Walkerton Independent, Volume 55, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 August 1929 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Everv Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEIVS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD TCHE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Chajles M. Finch, Editor " SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' ge Tear U.S* Months 90 res Months ~... ,80 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, second-class matter. It wouldn’t seem half so hot if people with nothing to do would quit watching the thermometer. China has so many bulls in its political shop that it is a wonder that more crockery is not broken. Another set of standards that we hope will spread far apd wide is that of the hotel chefs’ annual dinner. Americans ate $1,333,333,333 worth of cake last year; and now a lot of them think they ought to have it. Perhaps the man who best knows that it takes more than pull to make popularity is the extracting dentist. The surprised public is learning that tactful and persuasive selling meth ods can be applied even to household coal. The public speaker who knows when to stop is surpassed in merit only ; by the one who knows when not to ■ begin. Fame is generous. If a public character is forgotten in political affairs he may be revived in attention by a divorce. — Timely Fairy Story: “A little hoy tried to put the postage stamp on thu letter and got his hands all covered with mucilage.” Maybe one reason why the dull boy so often becomes a successful business man is that he so early losei his sensitiveness. . At least the reckless handler of fire- i arms in a bootleg encounter does not attempt the plea that he “did not know it was loaded.” Bertrand Russell insists that half the work done in the world at present . would be much better not done. But. Bertrand, which half? After a fellow runs his blood pressure up to 200 and his temperature to 104, in a bull market, they say he cleans up a cool million. How 7'sagreeahle. to walk into a dentist’s waiting room and find somu other patient has appropriated your magazine with the serial story. — The most skeptical man in the j neighborhood walked into the druc 1

store and asked for a 2-cent postage stamp, and roll of adhesive tape. The New York World complains that a nearby drug store does not carry blotters. In an emergency, though, a dry sandwich does quite well. Another thing we always felt was wildly exaggerated was how much canned reindeer meat this country would consume within a very few years. The old-timer who used to sell horses that “any lady can drive” has a boy with a line of cars whose gears can be “shifted at the touch of a fin-ger-tip.” It is as well some of the modern slang was not the vogue in Colonial times. Imagine Patrick Henry getting up and shouting, “Give me liberty, or what have you?” Sailors, says an observer, no longer go in much for tattooing. We always said it must be awkward, hunting up new sweethearts with the same name as one's first love. The granddaughter of the postmistress who read all the postal cards now listens in on the party wire. Times change; but the propensity to eavesdrop apparently doesn't. “Come, come,” said .Mr. Shakespeare, when the conversation around tlie bridge table had got off on to the latest in sport ensembles, or something, “The play’s the thing.” We are annually impressed with the number of people in this country when we find how many people are getting LL.D.’s. and see how mqny others there still are who have to worry along without them. “Will you kindly explain what iodine does to us?” —Query to columnist. It smarts a little and so carries a reassurance about possible infection that relieves the mind as no pain less application can. x Trade vocabularies are always fascinating, and we hear that professional chauffeurs always refer to that type of motorist as a “Sunday driver.” A prevalent counterfeit SIOO bill has a single defect in the form of a missing comma. But the observant person supplies the omitted pause. Koussevitzky’s plans to take the Boston Symphony orchestra abroad will give these foremost American musicians a good chance to visit the scenes of their childhood. We seem to be in a period of transition: Kansas City reports a farmer who wears a wrist watch around the sleeve of his red flannel undershirt. Along toward the middle of the average wild-animal movie, a large old lion in the foreground yawns heartily, making it unanimous. A Connecticut company is experimenting with the canning of dandelions. This is a corking idea, although not everyone can afford to set ,up a cannery on his lawn. k I

What a Royal Garden Party Looks Like — - t w. B W ■.< ’ aft Jr' - XL3L—Jfe. 2* il The royal garden parties are rather frequent functions in London. Here is an excellent view of one recently given at Buckingham palace by Queen Mary at which members of the new Labor cabinet and manx other notables were guests. America’s Most Exclusive Bathing Place ^..i!l>i2kiM^3uxl’S£iiSMßKßsSs^iw. . ':!» .S. ; :' . An excellent air view of the most exclusive bathing pi.a eint he < ant r\ r.ai'. ■'- !• 1 \,y ’!■ magnificent mansions and estates surrounding. The beach i- ..t the rule isili - — in Uo- << : • ■.

Pops Emerging From the Vatican C i —I —1 — I & ■ Av- . 1 ■ k ! Mb ; ? / i * < wkJW fe.. / At J nWIMI hlilßb : b 111 F i It ». r JLf sty •*t t A M i *Wf * I *1- ! r'. t Pope Pius being carried from the Vatican to celebrate mass at St. Peter's arid to observe the feast day of St. James the Apostle. This was the first time since 1870 that a Boman Catholic pontiff had left the Vatican. Perry Homestead Will Be a Museum jtW^ f* -A. ■ r - I - , c ' . -'S "/. . , , : _ . The Commodore Perry’ homestead at Wakefield, 11. 1., which will be a A museum commemorating the lives and deeds of Commodore Oliver Hazard 1 Perry, hero of the battle of Lake Erie, and Commodore Matthew G. Perry, : who opened Japan to American commerce. Mrs. Perry Tiffany, widow of Matthew’s grandson, is standing in the doorway. I FROM HERE AND THERE

• । Wisconsin's leading grain crop Is ! oats. 5 Coal can now be rendered dustless ! by use of certain chemicals sprayed 1 on It. I Seventy years ago it took mail twenty-four days to go from coast to const. Russian 3-ruble coins minted about 1828 are now worth twenty times . their face value.

