Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 July 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Publfshe.l Everv 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 Tear |l.s* 81 x Months 90 yhree Months,- .60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton. £nd„ as second-class matter. What this country needs is a moth that will eat dandelions and old razor blades. When a speculator deals on margins the holder of the stock has the edge on him. The next great sensation will come with the development of a fuelless cigar lighter. Something else that afflicts four out of five, sooner or later, is an inability to spell pyorrhea. It must be admitted that modern youth is rather wild, in both first and second childhood. When a man makes an address declaring his candidacy it can be called a ringing speech. Wail street speculation differs from tobogganing in that the climb up is the pleasantest part. The average man takes less thought of others’ Arctic pole expeditions than in his own fishing pole expeditions. Given time, the average city dwell er with the back-to-the-farm hug usually gets as far out as a country club. Over In Paris, a woman is going to marry a man she shot, showing how difficult it is to satisfy the desire for vengeance of some people. Well, the London pianist who played “Always” 1.000 times before collapsing has given us an entirely new notion of how long always can be. The great orator thinks that the “broken gas line” mentioned in so many of the aviation dispatches is when somebody interrupts your speech. The office cynic has a dark theory that the cartoonist sometimes spells that way on the chance that the picture wouldn't otherwise be considered very funny. The veteran reader of headlines has been looking over a new cook book and says the author seems to have omitted that popular new dish, “Grilled Oil Witness.” Slot machines which dispense bandages and iodine have made their appearance in London. No doubt they will in time be conveniently located on every street corner. A musical lawnmower is the great national need, in the opinion of a St. Louis editor. Something that will play “Coming Through the Rye” or “Bringing in the Sheaves.” Miss Congo, the gorilla, was said to be able to fully understand even if she couldn’t talk. Probably that was why she was valued at $150,000. Millions can talk but not understand. The committee opposed to the carrying of coals to Newcastle was unanimous recently in deciding something ought to be done about the naval officer who is going to teach Lindbergh navigation. It is usually the battleship named the Imperturable or something that is« put out of commission first in the battle, and we see where a government dredge, Navesink, has gone to the bottom. Those who are übscure should not be too much bowed down. Explorers have just oiscovered a volcano, a mountain range and a river, in the Amazon country, that nobody had ever heard of before. The ship that brought Columbus to the western hemisphere as well as the one that landed our Pilgrim Fathers are reminders that America has an interest in old ocean that tradition can never permit to lapse. Astronomer calculates that the days will be an hour longer in about thirty centuries. But thirty centuries is a long time to wait to catch up on those little chores we have been putting off until we found leisure for them. Lindbergh crossed the ocean tn one jump; the “Dark Continent” is now a flivvei boulevard; the North pole has been visited; the South is coming into her own ; but no one has discovered how to collect bad debts. An Oklahoma liar speaks of a sandstorm that was so bad the prairie dogs didn’t know whether to dig down or up. We read that Mexico is begging for more American tourists. It’s either that, or some of tlie bandits will have to go to work. A European experimenter says that within five years he will “be able to completely split the atom.” Are we to gather from this that he is practicing on infinitives? Since woman’s hair is pai„ of the sweepings of a barber shop you don’t hear of fellows carrying locks of it in their watch cases. The Navy department by now ought to have plenty of experts able to tell how men spent thei- last days trapped in sunken submarines. A Kansas City party asks a medical publicist what will remove heavy callouses permanently from the palms. He might give up his job and con sider a situation.

