Walkerton Independent, Volume 55, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 June 1929 — Page 2
Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS I-A KE\ I Ll^_ STANDARD ‘h'HH BT. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLI E8 ' Clem DeCoudres, Business Sfana^er Charles M, Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTIONHATES “ g* Tear ; Months 99 ree Months .H TERMS IN ADVANCE ' Entered at the post office at Walkerton pUL, as second-class matter. Canada derives much of her water power from snow. But first it must melL The ups and downs of Wall Street wouldn’t be so bad if so many didn't go down and out. A modern copybook would have a maxim of “crossing your knees and blacking your eyes.’’ At times we think that rhubarb’s mistake was in ever getting out of the pharmaceutical class. Two thousand street mendicants of Berlin gave a ball. The affair must have beggared description. An article in a contemporary tells us how to keep young, but what’s the use with all this race suicide. A Mexican bandit exemplifies human aspiration In his hope of being promoted to the title of “revolutionist” If the morning song suddenly ends In the bathroom it means there were no more sharp razor blades in the package. A New York opera has an alarm clock in one of its scenes. This will make the audience turn over for another nap. The sound in the talkie melodrama Is all right, as soon as you learn to distinguish between the heroine’s sigh and the sawmill. It seems to he judicial opinion that, all other things being equal, one parent has as much right over a child as the other parent. The population of the United States is growing at the rate of 1,400,000 a year. In the human race we don’t ask for a recount. The New York Times says the silk hat needs no defender, because it stands up for itself. But not when it is properly sat upon. An officer complains that the average age of army mules is a little over 16 years, a properly sedate age in the case of a mule, however. And now comes along another dress expert who maintains the spiffily costumed man should have 24 pairs of shoes. Huh! Who walks that much these days? , A skeleton of a man supposed to have been buried since 2650 B. C. has been exhumed on the site of Ur. That’s a long time to wait to break into publicity. A scientist declares that the world Is cooling off at the rate of about two degrees in 16,000.000 years. It is true then, is it, that the old-fashioned winters were colder? A stuffed crocodile, a case of whale fins, a pump handle and a bag of ant eggs were disposed of at a London auction. This practically cleaned out the medicine cabinet. The National Association of Broadcasters has about decided that commercial programs should close at six p. m. We hear no protest from the great American family. While it is vexatious to put toothpaste on the shaving brush by mistake, it is downright reprehensible to reverse the mistake by putting shaving cream on the toothbrush. Every large city is demanding an airport. A comparatively small matter like a new town hall or a new park no longer represents the highest aspiration of civic pride. Several kinds of cod-liver oil are on the market, so treated as to make the taste less unpleasant. It might be an interesting experiment to allow the children to make the blindfold test. The citizen with a small bundle of good bonds or reliable stock certificates in safety deposit is in a position to understand the difference between genuine values and market fluctuations. English movie censorship has banned scenes depicting “the practice of the third degree in the United States." Why would it not be simpler merely to forbid English police to attend movies containing such scenes? Baltimore's new airport will require so much acreage that for a time it will interest the realtors almost as much as the aviators. An authority says a girl must dress so as to conceal the defects of her figure. But who ever saw a girl who wasn't altogether perfect! Some of our leading conductors of jazz says a writer in a weekly, have a tendency to rotundity. Then we expect it would be permissible to call it “the music of the spheres.” After the great orator has dwelt and expanded on some widely conceded fact for a matter of 50 minutes, he says it goes without saying. A patent has been awarded on a new type of trolling-spoon. But its real merit will not be determined until it is seen how the fish take to it. In Siam the king and queen distributed $300,000 worth of silk stockings among its women to encourage the wearing of short skirts. In this .country the order is reversed.
