Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 September 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday bv THE IXDJEPESDENT-NEWs CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD "the ST. JOSEPH COUNTY' WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Chaxles M. Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES — One Tear.. |1.8» Six Months 90 Three Months 50 TERMS IN ADVANCE ‘ Entered at the post office at Walkerton, Jnd., as second-class matter. “Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.” Sure not —there is no same place. By rights the respective seasons on native strawberries and corn on the cob should dovetail. The hardest part of being a parent consists in teaching the kid standards you don’t use yourself. Real estate values have failed to record the increased demand for the shady side of the street. A Chicago court has held that “man is always the wooer.” Well, anyhow, he always thinks he is. A good many people attack the other man for his religion when they have none of their own to speak of. For the moment e v en Mussolini is found in a secondary position. He is an able dictator; but not an aviator. The adage about the cloud and the silver lining is particularly applicable to a shower that puts out a forest fire. A large percentage of those speeches “right from the shoulder ' sound as if they come from thereabouts, and no higher. Turkish women have removed their veils, but compared to their American sisters they have only begun to take off. Some of us have days when we imagine that the idea of nationalizing all private property began with pipe cleaners. Some enterprising automobile concern can take the lead in advertising the necessity of every family buying a servant’s car. It doesn’t work out by mathematics, but it is our impression there are more chicken croquettes in the world than chicken. Americana: A complaint has arisen in West Orange, N. J., home of Thomas A. Edison, about the dim lighting of the main thoroughfares at night. Hell hath no fury like a stout woman who has been taking a reducing treatment, then gets on the scales and finds she has gained five pounds in a week. The escape of two Sing Sing convicts is declared to have been “mysterious.” Well, certainly it was not right of them to fail to notify the warden. A mysterious broadcaster is mystifying everybody in a southern town by broadcasting gossip over the radio. Isn’t the radio a little bit slow for gossip? After standing in a telephone booth for 15 minutes the other afternoon, the Office Cynic says he doesn't understand why anybody had to “invent” a tireless cooker. Thousands have died from kissing, declares a Cincinnati woman. All right—now let’s have the statistics on the numbers that have died from lack of kissing. Probably the most versatile of all ailments is the old sinus trouble, that has to be taken to Florida in the winter and to the Canadian Rockies or something in the heated term. Every country sighs for ancestral traditions. Many Chinese are wishing for the good old days when a fairly respectable war could be fought with stench bombs and firecrackers. Says a floating item, “Women in Iceland retain their maiden names after marriage, if they wish.” So Lucy Stone can't pretend any longer to have thought up that one first. When deaths by drowning begin to outnumber automobile fatalities, as they did in a recent week in New England, it is time for a reminder that knowing how to swim is one practical form of life insurance. London has decided to take drastic steps to check “the divorce mania.” There has always been a belief that a good many women who seek a divorce decree want one because it is quite the thing to do, and because somebody else has one. A Hollywood correspondent says feminine film stars take no exercise. Why should they? That's what they pay their doubles for. Some follow the advice in the song, about letting a smile be your umbrella, while others who go over the Falls use a large rubber ball. Kissing, says a prominent European investigator, is responsible for pyorrhea. And pyorrhea, according to the back pages of the magazines, is responsible for statistics. When two men are engaged in a long and earnest discussion these days, it is likely that they have ditched politics for fish. Dance marathon couples have been known to dance with each other for more than 660 hours. That’s longer than some couples remain married. It is predicted that eventually all newspapers will be blue in color. Many of them, however, will doubtless reserve the right to be yellow in spirit.

Magic Judge’s Hobby

Eagle River, Wis.—Here’s a judge who likes to cast aside the somber robes of the bench and put on the magician’s shiny frock coat, who likes to lay aside the periwig to don the high silk hat from whence rabbits are pulled, who would lay down the gavel to take up the ventriloquist's dummy. Frank Carter of Eagle River, judge for the Vilas county court, enjoys the unusual hobby. He has a room in the basement of TRIFLE UNDER PAR Wo Ov r — wwg in 1 • 1 Glenna Collett continues to play a rattling good game, but so far Ims been unable to regain her championship title.

