Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 November 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO, Publishers of the WALKEBTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD ~YhE BT. JOSEPH COUNTY WEBKLIBB Olem DeCoudres, Business Manigtr Charles M. Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES On* Tsar U.S* •tx Months » o yhf Months TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at ths post office at Walkertoe, ^14., as second-class matter, A London engineer is working on “a silent invisible airplane” instead of saxophone. They have toothpastes now that are pretty good exercise for the gums just pronouncing them. Being an innocent bystander at a rolling-pin throwing contest is probably one’s own fault. A Nobel prize may occasionally prove more valuable as a publicity prospect than as a cash asset. The pen is mightier than the sword, or would be if we could get the criminals inside of it. A Russian geologist claims to have invented a fire proof coal. Well—just so he doesn’t try to sell it. Noah had civic spirit: He saved the live stock for posterity, though probably he liked T-bone steaks! Overheard In a short order lunch: “Where’s the saucer that goes with this cup? I gotta drink my coffee.” Today’s rather idle wonder is as tc what extent the radio’s “correct time* has stimulated the watch repair traffic Love Is when there seems to be only one person in the approaching roadster, but it develops there are two. “If your spelling is correct,” growled the office crab to the stenographer, “what we n?ed is a loose leaf dictionary.” Still, the talking movies seem a tittle lacking in realism. The ingenua doesn’t open every other sentence with “Listen—” About two-fifths of the steel used In the manufacturing industries of the United States is turned into small articles. The paint manufacturers say there are 2,000,000 colors, indicating the vast possibilities in case one is embarrassed. We hope that the attempt to align Russia with the peace pact will not have a deleterious effect on the antiwar program. The “dime novel” is obsolete. Yet tn some instances its literary merit was quite equal to the present two dollar novel. Love letters are said to be swelling the air mail. Er—about how many would a plane have to carry to be lighter than air? Sometimes nowadays it is hard to tell mother and daughter apart, they both look so young, except that the former tries harder. When motion pictures vocalize, many stars will have to retire when it is discovered that the day of the "beautiful but dumb” has passed. As far as he Is personally concerned, the office crab says an antique Is a piece of furniture on which he has just made the final payment. Great prosperity permits the accummulation of large funds, some of which are administered in away which rather tends to hinder faith in human nature. After a woman cajoles, entreats, I Intrigues, begs and hollers for some- ! thing or other for five years, her hus- ' band at least ought to stop calling it I a whim. “There are 7,083 islands in the j Philippine archipelago.” All of which j were named, in the course of time, | with no help from the pullman car j christener. The longest word in the English I language, says an authority on the ! subject, contains twenty-eight letters. | Tn Welsh, however. It is regarded as j a mere grunt. — These throwing rolling pin contests, engaged in by women, seem to be a j fad at county fairs throughout the I country. It is refreshing that the rolling pin has some use. Apprised that the Department of Agriculture has just decided to list watermelon hereafter as a vegetable, rather than as l fruit, the office cynic wants the bureau of mines to classify cantaloupes as a mineral. The office cynic believes the lasi joint debate in this country that will ever amount to anything was between Lincoln and Douglas. The ascetic in Benares, India, whi has sat on a post for twenty years, if out of the traffic hazards if some one doesn’t knock down the post. If an operatic diva gets soaked in the eye with a passing golf ball the question is whether she should sing the “Miserere” or the “Star Spangled Banner." The old-fashioned man who never takes a vacation is back at his desk after a series of business trips to the mountains and the seashore. Color, which is permeating our lives tc an extent heretofore unknown, has. got along to heliotrope cookstoves, so the limit must be in sight. The information editor has prescriptions for getting rid of ants, flies, etc., but no advice on how to shake a pup who has followed you three —blocks m^vbktbe strgg^ t

