Walkerton Independent, Volume 55, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 July 1929 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Everv Thursday by THEJXDfa’ESnENT-NE^S CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NOKTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD *^HE ST, JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES^ Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M, Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Om Tear |IS» Six Months .SO y)>ree Months .00 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkertoe^ as second-class matter. When a real poet means “while,” he pays “while”; the near-poet prefers “whilst.” Taking a vacation too early leaves a person nothing to Look forward to but work. In other days the women were all hooks and eyes. Now the men are looks and eyes. Many a little makes a mickle; and the grossest overweight comes from tiny fork and spoon loads. Probably those yeggs who stole a safe from an Atlanta sandwich shop mistook it for a sandwich. “Wizard of finance” is a term much less used than formerly. Nevertheless, there are still wizards. Coroners should always retire early on Friday night in preparation for the strenuous two days to follow. Since short skirts are here to stay girl babies are not allowed to learn to walk as early in life as formerly. Children are now beginning to com plain that home might be happier if parents would stay home at nights. In Sweden they are making auto bodies out of leather. Fine business! A second-hand car can readily be half soled. Domestic tranquility is very largely a matter of continuing to call her “Baby,” after she has put on 30 pounds. Another marvel of arithmetic is the way the dear thing ages only three years, if any, between the decennial censuses. It is said that the Scotch are holding up the issuance of that smaller paper currency, for they want their money longer. Odd Story—The telephone rang during the poker party, and no one of those present remarked, “If it’s for me. I’m not here.” Is there no way of getting a continuous piano player and his piano up on a flag pole, so as to break both silly records at a time? Naturally it would be a lovely con dition if everybody spoke only good of everybody else, but what long gaps it would leave in the conversation. A German glider expert expects to glide all the way across the English channel in a single glide this summer. Or maybe hopes is the better word. The new SIO,OOO bills are promised in a few days. Now is the time to study the marks of the genuine ones, to avoid taking in a counterfeit by mistake. The Chicago bandit who attempted a theater holdup and was routed by the woman cashier's “get out,” prob ably became qonfused and thought he was home. Astronomers now tell us that the planet Jupiter came within 289,760.000 miles of smashing right into the moon. Just missed it, you might say, by a comet’s hair. Back home there was always a lout in the hardware store who would daub up the under side of a wrench handle with shellac and ask a small boy to “jest heft it.” The urge to get into the air is strong with certain ypuths, but without proper instruction in flying and a good plane, the earth is the best place for them. There is another brief interlude in the career of the young boy when he must be taken firmly in band regarding the following matter: Parking the gum on the dinner plate. If we should buy that London vase for which $145,000 was refused the other day it would be just our luck to have it broken the first time it was washed with the rest of the dishes. Another piece of advice which is doubtless received with mixed emotions is where the dear girl has asked the medical publicist what to do about noticeably thin legs and his counsel Is as follows, viz; Take up toe dancing, A square mile is estimated as necessary for an air field. Earth and sky unite in questions to be considered by realtor and aviator. A drug store in New York, still In operation, was founded in 1805. There were not any postage stamps then, but we suppose people asked for them. One of the things that a million Americans think they do, and don’t, is to visit a dentist regularly every six months, as solemnly advised, whether they need to or not. Even if there never had been a bivalve known as the clam, we believe it would be possible to make what is at present called clam chowder. All we know is, if there weren't any humans around prior to Adam and Eve, there were plenty of weeds in the radishes when they arrived. “A castle used by Henry the Eighth during his reign had a hundred rooms and only one bath.” Owing to the customs of the time, this last was .not compulsory.

