Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 September 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE IKDEPEXDEST-KEll'S CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEI’EShKST NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPII COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES “ One Tear |I.BO tlx Months .90 hree Months 50 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at th» post office at Walkerton, Jnd.. as second-class matter. Do little things now, so shall big things come to thee, by and by, asking to be done. • Calf liver may be good for one’s anemia, but the price is a bit hard on anemic purses. Mussolini’s success is due to living in an age when there is no one to take his place. When it comes to names, the airplanes have been doing much better than the pullmans. A man never gets too ok} or too famous to enjoy his mother's praise more than any other. The phonograph didn’t make us a talkless race, and the auto will not make us a walkless race. New Jersey scientists find the mosquito less virulent than it used to be. But it is every bit as annoying. The kind of weather we do not care about is the kind you tell your grandchildren about, forty years later. A raise of pay for government workers calls for revival of toe philosophic maxim, “small favors thankfully received.” Explorations of ancient tombs are interesting, but current researches in American history are far more rewarding. For hot weather reading there is the story of the North Pole explorers and their rescue by Russian ice breakers. Probably nothing else sounds as ludicrous as a party to a “whispering campaign,” when forced to say it out loud. Paris dressmakers are in despair. There is no use of trying to design costumes to compete with the onepiece bathing suit. Woman bit the hand of the Greek premier, after asking permission to kiss it. We never did believe in kissing hands anyway. I _ The staggering news arrives by cable from Paris that snort skirts will be the style this fall. Don’t they pay tolls on queer things I Another rolling pin contest has been arranged for women. Many of them will probably have to drop in at the bakery to get their ammunition. According to the prevailing systems of solid geometry, if you went high enough in the lattitudes you could go around the world in 15 minutes. Rio de Janeiro, one of the most up-to-date of South American cities, reports such an anachronism as yellow fever, with 79 cases and 29 deaths. As if the nights weren’t long enough, burglars are now working in the daytime. Something must be done to check this movement for darkness saving. Turkey has done away with pashas In the army, and they will be known as generals instead. Something like Mexico, where they have nothing else but. “Husband Bankrupt, Wife Settles Bis Bills.” —Headline. When a wife will do that what difference does it make whether the word obey is left in or out? “The Talkies,’’ it is said, are about to replace the movies. When that comes “the talkies” who sit behind you and read the captions will have real competition. A political writer says that all kinds of political fish are found at parry conventions—“whales, sharks and sardines.” Suckers doubtless are found only at the polis. Whatever may be said as to the decency of modern dancing, there is no question that a duck approaching a mud puddle displays vastly more of grace and elegance. Although weddings in airplanes are becoming more and more common, no clergyman should be asked to present a guarantee against the marital ma- ! chine going into a tailspin and crashing. And now they tell us that even children shun the victim of halitosis— ) and the little darlings, well, they just won’t tip off their friends. Summer resort hotels may yet take up the question of whether the winner of a “beauty contest” is not liable to make a poor dishwasher. One by one the old traditions are being shattered. Now comes one who publicly proclaims a daily bath for curing insomnia, and away goes the Saturday night fetish. A radio wizard in Youngstown, Ohio, recently drove three automobiles by “remote control.” It will be remembered that remote control though not known as such, used to consist of knotting the reins around the whipstock. A Boy S'out enjoying a summer vacation and finding in the woods reminders of parly pioneer heroism, is for the present but slightly concerned with a few little uninteresting details that may be more or less adrolt'j slipped into the school books.

Farming in Alaska

Seattle, Wash. —Touring southeastern Alaska for an inspection of natural resources. Secretary of Agricul ture Jardine will find farm life of the Far North in the midst of a colorful transition. The “bachelor farmer,” whose pioneer struggles are written into rhe agricultural history of every frontier. Is slowly passing from the land he cleared of timber and is being replaced by men with families. Where his shack stood the new farmer is building houses and barns and his one-crop system of farming, is giving way to diversified activities, including the production of live stock. Needing little and obtaining that principally from the forests, the early settler lived under conditions impossible for a man with a family. He planted his wheat or potatoes in the spring, left during the summer months to earn a “grubstake” and returned in the fall to harvest a crop that had received no attention.

