tell detectives that bloodstains on their clothing are due to nose bleed or to .n ts while shaving may now have their stories tested by .chemical and microscopic methods, described to the Royal Institute of Public Health in London by Dr. Roche Lynch, expert in legal medicine. Comparison of the “blood group” to which tlie suspected person belongs with blood in the stain often proves. Doctor Lynch said, that the blood is not self-shed, but must have come from some other person. There are four recognized blood groups to which a person may belong, and it Is possible to divide these into several subgroups, depending upon the Cuba Will Turn Coast Defenses Into Parks Havana. —Cuba -Is to transform its coast batteries into public- parks, according to an announcement by Secretary of Public Works Carlos Miguel de Cespedes. In Havana alone some ten blocks of valuable ocean front property, appraised at as many millions of dollars. contain antiquated earthworks mounted with unserviceable cannon that date from colonial times. Since Cuba has no reason to anticipate a foreign invasion, it has been decided that coast defense artillery is unnecessary, and the batteries are being dismantled to make way for pergolas and flower beds. Secretary Cespedes is also transforming several hundred section houses along the various highways of the republic into rural schoolhouses. Modern machinery has practically done away with manual labor in highway repair, it is stated, and tlie section houses, which were built two decades ago of substantial masonry, serve better purpose in the guise of schools.

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and must be made quite long in order to be efficient. Another disagreeable effect is that the gas is made to grad bally disappear. Gives More Effective Light. The new tube ot Doctor Foumf and Forney heats the cathode, or the elec trode through winch the current en ters the tube by means of an addl tional electric circuit. This causes it to give oil tie electrons which cause WEST POINT HONOR MAN OS' \ Hr • * — -v —*4? ri Luke W. Finlay ol Memphis. 1 nn. who was honor mao of this year's . graduating class nt the United States Military academy at West Point.

presence or absence of specific chemi cal substances in the liquid part ot the blood or in the solid corpuscles. Tests for these substances can now be made. Doctor Lynch disclosed on bloodstains at least a year old It Is sometimes possible to say not only that a bloodstain In question was not made by Hie blood of the suspect ed person, but that It probably did come from a murdered victim, if that is the truth. This can tie tried whenever a sample of stain km wn to be of the victim's blood is available for comparison There are some uncertainties. Doctor Lynch admitted, but he believes that these rew blood tests should be used in criminal practice more often Charlie Woke Up New York.—Charlie Kiefhaber. truck driver, will be careful here after about taking a nap on his parked machine. When he did so in front ot a skyscraper under construction a ten ton steel boo n fell 22 stories right through the truck. Charlie was awakened. Nothing else happened to him.

1 T 7 — Old Iceboat Honored

Baltimore. Md.—The municipal iceboat Latrobe, which somewhat resembles a fat and asthmatic old lady, recently was elevated to a position approximating that of the British navy’s battle fleet flagship. With her nose in the air and her sides bulging, the Latrobe plodded past Fort McHenry and took a salute of 21 guns. Aboard the UHrobe were tlie Fifth Regiment Veteran corps and 460 guests, members of organizations