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Old “Drizzle” Runs

Washington. — Recent discoveries made in the famous Red Beds of Texas, of the Permian age, have proved that the markings described by earlier investigators as trails of many-legged worms, are in reality weather mark Ings, or examples of “fossil weather.” The proof of this statement lies in a small slab of shale which shows nuNORTHWESTERN STAR S In®! I I ■S > 1 w IIP Bananaosssra George “Yatz” Levison. for two years quarterback at Northwestern, this year has shown such remarkable ability as a ball carrier that Coach Hanley has shifted him to halfback. In the early games his consistent ground gaining has made Northwestern rooters forget the feats of “Moon” Baker and other “Wildcat” stars of the past. Day Coach Passengers Sleep at Their Own Risk Sioux City, lowa.—Train employees are not obligated to awaken passengers who fall asleep in day coaches when nearing destinations of sueb passen gers and railroad companies are not liable for damages if loss results to the passengers if they are carried beyond their destinations. Judge A. O. Wakefield ruled here in the District court The ruling was made in the case ot Clyde Vanderbick of Sioux City against the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad. Vanderbick sued for $2,700. Cobb in New Role San Francisco.—Prot. Tyrus Ray mond Cobb is to teach the young idea of Japan to wahop. He is to tour the country, lecturing on baseball and playing with various university teams. I Fog Horn Silenced to X Please Resort Colony $ Bexhill, England.—“ Mournful X Mary” has lost her job. She T has been given a full month’s <;• notice, and the nerve-racked x residents of the fashionable re- X sorts within sound of her wails X are jubilant, The only friends “Mournful X Mary” has are the members ot $ the Imperial Merchant Service X guild, which guards the inter- T ests of merchant seamen. They X have submitted a protest against 4 her dismissal with Trinity house. X What will fog-bound ships do, y I they ask irfflignantly, if Mary’s X piercing sb“iek fails to warn T them that they are approach X Ing the most dangerous turning x in the English channel? For Mary is the foghorn ot the x Royal Sovereign lightship, and if she Isn’t popular with the a residents at least the sailors appreciate her. &

Little Left of Powder Magazine |.'s A^X?,^ ■ MAliS&'u ■ I -• \<<4L ■■- —'v These photographs show the fort of Cabrerizas Bajas at Melilla, Morocco before and after the terrific explosion of the powder magazine. Fifts^ men were IdUled and hundreds of others Injured.

merous parallel markings, large and small. In such abundance that they could not have been made by animals. The designation of the markings as “drizzle runs” Indicates the weather conditions in what is now Texas, in that far-off time. Formed on Mud Flats. The “chevron" formation of the markings is due to the accumulation of fine mud in a slow run-off on a mud flat, with a gentle slope. Some slight obstruction, such as a grain of sand or a bit of plant material or a hard piece of mud, was enough to start the formation of a slight ridge along which the markings continue. On another slab of red shale are to be seen circular marks where a plant leaf or a piece of grass made circular scratches In the soft mud millions of years ago. One can almost see the sunshine following the shower after which an animal, unknown to science, walked past the wind moved plant. Disprove Raindrop Fossils. Geologists have for many years regarded as fossil ruindrops any group of circular or oval shaped depressions, and the s mdard textbooks figure such markings. Recent experiments in the University of Wisconsin, sup-

Gas Made Liquid

Berlin.—Oxygen used in highly com pressed form in industrial undertakings can now be delivered in light brass containers instead of the heavy 3teel bottles formerly used and requlr ing two men to carry. Dr. Paul Heylandt. Berlin chemist and inventor, has discovered a process by which the gas can he manufactured and delivered in liquid form. His in vention has won for him the hon orary degree of doctor of engineering from the Charlottenburg Institute oi Technology here. The oxygen gas Is reduced to a liquid by Doctor Heylandt’s process, is then poured into specially devised containers on automobile trucks and is READY FOR WINTER ? Mr :? / ■ ft I II M I k V Bps LJI The latest in advance styles for the fashionable woman’s winter wardrobe is the beige flannel coat dress which Introduces the new side flare. A point fox scarf completes the outfit.

