Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 July 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE IKDEm'BEXT-NBWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH ÜBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES ’ Clem DeCoudree, Business Manager Charles M, Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year • ..fI.BB pja Months .90 yjiree Months ,B 0 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, .Jnd., as second-class matter. After 65 hours of playing “Always” ‘a London pianist fainted, making it unanimous. An Optimist is a Possibility who only has a couple of places open in his Cabinet. We never did find out how Jonah described the whale; with only one pair of arms. Don’t worry about the next generation being soft. Look at the bond Issues it will have to pay off. There must have been one cigar lighter that worked, otherwise the patent could not have been issued. This is a funny world. While part of it is trying to reduce, thousands seek the bread line to take on weight. It is strongly suspected that the foreign substance unpleasantly discovered in spinach is not all vitamine E. £ The master mind of a French bandit band was traced to his lair by his flat feet A sort of fallen arch-crim-inal. World flyers are putting some islands on the map that have been known heretofore only to the map makers. “According to Paris, 'stylish stout’ is no longer to be a paradox.” It may in some cases, however, be a euphemism. Admiration must be accorded the transatlantic flyer who completes the trip without once losing his grip on his monocle. Holland has a murder sensation. If we had known the Dutch needed ' one we could have given them some of our surplus. A Brooklyn man spent thirty days writing 14,000 words on a postal card and when finished all he had done was to write 14,000 words on a postal card. It is an almost incredible story that comes from Paris, where the fashions originate, that a would-be suicide was kept afloat in the Seine by her skirt. A Missouri trombone player was blown through a window by an exploding tank of gasoline. There is talk of signing them up for a return contest It was just about thirty years ago that the Rainy Day club began its agitation for shorter skirts. It was a good idea, but they failed to equip it with brakes. Fairy Story—Once upon a time a man with a pipe was quite active in public life but was never referred to in a character sketch as an “inveterate pipe smoker.” An Oklahoma oil company now Is using goats instead of lawn mowers on its extensive properties. It seems you don’t have to pay six-bits to get a goat sharpened. “Why did you get up and leave the theater just as handsome Ramon Mascara was knocked flat by the villain? There was more to the picture.” “I know, but I prefer happy endings.” The lumbermen's associations of the United States will expend $10,000,1)00 in advertising this year to create a greater use of wood. The publicity will be wasted on the cabinet builders. if the columnists and special writers could not rehash the old stuff about love, courtship and marriage that has done duty for some milleniums, what would they find to write about? The prince of Wales is a game horseman and an adroit student of human nature. A failure in small things endears an eminent person to multitudes who have had similar experience. The very apex of will power would be an ability to lay the detective stdry aside at page 289, just when the great detective has brought all the characters together for the showdown, and toddle off to bed. The best thing about published radio programs is thev give warnings of what stations are going to broadcast political speeches. Fashions follow the heroes of the air, as styles in women’s hats frankly admit. Huenefeld may yet succeed in popularizing the monocle. How wonderful it must be to have the leisure to read all the attractive little pamphlets that are wrapped around the new tube of shaving cream with a small elastic. There seems to be a trend among some ol the churches to unite and fight the devil, instead of remaining apart and fighting each other. It may be true that cats are color blind, but there certainly is plenty of color in their serenading, particularly when it occurs in duet form. The next battle will be fought in the air, say aviation experts. Arguments over seagoing warships go on nevertheless. There are human habits that cannot be overcome.

