Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 February 1929 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THK INDEPENDENT-N EWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD "¥Ha BT. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clam DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M, Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES “ £«• T»*r J 1.89 ■Lx Mentha go &*** Month* U TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post oftiee at Walkerte^ ex second-claas matter. One way to thaw out a cold personality is to toast his health at a banquet. The League of Nations holds that a man who writes news is a journalist. Some who dout: - tfs Dddt In the old nursery jingle it ^as a ?bw that jumped over the njt’on, not^ bull market. * Modernism in art won't reach the Teak until it gives us a bronze statesman with his feet on a desk. 4 Ein«tein needn't be vain about inventing theories no man can understand—any woman can do that. A Boston ^essayist extols the poetry of work. We should like to hear more about this from meter readers. There ought to be some reason for an address over the radio aside from somebody’s desire to hear himself talk. An efficient people would leave it to the judge instead of wasting the time of twelve useful men to decide a S2O case. “Hollywood,” says a newspaper writer, “blows its own horn.” This will be overlooked, so long as it isn’t a saxophone. The life of a California girl was saved by a timely repast of hot dogs. Quite often this has happened to us on the highway. Another of the compensations of radio is that it helps fill in the time while sitting up for a midnight eclipse of the moon. Sometimes you fear the world is headed for destruction, and then you read the ads in confession magazines and don’t care if it is. If heredity counts for anything the child whose mother is a bridge fiend and whose father is a card sharp ought to have a poker face. ,— A razor ten thousand years old has | been unearthed in the ruins of Ur, and excavators have redoubled their efforts to locate the hot towel. Habit is strong: A New Yorker who 30 years ago sold lots in City Hall park recently disposed of Brooklyn bridge to an out-of-town man. Sighted after the lapse of many years: The one about the fellow who asked the hotel clerk for a room witn bath, so he could wash a soft collar. One of the puzzling facts of life is that while carrots can be obtained almost any time, watermelons and canteloupes appear only in specified seasons. An authority on bridge says there ■ are 8,0Q0.000 people in this country who play the game. “At it” would more properly describe 99 per cent of them. “A man in New York accidentally dropped a check from a ten-story win- , dow and got down to the street before i it landed.” Or, maybe it was still bouncing. Good lemonade, the American Chemical society has been told, can be made from xylotrihydroxvglutaric acid. Er —if it’s just the same, we'll take a piece of cake. A judge suggests that the time has come for the doctors to step in and solve the crime problem. They couldn’t make a poorer showing at it than the lawyers have. It may be that flying is safe for 99 per cent of those who try it, but if it were safe for only 99 per cent of those who travel on railroads what a casualty list we would have every year. It is assumed that when the next war is fought by radio devices, as exclusively predicted by a London engineer, there will be a master of ceremonies to run the battles off smoothly. An old traveler who has crossed the Atlantic many times has always said that in case of shipwreck it would be wiser to let everyone else get off and then pick yourself out a large individual raft. The scientist who says that a man has a keener sense of smell than a woman never tried to disguise a suspicious breath. What with bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia and all the rest, it looks as if the original Pandora's box had been the human chest. One day King Boris of Bulgaria is granted a 50 per cent increase in salary and the next it is announced that he will marry. Even on thrones two cannot live as cheaply as one. Half the trick in becoming a leader Is counseling the inevitable, as when the poet exclaimed, “Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean, roll.” When interviewed recently, Trotzky said bis general vigor was unimpaired. Mr. Trotzky can probably attribute this fact to having died so often. The international revenue bureau reports that the five cent cigar is coming back. It has not really been away. Only the old price has been missing.

IN SOFT PEARL GRAY > ■ f ft X / J . > |iH|| eTBHI Baclanova, screen player, wearing an ensemble of pearl gray trimmed with matching fox fur that strikes the keynote of the approaching mode. A turban of gray crepe and dyed gray lace offers another interesting suggestion to style seekers. Reds Bar Worship Moscow. — All persons who take nn active part in the conduct of religious services, especially those connected with the Baptists and Methodists, are to be expelled from the Soviet trade unions. Few Byzantine Relics The palace of the Hebdomon at Constantinople, and a fragment of Theodoric's work at Ravenna. Italy, are all that remain of Byzantine pal aces. i —

SUCH IS LIFE Why, of Course! By Charles Sughroe J SSI = I 'oti A'"' r W: O gW,er- N. -A ■ r l^-- - \ \ [ J ’■ ' |

