Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 February 1929 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent ~Publi»h<*<! Every Thursday by i THE IND EPEN DENT- NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD “The st. Joseph county weeklies Clem DeCoudres, Business Maneger Charles M, Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year..... fi.M Ux Monthe 90 y^ree Months ,80 j TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkartoat ptd.f as second-class matter. The office cynic says he doesn’t believe in All-Americas, ghosts or sta- ! tistics. Some of them may not learn much at college, but think what a rest their parents get The office cynic has just written the radio commission asking that they reallocate the sopranos. Winter weather has its uses. It at least clamps the lid down on reckless transocean flyers. Call it a “cold” or call it the “flu,” it is nasty and disagreeable, and a good thing to fight shy of. “The luxuries of yesterday are the necessities of today.” Sometimes we only think they are necessities. A community never brags about its pure Anglo-Saxon ancestry if it has anything more recent to brag about It’s a good thing the whale swallowed Jonah long ago. In these times he would have been filled with stowaways. A movement has been started in England to destroy all war relics. But have they no value as horrible examples? Tnere is a sporting event that never gets into print—that of putting up the stove pipe. Possibly because it is unprintable. Back home there was another fellow who practically made a career of shuffling a pack of cards in various spectacular ways. “Scientists, differ as to the earth’s weight by 592 quintillion tons.” Then there is nothing to do but take it down to the hay scales and weigh it. A physician advises against playing cards with your friends when they have colds. A reckless player might i bet his cold and lose it to somebody I else. It is probably too late now for the : news reel in the movies to take a film ; of a man holding a skein of yarn for ' a woman while she winds it up into a a ball. Another blow has been struck at the foundations of the Republic. A j restaurant in New York has jumped , the price of hot dogs from five cents j to six. It has been decided an explosion which ripped part of the front from ■ a western post office was an accident. It has therefore been marked Opened by Mistake. About the hollowest sensation is feeling a tremendous burst of sympathy for some unfortunate and finding that he is completely unaware of needing it. . When the prince of Wales eventual- i ly comes to the throne it will be as David I. Then he can turn to the Old | Testament and learn a lot about the ! king business. Every time one looks through the old family album, he gets the idea that the idea of retouching was con siderahly subsequent to the discovery of photography. - . . .... . -■ The kitchen maid In Berlin, who posed as a princess and got two years i in prison, should have remained as i queen of the kitchen and made money ! correspondingly. Quebec province is levying a tax of 5 per cent on all meals costing ! sl, the. money going to charity. Here I we pay 10 per cent and the money : goes to the waiter. Life still holds many unique ex I periences, including that of tuning in on the radio and getting a song or : musical selection that one has heard only 85 or 90 times. The little king of Rumania goes to i school with ordinary hoys to learn democracy, and the hero who can spit through his teeth can now make him self solid for a future at court American spectacular shows are j hailed with interest in London, where : blackface comedy has always been re- ; garded as representing the high his- : trionicart of the Western hemisphere. The promoter of talk marathon is looking for a topic. We nominate the traffic problem in this fair and perplexed city of ours. Speaking of myths, the oldest oys- ' ter-openor in the hotels of New York ! has been on the job 42 years and never found a pearl. A new variety of lemon, rivaling ; the grapefruit in size and sweetness. i Is said to have been developed in I Porto Rico. Yes, yes. but does it | squirt ? A medical journal says that a man I uses 44 muscles in speaking And ; sometimes that is about al) ol his ' anatomy he does exert. “It it’s all the same,” remarked the ' timid passenger to the steward on the ' large ocean liner, “I wish you’d make : up my bed in a lifeboat.” The philosopher who says that the . world is work-crazy doesn't specif' whether it is crazy to work, to get away from work or just because it has to work.