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LOW AIM I I | By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK I ? Dean of Men, University of | 4 Illinois. f L I VITE WERE visiting Fortress Mon- ’ ’ roe, and were being shown about by the officers in charge. I had never seen artillery of that sort and I was interested in all the details and calculations incident to accurate marksmanship. “Would you like to see the target practice?” the officer asked me. “We are going out this morning, and I should be glad to have you accompany me.” It was a new experience to me, and I accepted his invitation eagerly. I had never thought much about the details of aiming and firing one of these huge guns. Without considering the matter I had taken for granted that one aimed directly at what one expected to hit. I did not stop to consider that gravity pulled the shell down as ’it was hurled on its way, and that one must aim high if he is to hit even a low object at a distance. It seemed to me as I watched the muzzle of the great gun pointing into the air that the marksman was shooting into the clouds instead of aiming at the target a few feet above the surface far out in the ocean. I WINS ANOTHER TITLE J. d -•< ' 3 | 'o^ ' | I 1 | I I ■ I 2 , I Lord David Burghley, titled member of the English Olympic team, just after he had won the 400 meter hurdles championship at the Olympic games held at Amsterdam.,

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Long-required diversified farming is coming in with the families. The small dairy farm grows more common and many vegetables are grown. In the region near Fairbanks the bachelor still predominates, and since the area is adapted to wheat and potatoes, it may take longer to introduce diversified systems. Southeastern Alaska is rough, rugged and covered with timber, Com paratively little land in this region is available for cultivation. The rich farms are in the great Tanana valley, which, with the Yukon and Susitna valleys, has the essentials to make it eventually the granary of Alaska, in the fertile Matanuska valley and con tiguous territory. The secretary’s plan to visit the southeastern section was motivated by his desire to see at -close range the infant forest industry, other natural resources and the possibilities for preservation of wild life. This newest Alaskan industry has

Will Study Old Bones

Washington.—Relics of a buffalo hunt held by primitive men near l-ol-som, N. M„ thousands of years before white men came to America continue to puzzle and attract scientists. In response to a telegram from Folsom received by the Smithsonian institution, reporting new discoveries of stone arrows points and fossil bison bones, Neil Judd, a Smithsonian anthropologist, with other scientists, has set out for the scene of the excavations to examine the evidence.

began more intelligently to appreciate what the poet meant when lie said: “Not failure but low aim is crime.” If one would hit an object at any distance away he must aim above it. for the gravity drags the bullet down. It is equally true of other sorts of endeavor in life; we fail very often from aiming too low. Kent was dropped from college last year because of poor scholarship. He had meant to pass his work, but he had no ambition to do well. The last thing he wished to be was an “honor man.” It seemed to him a foolish waste of time to do better than the average, and feeling so lie aimed low. and missed the mark, failing in most of his work. Father and mother were very much grieved and Kent himself was humiliated and begged to be given another chance. lie seemed like a man newly converted and the dean tried him again. lie was readmitted on condition that at least three-fourths of his work should be passed with a grade of C. Now C is far below the average of college, so that the mark at which Kent was to aim was not a very remote one, and not very hard to hit. I had a letter from his father today. The boy has failed again. He had fully intended to get no grade below C, but the trouble was that he had had no intention of making A or even B. C was rhe mark at which his artillery was directed and he aimed too low. He failed one course and barely passed another and the second chance for which he had begged was lost. “It seems too bad,” his father wrote, “that he should have lost his opportunity by so slight a margin.” It does indeed, but Kent’s failure but illustrates the failures of many men in business or in professional life. They are satisfied to be commonplace; they aim too low. ((c). 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Dies in Coffin Budapest.—For years Victor Kassail, actor, slept in a coffin, fearing death was approaching. He has just been found dead in it.

none of the stampede characteristics of earlier enterprises. The gold rush brought rapid but short-lived growth in many places, but the paper-making industry is expected to be permanent. Scientifically developed, costly newsgrint plants, with strict government supervision of natural resources, have been planned with a view to encouraging prosperous cities and towns. Water-power rights for construction of mills at Ketchikan, the secretary’s first stop in Alaska, and at Juneau have been granted by the government, and two companies are making preliminary Investigation for actual construction work. The United States will be paid for the timber as it is cut, and cutting will be done in accordance with forestry principles. The southern coast is covered with thick forests, and 95 per cent of the timber is understood to be excellent for the manufacture of paper.

The excavations are being conducted by the Colorado .Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. The stone arrow heads used In the hunt have been found close to bones of bison supposed to have become extinct in Amerk-a lona In'fore men appeared on this continent. If the stone weapons were shot at this living game, as the evidence Indicates, the conclusion of some scientists is Hint men must have inlmbited Ameri-

। | Ex-Kaiser Nears End • of Wood-Chopping Job ; • Doorn. Holland. — Former Km- ? | peror William II of Germany i ♦ lias practically completed Ids I । woodman’s task on tiis own | I estate. The imperial w a>d | I chopper must go elsewhere if he • ! wants to take his favorite exer t 4 else of felling, sawing or chop j 7 ping wood. t * In his labors on the Hohen- | ♦ zollern estate, now covering a i | period of about eight years. Hie | i ex-kaiser was careful to remove ? | only dead trees or such as ham I f pered others in their growth or ? | destroyed the symmetry of nis 4 f park. It takes half an hour at ? i a brisk pace to walk around the • T whole estate, which is inclosed = | by a high wire fence surmount- 4 j ed by barbed wire. ? 4 - *

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Only a man’s philosophy will enable him to bear the burdens imposed upon him by the philosophy of others.