the neon gas to glow, but without the high collages that are needed In the older tubes. By such means an ex tremel.v efficient source of brilliant red light can be obtained Light ol this color Is best for penetrating fog. Anolhei possible use ot the lamp is In photography, especially in colors I he mercury vapor lamp, which gives a characteristically violet colored light, has often been used for ordinary photography, but the unnatural pallor which It causes Is a disadvantage, es pecially where colors are converged By combining the neon light with the mercury vapor lamp, the former sup plies the red rays which are lacking in the latter, and the result, said Doctor Forney, is a good approximation to ' white light. INFLUENCE I j |[ By THO.4AS ARKLE CLARK LOenn of Men, University of Illinois. \lllS WHARTON was talking to me about her son He was an only child and had s< art els ever bci-n away from tier care n night In his life. His fattier had been <tea<l «ver since John was six. and It was to tils mother’s Influence and direction that he owed the prim iples which nefu ated his life He was lust finishing high s< bool now. and rhe question un der consideration was his going to college Should he stay at home and attend the local insil’utlon where lie could continue to be tinder his moth er's eye. or ns he very much wanted to do, should be go to an eastern Institution whlcli some of fils m< re Intimate fi.tnds were attending? 't was a question which It was very hard to decide ami Mrs Wharton was get i ting my iplnlon on .lie sublet t. “1 don't like to have him go away.’ she was explaining “I should like to keep film miller my Influence for a little longer." Mistaken mother! He would not go beyoud tier Influence to matter how far lie wandered Influence of that sort Is i.of dependent upon -ihysl | cal conditions. .Someiimes distance and separation only tend to empha size the strength of the influence which training ami precept and ex ample have had upon one My fathet held to very rigid prin ciples of religious am) moral conduct The example which lie set for me still has Its potent Influence upon me own I procedure, though he has been dead more than fifty eerrs. There were certain practices which in hk eyes w-re objectionable but whicl in mine, with the different (raining I have re ^•ei.ed and the wider opportunity for observing manners am customs which 1 have had. seem quite unobjetflon • Ie and yet 1 do not follow my ludg ment. I yield even h>day to the Influ once which my father had upon me long years ago. A young newsboy nas fust come in to the railway coach in which I am riding Would you like a morning paper, sir?" he inquires. His v Ice is soft

from other states with military histories extending through the colonial days. Army regulations state specifically that the 21-gun salute from an Atneri can fort shall he restricted to the President, or former President of the United States, the head of a foreign nation or a foreign ship of war. and. under certain circumstances, the tlag. Capt. Louis J. Harant. regimental adjutant, indicated that the salute, tired by a two gun detachment from the One Hundred and Tenth field artillery, was intended for the flag aboard the Latrobe. Regulations state that an American ship shall not receive the salute from an American fort. So possibly the Latrobe was not recognized as a ship, but merely as the foundation for a flagstaff. Neither President Coolidge, nor former President Taft, nor vet the Ameer ol Afghanistan, was on board the Latrobe; so experts in aymy etiquette leaped to the conclusion that the Lat- *♦* *** *l* *!♦ »*♦ *** ♦** **» ♦** *j» ♦s» •*-♦ **♦ ♦♦♦ ♦% *J* **< **♦ **♦ * Dipping into * * SCIENCE * *** v *♦* ♦** *l* *♦* *l* *J» »** **♦ »J» ♦*< *J» ♦♦♦ * Diamonds Wil! Curn * X As most ot us think ot the £ element called carbon it is hard * X t 0 believe that diamonds are *? ❖ formed ot it. This is true and <• * if a diamond is heated to a very * ❖ high temperature in a place that ❖ X is airtight it turns to charcoal X * but if air gets to it, it will burn * »j. and form carbon dioxide. *♦* t'cX 1928 Western Newspaper dnion.) v ♦*4 ►*< ♦** ♦*< **« >♦.» * y

and pleasant ; his manner is courteous. his hut is in his hand as lie makes the Inquiry. Some one has taught him good manners. His four teen or fifteen years have been spent under the Influence of a refineo moth er, I have no doubt, and It shows in the way he carries himself, In the In fonntion of fils voice. In tiis quiet po lite approach, and this same Influence will he apparent twenty five or thirty years hence In the way In which his own boy conducts aimself. It was the home influence which ten or a dozen years ago kept boys straight and clean and manly even though that Influence had ’ts Inception four or five thousand miles away There Is a lltfk poorn by Hattie Well Boynton which expresses this power of Influence not weakened by distance: They marveled at the lad — So young, so strong, so radiant of cheer: That he, from his soft life, could srrap pie death. Could sing, nnd laugh and with exultant breath Could die—nnd know no fear. I’h<v marveled, hut guessed not That far bevond the west norlzon s rim. Throuch long, still hours of sleepless holy nights, Wrestling with God up to the star-lit heights. His m >ther prayed for him! I (cl 192 V Western Newspaper Union | Saved by Convicts Norristown. Pa.—The crew of n i naval balloon owe their lives to some convicts. Caught In a squall, the billloon threw out ropes when over a prison farm. Several dozen men grablw'd them willingly nnd were drugged across two fields before the bug was brought down. No Thirteen Jinx Tnunton. Mass. —a certain train crew Is convinced that 13 Is far from unlmkv. Thirteen freight cars went over nn embankment. They were the whole tndn. except the engine and the caboose. wld< h remained on the track Nobody was hurt. MAKES OLYMPIC TEAM / a * 1 . The recent performances ol Joie Kay of the Illinois A. C.. Chicago, in winning the marathon run from New York city to Long Beach. 1.. 1., in the remarkable time of 2:34:13 2-5. and the capture of tin special ten mile race at Malden, Mass., not only makes Joie a certainty for the American Olympic team but also strengthens this country's chances In an event in which it has been weak for years