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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ' IN JUNE 13 some 299 young men gathered in the big gymnasium at Sh 1 nite ‘l Sl: >tcs Military academy ■H at West ‘ int, N. Y., there to reWg ceive from the hands of a representative of the secretary of war and ■ Maj. Gen. William R. Smith, super-

intendent of the academy, their diplomas of graduation. And thereby was added to the rolls of the United States army the names of 299 "officers and gentlemen.” Mark that

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phrase well, for it has more meaning than appears from a casual reading of it, and what that meaning is you will come to understand a little better further along. On July 1 there will arrive at the academy some 400 young men who come from every part of the United States and from every level of the diversified society which characterizes such a democracy as the United States of America. For ihese newcomers are the raw material from which the “officers and gentlemen” of four years hence are made. During the two months immediately following their admission to the academy they will spend in an intensive military training before they are officially accepted into the United States corps of cadets This period, the most rigid and exacting of the entire four years at West Point, will be spent under a group of selected instructors from the first class, known as the "Beast Detail,” supervised by officers of the tactical department of the academy. For these newcomers in “kaydet slang.” are now the “beasts.” And it is not until the termination of "beast barracks,” followed by a hike of about a week's duration, that these members, now known as “plebes.” are absorbed into the corps as the fourth class and take up their new academic duties the first week in September. The motto of the United States Military academy is “Duty. Honor, Country.” During the preliminary training of the newcomers this summer one of the first things they will learn is the real meaning back of that motto. Here is that meaning as it is interpreted in "Bugle Notes,” the little handbook which the “kaydets” call the “Plebe’s Bible.” The motto of the corps, the standard by which every cadet regulates his personal life is "Duty, Honor, Country.” “Country” needs no definition; "Our Country, right or wrong" is the patriot’s slogan throughout the nation. But the standards of "Duty” and "Honor” at West Point are distinctive and rigid; and because, in civilian life, the general attitude as to these two principles from time to time and from place to place, the following pages are devoted in great part to a definition of the attitude of the corps in matters of duty and honor: DUTY Graduates of West Point have always inspired and set the standard of duty in the army. That they have been able to do so, is due entirely to the inculcation of a keen sense of duty and to the faithful, conscientious and cheerful performance of every task imposed upon them while at the academy. Only he who has acquired the habit of discipline, of duty, and of justice can be trusted to act as a leader in a profession which deals with the lives of men. Performance of one’s duty implies far more than mere obedience to the letter of the law. In other walks of life, technicalities and evasive tactics are condoned and even lauded as an indication of cleverness. In the army where the lives are the price of failure there are no technicalities and an order is given, a statement received at its face value. When it becomes a soldier’s duty to obey an order, it also becomes his duty to look beneath the surface of that order for its spirit, and in so doing to put his whole being into its performance. A fearless readiness to assume responsibility and the determination to do, not just the job, but the whole and the best job are what is expected of a West Pointer. Every cadet is expected to make it his individual and personal obligation to maintain the highest possible standard of duty and to do everything in his power to discountenance and discourage an> act or spirit which might place a premium on th° nonperformance of one’s duty. HONOR i Honor is the most cherished principle of life; ■ It is the beacon which guides every one during their stay at the military academy and during the career of later life. The fundamental principles of honor, their application to specific acts and problems, and th* methods of administering and enforcing these principles and applications, have long been desig- ' nated by the general term, the “Honor System ” ! Almost all educational institutions have honor I systems, varying in severity, efficiency and effeci tiveness —honor systems by which to a greater or

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A golden-mantled ground squirrel. , : tamed by rangers at the Dunraven ] Pass station, in Yellowstone National . park, not only made ai. excellent pet. but also took upon himself the duties of mouser. At first considerable local comment was caused by the fact that . that squirrel, known as ('hippie, had , caught a mouse, hut Ernest Thompson । Seton, weli known naturalist, states that this species of squirrel, which is