I WHEN SHOULD : HE GO? I By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK ; J Dean of Men, University of ? • Illinois. ; I • t t ...... . — “Isn’t ft better,” Swain asks me. “for a bo.v to have a little experience

after graduating from high school, before he enters college? Will he not more thoroughly appreciate his opportunities and the necessity ■». acquiring tin education and of doing his best?” Usually not. Wit e n a hi g h school graduate goes at once to

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I work he often receives as good pay a< ! the outset as does the college graduate. Ue feels for the first time the i satisfaction of earning his own living ' and of being independent. At the end ■ of a year or sooner at times his com- . pensation is increased and it seems to I him almost like a waste of time to give up a good job and spend four TALENTED PIANIST Margaret Shotwell, ninele< n jcai old । concert pianist. Ims been spending a ; vacation at her home in Omaha. The | daughter of parents in only modest ’ financial circumstances. Miss Shotwell i fell heir to a large block of stock in I the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company when E. A. Reynolds, who was man ager of the Omaha branch ot the company, died in 1917. Mr. Reynolds was a bachelor and a great friend of the Shotwell family and Margaret was his favorite. It was the income from this inheritance which gave the girl the opportunity to pursue a musical career. She studied under famous j masters in Europe and has played In I concerts in five European capitals. She ' has the distinction of being the only woman pianist who has ever played In I ±e Paris National Opera house.

New Oberammergau

Oberammergau, Bavaria. —Roaring airplane motors and the whirr of propellers will be heard above the flapping of angels’ wings at the next Bassion play in Oberammergau in 1930 The Lufthansa, German Civil Aviation company, is now purveying real estate near the famed Oberammergau theater with a view to building an air drome and landing field. Visitors to the coining Bassion play will hop to the biblical Oberammergau scenes in the latest models of German planes. This is, however, merely one evi deuce of the modernizing of the little Bavarian town where, for 300 years, the local citizens have performed their drama of the Passion of the Savior A structure of ultramodern technol ogy is being imposed on the quaint, primitive character of Oberammergau Although the next Passion play will not be staged until May 15, 1930 (there wilt be three performances), the (fberammergauers are busily starting preparations. The historic theater itself haS been enlarged so as to seat 5,000 instead of 4,200 specta tors. The property room has been moved from the wings and placed underneath the stage. Electric elevators will speedily carry all stage requisites to the Jerusalem scene. The stage floor has been mounted on roll ers, so that the story of Judas, the disciples, and Martha will be enacted with the up to date facilities of a Max Reinhardt or Belasco theater. A glass roof will cover the whole stage and improve the lighting. There are now 13 exits, so that the theater can be completely emptied in four min utes. Hitherto tourists attending the Pas sion play have been obliged to reside, for the most part, at medieval Inns; by 1930 these hostelries will have acquired running hot water and other conveniences. Spectators formerly traveled to Oberammergau by train. Besides the

years and a ilot of money In D arning things which in all probability he will never use. It is only when he is too old to g<>. ami when he has forgotten most of the preliminary principles upon I which his higher training would be based, onl.v when he has been so long divorced from ways of study that tie begins to realize the value of an education In fitting him for the higher things in tlie business or profession which tie litis chosen. It is far better to start at once into college if it is possible to do so. “Mj boy jis only sixteen,” Groves says to me. ‘‘lsn’t lie too young to send away from home and to be put upon his o|wn resources?” I believe usually not. it depends almost wholly upon the fifty's point of view. Investigation, [ jam sure, will reveal the fact that tie sixteen-year-old is quite aS likely to do well and to take things seriously a^ his older companions. The fact that he lias finished high school two years । sooner than the normal student argues for a somewhat great er maturity, and so for a tendency early to assume responsibility’ We are quite likely to think our children less mature in judgment and willingness *o assume responsibility than we were at their age. 1 recall that when, a few years ago. I made a catalogue of rhe ages of tqe hono students in our freshman class in ast'onishing large number of them were seventeen or under. Should the hoy who has no money and who must make his own living go immediately to college on graduation from the high school? Usually it would he better not. it is unsafe for anyone to begin Ids college course without having made pretty definite plans as to how tlie project Is to ne financed The readjustment between high school and college is not always easy to make and the student who is at .he beginning of his course harassed as to wbejre he is to sleep and how tie is to get his next meal is not likely ro make a good start. Eevv fellows should try at fiitst to earn more than their board, arid so should stay out of col-