A train traveling forty miles an hour requires 1,320 feet to stop. Alaska lias eighteen co-operative stores owned and operated by natives. Towboats equipped with Diesel engines have lately been put into service. Only two species of flowering plants have been found in Antarctic regions. Less than 5 per cent of the land in Great Britain and Ireland is covered by forests.

[ HEADS THEOSOPHISTS fl ■ I fli Fl I *£< Dr. Gottfried de Purucker who has ' been appointed official head of the I'niversnl Brotherhood and Theosophical society to succeed the late Katherine Tingley, who died recently in Europe. Doctor de Purucker, fifty-five is a bachelor and native of the United I States. Headquarters of the society are at Point Loma, near San Diego, i Calif. OLDEST CLERGYMAN ■Bnp VBS K .1 i i ■ W",« K - ■St * f »■« Bev. Ebenezer Bean of Urbana, 111., who recently celebrated his one hun- | dredth birthday, is said to be the old- j est clergyman in the United States. ’ He is also the oldest living graduate ' of Bowdoin university and the oldest member of the Theta Delta Chi fra- I ternity. He is a Congregationalist. Evading Responsibility A pocket veto is the act of a chief executive who, when the legislative session will end within the period allowed for returning a measure with his signature or veto, simply retains it and causes it to fail without a direct veto. This Old Age It is difficult to get people on theit Knees in an age when they even re- l sent being on their feet.- -Capper’3 : I Weekly.

Laying a Smoke Screen in “Battle of Puget Sound*’ —— ——— —,—.— — A> ' ;G T * T 1. it Y tlSllill. • risO • • ? r - ~ * ♦r~' v<-> • ’* ' j ,™ - - '. 5 , <»■—m— -y-> ' LsiuXL^EES I j View from an airplane during the maneuvers of the battle fleet in Puget Sound. A fleet of destroyers was laying a smoke screen to conceal the battleships from the big guns of Fort Casey. In the foreground is the Maryland. Great German Dirigible Landing at Lakehurst A fM 6 ■ 4; 7-^l. ■ ■ .■' .. ; ' ' ■ ’1 I, ■ picture, taken after dark, shows the huge German dirigible Graf Zeppelin just as it was brought to the ground ;:t 1 kehurst. N. .L, at the close of the flight from Friedrichshafen.

EDISON’S PROTEGE | L * v ? 7 - j . ---<>' K. ''rV Lx ? c > - 4 ! '■ - v 1 pAV > t j i' Wilbur 11. Huston of Seattle. Wash., the sixteen-year-old son of an Episco- i pal bishop, was declared the winner of the six-hour examination conducted under the au-ph t s of Thomas A. Edison at the latter’s laboratories at | West Orange, N. J. The prize carried I with it a scholarship with all expenses. at any technical school chosen by the winner. Young Huston said i that he was interested in chemical engineering ami chose to go with his scholar-hip to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. HOME RUN SLUGGER I li I I I Chuck Klein, Philadelphia elouter : and leader of the big league home I run hitters. He gives promise of i equaling Ruth’s record of last year. Educated A little neighbor girl had been at- | j tending kindergarten a few weeks and ; thought she was very learned. The ; following conversation between this ; I little girl and a little boy of about I ■ the same age was overheard: “Do you know what nails’ are, ‘ i Johnny?’ “Why. sure; nails are to pound into " boards to make houses." “Oh, no. Johnny: ‘nails’ are boys | and ‘fenails’ are girls," she proudly - exclaimed. Title Only for Wife It is an anomaly in British civil life that women mayors are riot mayoresses. That title is reserved for the wife ot a mayor or. in the absence of a wife, for a daughter or any ether woman whom the mayor (man or woman) may appoint. Little Thing* Lead Up Practice yourself, for heavens sake in little things; and thence proceed to greater.—Epictetus (circa 60 A. Dj. i “discourses." ‘

Veritable “Old Oaken Bucket” f ■ ’ ■ft ; i IB; I J ! f - ■' ' l|h J|f>4 rA \ Js—-— —) ■t3 — TZZ'i f Va ■ ’ " A'- - - » W-- ? . •, . - . ■■ - - ■ ■ “The old oaken bucket, the iron bound bucket.” and sure enough that’s just what you see f>ictured above—the original oaken bucket which Samuel Woodworth wrote of in his famous poem. Mrs. Pauline Kiliiffer, a d< - -'ndant of the author, is pictured drinking from the well, which is in Green Bush, Mass. She’s Entered in Women’s Air Derby E < rßiif ye jXjßw fIK BBMRr \y -■* * I "'4.7^ I " 'T'CC' •• A aE- w tri \ Wilu ) Mis. Claire Mae Eaby, of Los Angeles, who has de. hired her intention < f competing in the li.- National Worn As Air derby, has been trained by h.-r husband. Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy, for s..<n -ears. The race starts at Santa Monica and ends at <level nd. Ohio. THINGS WORTH RE S

Spider- have been known r<» a’tuck snakes. Both Noah and Daniel Wei-ter were members of the American I'hiioscphica! society. The oldest kt own form of magnifying glass was found in the ruins of a palace nt Nineveh. Umbrellas tire regarded a< signs of dignity and authority among natives of the Gold coast in West Afri a.

Glow w mms belong to the beet!* : family. In Ethi< • ‘ t the 'eucr < ass servants have shy • - a> tl eir per • nal attend j ants. The we" s ’ d physician, minisi ter. <>r la er can us :I»oi;t I words. More t ! u 11" 0.0 ri American ■ razor biao- - were used in other parts i of the w 1 fast yc.r