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►*< *•« 4*4 4*4 4*4 •£♦ 4J4 4*4 4^4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4^4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4^4 ej» t FIGHTING FOR I f HER RIGHT S * 4*4 *> * By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK t X Dean of Men, University of Illinois. ❖ ❖ * 4*4 4J4 4*4 4*4 4*4 *4* *4* *♦* *4* *♦* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* HATEVER social or political po- * ’ sition women have attained they have had to fight for single handed almost. There was no logical reason from the start which should have denied them the right of suffrage. They are quite as intelligent as men. quite as susceptible to the sophistries of the party politician, quite as indifferent to exercising the rights of suffrage after they have obtained them. So far they have seemed to be quite satisfied with the small and gnarly political plums. In obtaining such privileges of suffrage as they now have, it may be alleged that they have been helped by men, but it has been in most cases grudgingly given, with a good deal of protest, and after considerable hectoring of husbands by politically ambitious wives. The Hudsons sent us at Christmas time a picture of their two children — a boy and a girl, aged six and four I sll Per Capita Spent on U. S. Roads in Year 6 Washington.—America’s road- p building program this year in- $ volves an estimated total of sl,- c 360,025,776, or about sll for 3 every man, woman and child in » the population of some 120,- B 000,000. g § “This program,” according to $ g the American Automobile associ- g § ation, “means that at the close § g of 1928 the surfaced highways g g of the nation will total more o g than 600,000 miles and the fed- g 5 eral-aid system, comprising 185,- g g 000 miles of important interstate g S trunk lines, will be near the g g stage of two-thirds completed.” g

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his home equipped as a theater, witii stage, footlights and many accessories peculiar to his art. There he sometimes * entertains friends, sometimes practices new things to amuse himself and neighbors. The judge doesn't let the magic go so Tar as to try to turn water into wine in that basement. No, sir, he sees plenty of “eases” of that kind of “black art” In his courtroom. And in the courtroom the judge was never before so severe with a prisoner that he forces him to be “the kind gentleman down in front who has lent us the derby,” Into which the eggs are broken. The judge wouldn't jeopardize the dignity of the court in that way or by suddenly jerking a rabbit from under the bench. He wouldn’t —maybe couldn’t—show any of the prisoners before his daytime stage, the bench, the card tricks that all magicians know. But he might, some day, using his knowledge of ventriloquism, make his voice come from behind the prisoners to say: “You're guilt as thirty days.” Now, you take Judge R. A. Richards of Sparta, county judge of Monroe county; he likes to make bets with the weather man. He has gained considerable reputa tlon as a weather prophet. Judge Richards has made a special study of weather conditions and his friends claim he can tell almost to the quar ter of an hour when it s going to rain next. He is in good standing with the court attaches on his ability to tell whether they should borrow his um brella or wear their rubbers. He has his own system, his own basis for prognostication as a side lino to promulgation of decrees. Judge Richards should know how to bark his commands to prisoners in

respectively. It is an Intriguing little picture, and shows. Nancy says, the natural relationship between the sexes. The boy. stronger nnd older, has a picture book In bls hands, and is quite absorbed in its contents. He Is paying no attention to his sister; the book is his. and he is getting considerable pleasure out of it. She is apparently intending to set also. She is pushing her way to the front, and gazing Interestedly over his arm which bars the way to her own possession of the interesting and cov eted volume. It is a case of “horning in” as we say In colloquial English. “Isn’t that just like men?” Nancj says when she looks at the picture. “If a man gets something that he enjoys —the morning paper or the right of suffrage—and if we want it we have to push our way in and grab for it.” I suppose it’s the truth. Sometimes, too. when n woman fights for a right and seemingly has won it. she loses it again. I had always supposed that it was a woman's privilege—it surely was so in the neighborhood in which I grew up—to keep what she could find in her husband's pockets, if when changing his trousers or sending them to the cleaners, he carelessly left any loose change in his pockets. The privilege seems to be a doubtful one now. A woman out in Kansas City was recently convicted of petty larceny merely for exercising this supposed privilege. It seems unreasonable; a married worn an certainly has some rights which should be considered inalienable. Women have seldom been very successful fighters. They make progress, thej’ get what they want ultimately. but they do it more by finesse and strategy than by force. If they “horn in” it is done skillfully, courteously. with grace even at times. The woman is more often than otherwise the head of the household, but the fight for the position which she holds has been a bloodless one. She has won, usually, without the man's knowing it. Here is a battle of wits and not of brawn, hut it is a fight just the same. (©. 1328. Western Newspaper Union.) Poker Ethics Will it be proper in poker to use television for the purpose of seeing the other fellow's raise?”