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| SHOULD ONE GO | | TO COLLEGE? | By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK T €> Dean of Men, University of p X Illinois. X 1 am right in the midst of high school commencements while I am

writing these paragraphs, running here and there to give the young person just graduating advice ns to what to do and where to do it. Most of these young people are going to college whether they have any particular talent for study or not. It

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Is the vogue now to do so; a boy who does not go to college is almost as peculiar as a twenty-year old with long whiskers. I am asked a good many questions by young and old relative to educational procedure after high school and these I shall make some attempt to answer. Should one go to college? There is no categorical answer to j the question. It depends upon conditions just as the advisability of getting married does. There is no doubt that an overwhelming majority of those who have attained distinction In this country in practically every line of work have had college training, and that those who will attain such distinction will have a similar training. The trained mind grasps a situation more quickly than an untrained one, adapts itself more readily • to new and strange conditions, has a broader vision and better understands human nature. The men who have most succeeded have had college training or minds which would have readily adapted themselves to such training. Some young people have not the financial backing necessary to go through college, nor the concentration of mind and the physique to earn their way while carrying a college course. These may well hesitate before going to college. The work of college demands mental curiosity—an interest in every i problem which concerns itself with human thought and human life. Too few people have such an interest. No one should go to college who does not like books and reading and study. The educated man or woman must have had a good many years of pretty con- ! stant association with books, and un- I less that association is one which > brings enjoyment and enthusiasm the | work is likely to be pretty indifferent- ! ly done. 1 see scores of young people \ in college who have no real interest in study, who go to their books with reluctance and dragging feet and who lay them down with a sigh of joyful relief w’hen the assigned task has been indifferently completed. Such people have no place in college. Their task In life is to do some practical rather

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Earth Not Stable

New’ i’ork.—The earth’s crust prob । ably is not "dead” and finished in shape, the American Association for the Advancement of Science was told by Dr. Bailey Willis of Stanford uni versify. Instead, even the stable bottom of the Atlantic ocean now’ may be heat-

than intellectual job of which there are still plenty to be done. Those who <;o not like work should try some other activity of life than that involved in a college training. There is toil involved if one does well in college, and responsibility, and the better one <h>es the more responI sibility Is laid on bis shoulders The person w ho is looking for an easy time in life has no business to go to college, for the college graduates of the conn i try who are worth the name are work ing the hardest and carrying the heaviest responsibilities. ’Phe less one knows the easier time he is likely to have. ((c). 1929 Western N- wsj .»t ‘T I’lJi n » School Runs Laboratory to Strengthen Pupils T.ebanon, Tenn.—A human Inborn tory for experiments designed to de i velop it stronger boy of preparatory school age Is being condm i, d nt the i Castle Heights Military academy. Io cnted here In the ('umberland foot hilis. Every student Is required to tak< part In some branch of aihleth s Ot \ black bread is served tl e cadets Tia school! prepares its own flour, dairy ' dishes and vegetables and dietary measures are part of the school train ing. City of 11,500 Guarded at Night by One Cop Derby. Conn. —Because of an error in police department bookkeeping this city of 11.500 inhabitants is be ing guarded nt night by only one patrolman. Three men were droppm) from the force by Chief Thomns Van Etten when he discovered that through an urtexpected shortage there would he only money enough to pay one ! night policeman for the rest of the ' fiscal year. NEW BALL MAGNATE 7 $ BO William E. Kenny, president of one of the biggest contracting concerns of Nbw York, who has bought a 20 per cent interest ’n the National Ex hibitihn company, more popularly known as the New York Giants.

। ing up preparatory to causing land shifts. The theory is that scores of miles down In the rocks that form the skin of mother earth, great blisters form, ns big as whole states and that as they melt the rocks, the resulting upthrusts make the earth’s surface what it is, am] whatever it may change to. But there was nothing of possible human catastrophe in Doctor Willis’ picture, for he spoke in the new time concept of science, his change's requiring millions of years. He named well known places where on the slow time scale such shifts actually now seem under way. Doctor Willis’ address Inaugurated j the annual convention of the assoela tion. His subject was "the origin and Development of Continents.” He said all continents are great plateaus of granite, standing high above the sea bottoms, which are of basalt, a heaxi er ro< k. I