plemented by observations of shale slabs from the Texas Red Beds and on the soft mud and sand along the Pacific coast, prove clearly that many of the so-called raindrop impressions are due to air bubbles. Markings made tn recent mud are exactly like those seen In the ancient red shales. The influence of the proportions ot sunshine and cloudiness, in ancient geological time, upon the rapidity of growth of Individuals and upon the rapid expansion of groups of ancient animals and plants Is now attracting the attention of students of fossil life An attempt is being made to inter pret, from conditions seen tn ancient rocks, the state of the weather at a time when earth conditions were quite different from what they are now. It is expected that previously unrecognized bits of sunshine will very soon be seen in the rocks of the old Paleozoic. Long Time at It Oullanovsk. Russia.—ll took Cath erlne Sorokina 121 years to become a voter, but she has done it. Born a serf and sold at the age of fourteen for a hunting gun. she is a free voter in the local Soviet now.

carted from plant to plant much as gasoline or oil is delivered. The needs of the customers are supplied by merely opening a faucet and letting the desired quantity run into the small containers supplied to each customer At a nominal rental the customer is also supplied with apparatus for converting the liquid oxygen into compressed gas, which is then stored in the steel bottles that were hitherto transported hack and forth. DIPPING INTO SCIENCE X Heat and Storms x The reason we always feel ’ warm just before a storm is be- ® x cause there is so much moisture X in the air that it cannot absorb X the perspiration of the body. X This process of evaporation of X the water from our skins is the X T chief means by which our bod T X ies are kept cool. X v (c). 1928. Western Newspaper Union. >

> Great Volcano Stirs >

Naples.— Vesuvius Is fretful. She is flashing red by night and by day pouring into the blue sky a column of sulphurous smoke which floats off in a breeze for mile upon mile, or in calm air rises straight toward the vault of the sky for many hundreds of feet Vesuvius in normal mood shows only a wisp of smoke and does not make the night over her red with sudden flashes of fire nor does she rumble so. A few weeks ago she was, to al) appearances, sound asleep. She takes long sleeps: she has been known to sleep for 500 years. So long did she ‘ sleep after her destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum that It became ai--1 most a legend and was forgotten by the peasants dwelling about her. Goats grazed In the crater upon the rich green grass that grew along the shores of two lakes deep within that mighty hole. Then suddenly she gave warning, which few heeded, and poured seven rivers of tire down Into the surrounding villages, destroying them and killing hundreds. One of these rivers rushed pell-mell Into the Bay of Naples, where the water boiled for days. This was the great eruption of 1631. The peasants dwelling In Torre de) Greco and In Massa di OOOCOOOOOOOOOWOOOTOfKIOmi I Thirteen in Family All g Have Same Initials £ Nodlesville. Md. — Thirteen g children of Mr and Mrs Ora G Ferguson living northwest of S here eact) have a first name be $ ginning with letter “R” and a § second name beginning with § ‘E” so that the initials R E. F a stand for all the children. Ages g range from eigiit to thirty-five g vea rs. $ The children are Ruby Edith 5 Ralph Eric. Ruth Esther. Reno S Elva. Reva Emola, Rose Ellalia, 3 Roger Eugene. Russell Ermall g Roy Elden. Renzel Elmo. Reldo 3 Edward. Roe Erwin and Rich g ard Erroll. S

Time to Squelch the Brood

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES By THOMAS ARKLECLARK Dean of Men, Univercity of Illinois. S> To most of us the places we have not ourselves seen are virtually undiscovered coun

tries. All that we know about them is what we nave heard or read and what we have thus discovered is usually the worst. Now there is Africa. It looks to me like a huge re versed capital letter P on the map. and it con-

