Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 11, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 August 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE IKDEPEKDENT-NEtVS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD "The st. Joseph county weeklies Clem DeCoudrea, Business Manager Charles M. Pinch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear .....*LSO Six Months..- . .00 Three Months .50 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, j[nd., gs second-class matter. What some fathers call their babies at night is not the name on the birth certificate. The prince of Wales has bought an airplane. We rather thought he would tire of horses. The Neighborhood Crab has just acquired another, which he refers to as his “lending lawn-mower.” Not having anything else of any account to do, the king of Italy has taken to puttering with archeology. “Saftey Devices Follow Disaster.” —Boston Transcript. Generally, whereas they ought to precede it Due to a gradual diminution of the publicity, no perfect auction bridge hands have been dealt this season. A scientist says man adopted clothes as a protection against insects. Evidently he wasn't Over There. After our campaign gets under full headway England will not be the only country that has an overabundance of fog. If Colonel Lindbergh really wishes to retire from the hero business, he might try taking up the writing of poetry. There isn’t really a war between Japan and China, which is quite a joke on the folks that have been killed so far. Black olives are a useful fruit tn China, the flesh being for food, the kernel for making sweetmeats and the shell for fuel. “Knees to peek from below Paris skirts," says a fashion note. Peek nothin’ I They'll lift the curtain and look right out. We used to get summer haircuts at the livery stable, when we were boys, that were a lot more permanent than permanent waves. One of the little incongruities of life is that the people who can afford all of those labor-saving devices could also pay for the labor. American Bible society reports the printing of ID.tXKMKKI Bibles in 1927. Sometimes it does seem as if this era were not so irreligious as people think. Over in Sweden the young intel lectuals are said to be reading all the modern American novels they can get their hands on. A hardy race, the Swedes. Some of the brightest and funniest remarks about feminine indecision have been made by men who change brands of safety razors every three months. At the rate matters are going, robbery insurance rates will soon be prohibitive. and then the average citizen won’t feel so complacent over the crime news. A fashion note says that a small, thin veil will be worn as low as the nose this summer. This will be of no avail —the shiny nose will have to be powdered. Problem in Ethics: What to say to the dear thing—who was told a few years ago that her hob had taken ten years off her age—now that she is letting it grow. If certain publicity-seeking young women were actually to spend as much time in flying as they spend in talking about it. they’d be in the air the rest of their lives. So-called friends of a bridal couple in Philadelphia handcuffed them together as a joke. It sounds as if it might have originated in Babbitt Centre, or environs, where charivari parties flourish. I “Inventor Wins Lawsuit.” is a firstpage heading that is real news, for the very good reason that it Is usually the “other fellow’’ who wins after the inventor has wracked his brain to do the inventing. Man in Allentown, Pa., advertises a reward for the return of his pet skunk which answers to the name of Gladys. Poor Gladys has probably succumbed to the strange mania prevalent among skunks, and has thrown herself in front of an automobile. A Detroit man has started to learn the violin at the age of seventy-two. If they'd all wait that long, what a gain for music 1 No fiend for statistics has yet come forward with information about how women spend the time they save by wearing bobbed hair. The Alpha ray, so one is told, will travel from New York to San Francisco in one-sixth of a second. It may be silly of us. but we cannot refrain from asking, “What for?" “To get the meat out of a pecan whole, soak it.” advises an authority. That’s also the method to get the meat out of a taxpayer. An eastern professor Insists that “college youths are more promising than the Old Grads” Anyhow they can promise more glibly. The headline writers are always discovering that “burglars have invaded home.” That's the great drawback to the profession. You can't very well ■be a burglar unless you do.

Two Great Tennis Champions 1 £ t! i - • I ’ I | :s gf||» l / I ? t I tr 11 » iK Wl 8 Ulh||P m-- W wll [ [ 10^\ iii Wi Helen Wills, American and international tennis champion, with Rene : Lacoste, French star and holder of the American singles championship, as they appeared at Forest Hills.