Plenty Pasture Need of Geese Can Be Profitably Raised in All Parts of the United States. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Abundant pasture of a sort that Is tender and remains green for u long period is the most economical basis for the raising of geese. A stream or pond, or even tanks of water may serve for the aquatic needs of the birds, and shelter may be reduced to a minimum. In the South none is required and in the North a simple shed open to the south is sufficient. Geese can be raised successfully and profitably in all parts of the United States, but are more abundant in the Middle West and the South. In 1920 Illinois with nearly 200,000 geese closely followed by Missouri, Arkansas and lowa led in production of geese. Kentucky, Tennessee, Minnesota, North Carolina and Texas followed, but this group of states was much behind the four leaders. Closest Grazers. “Geese subsist largely on grass during the growing season and are the closest of grazers,” says Alfred R. Lee, author of Farmers’ Bulletin 767F, “Goose Raising,” just published in a revised edition by the United States Department of Agriculture. Geese grow to much heavier weights than chickens, but the price per pound on the markets is usually several cents less than for chickens. Some of the geese are sold from the farms to specialists in the fattening of the birds, and then go to market, largely in the cities wbere foreign population creates a demand. Principal Breeds. The bulletin describes the principal breeds of geese found In the United States, the Toulouse, Emden, African, Chinese, Wild or Canadian and Egyptian. It gives directions for housing, selection and mating, incubation, care and feeding of the goslings, and preparation of stock for market. An acre of grass will supply nearly if not all the food for from four to twenty-five geese, with perhaps ten to an acre | as an average. In the South some cotton growers keep geese for the sake of their aid In keeping down weeds in cotton fields. Farmers’ Bulletin 7G7-F may be obtained free upon request to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Agent Must Account on Basis of Actual Sales Produce agents in all Instances should account to shippers on the basis of prices actually received in good faith from third persons, declares the bureau of agricultural economica United States Department of Agriculture, in response to inquiries regarding this particular accounting feature under the Produce Agency act The bureau bases its position on the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as the state courts, have held that an agent to sell cannot sell to himself. The point has been raised as to whether an agent who is making sales on track, charging therefor a commission of, say, 7 per cent, and who takes part of the contents of the car to his own store for sale, must account on the basis of the price received through the store, or may account on the basis of the price received on track. Obviously, under the policy outlined above, the bureau says, the agent must make his returns on the basis of the price received for sales through the store for the portion so sold, while returning on the basis of track price for the portion actually sold on track. The bureau points out that this does not compel produce commission merchants to handle produce through their stores at 7 per cent, or whatever the track sales commission may be, but that such merchants are entitled to the commission that is usual and proper for salens made through the store. * Agricultural Squibs ❖ ❖ ❖ A hen usually lays eggs like the one she was hatched from. • • • Nothing justifies feeding complex mineral mixtures to cattle all the time. • * • Most cream separators will do a much belter job of skimming the milk when it is warm. • • • Beginning the first week, provide green feed for young chicks, or, best of all, let them pick their own green food on the range. * * • Without a sweet soil and thorough inoculation with nodule-forming bacteria, sweet clover will not be a complete success no matter when it ia own. • • • Goor farming, plus the silo, are the main weapons of offense and de sense against the European corn borer. • • ♦ Cod liver oil in mash or grain for young chicks prevents leg weakness and aids normal growth. Feed at £he rate of one pint of the oil to 100 pounds of feed. • • • The petted calf is the one that responds most easily to the care of the young stockman. When the junior club member feeds his calf, the time that he spends petting it a little is not lost time. Fatten Fowls Rapidly To fatten fowls rapidly, keep them in rather small coops where they cannot take much exercise. Keep the coops darkened by covering them with old cloths. This will keep the chickens from moving around in the coops. Give them soft food that can be easily digested—cornmeal mashes, ground oats or tallow has been mixed. This, with plenty of pure water, will fatten them in eight to ten days.

$ A MF® THE MODERN GIRL I I By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK ? T Dean of Men, University of | I Illinois. t IRLS are different from what they once were. The first thing we know some girl will take Into her head that she will look well in the Presidential chair, and she will pull the strings and play her cards to get the job. Girls didn’t run for office when 1 was young. Sometimes the fellows gave them an unimportant place that no else seemed to care for. It was a courtesy, however, a concession to the weaker sex. It slmplj’ showed how generous and warm-hearted we were. Girls modestly and shyly sat back In the corner and waited until they were asked or brought forward. They were never so rude as to take the initiative. It Is not that way now. What a girl wants these days she goes after. She looks out for number one. She Is practical and capable and aggressive and Is quite capable of looking after her own Interests. She runs for office —any office In fact that she