“Hlley Kid” Genius

Chicago. — The conversion of a . I “worthless alley kid’ into a budding genius amazed art critics as they surveyed tile paintings of eleven year-old Dominic Kandazzo. Domitiic is a prodigy of Hull house, Jane Addams’ famous social welfare center on the edge of the Chicago Ghetto. ■ Twelve months ago he was classed by his teachers as “subnormal,” a year behind in school, lazy, sulky and wizened. Today Dominic has sold four paintings and his eldest brother, formerly his severest critic, says tie “always knew tl|ie kid was the only one in the family with brains.” Formerly the brother had considered Dominic to be just a good-for-nothing little boy who was destined to grow up to be a worthless citizen. His mother was dead and he lived with his fatbm two brothers, a sister, and a sister- w in two rooms of a dark

airplane, the automobile will bring many visitors to the next Passion play. The state of Bavaria and the municipality of Oberammergau are collaborating in improving the roads for motor cars. Roads from Munich, Ettal and Fuessen, leading to Oberammergau. are being bettered and provided with asphalt. Three parking places, each with a capacity of several hundred automobiles, are being built near the scene of the Passion play. Streets in Oberammergau itself are being asphalted and equipped with new street lamps. Special luxurious trains will also be running before each performance, bringing guests to the religious spectacle in snug comfort. Players have not yet been chosen for the main roles. Christ, Mary and John, but it is certain that there will be many changes from the last cast. Georg Lang, wood carver, has been selected as director and stage man ager, and the musical accompaniment will be contributed by the head school master, Sattler. Strangers visiting Oberammergau during coming weeks, on walking through the tranquil village streets V •’* *’* ••• ••• ••• »*♦ •*. •*• ►*• X Lad of 12 Indiana’s $ $ Youngest Fugitive X J. Petersburg. Ind.—Cecil ('ox, X Y twelve, son of Mrs. Onle Wil Y X son. of California, who was A X picked up for vagrancy by Y v Town Marshal William Greene ’f of Winslow, near here. Is the X •f youngest fugitive from Justice y X In Indiana. He Kas brought to X Y Petersburg by officers, where he X X was given a bath, clothed In X y new underwear and a new suit. X ; A and then when the officers were X Y not looking he ran nway. ’f

Delving Into the Past — II — —

Silver City. N. M — Uondm ting a new Une of archeological explera . I lions in the canyons of the upper 'Hid ned fork- of the Giia river in New ; Mexico. Mr. and Mis. (’. B Cosgrovi ; of Beabooy Institute, nt Boston, made ! some notable dsi-overles Inst sum mt r. In past years they had devoted their efforts to excavating cliff dwt-ll Ings of the Mimbres river section, but last stimmet they decided to try their , ; hands at exploring n remote region , : where a civilization predating that ol . । the cliff dwellers once existed. In the canyons of the two forks o1 the Gila they found undisturbed hollies of cliff dwellers, and while they vis ited many of these ancient habitats lege long enough after higli school to save enough to pay for the other necessities. The first year is always the hardest. <©. 1929. Western Newspaper Union.) ************************** DIPPING INTO SCIENCE 1 * * Why Our Teeth Chatter * * Spasms are independent 4 the * * will and are really a series ol * * muscle contractions. There are * * two kinds- where tlie muscle * j contracts and remains so, or $ * where there is a series of small * $ contractions. It is tlie latter $ type ol spasm affecting Hie jaw * J muscles which cause our teeth £ * to chatter when cold or when * * frightened. j| : l®. >929 Wwtoii Newspaper Union 1 * * **************************

tenement building on the West side. One day he wandered into the art school at Hull house and watched a group of boys and girls no older than himself painting white ships on blue water. The sight entranced him and he asked if he could “play with the paints like the other kids.” Hull house instructors soon discovered Dominic's aptitude with colors and clay. His laziness and sulkiness disappeared. His wizened face brightened up. Dominic was on the way to finding himself. When he took the profits home after a lady from the gold coast had bought one of tiis first paintings, Dominic’s father accused him of stealing the money. Critics predict now that Dominic, “the worthless alley kid,” will make much more money. They see in his early work the beginnings of a real artist