Sports Are Great Help to Right Citizenship Games and sports were advocated before the National Education association by James Edward Rogers, director of the National Physical Education service as means of “teaching those traits of character that are essential to good citizenship.” Asserting that the world needs sportsmanship in its international and business relationships, he declared that physical education “teaches sport not for sport's sake, but for the sake of sportsmanship.” “There is a close correlation between physical fitness and personal efficiency in business, success in human relationships and happiness at home and abroad,” he said. “A physically fit person is more likely to be efficient, happy and useful. A physically fit nation Is better prepared to meet any emergencies either from within or without. Industrial waste from inefficiency and illness can be substantially reduced through better physical fitness programs.” Pirate Pitching Ace > y r ' 7 I y . q Carmen Hill, pitching ace for the Pittsburgh Pirates, continues to be as effective on the hill as ever. Slotted sails are now put on many English yachts to secure increased speed. • • * Bicycle polo is being played at the Bagatelle Polo grounds in Paris and is meeting with great enthusiasm. • * « Richard A. Glendon, Naval academy rowing coach, was appointed official crew mentor of the Boston Athletic association at the age of nineteen. • • * Over 23.500 seats for Indiana university’s seven 1928 home football games have already been reserved, exceeding any previous advance sale in its history. • • • Alfred Shrubb, veteran English runner, still retains more amateur and professional world's records than any other living middle or long-distance trackman. • • • Jimmy McLarnin, Northwest lightweight, literally grew up in ring togs, having been the possessor of four amateur boxing medals before he was fifteen years old. • * * Soldier s field. Chicago, will have seating accommodations for 140,000 football fans next fall. A capacity crowd may see the Notre Dame vs. Navy game October 13. Only four amateur golfers have succeeded in winning the United States open championship since it began in 1805 —Bobby Jones, Jerry Travers, Chick Evans and Francis Ouimet. • * • Paul Smith, the Oregon miner, whose home is in Portland and who finished in the recent transcontinental trek from Los Angeles to New York city, used 31 pairs of shoes in the race and more than 200 pairs of socks. * * ♦ A new open-air arena Is planned in Philadelphia. Pa., for boxing and wrestling exhibitions. The structure will seat 10,000 persons. * * * Proof that tennis has become a universal sport is found in the fact that 32 nations entered the Davis cup tennis competition this year. • * ♦ The oldest crew event In America is that held annually between Harvard and Yale. Competition began in 1852. The Bulldog holds an advantage, having won 35 times to Cambridge's 31.

BASEBALL J® mo 4W Garland Buckeye, pitcher for the . Cleveland Indians, has been released unconditionally. * • * Art Jahn, outfielder of the Phillies, ha.s the biggest hands in baseball. He can hold six balls level in one hand. • • • Hooks Walker, right-hander, who pitched for the University of Penn- , sylvania, has been signed by Washing- I ton. * ’ * The San Francisco Seals have ■ clinched the Pacific Coast League । pennant for the first half of the split ' season. National league has a "professor of umpiring" in Bob Emslie, who teaches the young arbiters to call them as they see them. • • • Ty Cobb, member of the Philadelphia Athletics, is forty-two years old and has been playing major league baseball for twenty-three years. Oklahoma City, leaders In the Western league, is the youngest club in ; Class A baseball today, the team’s , average age being twenty-three. * • * Uncle Wilbert Robinson is one of the few managers in baseball wearing specs. Maybe they are double vision and make his Dodgers look twice as ■ good. • ♦ • Paul Easterling, Detroit's young outfielder, has been released on option to Toronto of the International league, j He may be recalled on a moment's notice. • • • The Eastern league will this year ‘ offer a prize to the man adjudged the most valuable to his dub. The selection will be made by a group of scribes. • * • Toni O'Hara, boss of the Denver Country club caddies and dean of this country’s caddie masters, has trained j approximately 30,000 boys in his thirty , years of service. • • • Al Fons, star pitcher of the Holy Cross baseball team will play no more college baseball, having signed to play with the Milwaukee Brewers of the American association. ♦ * * Not; being able to find a landing place for Hubert Atkinson, after placing him temporarily in the Southeastern league, the Washingtons have ' handed the youngster his release. • • • Earl Stanley, pitcher for the Stevenson Diamond Ball team of Minneapolis, struck out twenty-one players in a seven-inning game with the Bubbles j Safe team of St. Paul, winning 1 to 0. : Willie Kamm has emerged from his batting slump and is hitting the ball hard: once more. A few years ago he specialized in two-baggers to left-cen-ter. Now he Is banging singles down the left field. • • • Before the game of June 25. Infielder ^Toward Freigau of the Brooklyn j Robins was released to the Boston Braves on waivers. Thus. Hornsby ■ gets another former Cardinal who played with him at St. Louis. • * * The new press box at the Cubs’ park will be the finest in the majors wh4n it is completed. It is suspended just under the upper tier and Is being constructed in such a manner that ; it will be entirely inclosed with glass I parceling for cold weather, such as is i encountered both early and late in the season. Steam heat is to be another welcome feature. ♦ * ♦ Cleveland fans are laying plans for a “day" for Outfielder Charley Jamieson. They say his good and faithful work over a long period of years entitles him to some special recognition. A Cleveland newspaper has taken up the idea and the plan is to put over “Jamieson Day” as a big event later in the season. * * • Although the spitball was ruled out of the major leagues nearly ten years ago, there are seven of the old player^ who use the moist sphere—Jack Quinn, Stan Coveleskie, Burly Grimes, Urban Shocker. Red Faber, Bill Doak and Clarence Mitchell. * ♦ * Philip IL Strubling II of Philadelphia, who was elected captain of the 1929 Princeton baseball team, is the only man in the history of Princetop to win Jette:s in three major sports. He has won letters in base ball, football and hockey.