no certain terms. He's been on the county bench 13 years. He was previously a National Guard officer and was commanding general of the One Hundred Ninety-second Infantry brigade in the Ninety-sixth division during the World war. Then, of course, there are the judges who golf. Two of the state’s “head men" in this business of judging are golfers of some ability, and those who wield the mashie as well as the gavel are too numerous to mention. The two Supreme court justices who are divot diggers as well as decree dispensers tire M. J. Rosenberry and Walter Q. Owen. “The Maiden’s Prayer” Proves Indestructible London. — Demonstrating a type of phonograph record just introduced into England, a demonstrator flung the record onto the floor and danced on the disk. Next he beat It with a wooden stick, then he poured kero sene on it and applied a match. Final ly. the record was placed on the phonograph and an unblemished reproduction of “The Maiden s Prayer” issued from the horn. The record is j of a new composition material.

Tile average man thinks that he is h r o a d-minded because ho is willing to forgive the

wrongs endured by others. There never would have been nnv bloody revolutions if there hadn’t i been tyrannical repression

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New York. —Richard F. Hoyt. Junior member of the firm of Hayden Stone & Company, investment bankers, is putting Ids reputation as one of the leading business advocates of commercial aviation in this country into actual practice by using a plane to commute between his Marian (Mass.) summer home and his Broad street office. The East river provides a convenient landing place at this end of the journey. The plane, a Loening amphibian “air yacht.” equipped with a Wright I “cyclone” 525-horse power air-cooled . motor, has a luxurious cabin uphol i i stored in broadcloth and saddle leath j I er. Concealed lockers hold equipment for lunches and card games, per- ! IN RADIUM LACE 1 V J F j. . i 4 B I S' H* SH iw if T i flO Hl fl I I ill S 4lm Alfl Billie Dove, the motion picture actress, who always takes the opportunity to introduce the latest of fashion's novelties, wears an especially pleasing collection of clothes in the film, “The Night Watch.” One of the formal gowns which Miss Dove wears is of radium lace designed along the newest princess lines with a softly outlined skirt in which d’pped sides and back show a modern treatment.

Believed to Be Rock Moses Smote - Out of the rock which Moses is said to have struck with his rod to make water gush forth a little stream still is trickling into the Syrian deseit. The Field Museum Syrian Desert expedition of Chicago has come upon the famous rock in the Horeb which legend says yielded water to the thirsting Israelites crossing the desert. They found the rock giving as liberal a supply of water as it must have done in the first days of this miraculous glory. A steady creek of cool liquid flows from the rock and forms the Wady Musa, or Stream of Moses. The valley and Mt. Horeb, where Moses smote the rock, are pictured here. Record Catch Made by Maine Fisher

Wet Southport. Maine. —Residents along the Sheepscot river are willing to concede all deserved fishing honors to the Brule river in Wisconsin. Still, they say. fishing can’t be so bad on the Sheepscot when a man can go out and get 20.060 bushels of fish in one haul. Something about the fet'd the Sheepscot sepj lies; something about its cold, clea” waters; something about the countless little tributaries or deep coves gashing its sh< re line j seems to appeal particularly to all schooling fish. “1 a<IU- 1 a man to try bls luck . nt Madd't k' oner. n«ar West South . port, last August." explains Luther Madd >< ks. dean of t Maine fish | itig Industry. “He watched until he 1 saw the herring s«heol swim in and then closed the mouth of the cove with a drop net. He took out 20.000 bushel; <>f '■nnlinc herring, which lie sold r>ght t ere to the sardine carriers for 50 cents a bushel or a total of SIO,OOO. 1 “Another man at Cosv harbor, open