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Will Make. Study of Gorillas
New York. —Four scientists sailed from New York on the Aquitanla for the highlands of tropical Africa, there to kill adult gorillas, embalm them and bring them home complete for anatomatical study. The new specimens will give first opportunity for detailed comparison of the gorilla with man. Columbia university, which will finance the expedition, announced its plans. The College of Physicians and
Surgeons Is co-operating with the American Museum of Natural History. Henry Craven, who has explored in Borneo, Celebes, Africa, Australia and Greenland, heads the expedition. He is associate curator of compara-
tive anatomy at the museum. With him are Dr. William K. Gregory, professor of vertebrate paleon“BOBBY” NOW LAWYER l 1 I WOTV J £ I : | IE 1 . SSL “Bobby” Jones, three times winner of the national amateur championship and twice holder of the national open golf title, has been admitted to the bar in United States District court at Atlanta, Ga. Bobby recently finished his law course at Emory university.
Dirigibles to Undergo Test @ —
London.—The world’s latest and most expensive experiment in aircraft construction will be given its first test soon when gas is blown into the bags of the R-100 and the R-101, Great Britain's new $4,000,000 airships. Sir Samuel Heare, British air min- | Ister, recently announced in the house of commons that the two new airships would make flights to Canada and India in the fall if the trial flights Sweeping of Jewelry Shop Floor Yields Gold I Cincinnati, Ohio.—An effort will be ; made to recover several hundred and i probably thousands of dollars’ worth of gold and other precious metals believed to have accumulated under a floor of a jewelry manufacturing firm here during the last quarter century. The firm will move into a new loca-
tion soon and officials are going to make sure they remove all their belongings, even to the tiny bits of metals in floor cracks and other inconspicuous parts of the shop. Employees wash their hands in a sink that has no outlet and about I SI,OOO worth of precious metals is re- ' covered this way each year. SweepI ings from the floor yield about S2OO worth a month.
************************** i * I * Oklahoma Blind Man * i ♦ in Commerce Group * I * * । * Edmond, Okla.—For the first * | time in the history of Oklahoma, * and perhaps for the first time * * in the country, a blind man has £ > * been elected president of a * £ chamber of commerce. * i * Philip C. Slack, blind since * j * birth, was elected unanimously * ' * to the Edmond group. Coming £ i ; * to Edmond more than twenty- * ; eight years ago. Slack has estab- * lished one of the largest book * ! J shops in the state. He is a £ I * graduate of the Janesville * ! * (Wis,) high school for blind and । * the college for blind at Vinton, * ' | * lowa. * I| * * ************************** 1
tology at the university and curator of comparative anatomy at the museum ; Dr. J. 11. McGregor, professor of zoology at the university and research associate in human anatomy at the museum, arid Dr. E. T. Engle, associate professor of anatomy at Columbia. They also will make special studies and photographs of the feet of the unshod natives who carry their equip-
May Compensate Law’s Victim
Madison, Wis. —An effort is under way here to obtain legislative compensation for John A. Johnson, sixty-five, who served ten years in prison for a crime it now generally is believed he did not commit. Although Johnson confessed In 1911 to the murder of seven-year-old Annie Lemberger, he repudiated his confes sion just before he entered the gates of Waupun prison. In 1922 he was pardoned by Gov. E. L. Philipp, who had heeii convinced the man confessed I eeause of a morbid fear of mo » violence. There are more limn Madison citizens who now are certain so ciety “robbed” Johnson of ten work Ing years of his life and who have signed petitions asking the legislature to compensate him, as far as possible, for that which was taken. Johnson, an employee of th*' city, has aged rapidly ami is in io-ue too good health. He still works, put Ids earning power is small and he and the wife who trusted him during his years of imprisonment are not enjoying the comforts they might have had. Annie Lemberger, uaught“r ot Marfin Lemberger, was put to hod by her mother about nine o’clock the night of September 5, 1911. Several days later her body was found floating in Monona bay. She had been beaten to death. Johnson was arrested three days later and was questioned by a detective. For hours he maintained that he was innocent —until the detective struck the vulnerable spot.