• Defied Alien Law :

Detroit. —Accused of being responsible for the smuggling of nt least 400 aliens from Canada to Detroit during the last 18 months, Casper Hollecker, fifty-two years old, and his daughter, Mrs. Rose Phlllippl, thirtyone years old, were arraigned here recently on charges of conspiracy to violate the Immigration laws and being accessories in aiding the smug gling of aliens. John L. Zurbjlck, district director of immigration, estimated the two were responsible for bringing in 400 aliens here as members of an International ring whose ramifications are believed to extend to Europe. Both admit, Mr. Zurbrlck said, that they have smuggled In a number of aliens but gave no exact number, llollecker, Mr. Zurbrlck said, told him that between 50 and 100 aliens whom he aided to enter the country illegally now are residing in New York. Many From His Home. Suspicions of the authorities here were aroused when it was found that in the few months aliens caught Illegally entering the country here all seemed to come from Englesbrum, a section of Rumania which formerly was part of Austria. Hollecker was born in the district. Some time ago the authorities were Informed that 78 aliens from Englesbrum were aboard a steamer bound for Canada. On April 3, 12 and 19. the immigration border patrol apprehended a number of the aliens here, and all showed they were interested in a man named Hollecker. The women said they paid $75 to be smuggled over the river, while the men said they paid $55 each. One woman said she paid S2BO. Mrs. Phillippi, Mr. Zurbrlck said, claims $75 of that fee was paid the man who brought the woman over the river. On April 19, Nicholas Titch and his wife, Anna, of Englesbrum, were arrested in a taxicab at the foot of 42 Riverfront with Arthur Damon, a Mark Wild Bill’s Grave for Admiring Tourists Deadwood, S. D.—The last resting places of “Wild Bill” Hickok and “Calamity Jane,” most noted of the earlyday characters of the Black hills, are uO be improved by Black hills residents. During recent years the graves of “Wild Bill” and “Calamity Jane” have been somewhat neglected. Massive stone monuments will be put at each grave and upon the monuments bronze tablets bearing relief portraits of the two famous characters will be placed. From 800,000 to 1,000,000 tour-

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r- eoME~iMAMD -_- '^ ~ Curfew Law Threatens ilk—l'M DOMINI to Close Cuba Movies TO "TH 1 Havana, Cuba. —Cuban motion picII i 1 I Joi ture theater owners, including more 1 than 100 in Havana, threatene • to close their theaters in protest against IjO \ Vzo a * aw recent, y passed prohibiting vu \y> IVq 1/ M// IrfjpEmKt A children less than fourteen years of IMA ./ ' > age f rom attending the movies after i $ o'clock at night. \ ‘‘■cz Presiden' Machado rescinded the '< S— XXJ- law, but the government may still -^"4 •• "''‘''“'lu. forbid admission of minors to theaters — in the instances of individual film presentat ions. |AIkTT BIG ENOUGH „ 1 M to shoe horses f I Shoo A ft* —r Vo kPiiEStJ “iK I ^3l Z.'W WOSAIO Wil Lv/ Ah77 l ms? mL © /Vt ik Jr/ I s \\\ —V xw V

gets her eyes on—and she makes cam palgn speeches. She doesn't exactly pass out the cigars and set up the drinks—she hasn’t got that far yet, but she does hand out the apple sauce, and she gets you into n corner and askS you to vote foi her In such a forceful way that there Is no resisting her. She takes the lead now where once she sat In the corner nnd waited for the fellows to come round. She's tremendously capable. Ethel is teaching school In a country town a hundred miles away and was Invited down to a formal party In our town nnd Nancy asked her to stay with ^s. She thought her party gown was quite all rigid until she looked