Winnings Not Wasted

London.—Tales of those who lose at gambling are seldom heard unless they take to crime or commit suicide as a result of their losses. Big winners at gambling flash across the newspaper horizon for a day or two and are soon forgotten, but the newspaper reader often wonders what the big winners do with their easily-gained fortunes. Do they blow them in quick ly in riotous living, or do they save and usefully invest the money? Now that the season is at hand when every true born Briton has a ticket in some sweepstake the London Daily Mail has looked up some ot the men and women who struck it luckily in recent years. The investigation has revealed that so far as can be found, the past winners have not become wild spendthrifts by their good luck, but have thoughtfully us'ed

Tourists Will Miss Old “Flea Market’

Paris. —The French capital’s world famous “flea market," venerable hunting ground for collectors of antiques, curios. Paisley shawls, possible Rembrandts, and low-priced and unclassiliable objects of every possible description, has finally received its death blow after seven centuries of business. Disapproved by the city officials and Ignominiously shifted about from one to another of the city’s outposts, the ancient mart succeeded In fighting every move to end Its days until the passage of the new Sunday closing law, which automatically deprives It of its principal source of Income. For years American visitors and oth-

S IAUCH F * U - xn® Lh^ Little LJ L^olLiness | The Inspiration of the Audience i By THOMAS ARKLECLARK : Dean of Men, University of ♦ Illinois. IWAS to make a speech somewhere in Indiana not long ago, and a week or two before the event I had a note from the man In charge of the dinner or meeting of the association or whatever it was which required that some one say something, asking for a synopsis or a resume of what I proposed saying. I had to reply that I seldom write out my speeches. I am very informal, and what I say and the way I say it dei>ends to a large extent upon the response 1 get from Individual members of the audience. If I see my hearers growing restless or dropping off comfortably to sleep I change my tactics. I say something I had perhaps not intended at all to say, and 1 am very likely to cut my speech short. There is nothing I so much dislike as to tire or to bore people. I shall never make a good broadcaster over the radio. To do my best I must see the effect of what I am doing upon those who are listening. I spoke once years ago to an audience sitting almost in total darkness. It was a curious experience. I knew only vaguely whether they were awake or asleep. Sometimes a little ripple of appreciation went over the group, but for the most part I might as well have been talking to a blank wall. What I needed to make me do my best, as I believe almost every speaker needs, was the inspiration of a wide awake audience. There is nothing which takes the life out of a speaker more than to see scattered about the audience room a few of those present sound asleep. True, it is hard to keep some people awake no matter what one is saying or how he is saying it. I have in mind now a middle-aged acquaintance OLYMPIC CANDIDATE i [.ss jsHMr M L pSBI L . ...... > Patrick J. McDonald of the New York A. C„ holder of the Olympic records for the IG-lb. shot put and National A. A. U. 56-lb. weight throw, who is one of the outstanding candidates for a berth on the United States Olympic team.

their money where II would do the most good. William Kilpatrick, the Capetown dental mechanic, formerly of Leeds, who won s3(i<uioo in the Calcutta sweep last year, has Just returned to Milnthorpe, Westmoreland, where his mother and sweetheart live. Ue is to be married in July. He visited .Milnthorpe soon after his success but returned to Capetown in the autumn. ImnieAitely it was known that he was the winner last year friends in Capetown formed him into a limited liability company, so that his good nature could tot be wmLed upon by sharks or anybody else, lie settled on his mother and sisters at Milnthorpe a sum sufficient to bring them In a comfortable income. He also bought them a house and a motor car. He established and endowed a soup

er foreigners have visited the Marche mix Puces every Sabbath to prowl among the curious displays of rusty nails, stovepipes, oily rags, and as sorted Junk for overlooked treasures until the wily merchants have become clever enough to conceal Imitation an tiques among worthless trinkets In the hope that ambitious amateurs would “discover’' them and pay sev eral times their value. In this num ner the fair gradually lost its prestige until It reached a precarious state With the weekly arrest of dozens of Its merchants and the Sunday closing edict Its doom Is now sealed and Its merchants are seeking other means of making a living.