of an evening, will already hear act ors rehearsing their parts in almost every house. The visitors will also be struck by the bearded visages of the local Inhabitants. For at least a year before the play begins every actor must foreswear razor and shears and let hair and beard grow in full abundance. In fact, there are many inhabitants, from birth destined to assume roles in the Passion play whose hair is allowed to grow un shorn from childhood. Nothing will betray the romantic origin of the Passion play, which dates hack to 1(V»4 when the hamlet of Oberammergau was swept by a deadly pestilence. The Inhabitants then made a vow that. If the grim harvest of the plague were che< ked. they would each decade present a play describing the Passion of Christ. The pestilence was halted, and thus began the religious spectacle now known throughout the world. Forgotten Mine Adit Located by Workers Pottsville, Pa.— A passageway in j Pine Hill forest, built in the underground workings of the mines 75 ■ years ago, was found accidentally by . : engineers surveying recently. I Many curious discoveries of tools • | were made. Among these was a piece ol sheet - Iron engraved with the name of Archie McDonald. n prominent official ■ I This engraving was done In the early i days of the past century, ns the Pine Forest was one of the pioneer nnthraci c workings The passageway ' । had been covered over and forgotten . | many years ago. • I Because Overton county. T. nnesseo, : elected a blind trustee. Its fax book • । Is being transcribed by the Braille • systmn so that the official may read , I the records with his finger tips.

I tl < v deVi S d ti .-ir ;;relit , logical work , In excavating mounds which were the remains of pm bio- ami delving Into ■ ruins of strut ■:<> buildings Their eatll.r explorations have vie led a wide variety of relit s of 'tie ancients who developed th>dr civiliza lion in this region ‘J.ohi years ago. , Exquisite pottery, urns, artifacts of j many kinds, including weapons, and j i number of fmrials have been taken <>ut through the excavation made by i the Cosgroves. Their material, care ■ fully assorted and classified, is re- , garded as of great importance in archeology. Their finds Inst summer included a j number of prehistoric grain storeFour Sets of Brothers Make Up Army Squad Washington. D. (’. — The “brother squad” of B troop, IJeventh cavalry stationed at the Bresidio of Monterey, Calif., lias attracted the attention of the War department, where, officers say, the combination of four sets ot brothers constituting the entire per sonnel ot a squad, is unprecedented The four sets ot brothers fire Lee and Alcide Carron of Cambridge. Mass.; Reuben and Norman Hrielach

Major Coolidge and His Fiancee |8 $?I I j: > I’m h NJrM i i ar fm- I- |; ii -v- U I I Wc b VI ® g * 1 1 111 - John Coolidge, son of the President, in his new uniform as major on the staff of the governor of Connecticut, with bis fiancee. Miss Florence Trum bull, daughter of the governor.

FLEET-FOOTED SWEDE * 7 A closeup of Edvin Wide, famous Swedish middle distance running star, as lie appeared at the One Hundred Second regiment armory. New York, where he Is in training for the coming indoor track meets in which he is to i participate. , •’♦e^**^********^**^**^*****^**,*^**!*****!**^*** •••*•**•*♦•**•*••**•**•**•* X Ancient French Church * X Yields Strange Relic X , J. TalmnnL France. — Excava- A X tlons under nn Eleventh cen- X tury church here have brought X X to light a curious crypt In the Y shape of a ship measuring 27 X Y foe' by 12. The originality of X Y this shape is augmented in in- X X terest by the fact that it is X Y based on a rock 30 feet long, X ; X nnd that of Its fen sides four X X are within only 2 feet of the X A sen. X X ¥ There were 929 women medical stu- ■ ' st year.

— — » houses. The ancient residents tilled the soil in the valleys of the upper forks of the Gila river, raising corn nnd small grains. At harvest time they gathered and trod or flailed out the grain. They stored it in weatherproof warehouses hewn or built for the purpose, am) on this supply they drew grain to grim] for their food. Many relics of domestic use also were found The cliff dwellings proper, the coin munal center, as it were, are located near the mouth of a box canyon on the west fork of the Gila river. The canyon is a gorge twenty miles long, from 500 to 1.500 feet deep and from 100 feet to a quarter of a mile wide.