The Slain English Explorer in HawaLk,

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4 By KATHERINE POPE Author of “Hawaii, The Rainbow Land.”

HIS summer that portion of the United States known as the Territory of Hawaii celebrates the fact that lust one hundred fifty years ago the brave English explorer, Capt. James Cook, discovered this group of islands lying off quite by itself there in mid-Pacific. Hawaii, with play and pageant, brings back the days so different from present life in these delectable isles. A century and a half ago the “Eight

Islands" (the number is really twelve) were un- | known to the civilized world; but now their ani chorage there in the great ocean is frequently called “The Crossroads of the Pacific.” For today the port of Honolulu is crowded with ships from myriad routes that center there. Ships come from New Zealand far to the south, and greet craft from San Francisco, Vancouver, even distant Vladivostock. Too, East and West meet in Honolulu, vessels from Asiatic waters seek harborage near those from Panama and from South American ports. A great change from that January day, 1778. when Captain Cook and his party, voyaging from the South seas toward the northwest i coast of America, discovered In latitude 21 degrees 12 minutes 30 seconds north bits of land rising here and there* above the waste of waters, and then made landing on Kauai, northernmost of the Hawaiian islands. The English explorer, out of compliment to his I patron and friend, the earl of Sandwich, decided i to christen these isles that he had come upon “The Sandwich Islands.” And for long they bore this name; and still today the name clings to the group, which Mark Twain called “the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.’’ Captain Cook’s discovery of Hawaii marked a turning point in the history of the little land. For Cook’s account of the place and people made known to the world the existence of a land of plenty sorely needed as a port of call for the | voyagers abroad now in this period of discovery. Captain Cook found the first natives encoun- * tered timid, afraid to come aboard his vessels, j the Discovery and the Resolution, although several of the canoes did approach quite close, and the occupants offered to barter fish, pigs and potatoes for nails and bits of iron. Cook, who is famed for the care with which he looked after the health of his men, seized this opportunity to obtain fresh provisions, his supply of turtle by j now being exhausted. Presently the bartering nativese lost their , timidity and consented to come aboard the vessels. But these nt once beginning, to help them selves to whatsoever pleased their fancy, the hosts had to keep a sharp watch on the guests. Cook, who was in need of fresh water as well as fresh food, proceeded slowly along the coast of Kauai on the lookout for a suitable landing. As the vessels made their way along the coast, natives swarmed on the shore, and on the hills above the water, to observe the strange visitants As they gazed upon the advance of the tall-masted ships, the watchers on land cried: “Look I moving Islands of forests!”

Possible to Overdo Idea cf Labor Saving

‘‘Every day sees some new sort of labqr-saving device introduced on the market, but many of them fail to ‘take hold' through lack of intelligent handling,” declared William Sworen sen, head of a big tractor company. “The day is coming when a course on tiow to use and care for these new utility devices will be a part of every high school and college “At the present time, too many peo

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"No," said others among them, “these are temples to the high god Lono!” Concerning the beings upon the strange ships, they regarded these as more than men. as gods returning to isles where once they had dwelt. For the old chants of the land sang of a past day when gods walked among men; also related that the same gods would come back sometime. The white men went ashore heavily armed, for these were uncharted islands, the character of the dwellers thereon most uncertain, their hospitality waiting to be proved. But as the white men stepped ashore at Waimea. Kauai, the natives fell down before them in adoration, received them witp rejoicing. A supply of excellent water was found, and the next day the natives gladly helped In rolling the <"isks hack and forth. Meanwhile brisk bartering was carried on between islanders and visitors, and. too. the latter made some exploration inland. Cock’s record of the natives here reads; “No people could trade with more honesty than these people, never once attempting to cheat us. either ashore or alongside the ship.” The exploring party remained for two weeks in Hawaiian waters, and obtained a valuable addition to the ships’ supplies for the long voyage north; very good sweet potatoes, between sixty and eighty pigs, some salt, also salt-fish, a few fowls, and the excellent taro-root that was the chief food of the island people. Whilst the nails and iron objects received in exchange by the natives were highly valued in a land where tools had to be made of stone, of wood, of bone, or of shell. Valued by the Hawaiians. also, were two pigs of English breed and three goats that Cap tain Cook turned over to the care of one of the chiefs when his party resumed the voyage north ward. The natives gave so generously of their pos sessions to the visitors because they thought Captain Cook the great god Lono, whose return to Hawaii had been prophesied. Messengers were sent about the islands to tell the chiefs of the strange beings that had come to Hawaii. The messengers said, “The men are white, their skin is loose and folding; their heads are angular; fire and smoke issue from their mouths; they have openings in the sides of their bodies in which they thrust their hands and draw out iron, beads, and other treasures" * Captain Cook now cruised here and there about the group, and made no small advance in acquaintance with the natives. And again he and ins party were welcomed, again they were given high honors, again out to the Resolution and the Discovery the outrigger-canoes toiled laden with presents of much value, the best that the land had to offer. In order to refit the ships and take in water, the vessels anchored in a tine large bay. Koala kekua, on the western shore of tl.e southernmost island, Hawaii. Here, immediately the vessels were surrounded by hundreds of canoes, with swarms of visitors begging to come aboard —a marked contrast to the earliest attitude of the islanders. There was one state occasion when the old