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“Forever American”

Washington.—Through the gift of ' the French village of Moyennmutier • of the ground occupied by the grave I of Lieut. Thomas IL Plummer of New j Bedford. Mass., a controversy of ten years comes to an end. Unlike most American families whose sons fell in France, the Plum mers strongly desired that Lieutenant Plummers body he left in the little French cemetery where it was buried two days before the armistice was Adobe Houses in Old Mine Town Yield Gold Monterey, Mexico. —T. L. Crawford. a British mining engineer who has ar I rived here from dazapil, an olu min ing town buried in the heart of the mountains, has found that slag from tlie smelters operated by Spaniards more than 200 years ago, and long abandoned, carries high values in gold. Even the old adobe houses are rich in the precious metal, according to assays which he made recently Some of these adobe blocks run as high as SSOO to the ton of gold, silver and copper. Mr. ('rawford has interested a syndicate of mining men in the possibilities of smelting the slag amt the adobe-built houses by modern methods. An electro-magnet weighing 120 tons, ! lias been constructed at the Academy I of Science. * Child Pasteur Saved * * Became His Watchman * * Paris. —The first child Pasteur * succeeded in curing of hydro- * phobia in 1885 now’ is principal * £ gatekeeper at the Pasteur Insti- <- *;* tute laboratories. He Is Joseph *:* * Meister, an Alsatian. ❖ ♦j. Meister has grown older and * stouter, hut he is still known as $ ♦j. Little Meister, “le petit Meis- »:♦ * ter,” to every one at the insti- ❖ tute. He keeps watch at the ❖ gate just opposite the building £ which Imuses the vault and last ❖ £ resting place of the great scien- $ ❖ fist who saved his life, the first £ of so many others. .j. ♦*+ **♦ ♦** *** **■* ♦** *♦* •** ♦!* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* v

“We know the kind of rock that underlies the sea,” he said, “from seismographs. With aid of earthquakes we can sink our (tlummets more than half way to the center of the earth We know the velocity at which shocks travel, the depths at winch they pass through or around the earth, and the kind of rock they pass through. “We know that the earth is on veloped about 2.1MM1 miles thick with elastic rock, below which Is a core about 2.<NM> milt's in ratlins, apparently inelastic, very hard, probably iron which may be melted.” The heat that causes blisters, he 1 said, probable docs not emanate from the earth’s inner core. “('ompression by gravity ” he added “is capable of producing all the heat ' of which we have evidence. As rocks heat, the melting tends to extend lat | erally faster than upward, thus foim j c— 11 —

Unusual Home

Wl> hita, Kan. George Dooley of I Wichita is the head of a peact'ful i household consisting of les wife, his former w ife, and his live year old ■ daughter, Katl ei inc. Wl m Mrs. I • iisy Dooley received her <liM>re from Dooley the court ruled Katherine should be in the cus j tody of her mother three days out of ea<h five, and with the father the re ; maitder of tie time. Dooley remar ried. and now all live In the same house The two .Mrs Doi ieys declare the' are not in the least jealous of each other. Kitt! critic receives the loving attentions <«f both her mother ami ; her stepmother, who co operated in giving her a merry Christmas day When asked which of her mothers she !<•' 1 most Katherine replied: *1 love both of them. , love my mamma and I love Nev:i and I love my dad dy lots and lots." Dooley, who is Cfd’ed States qmir nntlne inspector for this district, said he wns ve-% li.'ppv over the success of his unusual arrangement. “You know some people have fun ny Ideas about o arriage.” he said j Man Both Grandfather, Great-Grandsire in Day Danxi 'e \ V 8e..., it g g. ml father and great ramlfather In a day w is the good foiiune of C. E. Green of this village. T e gi inds< :■ fs Jacob Albert Green son of G.-otge II Gleen of ,\. u York ■ dy. wli Ie H e .it . t • amblaughter Is M -s o' lra .! ■ e M Wil. d.in 'der of Mr ami Mo Harold E McNeil of San Diego, Calif.