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of Los Angeles; Robert and Stanley Sante of Hazelton, Ba., and William and Floyd Cruzan of Ellsworth. Kan

cabwbß <©. 1929. Western Newspaper Union. I Life let us cherish while yet the taper glows. And the fresh floweret pluck ere it close. Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the ranking thorn te wear? HONEY WAY! Honey Is one of our most easily lilgested sweets and one that children

may enjoy with freedom. W here the home is supplied from a hive or two of bees one \ will always have plenty of good honey for the table. The bee forages for himself

and with little care supplies plenty and many pounds to sell during the season. The flavor of honey combines well with spices in cookery ami it takes tlie place of sugar and molasses in cakes, puddings and cookies. As a medicine honey Is unrivaled. Combined with horseradish it makes a good cough medicine. When used in place of sugar the food keeps moist longer and is of better flavor. Honey Ice Cream.—Take one pint each of milk and cream, the yolks of six - eggs and one cupful of strained honey. Heat the milk in a double boiler and add the egg yolks, a pinch of salt and the honey. Cook until smooth and thick. Cool and add the cream and a bit of almond or any d«sired flavoring. Freeze as usual. Honey Custard.—Take live eggs, one-half cupful of honey. lour cupfuls of seahled milk, the grated rind of a lemon, or a teaspoonful of cinnamon. add one fourth teaspoonful of salt. Beat the eggs enough to break up well, add the oilier ingredients and pour into cups. Set the cups into hot water and bake until set. For a boiled custard cook in a double boiler until the custard coats the spoon. Honey Pudding.—Take one half cupful of honey, one cupful of bread crumbs, one-half cupful of milk scalded, the grated rind of a lemon, two eggs, two taldespoonfuls of butler and one-half tabh*spoonful of gin- | ger. Mix the egg yolks, honey bread crumbs and seasoning. Beat well, then add lite whites of the eggs beaten stiff. Steam two hours in a pudding mold. Honey Salad Dressing.—Take three taldespoonfuls of honey, one tablespoonful of butter, one third of a cupful of mild vinegar, ami Iwo well beaten egg yolks. Mix on?-lia!f teaSpoonful each of salt and mustard, a dash « f cayenne and add to the honey mixture. Cook over hot water until smooth, stirring all the time, or beating with an egg beater. Try These. The wholesome beet so well liked as a vegetable and as a salad with

other combinations, is too often served with little variety. Virginia Creamed Beets.—Boil the beets until tender, rub off the skins ami arrange sliced in a deep dish. Make a sauce, using two tablespoonfuls of butter, and

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। when bubbling hot iwo tablespoonfuls of flour; add a littie salt, cayenne pep- > per, a tablespoonful of sugar ami a 1 cupful of hot cream. Stir until well mixed, then pour over the beets. Serve hot. Baked Kidney Beans.—Soak three cupfuls of kidney beans over night. In the morning parboil them with four । onions. Put them ail into a bean pot with si pint of stewed tomatoes, onethird of a teaspoonful of pepper, one tablespoonful each of sugar and salt and one-half pound of salt pork. Bury 1 the pork in the beans and bake live hours in a moderate oven. Mustard may be added, using a tablespoonful, in place of the onions, or both, if liked. Olive oil may take the place of the pork, using a cupful. Ginger Pudding.—<'over the fop of a ginger bread before putting it into the oven, with chopped blanched alj monds and a few raisins. Serve hot. cut with a fork. Whipped cream with i a little cottage cheese or apple sauce makes a nice accompaniment. Hindu Salad.—Arrange finely shred- ! ded lettuce on salad plates. On these i lay four slices of ripe tomato. Cover two slices with chopped celery and onion, the other two with finely minced water cress. Pour a French dressing over all. For a plain lettuce salad. Thousand Island dressing is especially good. Take one cupful of thick mayonnaise, six tablespoonfuls of chili sauce, two chopped red peppers, one-half tablespoonful of «hopped chives, one ; chopped hard-cooked egg and the salt ami pepi»er to season. Cherry Bread Pudding — Spread stale bread with butler anil place layers in a baking dish, cover with canned cherries, juice and all. Re- ; peat until the dish is full, pour over more juice and bake if desired, or I leave in a cold place to chill. Any trnil max be used for the dish Spanish Egg?.—Taki * of tomatoes, pour off nearly ali the liquid, heat in a saucepan and add salt, cayenne and a little - rapid onion. Break in four ezes and -Hr until the e"gs are well < ooked. Sene on buttered toast. 'ytcLCuc itCljC Automatic Lights One street in Barnes. London. S. W, has been lighted by automatic lamps i for rhe last 12 months. Each street ! lamp is fitted with a silenium cell, which is affected hy either twilight or fog, and turns on the light. Distinction in Styles O. S.. when placed after a date, means old style. N. S. means new I style. This refers to the chance in the calendar made by I'ope Gregory In , 1582. There were 11 days difference.