mitting the banker to have breakfast en route to the office and relaxation with cards on the journev home. Windows are of unbreakable glass, while an engine muffler insures sufficient quietness for conversation. The plane Ims a cruising speed of I<>o miles per hour and top speed of 130, with quick take-off. considering the load, on either land or water Mr. Hoyt, known as a sportsman as well as a successful business man. is active in the management of several airplane manufacturing and operating corporations. He Is chairman of the board of the Pan American Couple Wed 99 Years and Not a Single Spat Vrbitza. Yugo-Slavia.—The oldest married couple in the Balkans and probably in the whole world do not recall 11 single quarrel in their IM) years of wedded life. Dimitrije Filipovitch is at least one hundred and ten years old and his wife. Zivana. is one hundred and -even. They may be older, for it is established that Dimitrije was “over twenty” when Prince Miiosh abdicated in 1839. If he were then only twenty-one he would now be one hundred and fen. Ail their lives they have lived by farming their 30 acres of land, and now they are surrounded by a colony of descendants to the fourth generation. They live in this little village, near the health resort of Arandjevlovatz. Dimitrije walks slowly, hut without a stick, and still talks of the many princes and kings under whose rule he has lived and of the many wars for liberty he has witnessed. One of his sons and several grandsons were killed during the World war fighting for Serbia. DIPPING INTO SCIENCE : £ <5 £ The Great Alps Tunnel g X It took 10,000 men eight years 5 n to build the Simplon tunnel, one a £ of three famous tubes through £ S the Alps. It is 12*4 miles in o £ length and leads from Switzer- £ 5 land to Italy. The construction $ £ cost was $15,000,000. At some g g places the mountains rise a mile O £ above the tunnel level. g g ((EX 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) $

ing into the Sheepseot. made SS.OOO in seining herring in six weeks. ”Tb;s year the season is starting late, just as it did a year ago. but It looks as if big catches will be made in the Sheepseot during August, September and October. And current prices are GO cents a bushel. The fish are measured right on the spot in dories. A full dory holds 50 bushels.” OOOJOCOJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0 o 3 Will Tattooed on Back 3 8 Records Briton’s Gifts 8 □ London. —A 200 word will be- o i 3 queathing large sums of money 3 ■ ■ o to several people has been tat- O . [ 3 tooed <>n the back of a man who 9 O walked into a tattooing estab- o 3 lishment in Waterloo road. 0 He .‘ad the will written out 0 3 on a piece of paper and asked 3 0 that If be transferred to his 9 3 back. He sat for live hours $ 0 while the work was done, and 0 | iO Q | । q the will was dulv witnessed. o ‘ >6 $ OOCOOLKXXHXXKXXXNXJOOOOOOOO J I

Airways, now operating between Key W« st. Havana ami Santiago de Cuba and which recently was awarded the government mail contract for routes to Colon. Porto Rico and Trinidad. He is also chairman of the boards of the Wright Aeronautical corporation of Paterson. N. J., and of the Keystone Aircraft corporation of Bristol, Pa. After Thirty Years New York. —Having struggled thirty years for an educate n, Mrs. Bessie Bodyfield. forty-live, mother of three children, is on the way home to Edgemont. Colo., a master of arts of tea hers college. Columbia university. The Aftermath “Mrs. Smith seems to have got over rhe death of her first husband.” “Yes. but her second husband hasn’t.” — Nagel’s Lustige Welt. Berlin. CHINESE STATESMAN •' '.ft < - ' "V K ’Em y" » 1 » A ''' • f f . 4 y :" t X 5 *& i X HI <. fsgstf * Dr. Sun Fo. minister of reconstruo tion of tiie Chinese Nationalist government, who is touring the world tn an effort to obtain the opinions and advice of various officials on his plau for the restoration of his war-tort country. Doctor Fo was presented at the State department in Washingtc* by Doctor Sze, Chinese minister >• Washington.