I were successful. Air experts of the । world perked up their ears at this an- i nouncement for Great Britain’s failure I ■ in these two ventures may mean death for future airship construction. i The R-100. the air ministry has decided, will go to Canada, while the > R-101 will make the first long flight ; to India and Egypt, where arrangeI ments already have been made for ; handling the ship. । But so far Sir Samuel has refused : to divulge when the shed tests and first trial flights will he held. Previous delays, and subsequent question- । ings in parliament, have made him > cautious. It was learned, however, I that the bags will be filled some time i in June, after which the first local flights will be made. i The construction of these two 5,000,i 000 cubic feet gas-filled airships is . rapidly nearing completion after innumerable delays occasioned by
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and though failure often discourages and success elates, yet there are times when it takes the shock of failure or disappointment to give the discipline upon which success is dependent, or which brings out the best in us. Coffman has never had the discl-
ment through the thickly grown highlands north of Lake Tanganyika. Dr. Dudley J. Morton, head of the committee In charge of the expedition, wants the data for his studies of the evolution of human foot and its disorders. The native feet are undeformed by shoes and will be compared with American feet. The expedition will return next January.
The officer, failing In all other efforts to make Johnsen confess, told him that a mob was outside clamoring for his life. Johnson once had seen n man lynched at Darlington and the moment he heard that lie was in danger of ' WILL WED AMERICAN I < K 4^ / 7 / / Miss Loranda Proclinik, daughter ot | the Austrian minister to Washington ; and Mme. Edgar C. Proclinik, whose i engagement to Gordon S. Buck, of ' New York, was announced.
changes in plans and the addition of many new devices which never before have been employed on giant airships. The R-101, in particular, represents several radical departures in the construction of the steel frame and also in the arrangement of the interior. As the R-100 is tilted with ordinary petrol engines, it was selected for the flight to America, whereas the R-101, equipped with Diesel engines, js more suited to the warm atmosphere which will he encountered on the flight to India and Egypt. While it is possih,e f° r a man to I ac hieve happiness. ^ ew are fortunate —J enough to have it j thrust upon them.
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that “n otii in g succeeds like success,” there are times when success makes us careless, o verconfident, so sure that nothing can happen to interfere wi t h our reaching the goal toward which we are headed, that we grow careless an d Indifferent,
i pline of disappointment. His lines have fallen in very pleasant places. Be has had all his life whatever money can buy, whatever social and financial prominence can furnish. So far as the ordinary affairs of life are concerned he has never been disappointed. All he has had to do is to ask for whatever lie wanted, to stretch out his hand, so to speak, and it was his. He has no understanding of people who have met misfortune, no sympathy for those w ho meet one reverse after another. He is selfish, a niggardly giver, a self-satisfied and rath- . er arrogant citizen. The discipline of > disappointment would have softened him, no doubt, and have made him more human In his sympathies. Davis had always played baseball well from the time that he was old enough to get out in the hack lot with the older fellows and bat a ball around
meeting a similar fate he became a cringing, terrified wreck. He con fessed, begged protection, and when arraigned In court pleaded guilty, with the additional plea that he be hurried , to prison and saved from the mob. Despite the fact that Mrs. Johnson and two daughters. Stella and Bertha, testified that Johnson had gone to bed about nine o'clock the night of the murder and never left the house during the night, the man's plea of guilty was accepted and he was sentenced ■ to Waupun for life. Joan d’Arc Features Brin^ Movie Fame 1 Paris.—Only bemuse she had the features of St. Joan, eighteen year-old Simone Genevofx has risen from the mass of unknown French women to ; become one of the most popular of । Frenctt moving picture actresses. Madamoiselle Genexoix had never acted until a few weeks ago, and she was known only to tier fellow townsfolk as a quiet and demure young girl who some day would make a good wife for one of the towns beaux. But French producers discovered she resembled Joan of Ar<- even in mannerisms and today she is among the most praised of French actresses. Ma<lemoiselle Genevoix is appearing : In the new French film, “The Wonderj ful Life of Joan of Arc,” which pur- ; ports to be an authentic reproduction < of the Maid of Orleans’ life, and histo ! rians and critics have acclaimed her | interpretation as superb. Pope Limits Use of New Vatican Money Rome.—Officials of Vatican City wilt continue to receive their salaries in i Italian money after the papal govern- । mint's new money is issued, it was un- ' derstood. The papacy’s own silver and gold coins will be few and their use limited. Gold coins of 20 lire value and silver coins of 5 lire value (about $1.03 and 26 cents, respectively) are planned. The coins will be used to purchase Vatican City stamps, to pay entrance fees to the art galleries and fees to the holy congregations, especially to the congregation of sacraments in cases of annulled marriages. Will Dress Statue Kovno, Lithuania.—Kovno’s statue ! of the Greek god, Apollo, will be ofI ficially clad in a bathing suit henceforth. When a group of women protested against the statue's comparative nudity, the town council refused to remove the work of art. A compro- | mise to dress the statue in a bathing suit finally was reached.