/ ■. —■ *. wl x 'V >. ' 'B'V., ; ' •• ’ -'A' ■ -/* ■ z \ / x. - Trophy T^oint less degree, studet.fs etui- id. r themselves bound and which exert a varying <l>gri of intluem-e on the lives of the several Institutions At the peak of the varying siaie stands tin bom.r system ot the corps, representing the b< st. the most st •ad tast ly Upheld, the most pravtic?! and, at unee, ideal system of honor in the world The basic principb s of the honor system are;, no lying, no eheitiug, no half-truths. Now all of this may sound very much like the type of thing that you will read in any of the student handbooks, whicli are ihen to members of the freshmen class in any edueaiional institution in the United States. And to the cyni<alminded, who have observed tlie break down of honor systems in various institutions, this statement from "Bugle Noles ’ may mean nothing more than a similar statement in other such handbooks. But here lies the difference: Al West Point honor is a living reality. Go there, as <iid the writer of this article, and you will quickly realize that fact. It is not because the cadets go about their business with a conscious air of virtue; it is not that they parade the fact that their honor is to them tlie dearest of all things; it is not that there is a visible evidence of a rigid adherence to a code of honor’set forth in formal phrases and exemplified by apparent effort. But it is a part of their every day ’ fe and as such it finds its phrasing in a single expressive colloquialism. For the heart and soul and watchword of the West Point code of honor is expressed in just two words “All Right.” Cadet life at West Point is one of rigid discipline, hedged about by many restrictions. The cadet lias a certain time for doing a certain thing, he is supposed to be in certain places for certain duties at certain times. If he is not in those places or performing those duties lie will receive demerits, those black marks for which he must make amends, usually by doing “punishment toqr,” which means that be must spend some of tlie extra time that he would ordinarily have for leisure, marching at attention on tlie campus. Enough demerits received for infraction of the rules of the academy may lead to his expulsion. Cadet life is one of Spartan simplicity. Cadets are not allowed to have or receive money; they cannot smoke except in their own rooms; they’ cannot leave the reservation except at stated times. Christmas leave is only issued a year and a half after the cadet first enters. In addition to tlie four daily drills in infantry, field artillery, cavalry and coast artillery lessons must be learned: mathematics, from simple algebra through the latest wrinkle in calculus and least squares; philosophy, chemistry, electricity, French and Spanish, English and history. Cadet rooms must be swept out and cleaned by the cadets themselves—four time daily—and they

J DUTY, HONOR COUNTRY & * L i ¥ 4 A West Point, thy Duly is to me A <• As from the Vestnl Hearth a flame v •j* That’s in this land and o’er the sea V T Through all the decades still the same, *:* A More precious far than fame. A West Point, thy Honor is to me Y As straight from heav’n the light of life; Y T To keep me firmly knit to thee, Y A True to- my best in petice or strife. A I guard it as my life. West Point, Our Country is to me *•’ T 'fhe Mother-Land, beloved and fair, A A Whose dear vales long have sheltered me, A Whose duties I am proud to share, •»• Whose uniform I wear. T —James E. Briggs, '2B. A X X

really a rodent, is in the habit of catching field mice. Therefore the step to catching a mouse indoors was not such a long one for Chippie. Chippie made a great hit with the Dunraven rangers, “('hippie has proven quite a bit of company to me,” said one of them. “He will come when 1 call him if he is within hear ing distance. He shows no fear of me at all unless 1 make a very sud-

den movement which may startle him. “He is as jealous as he can be and will not allow me to feed another . squirrel at all. He will chase them out of my hand, then sit up there and chatter at them to let them know their place.”—Kansas City Star’s Science Service. Dangerous Practice A police captain sounded the warn ing that courting In automobiles is dangerous. For that matter courting is dangerous any place at any time.