robe has been masquerading for many years and will show her true colors when a foreign fleet again attacks Fort Mi-Henry. The salute, whatever its import, welcomed the colonial organization to Baltimore to celebrate several anni versa ries.

Deg Gives Operation Banquet 'SOB - . *> v r"r- X 6 ' ■. * ■ : - v‘ % V' ' i •fX' .- ~ * X ■hz ; ti ri ■ ’ RMS 9^ < ' kJ A ' • J R/ V ' - • . J' ' ■ Fritz, veteran of the A. E. F. and mascot ot Victory Post No 54 ot the American Legion, of Los Angeles, gave a banquet the other day for his friends to celebrate his recovery from an operation to remove shrapnel from his body. He is seen here beside the dinner table, wearine his medals, with Font tine La Rue, who assisted him in entertaining his guests.

FROCK FOR AFTERNOON ^4 ■ 3 I .■ \ /. -" . Ui \ Kg. v Ip ; Jri ~ / K The cape theme, which strikes such an important note In this season's smartest fashions. Is used to achieve a graceful effect in this charming ! afternoon frock ot water-blue chiffon worn by Renee Adoree. Note how grmN’fully tiie caf>e Is em- i I loyed. so that a novel one-sided es- j feet Is achieved through the ca|»e fall- ' ing over only one arm In rippling ; fashion. The diagonal neckline, seen , <>n so many of today's smartest frocks, accent mites the onesided es- j feet of the frock. Note. too. the large soft flow attached with a rhinestone I pin nt the neckline. The sk ti is box plaited and the nlotise is shirred in front tn affect the fashionable tight girdle line aernss Hie hips. A large picture hat adds a furtiier j summery tone to the costume. - — — Race Suicide Causing Little Worry in U. S. Washington.—The race suicide out- ' look in the United States is not yet j painfully apparent, judging by the latest statistical study of sterility re- i ported to the National Academy of , Sciences. From data furnished by the Unit'd States bureau of the census, Dr. A J. Loika has computed that ihe percentage of childless mar j riages among white people in Amer ica is 17 per cent. About 4 per cent of these are accounted for by divorce and the death of one matrimonial i partner or the other, leaving an actual sterility rate of 13 per cent. When it is taken into consideration ftiat 78.2H7 out of every Hltt.tNM white women eventually marry in this coun try of some 100 million population, the proportion of childless families is considered not sufficient to cause grave concern to alarmists worried over the future of the race. words of a wenk wo,n:,n ° nen ' carry more weight than the muscles of strong man. Fine for Barbers New York.— Women in this town apparently spend more than 81.oop.OfMi a year for bobs. One barber shop chain avers in litigation that its income from women last year was 8916.000.