until he tried out for the college nine. He had always made good at his fa- i vorite game and had been captain of ■ the team on which he played from the time he entered grade school until he got out of high school. Disappointment had never come his way when he was trying out for baseball. He was quite sure now of a place on the college nine, and he saw no particular l reason why he should exert himself with any particular energy. The berth was going to be his, and he was sure of it. The names of those who were to stay on the squad were to be posted in the afternoon and Davis wandered over to see who his teammates were to be.| But his own name was not there. A little insignificant country boy by the name of Jones had the position which he had expected to fill. It was the first disappointment the boy had ever experienced and he felt it keenly.
Then he began to take stock of himself, and as he sat despondent with his head on his hand, it all came over hiru that he had been too cocky, too conceited, too sure of himself. He had really not made the effort that he could have made, that he was, in fact, under every obligation to make. Disappointment was really coming to him. It was a good lesson for him. The next time lie got into the pitcher’s box, he did not swagger quite so much; he was more modest. more deliberate, and more accurate. The discipline of disappointment had taught him more selfcontrol. <©. 1929 Western Newspaper Vnlon.) PRETTY SPORTS DRESS r 1 * Jf V'w F I F k Here’s a chic sports dress of black and white, with angora embroidery. Black and white sports hat and slippers complete the costume. Monks Work to Divert Traffic From Monastery Cumberland. It. I.—The strange almosphere which pervades the Cistercian monastery will become even more pronounced with the completion of a new stretch of highway under con- • struction here. Without outside aid, the Trappist monks of tiie monastery are building a new road, tnree-quarters of a mile long, to divert traflic from the main I highway which now runs close to their retreat. ’ In carrying out this novel project, the monks are following the example of Henry Ford, who had a similar road constructed to divert traffic from his Wayside inn at Sudbury, Mass. Begs for Life Term Minneapolis. —Raymond Askley told Judge E. A. Montgomery Ue had proved a failure at everything, including being a burglar, and asked for a life sentence so he would have something to eat every day. The judge i agreed. DIPPING INTO § SCIENCE | I I j > The Moon Minus Atmos- •> • phere • Atmosphere may be termed a § X gaseous envelope made up of S g myriads of atoms and molecules g ’ of gases. Unless a body Is suf- ;; • ficiently large that its gravfta- g a tion holds these atoms to it. S g it is void of atmosphere. The < earth is sufficiently large, but •) ® smaller Mars has less dense at- g • mosphere, while the very small 4 < moon has little at all. $ •) (c. 1929 Western N< er : feiiii••t •••••• ••• • • • i j
Improved Uniform international SimdaySchod ’ Lesson ’ (By REV. B B FITZWATER D D„ Dean Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) <©. 1929. Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for June 30 REVIEW: PROPHETS AND KINGS OF JUDAH S DECLINE GOLDEN TEXT—I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefote with loving kindness have I drawn thee. PRIMARY TOPlC—Stories Retold. JUNIOR TOPIC —Learning to Serve God. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP- , IC—True and False Leaders. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPI IC—God's True Prophets. The quarterly review always brings j its problems. No set method can be I prescribed. The grade, the aptitude . us the pupils and the genius of the ; teacher are determining factors of the ! problem. For seniors and adults, two j methods are suggested. I. Character Study of the Kings and Prophets of the Period. Biography is always fascinating i and profitable. In the use of this । method, assignments should be made i a week ahead. As to the kings of i this period, a study should be made j of their strong and weak points, and suitable lessons be drawn from them. I As to the prophets, the nature of the I ministry of each should be studied. 