have to shine their shoes and make their own beds. Such a program of work and such strict dis- । cipline as to conduct soon proves whether or not I the cadet has “real stuft” in him. If he hasn't, if his scholarship falls below par, and if. as pre- ; viously stated, he doesn't keep the rules, out he ' goes’ Neither birth, family, influence nor wealth count at West Point. Os course, to the average American youth, it . would seem easy to "beat the game” amt *0 cover up his rule breaking, so that he would not suffer . the penalty for it. But at \\fst Point “beating the game” is not a popular sport and here is where the “All Right comes in. Suppose, for instance, that the cadet leaves his | room, the barracks or the post, and in doing so he meets a “tac" (a tactical officer). If the “tac” , Inquires, “all right?” and the cadet replies “all right I” It most decidedly IS all right, that is to say. these two words are a complete explanation of his action, that ms leaving his room, the harracks, or the post is not an infraction of the rules. For. sat the rules, “an ‘all right.' involves the pur pose of a visit, as well as the place. No cadet may report ‘all rigid when he is going any where f or an unauthorized purpo e ’ Ami here is another ami even finer interpretation of the rule. "If a ca.let is asked‘all rigid ?’his answer should refer to the i time that the question was ask<‘d and not to the moment that the answer was given.” So you see a cadet s action which is not all right one minute may aiqianntly be till right the next minute, but he can not take advantage of the apparent com- j plianee with the rules within that short space j of time, for the code of honor of \V“st Point says j “no half-truths.” Another of the guiding principles of the cadet, i as set forth it. the “Plebes Bible’ is tins: “Quib- | bling, evasive statements, or techrdcalities in or- i der to shield guilt o? defeat the emis of justice j will not be tolerated. The code of the soldier de- i mands courageous and fearb ss tn-nestv In setting i forth the truth, regardless of consequences.” So j when the cadet answers “all right” it means just exactly that and not a whit less. If the thing he > is doing when that inquiry is made is not all right i then he says nothing and accepts the demerit j which he has earned. For “cadets do not make . excuses. Explanations citing extenuating circum- j stances or adequate reasons for failure in the performance of duty may be srbmitted.” But “Offenders of the code of honor are never granted immunity.” And those rules and this code of honor apply to all — from the lowliest plebe to the most outstanding member of the first class. There is a rather widespread popular belief that in most of our educational institutions athletic stars can “get by with anything.” But that distinctly is not true at West Point. Take the case of Cadet Cagle ; —“Red” Cagle, as you probably have heard of him. the outstanding backfield star of the football team and next year’s captain. Last winter Cagle obtained a leave of absence which he spent in New York city. When he returned to the academy he was late, through no especial fault of his, by a very short time. But was this breach of rules overlooked in the case of this great football star? It most emphatically was not. For the next month “Rod” Cagle was doing 22 hours of “punishment tour,” 22 extra hours marching at attention on the campus. If you will march for an hour at attention you will soon appreciate that 22 hours in a month, or nearly an hour a day extra, is no joke and least of all would it seem so if you were doing it for what might seem to be a very unimportant reason. Think back over the number of times you have been late to an appointment and offered as an excuse for your tardiness an airy “Sorry, old fellow I” and th^n see how you would feel if you had to pay for it the way “Red” Cagle did for his tardiness. But remember that discipline at the military academy comes ahead of anything else. Four years of such discipline, of such practice, in selfrestraint by the young men who are enrolled there, by their training in scrupulous regard for duty, by their doing the right thing because it is the right thing, according to the code of honor cannot hut result in making men of high physical and mental standard. Those four years have brought a knowledge and physique that couldn't very well be obtained any other place; have given that insight into men that few colleges give; have formed and molded a character that neither knows nor shields crime or deceit; have breathed into it that spirit of the corps exemplified by its motto: “Duty, Honor, Country.” And that is why the term “officer and gentleman,” when applied to a West Pointer, means exactly that 1

Little Nuisance Truck Driver (telling of crash with a small car) —1 see the little devil coming and I thinks—“ There’s a fly on my windshield.” Then the thing dashes through the radiator and knocks the tops off all me spark plugs. — Weekly Scotsman. Favored by Fortune “Win or lose.” said Uncle Ehen. “de man dat didn’t git into an automobile crash kin claim to have had a lucky day at de races.”—Washington Star.