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of mine whom I do not now recall ever being seen awake during an address to which he was being exposiul Some day 1 hope to have a chance to try him out, for I believe the test of a speech Is the percentage of listeners who can be kept at alert nnd Interested attention and the originality of the speaker and the spontaneity of td> speech is largely Influenced by the In splration which’ conies from sympa thetic and responsive attention No one whom I have ever heard. I think, felt the influence of this Ins; ira tional response from his audience more than Mr. Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist. 1 heard him say once that he could scarcely go on with an address when he could see some Inattentive person among his auditors His main interest and effort in such a case was not tlie message which hi was trying to deliver but (he gaining of tlie attention of tlie uninterested auditor. He did this even if he had to use spectacular means Otherwise he said, his speech was n failure. ((c). 1928. Western Newspaper Union ) European Air Courses to Be Marked at Nigh? Le Bourget, France. —Night flyers soon will have good signal lights by which to steer their course on four air highways. Tlie way from Paris to London. Brussels, Marseilles and Perpignan will be marked with orange-colored neon electric lights which will flash continually the Morse code for the letters that will identify them. There is but little flying in tlie dark as yet, but in every way French aviation is trying to prepare for tlie im mlnent development of night travel One branch of this work is the train Ing of pilots to steer by instruments alone. Tlie men are taught by han dling planes, in which they are en closed in a dark cabinet, while an other pilot who can see the ground prevents accidents by correcting er rors through double control. The chronic kick er is always disliked hut he gets more at tention than the J meek man. Cairo. —Koyal mummies are safe from idle curiosity now. They are to be kept in a special room of a museum accessible only to notables and scien lists. OOOLXJOOOOOOO'XXJOOOOO-OOOOOC o Three IHorns to a Car c 5 Is Rule in Venezuela c p Caracas.—Venezuela’s taws re- o 2 quire every automobile to have 2 2 two horns, but the really well Q 2 equipped cars carry three, mak 5 5 ing the country a goou market 2 A foe such accessories. The law 5 2 demands a hand horn for city 2 2 driving and an electricall.v-op X 2 erated signal for use on conn g q try roads. Drivers in mountain p 2 ous territory add a third, oper 2 9 ated by a button ; laced con . 9 2 venicntly near (he left knee, t< 2 2 permit quick or constant op.ra 2 2 tion on steep grades and sharp X 2 curves, 2

kitchen in Capetown, where he intends to make his home. James’ Strang of Pollok street, Glasgow, who won S3G,(XK> with a $25 treble at last year’s Derby, told a reporter that he had invested the money very profitably. He has continued In his occupation as a traveling man. Mrs. Ford, part owner ot a ticket which won a little over SI'HHMHt in the Derby sweepstake organized at Olley in 1923, still lives in her modest home in Pembroke street. Skipton, Yorkshire. Mrs Ford had a quarter share of a $2.50 ticket, half a share was owned by her mother, Mrs. Hodgson, who has since died, and the other quartet was in the name of a Mrs. Griffin who was engaged ns a cook in a Skipton coffee house. Mrs. Hodgson distributed most of her $75,000 among seven relatives. DIPPING INTO J ? SCIENCE ? X X X A The Rosetta Stone Y To the Rosetta stone, found X In Rosetta. Egypt, by officers of A •f the French army under Napo- Y X lean, we owe much of our know! Y edge of Egyptian history Here Y J. the same story was told in three kinds of writing, one of which was the unknown Egyptitm. and y Y through their knowledge of one X of these, men learned to read ••• X the others. X 19!* Western Newlmnecr Union » Twins Jailed Milwaukee. Wis — Charged with passing worthless checks, Leon and Lloyd I ongely twins, of this city, tune been sentenced to one year In prison