smuggler released recently after serving n sentence In the Leavenworth penitentiary for smuggling aliens. Gave Password. Titch told the authorities that when he came to Windsor he went to a certain hotel and gave a certain pass word, whereupon he was told to await an agent of the smuggling ring. The hotel, the authorities say they are informed, got $5 a head for this service. Hollecker was notified of the aliens’ arrival and tils daughter came to Windsor and collected $l5O from the Titcbes and told them they would be delivered to her home, Mr. Zurbrlck TURF CAREER ENDING M^B / wP i ...^v ■■ The photograph shows a closeup of Earl Sande, noted jockey, who will retire from the turf nt the end of the season. The task of making weight has become too severe on his health. Ists are expected to visit the Black hills this year. Eight out of ten of them probably will make the hard climb up a steep highway to Mount Moriah cemetery, so they may view the graves of “Wild Bill” and “Calamity Jane.” |-JRI ["J*T*J Ai* " hen a sociable man has a minute to spare, he goes and mPL— bothers some other J®— man who is busy.

it over just before packing it in the collar b<>x In which she was bringing her togs, and then she saw that It wouldn't do nt nil. It was too short and too regular around the bottom so she stopped In Bloomington on the way and bought some material. She go: In about noon, designed and cut out the gown nnd had It made, beau tifully made too, before dinner time. It had no home-made look, either, 1 assure you It might have come from Worth's or Susanne's shop. That's the way girls do things now. I read u letter fron. Harriet n few nights ngo. She’s up in Duluth run nlng n tea room nnd doing very well. Harriet Is twenty four, and so far

said. The Tltclies got in a cab at the hotel with Damon. Hollecker, Mr. Zurbrlck said, claims he got $lO to S2O a head fur ills part In the smuggling. He said, according to the officials, that he shipped the aliens to the East ufter receiving them at bis home. Farmer, Aged 81, Says He Has Walked 180,000 Miles Glencoe. Minn.—The record of 11. F. Beneke, eighty one-year-old fanner here, is something for these cross country runners to ponder over. Mr. Beneke has clicked off 180,000 miles by foot in the past 17 years and still makes his daily walk. “1 bad a fair sized mileage ticked off when I was only eleven years old, ’ the pioneer explained. “1 walked nearly all the way from a point 25 miles south of Chicago to Glencoe in the summer of ISSB. I was a member of a prairie schooner party, but there was no room in the wagons for the men and boys. “For several years after that J walked frequently from the claim here to St. Paul and back, carrying pro visions. During all that time I worked in the fields, and in those days, of course, there were no seats to ride on when working in the field. in fact, there was no farm machines Later 1 made from 15 to 20 miles a day plowing and harrowing, and during the rest of the year I reckon that 1 walked at least five miles a day.” Most of his walking was done with wooden shoes. Beneke said. “We used to wear wooden shoes to St. Paul even in winter and exchange them for leather ones when we neared the town.” he declared. “One time 1 lost one of my leather shoes while crossing the river from St. Anthony to St. Paul. 1 didn’t like to wear wooden shoes on the streets and tried to buy a pair of buffalo shoes, but couldn't find any to fit me in the SL Paul stores.”

Hope for Lepers

San Francisco. —Possibility that leprosy is not contagious and that victims of the dread scourge need not be isolated in colonies of the so-called “living dead” was disclosed here by Dr. E. L. Walker, professor of tropical medicines in the University of California medical school. The theory, supported for the first time by definite evidence, was advanced by the University of California scientist upon his return from a 14months’ stay in Honolulu. Doctor Walker, who said his findings are only tentative, explained that authorities long have suspected that the actinomyces bacteria might be involved in leprosy, but that no laboratory evidence hitherto had been obtained to support the suspicion. This particular bacteria, classified as a plant fungus, is said to be a soil-grow-ing organism, like that causing lockjaw. It appears reasonable to suppose then, according to Doctor Walker, that leprosy is an infection from the soil. The theory is materially strengthened, according to the scientist s find ings, by the known fact that leprosy is most prevalent in countries where the natives run barefoot. Investigation in these places, with the soil origin of infection in mind, the adoption of shoes and the careful disinfection of wounds, provided seemingly positive evidence of the truth of the new theory. The stumbling block in the way of obtaining experimental proof that actinomyces is the actual cause of leprosy, Doctor Walker said, lies in the fact that animals other than man are