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notes to me wild elephants, desert wastes, untraversed jungles teeming with strange animals and deadly serpents. It is a land of unclothed savages with rings in their noses and poisoned arrows in the quivers which they carry on their backs. My cousin Tracy has just come from Africa and his account of what he has seen there is quite different from the picture which I have painted of that, to me. undiscovered country. There are Ford cars in Africa, Tracy tells me, and radios and moving picture shows, and water softeners, and electric lights, and hard roads, and the g : Is bob their hair and carry lipsticks just as they do in other civilized countries. I have been quite mistaken in my judgment of Africa. When Nancy and I were in Cambridge, Mass., 25 years ago or so, we

Somma and other small settlements that were wiped out took it that demons lived somewhere under the mountain. Now Vesuvius is again in eruption; not a tremendous one such as the HEADS BROTHERHOOD * ■:. ”' mES nF--11. Lawrence Choate of Washington D. C.. has been elected to the presiidency of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew of the Episcopal church. Mr. Choate succeeds Edward 11. Bonsall of Philadelphia, who has held the position for the last 19 years. Expensive Fish New York.—One hundred pounds British gold for one fish was the top price paid at the recent British Aquar ists’ association exhibition in London The fish was a blue, telescopic-eyei veiltail, one of the new forms ot goldfish bred by the Japanese. Gold white and black in these forms are common, but blue is a rarer color. r

got our meals with a group of dyed-in-the-wool New Englanders. One woman had been out West, she said—that ; is as far as Troy, N. Y„ but none of them had ever looked across the Mississippi river, and they looked upon us as semi-civilized savages from a wild and unconquered West. They believed everything we told them about rattlesnakes, buffaloes, and Indian raids. They were astonished that we were able with as little dialect as we showed to communicate in the English language. The Mississippi valley to I them was an undiscovered country. White, whom I later met. born in New England and imbued with a holy desire to do something to raise the moral and religious standards of the illiterate West, had a call to Austin. Texas, as assistant pastor of one of the southern churches. He was courageous but wary. He asked me confidentally, as of one who bad had wider experiences in such things than himself, if I didn’t think it would be a wise precaution for him to take pistols with him in going to so dangerous a locality. I was in Herrin, HL. a few weeks ago—Herrin in bloody Williamson county. It Is a beautiful little city with a wide clean boulevard running through it 100 feet wide. It seems like a quiet well-ordered place. It Is full of comfortable houses sitting in the midst of well-kept lawns and surrounded by beautiful gardens. It was in rose time that I was there, and I have never seen anywhere, not even in England nor in Italy, more beautiful roses than there were in Herrin. They have beautiful school buildings. I do not know another city of 10.000 popu- j lation which has a better designed and more attractive high school building than Herrin. The people seem to love beauty and to stand for education. Maybe we have not discovered Herrin I bv Western Newspaper Union.>

recorded eruptions of the past, but one at least showing she still has vitality. She has not driven the population away from her base, but her grand pyrotechnica! display has again become a lively attraction for visitors. Ultra-Violet Rays Soon Fade Paintings Saranac Inn, N. Y. —Exposed paintings, and especially those which are conserved as a national treasure, should never be lighted more than is necessary, and. preferably, they should be lighted through an artificial illumination so corrrected as to approach daylight in quality. This is the suggestion of J. A. MacIntyre and 11. Buckley of his majesty's office of works and national physical laboratory of England, who have made an extensive study of picture fading. Their findings were presented in a paper, “Protection of Pictures and Museum Pieces from Fading.” which was presented as the session of the International Illumination congress here. Ultra violet rays are in general th<. dominant cause of fading, the scientists set forth, ami the elimination of these rays was urged. Because the modern paint manufacturer <i<ies not require his pigment to last more than a few years at the most, the subject ot fading is most InqiorTant. it was pointed out. If any of the present-day masterpieces are to be preserved for I jiosterity Reason Enough Reno. Nev. —One of the reasons given by Mrs. Charles W. McHose of Los Angeles for wishing a divorce is that her husband has been a had loser, hurling golf sticks or throwing low cards on the floor She obtained a decree.

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