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signed and a few days before the Croix -Ie Guerre awarded him by the French government was received. I'liis caused the unwinding <f much red tape. Lieutenant Plummer, although fifty years of age when the war broke out. enlisted in the American Red Cross and was assigned to the French village of Moyenmoutier. just behind Hie French lines. There he did such valiant work that he was beloved by the entire population of the village. They buri--d him with highest honors in their own village cemetery. His death was the result of unselfish devotion to sick and wounded French soldiers. When the work ot removing American sobliers' bodies to government cemeteries in this country and France began Lieutenant Plummer’s grave was one of the few isolated ones marked “Do not disturb.” The government could not leave soldier's b-dies without definite title to the land or without assurance that graves would be properly cared for. however. After much interchange of corre

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ing misters —asthenoliths. we call them. “Conditions favorable to formation of asthenoliths appear likely to develop in those layers thirty to six bun dred miles below the mirth’s surface, and probably only tln.se within less than one hundred mill's of the surface directly affect it. “A blister may grow several hundred miles across, and be ten to twenty miles deep, containing one or more million cubic miles. The cover eventually breaks around the margins, w here eruptions follow, nnd finally the cover falls into the emptied center. Conditions thus theoretically sketched are features of the smaller depn'ssions that are the deeps of the oceans. The Windward and Hawaiian islands nre examples of volcanic ridges surrounding such deeps. “A blister requires perhaps several million years to grow. A very large numbiT of eruptions, a great many blisters ami an enormous lapse of time must have been requirt'd to form Africa. Eurasia am) the Americas In । this way. The complex structure of i each continent corresponds with the | multiplicity of actions required by | the theory.”

I "They can’4 see how a scheme like this will work ‘Tor five months I was on the Chicago police force and both my present i ami ox wife were with me. All of the I boys used to wonder how 1 could manage it. Some det hired I can't even get along with one woman, how can you live with two?’ But 1 really am ; happy and so are they.'’ The present Mrs. iHmley (Neva) explained the situation this way: "Last October I lost my only child, a little boy. Kitty is taking his place in my life and at the same time tilling her mother’s heart with joy.” WROTE PRIZE ESSAY . - <if Malcolm D. Altmok ot Balo Alto. Calif., tiitein years old. was given first prize in the Durant competition for the best essay by a high school pupil i on the solution of the prohibition problem. Young Almack. the son of a Stamp'd university professor, was । among severt'l hundred high school students who entered the competition I'mhT the terms of the awatd he re- ( -elves Sl.tNMl and tie Balo Alto high school receives Sl.eott.

| spondence between the town council I > of Moyenmoutier, the cemetery divi- I I sion of the quartermaster corps ot the - I'nited States army and the family of Lieutenant Plummer, the problem was solved with receipt of the title to the ground occupied by the grave. I DIPPING INTO SCIENCE I Why Fish Are Cold | Blooded The fish is a cold blooded ani ;! । v ma I because of the lack of oxy & । i X gen in the water. Man and the X v higher types of animals produce • • body heat from the oxygen in X the air nnd in this w.av maintain T 1 q a steady bod.\ temperature. • g Die fish can only take on the f T temporal lire of the water in • ; which if lives. <®. 1929 W’pstern Newspaper Union » •

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decided to try’ Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescript! n and now I am happy to say it restored my good health perfectly and since then I have had no such trouble. I consider the ‘Favorite Prescription’ something wonderful” —Mrs. Bessie Landry. 120 N. Hazel St, Danville. 111. Students Sell Blood At Atlanta. Ga., a group of strdents of Emory university are registered nt rhe school's “blood bureau.” which means that they are available night and day to furnish blood in transfusion cases at any of the various hospitals in the city. COULD NOT ’ SLEEPJIBHTS Helped By Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Fairhaven. Mass. —“I am taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-

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