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1 — j Lesson for Ju’y 7 THE STDRY OF EZEKIEL LESSON TEXT—Ezekiel 3:4-11: 24:15-18. GOLDEN TEXT—As 1 live, saith the Lord God, 1 have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from hi way and live. PRIMARY TOPlC—Ezekiel, a Messenger of God. JUNIOR TOPlC—Ezekiel, a Messenger of God. intermediate and senior topic— Frankness in Friendship. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— A Prophet-Pastor. Ezekiel prophesied in the land of the captivity. The purpose of his ministry was threefold. (1) To keep before the house of Israel that they were in captivity because of their sins (14:23). (2) To show that God is righteous in His visitation of judgment upon them (7 :8, 9). (3) To sustain their faith by assuring them of their national restoration, the punishment of their enemies, and their final exaltation among the nations when Messiah should reign (34:11 31). 1. Ezekiel’s Call 2:1, 2). 1. Command to stand up (v. 1). He was given a vision of the Almighty God on His throne of glory (ch. 1). The purpose of this vision was to give a synthetic grasp of the execution of the divine will through the powers and forces which God had created. Before this vision the prophet fell prostrate upon his face. When one | sees the diversity and complexity of I the agencies employed, including the ! animate and inanimate creation intelli- | gently moving forward, under the di- . rection of the Almighty, he will be l ready to face any task regardless of I its difficulty. 2. Filled with the Spirit (v. 2). By the Spirit the divine energy entered him and enabled him to execute his commission. 11. Ezekiel’s Commission (vv. 3-8). 1. 'fhe moral condition of the peo- . pie (vv. 3. 4). (1) A rebellious nation (v. 3). This perhaps referred to their idolatrous ' pra»-tices. (2) Impudent children (v. 4) impudent means literally “hard of face.” It means the grossest perversity which caused them to stand up in the presence of she prophets of God without a sense of guilt. 2. The charge (v. 4). He was to deliver God's message. It was to be. “Thus saith the Lord God.” ”. The diflicultv of his task (vv. 58) I’he prophet was to deliver the message of God whether they would hear or foi Ih ar. He was to fearlessly execute his commission, though the atti ; rude of the people be as “briars, thorns I and scorpions.” A faithful minister’s life and test! । mony will run counter to the world. J Hl Tim 3:12). 111. Ezekiel's Experimental Qualifications (2 :9 3 :16) Before one can preach to others he i must have a personal exfrerieme. i I. Eating ibe book (2:9-3:9) This I contained God s woes upI on the stiff neck* d and rebellious peoj pie. In order to speak God's threati enings effe< lively to others we must I inwardli digest and appropriate them । ourselves. The result of this eating ; was that Ezekiel was made “hard of face and lorehead ’to go against the people who were "hard of face and forehead.” 2. Urged on by the Spirit (3:10 14) In order to strengthen Ezekiel for his task, the wonderful symbolism of God's providential agencies which had been before him in chapter one was brought to bis attention, assuring him that God would accompany him to his new destination i 3. Entering into sympathy (v. 15) In order to minister to a people one must show that tire message is from tlie dept It of the heart. Ezekiel min gled his tears with theirs IV. Ezekiel’s Grave Responsibility (3:17 211 Two things were required of him as a watchman over the flock. 1. To hear the Word at God’s mouth (v. 17). The source of his message was God’s Word. Ibis is true today. 2. To sound the warning, (v. 17). Aftet lie hail heard God's message tie was to speak it out; then his re sponsibility was discharged. V. Ezekiel s Courage (24:15-18). He was lo be taught by a sorrowful i experience. He was to turn his face I from even natural desire. At Hie death of his wife he was forbidden to mourn. By this means God sought to impress upon Israel tiie seriousness of the situation A Parable for You! “I notice.” said the Stream to the I mill, "that you grim! bean< as well | and as cheerfully as fine wheat. “Certainly,” clacked the mill: "what I am I here for but to urind? And as I long as I work, what does it signify 1 to me what the work is? My business I is to serve my master, and I am not a whit more useful when 1 turn out | fine flour than when 1 make the coarsest meal. My honor is not in doing fine work, but in performing any that comes as well as I can. ’ Christianity Christianity is more than history. It is also a system of truths, Everv event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests or •■xpies-es a truth, which man needs assent to or lo put into practice.—Noah Porter. Conscience No man loses anything by beinc true and steadfast to his convictions. He may not be popular, but what do- s that amount to? Conscience is, or ought to be. dearer than human f. vor or applause.

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