Inoculating Soil to Help Legumes — I Some of Strains Required for Successful Culture of Many Plants. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture. > When to inoculate the soil for a legume and when to depend on the presence of the necessary bacteria already in the soil has puzzled many farmers. It is true that soils in many sections of the country are well inoculated with one or more of the strains of bacteria required for successful culture of some of the legumes, and at the same time poorly provided with the bacteria needed by other leguminous crops. Bacteriologists studying the strains of bacteria that work in the roots of legumes have identified seven common groups, and the members of each group are for the most part capable of inoculating several species of legumes. Alfalfa Bacteria. One group listed by bacteriologists of the United States Department of Agriculture iacludes the alfalfa bacteria which are also capable of inoculating bitter clover, button clover, California bur clover, fenugreek, southern bur clover, white sweet clover, yellow sweet clover, and yellow trefoil. Introduction of alfalfa into some of the areas west of the Mississippi Is relatively easy, because the soil is naturally Inoculated with the proper bacteria. The red clover bacteria will also inoculate alsike clover, crimson clover, hop clover. low hop clover, mammoth red clover, rabbit-foot clover, and white clover. Vetch bacteria Inoculate the Canada field pea. common vetch, garden pea, hairy vetch, broad bean (horse bean) lentil, narrow-leaf vetch, purple vetch, and sweet pea. The garden and navy bean bacteria are interchangeable. The lupine bacteria inoculate the blue lupine, serradella. the sundial (wild) lupine, and the European yel- ; low lupine. Cowpea Bacteria. The legumes inoculated by the cowpea bacteria are. the cowpea, Florida beggarweed. Jack bean. Japan clover. Kudzu, Lima bean, partridge pea, peanut, pigeon pea. tick trefoil, tepary bean, and Deering velvet bean. The soy bean, unlike the foregoing, is associated with bacteria not related to any of the commonly known strains. This, together with the fact that soy beans have been grown extensively for only twenty-five years in i tins country, indicates the necessity for artificial inoculation where soy beans are grown for the first time. If the crop rotation is planned a year or more ahead and it is desired to introduce a legume not hitherto grown, it is possible to make a test planting and determine whether the soil contains the bacteria necessary for the crop. This will be indicated by tilt presence of the nodules on the roots of the plants in the test plot. Infertile Hill Fields Should Be in Pasture Many infertile hill fields now in cul- , tivatiou which erode easily should be ! put in permanent pasture. If such a field has been in meadow some time, there is likely to l>e some clover and bluegrass in IL The treatment recommended for improving permanent pastures should give satisfactory results under these conditions. However. if the field has recently been cultivated, the most satisfactory way i to get -t into pasture is to plow it and seed it with a pasture mixture and a j nurse crop. A light seeding of oats to be cut for hay makes an excellent nurse crop. Strawberry Crops The number of crops of fruit harvested from a strawberry bed varie® according to the practices of growers in different localities. Most commercial strawberry growers are agreed , that the best practice is to make ' a new planting each spring ami fruit a bed but once, plowing under the old bed as soon as the crop has been harvested and using the land for some late summer crop such as late potatoes. Other growers renovate the old bed and secure a crop from it th^ second season and others renovate annually for several years. Cutting Alfalfa Persistently cutting alfalfa too frequently or 100 early results in poor stands, weedy field-, an 1 !<>w yields. Cutting after full I>l m produces hay of poor quality. In general cutting when the plants are fn-m one-tenth in bloom to full bloom gives satisfactory I results. An occasional early cutting । appears to do no Im rm and may be i desirable in order to take advantage j of favorable weather or to get the al- ■ salsa out of the way for oilier work. I , Agricultural Notes in 11*27 in the United Suites 2.263 agricultural agents were employed. • * • Regardless of the summer price of milk, it pays to keep the dairy herd in good condition during the summer months. • • • One of the essentials of a good silo i? an impervious wall, one which will exclude air and retain the moisture In the silage. • • • Barley is a crop generally undervalued in farming systems. It is an excellent food grain, ranking second to corn in areas where corn makes a good crop. ’ Clover, alfalfa, soy beans and all J other le.u. .es add nitrogen to the d. ' while timothy and other similar roughage crops remove large quantities of ’ this element from the soil. The latter tear down the soil; the former build It up.