11. The Summary Method. This method involves the terse statement of the salient facts ut each i lesson with Its central teaching. This method, to be effective, calls for asi signments to be made a week in ad- ' vance. Different minds will greatly I vary. The following statements are ’ offered as suggestions: Lesson for April 7. Either at the beginning of Isaiah's I ministry or later when called to a ; deeper experience, he had a vision of the majesty and holiness of the living God. The leading lesson is that a real sight of the living God discloses the sinfulness of man. Before aci ceptable service can be rendered sin ! must be removed. Lesson for April 14. In leading the people back to Goa Hezekiah proclaimed a passover. The passover was a memorial of the nation's deliverance through the shed- ' ding of the blood nf a sacrificial lamb. I The lamb typified ChrisL The only way for a sinning and divided people to get back to God and be united is around the crucified Lord. Lesson for April 21. Isaiah sought to comfort the people by assuring them that the Lord । God as the Messiah was coming to reign over the earth, and deliver them from bondage, and shepherd them. The only possible deliverance from the world is the coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His Kingdom. Lesson for April 28. Salvation of God's people was to be i accomplished through rhe suffering of their Messiah. At Christ's first com- [ ing He suffered the penalty of our sin. His suffering resulted in a spiritual progeny. Life out of death is the i law governing the universe—natural i and spiritual. Lesson for May 5. While the temple was in process of j renovation, the law of God was found j and read to the king. This brought great disturbance to his mind as he ; realized the enormity of the nations । sins, flod's Word has power to con- ■ vict of sin and effect a reformation I and revival. Lesson for May 12. God called Jeremiah before he was horn, overcame his timidity, and sent him to warn his people of coming ■ jmlament Though violently opposed : and persecuteil. God delivered him. I God will protect those who obey Him. Lesson for May 19. Jeremiah called the (teople to obedience to God s Word The only way I to avert Gnd's iud^ment is to return i unto Him and render obedience to His ■ Word. Lesson for May 26. G<>d will restore Israel to Palestine. Israel will return and possess the ; land. Jesus Chris’ will then come j ami enter into a new covenant, writing the law of God in their hc-arts. Lesson for June 2. Because Jeremiah hfuily dej dared God's law. tie was hated and I cast into a dungeon. Those w t o faifhj fully declare God's law shall suffer j persecution, but God will deliver them. Lesson for June 9. The Itechahites out of filial loyalty to their father abstained from the use of wine. Jeremiah sive them a j public test as an example to Judah. i)!*edien<e to earthly fathers brings blessings, but obedience to God brings greater blessings. Lesson for June 16 Judah went into captivity according j to God's Word. Not one part of God's Word shall fail. Lesson for June 23. I Psa'to Utt is entirely devoted to i praise to God. Those who have exi 1 perien<e<l the life of Go<] in the soul will bless Hirn with all their being. , Another Wor^ The weight of a load depends upon the attraction of the earth. But sups pose the attraction of the earth were ? removed? A ton on some other plan- ) et. where the attraction of gravity is ? : less, does not weigh half a ton. Now ) Christianity removes the attraction of j the earth, and this is one way it di- > minlshes men's burden. It makes ) them citizens of another world. —W. > H. Drummond, in “What Yokes Are > For.” Pleasing in Hi» Sight j ! If wre xiy. “We wiii 1..- satisfied with ) nothing except what would please 11 Christ,” that may he a principle not* > I always easy to aw ' ’ ' is a pete* S .:t ti •' w ll t k- . are of everything ? in the long run. and wifi clear out of I ■’ ' I and debate —Dr. Robert E. Speer.