pie. especially the old-time farmers are like Cy, whose wife said to him: “‘Don’t complain to me about bein all worn out! I told you that takin care of all that labor-savin machinery would be too much for you.’ ” —Los Angeles Times. Old Stamp Does Duty A postage stamp printed thirtyeight years ago was used to end a

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letter from Brunswick. Mai”^ to Port- I land recently. It was a 2-cent stamp , of the Columbian issue of IS L. com memorating the four hundredth an niversary of the landing of Columbus. The stamps, which have not been printed since that year, are of a purplish hue and depict the landing of tne explorer. — A calf recently killed at Go Ifor :. ’ N. S. W.. had In Its stomach a p: r of gold sleeve links, a gold collar stud and a gold safety pin.

king, with a retinue of followers, among them Prince Kamehameha, later to be known as The Conqueror, went out to the ships bearing rich gilts, with royalty arrayed in picturesque feather helmet and in feather mantle that swept the ground. Gifts were exchanged: the white men gave to the natives seeds that were to add richly to the plant life of Hawaii, gave. too. goats, cloth, and weapons, whilst not alone the best that the land had to offer in the way of food was presented by the islanders to the white men on this visit of state, but upon the leaders in Cook’s party were bestowed rich treasure of the art of the Hawaiian*. rare samples of the precious featherwork for which the people are justly famed. Alexander, bom in Hawaii and historian of the land of his birth, writes thus of the honor shown Captain Cook by the Hawaiian ruler: “The king made a grand ceremonial visit to the ships, with three large canoes attended by chiefs wearing their feather cloaks and helmets, and armed with spears and daggers, and by priests bearing gigantic idols of wickerwork, covered with red feathers, with eyes made of mother-of-pearl and mouths set with double rows of sharks’ teeth. “After paddling around the ships, chanting prayers or hymns, they went toward the observatory where Captain Cook landed to receive them. On entering the tent the king placed his own magnificent feather cloak upon Captain Cook’s shoulders and a feather helmet on his head, and laid five or six other beautiful cloaks at his feet.” Captain Cook. too. made a graceful gesture. On this occasion he presented to the king his own sword. And perhaps the linen shirt he gave him at the same time was to the recipient an object that, because of the rarity of the same on the islands, had high value In the eyes of ruler and subjects. If the English exploring party had left at the height of their popularity all would have been well. But Cook's men stayed on and on. and in time the natives became weary of taking canoeload after canoe-load of provisions out to the ships. In the end quarrels arose, consciously and unconsciously the sailors offended the natives, the natives the sailors. Then one day Cook's men. short of wood, cut down the palings about the sacred temple close to the shore of the bay, and this greatly angered the people, while from time to time the natives stole coveted objects from the anchored ships, and resented the stern punishments that followed these thefts. Mutterings against the visitors began to be hoard on all sides. When one of the sailors died and was buried on shore, the islanders said to one another: ‘'These are but men like ourselves!” Suspicion nnd bitter feeling increased, at last rear fighting took place; in this warfare the natives making use of spear and the hurling of stones, while gun and cannon were employed by the white man. Then came an hour of fighting when Captain Cook was ashore, and a moment when the captain turned toward the sea to signal to his men to cease firing. A native chief, who had in his possession one of Cook’s own iron daggers, crept up and stabbed him in the back. Captain Cook fell, his face in the water, and when the natives raised the body it was lifeless. Thus died one of the bravest of the brave sons sent out by England to the far corners of the earth. Fellow-countrymen of the great voyager have erected on the shore of Kealakekua bay a tall monument marking the spot near which rhe hero was slain. Hawaii's punishment for the slaying of Captain Cook has followed through the years, because of this tragedy the Hawaiians being accounted a bloodthirsty and inhospitable people, while on the whole they were friendly to strangers and welcomed them to their land.

Does Double Duty j He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it is ns one who । iias lighted another’s lamp from his I own lamp; if none the less gives । light to himself when it burns for the other. — Ennius. — —- Regretted Economy “It isn t the things that I treated myself to I am sorry for, hut the | things t did not treat myself to.’ — | David llarutu.