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i Ash Carts Blazon Glories of Potsdam T Potsdam, Germany.—Citizens 4 4- ot the former kaiser's old res!- T T deme rubbed their eyes in as- X 4- tonishment the other day when T T a number ot brand new munici- + -I- pal vehicles appeared on the T Zj. stre< is with “Residtbtial City + 4- of Potsdam' painted on them. X X Everybody is asking whether T •b it is by accident or design that X X old memories of Imperial spien- T T dor should be revived, and why X X the new municipal ash carts T T should be selected to blazon X 4- them forth. T FOR THE BEACH Myrna l.oy. playing the leading role in ‘Slate Street Sadie,” carries her taste for oriental things even to the beach When she is through with her swim she puts on a coolie coat of white clmllie with trousers to match, both decorated with hand painted Chi i t , I M . ■■ I L ■ L - * . r/ ' \ ... * ' I sSs- ... / I K J « ' .h -> ■ v; i - [ ■ '•-* 1 uese designs in a deep blue. To complete the out tit she wears Chinese sandals. When she removes the tight rubber bathing cap. Miss Loy wears this brilliantly colored handkerchief that blends with the colors iu the coat and trousers.

American Boy Scouts Off for Africa 1 i liiMFn d f WR OM i H (l I / H 5 W * i I i ■; ‘ J ^1 .'J / 7^ f /1 ■ ■ . . ’ JSL.. . J I Left to right. Dick Douglas, David Putnam, who acted as host. David Martin and Douglas Oliver as they sailed from New York on the He de France to Join Mr, and Mrs. Martin Johnson on their hunting trip In Africa. Douglas. Martin and Oliver are three Eagle Scouts chosen to hunt with the Johnsons. Seeks to Have Old Divorce Set Aside

Lincoln, Neb.—The annulment of a divorce 18 years after her husband’s death and 41 years after the decree was granted Is sought by Mrs. Nancy E. Dermit of South Sioux City. N. b Mrs Dermit. who Is seventy two years old. was not aware until after the death of her husband, a Civil war veteran, (hut she had been divoried from him In ISS4, the couple had trouble and sepanited ami Mrs Iht mil began suit for divorce. Before the d«M-ree was grant’ll, however, there was a reconciliation, and they began living together again, two more children ta’lng born Mrs Dermit did not notify her nt torney to cense efforts to obtain the dlvurie. she say- and tie went ahead

AUGUST BRIDE -4 s A. \ TV. V , I IA»Io Beautiful Mlle. Marie Antoinette Claudel, daughter of the Ambassador of France and Mme. Claudel, whose engagement to M. Roger Mequlllet of Paris has just been announced. The wedding will take place in August Mme. Claudel and her daughters ate now abroad. Only one county of France is without a movie theater —Lozere, a hilly, thinly populated region in tlie south

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and got It. It Is now held that the divorce was Illegal without her appearance or testimony, but attorneys cannot find any way to prove that she ami her witnesses were not present. The Judge who granted the divorce and tlie clerk of the court are now dead. Mrs. Dermit cannot go Into court to have the divorce annulled, as her husband would have to be named defendant in that case. A suit ennmu be brought directly against the district court. When Dermit tiled In 1910. Mrs. Dermit applied to .be [tension department and was then that the divorce was revealed. The couple lived tn lowa for years an<l that state recognizes h common law marriage, which

their union was after the divorce , The pension department does not rec- : ognize common law marriages. Several bills have been introduced in congress to permit her name to he placed on the roll of widows entitled I to a pension, but none of them has 1 passed. An appeal from the pension boards ! d cision to tlie United States Supreme court is being considered. If Mrs. Dermit succeeds, she will be entitled to $4,500 back pension and S3O a month. Escapes With Five Kisses, Jailed tor Taking Sixth New York. — If Michael Gallagner had not been homesick for the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, it might never have happened, he explained in police court. He was homesick and so he visited the section. It was as wonderful as ever—and so were the Greenpoint girls. He kissed five he passed on the streeL Ail seemed to get the idea that he meant well and to believe a watched kiss never boils, anyway, so they sh;»oec him on his way forgivingly. Then he met Miss Mae Hiryak, a stenographer who screamed and fought, and three Greenpoint young men who happened to be passing leaped upon Gallagher. “Your honor.” Gallagher said the next morning. “1 believe Greenpoint has the prettiest girls In the world. I just couldn’t help it.” “But Greenpoint can’t stand for this. Five dollars and three days in jail,” replied the court

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