has escaped male entanglements of any serious sort She has had no desire to settle down and cultivate the domestic life. She is beginning to feel differently and things are likely to happen. “1 met a man wher 1 was down In St Louis in September visiting Susan.” she wrote, “and how I did fall for him! He’s six feet tall and has black hair,” —Harriet’s hair is red —“and wonderful manners. He's shy. Just getting started in law, and isn’t keen at this moment to marry. I'm going back in a month and work on him.” Poor man! He hasn’t a chance. <(cl 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Earthen Jars in Arizona Said to Be 2,000 Years Old Nogales, Ariz. —Ancient earthen jars, containing the bones of a prehistoric race, recently excavated by men working on the city streets, were declared to be more than 2.000 years old by Byron Cummings, dean of the University of Arizona, who made an inspection of the relics. Many of the jars are inscribed with curious designs and crude drawings of snakes, centipedes and birds. Dean Cummings attributed the articles found to the Pihouse people, a longheaded race, predecessors of the later race known ns the Pueblo people, who built Casa Grande. Excepting the cliff dwellers relies which were discovered near Flagstaff, these jars were said to be the oldest relics yet unearthed in Arizona. HAD WINNING SLOGAN f * I WJU -v 3 Ms Mj^^ k ■ < Mrs. John F. Sippet of Baltimore. Md., with the campaign slogan of a “woman's place is in the home” won her the presidency of the General Federation of Women's Clubs over her “business woman” opponent at the annual convention held in San Antonio. Texas.

immune to the disease. In other words, it is impossible to try these bacteria any other way than on a human, and that is considered too dangerous. Howover, in his experiments in Hawaii Doctor Walker found them always present in leprous tissue. Hope of substantiation of the theory that leprosy is not contagious and

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PRINTED FROCK A r \ 3D -• nv The printed frock this season is not merely a question ol “Shall 1 get one?” but “1 simply MUST have one!" No wardrobe this summer will be at all complete without at least one printed frock similar to the one shown above, worn by Renee Adoree. Large prints and small prints, vivid hued anc conservatively subdued colors are offered by Fashion. This wide variety permits individuality in the printed frocks one chooses today. The frock worn by Miss Adoree has red as its basic cclor with a small white flower figure. The neckerchief and ties at the wrist, throat and belt are novel touches. An all white or an all red felt sports has makes a fitting complement to be worn with this frock. DIPPING INTO ♦ | SCIENCE * Helium X * Helium Is a wonderful ele- * * ment which is made from radi- 4, * urn. It is through this process * of Its making that we can de- 4. termine the age of rocks. Sci- * entists know how long Is re- ♦ quired for radium to make it- T ❖ self Into helium and by measur- * ing the amount of each In cer- J ♦ tain rocks we can tell how long * 4 they have been there. £ 4> <©. 1928. Western Newsparer Union.) 4^ * .. ........... * I , . ; —; Scientists Digging Into Gardens of Hesperides Algiers.—Encroachments of science must doubtless agitate the spirits of the llesperides. those beautiful maidens who in Greek mythology guarded the golden apples which Gaea, the Earth, produced as a marriage gift for Hera, wife and sister of Zeus. In Morocco, near the legendary gardens of the Hesperides. archeologists are making fresh excavations of the ruins of ancient Luxus. This city was founded more than 2.000 years ago by the legions of the Caesars on the hillside close to the modern town of Larache. There is profound interest among scientists in what valuable remnants of the old Roman civilization may be brought to light. A group of prominent French nnd other archeologists just completed an inspection of die parts already uncovered. Not Much Attraction “We shall be changed in form perhaps.” our favorite radio preacher recently declared, “but otherwise immortality will find us the way we are.” Comforting to many, no doubt; but don t tell that to a man with hay fever and expect him to cheer.— Farm and Fireside.

> that governments need not condemn the unfortunate victims to “living death” in « ^pers’ colony. Doctor Walker declared, lies in the East Belgian Congo, the ivory coast ot Africa and other known districts where the percentages of leprosy are high and where necessary experiments and observation may be made.