Sore-Throat Epidemic Teaches Pasteurization Washington.—The epidemic ot septic sore throat which raged in a small Massachusetts town, where over an eighth of the entire population suffered from the disease, is one more good argument in favor of pasteurization, according to the United States public health service. The infection has been traced to a single cow that had mastitis, a disease of the udders. As soon as the milk was pasteurized, no more cases were reported. Pasteurization would have prevented the entire outbreak. Nearly every community, large or small, that has provided for pasteurization of its milk supply has been [ driven to this measure by just such ; epidemics of milk-borne diseases. Apparently communities, like human beings, refuse to profit by each other’s experiences. ? Venice Opens Museum i to Honor Marco Polo I i Venice, Italy.—"rhe memory 4 ? of Marco Polo. Venetian ex- ’ i plorer, is honored by the city ? ? of Venice with a remarkable ; 4 oriental museum named after ? J him and recently opened. A i * valuable collection of orient’d • • • j suits of armor, swords, knives, 4 ? porcelain, kimonos, screens. ? i paintings, tapestries and other • ? works draws students from all ; i parts of the world. - i j The collection, representing I 1 ? the life work of the late Conte ? i di Barda, son of the duke of i ■ Parma and member of the Aus- ; • trian branch of the Bourbon ? ? family, was seized during the ; i World war as part of the Aus- 4 | trian reparations payment. I ♦ T

Long Search for Honest Man Ends

Summitville, Colo,—For 24 years Jack Pickens kept secret the location of a “peak of gold” in the San Juan mountains until he could find a financial backer whom he would trust to help him open the treasure vault locked by nature. 1 oday Pickens and Judge Jesse C. Wiley, the honest man whom the prospector found after a search of a quarter of a century, are sharing equally the fortune Pickens discovered. While prospecting over the hills about the Little Annie mine in I!HM Pickens stumbled on a protruding bowlder. He tapped the rock with his Inrmmer. A piece broke off, revealing a layer of almost solid gold. Another blow dislodged more gold lined slabs. Beneath the surface of that b< wider, the prospector concluded, lay a peak of gold. Determining to keep the discovery a secret, Pickens also resolved to stay near his potential fortune. He obtained a job with a small force of miners at the Little Annie and then

ca nt least 25,<M>0 years, possibly even several hundred thousand years. No evidence has ever been discovered in this country to show that the types of bison found with the arrow points ! have lived in America in recent times. Dr. Oliver I*. Hay of the Smithsonian institution is now engaged in studyins some of the bones of these extinct bison. The bones found at Folsom belong to bison with flattened horns different from any living form. Doctor Hay states.

I Church Leases Farm to Pay Off Its Debt Rapid Uity, S. D— A four-hundred Here furiß on tho old Sioux roservation is expected to pay the debt of the Rapid Uity Episcopal church In font years. The Men’s club of the church, which has 80 members, tins advanced SBOO. rented a farm neat W aste, a little town 40 miles east of Rapid ( ity, bought the necessary farm equipment and planted 100 acres , in flax and 100 acres in wheat. Next year the whole 400 acres will be farmed. The farm Is seven miles from Waste. pronounced “Washti” and meaning in the Sioux language “good.” and is the center of a farmin? country that never has known a crop failure in the 20 years of its cultiva tion. After the opening of the In dian reservation, the country between the Missouri river and the Black hills was a free cattle range until the building of the Chicago & North West ern railway from Pierre to Rapid <’itv in 1907 made it available to settlers. Old Ideas Must Go Neosho, Mo.—Old-fashioned ideas in Neosho have got to go, if they have to be pulled out by the roots. At least that seems to be the decree of a group of the town’s citizens, who, wearing masks, uprooted several concrete posts and severed the iron chains that coni posed the “hitching rack” on the court house square. Species of Dogwoods Cornus Florida, the common dog wood species in the United States, be longs to the genus Cornus. There are about 25 species of this tree which ; are indigenous to Europe, Asia and ’ North America.

»• — — Mascots Go With Byrd to South Pole TO/ wHf’ y VW. |iW.\ - & / 'Ly Here are Virginia and Samson, the two young mascots who will have th honor of accompanying Commander Byrd’s expedition to the South Po’.xr r- giu-x

began his quiet hunt for an honest man with enough money to exploit Khe “st tike.” Several times the owners of .the Little Annie mine started tunnels toward the golden peak, and Pickens held his breath. He was greatly rs*« lieved as each of these projects was abandoned, one within eighty feet of his hidden treasure. Finally the prospector met the man whom fie could trust. He and Judge Wiley formed a partnership, obtained long-time leases on 40 mining claims, including the golden peak, and within six weeks realized $114,000 from the ore taken off only that part of the bowlder showing above the grass Since then half a million dollars ha° been hauled away and yellow metal worth many times that amount still is in sight. Pickens has a wife and thirteen children with whom to share the fortune.

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