Horiiqultal MOSAIC .MENACE TO RASPBERRIES Much of the difficulty in mainiaining quality and yields of raspberries, particularly red raspberries, in New York, lias been attributed to what is called "running out,” but it lias been > found that an infectious lisease known । as mosaic is responsible. Also, it is I now known that healtliy stock can tie kept reasonably free from this disease. Ibus it is possible to grow any । variety and obtain its usual yield and j quality, says W. 11. Rankin of the experiment station at Geneva who spol e recently at Cornell universitv, Ithaca. N. Y. Mosaic spreads from plant to plant I only when plant lice carry it. The lice i themselves do no Jiarm. A plant once inoculated is diseased thorughout ami becomes less productive, although it i may live for several years. This mosaicdisease has caused growers to give up raspberries as unprofitable, so the present raspberry acreage in New | 1 ork is low. Obtaining stock from fields known to be practically free from mosaic is the ; first step in control. Insiiectiug the i planting the first two years may si.o.v a tew diseased plants. These should be removed carefully so that the lice are not shaken off. The roots of re-1 . varieties must be dug to prevent diseased suckers from coming up. In western New Y«rk these measures insure little loss from mosaic. A few varieties remain free from mosaic or are little damaged by it. Such varieties are recommended, especially for the lower Hudson River i valley where mosaic is difficult to control by removing the diseased plants. Propagating Grapes by Means of Cuttings Best The accepted and orthodox way ot | propagating grai>es is by means of cut- ' tings. Notwithstanding this, however, i the grafting of grapes may be prac- > ticed for one or more of several reasons. Established vines of undesirable varieties in the vineyard may be topworked to more desirable varieties, ■ Invariably European grapes are grafted onto American grape stock in order to offset or avoid the ill effects of phylloxera injury. This is the customary practice whether the grapes are to be grown In America or Europe. The phylloxera is a louse which, during one stage of its life history, attacks grape roots. It is “100 per cent American.” and was not known in Europe until after America was explored and some of our native grapes Infested with phylloxera lice were carried to Europe by returning explorers. American grapes have endured its parasitic attacks so long that they have become partially immune to its injurious effects. And this immunity makes American grapes valuable as stock upon which to graft the susreptible choice wine grapes of France and oilier continental countries. Pruning When Knife Is Sharp Gaining Favor Prune when the knife is sharp is a good working rule for the orchard, he- । lieves T. J. Talbert of the Missouri College of Agriculture. If the work is done properly, it may be helpful at any time of year. Formation of main branches and the elimination of tldik clusters that shade the fruit, as wi ll ■ as tlie removal of dead or ba<lly diseased branches, may prove profitable at any time of year. In general, the principal work should be done after the leaves drop in the fall and before they appear In the spring. At any time during the dormant season when men may work comfortably out of doors, the pruning work may be carried on with profit. Labor is more easily secured in the fall and winter than in the spring so that large commercial orchards mu^t prune when the labor is available. However, pruning can be done at any time before growth is fully started. €a • • S x £ ‘ r -) | Horticultural Hints e If you want good apples, spray. Ini sects are no respecters of p rsons. * * Planting for best results should he done as early in Hie season as the ? ground can be prepared. • • • In the case of fruit trees as well as ‘ practically all fruits in the MbhilcWest. spring is the best planting season. • • • One-year-old apple trees cut to 40 inches w hen set develop more branches i th(» first year than trees cut to 30 I Inches. • • • Efficient cold storage plants with I facilities for preceding, icing, and rei icing fruit have been tremendously i developed in recent years. • • * More bearing apple orchards have I been thoroughly pruned this winter : than ever Iwfore. This should mean a higher percentage of good apples. Stayman am! Delicious apple trees demand we!l-aerate< soil. The fruit becomes small after a few years when these varieties are planted upon soil that is too dense. • • • The aphids or plant I e arc proha- । bly the most geie-rally troublesome garden insects. They nr rk iu ur : y all crops and ofii n enu'-e lite withering or death of the p’ants. • • • Greatly improved q mlity and increased yields of fruit an the c f advantages to be gained b\ _r ifli - g desirable vaHit —i o f grapi < on hardy root stocks This Is the glad w< rd from F. E. Gladwin. G neva - . who has l>: .u expiTina :::it a wth grafted grapes for the p t several years.