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Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE [NDEPESDENT-XEWS CO. Publishers of the WAEKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS frHE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres. Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES On. Tear Six Months • *® Three Months ** TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton. ta<L. as seeond-class matter. IN WET SPOTS No spot in the British Isles is more than 80 miles from the sea. Swamps and w r et lands of the United States have a total area of approximately 79,005,023 acres. Fish have been made to come up for food at the sound of a buzzer, placed just above the water. IN THE U. S. A. About 700,000 square miles are covered by the United States cotton belt. There are 35,000 John Smiths in the United States, according to census figures. Twenty-five now is the most popular age for marriage with both sexes in the United States. Revenue from football games in the United States last year was estimated at $10,000,000. One coal miner is killed in the United States for about every 38,000 tons of coal mined. Window Rock, Ariz., population, 200, is capital of the 16,000,000-acre Navajo Indian reservation. The thirteen states in the rural South contribute a third of all the children in the United States. There are more than 175,000 separate federal, state and local governmental units functioning in the United States. The forest area (506,000,000 acres) of the United States is three-fifths , as large as that which existed when the Pilgrims landed. United States public schools, private schools and colleges have approximately 1,020,000 teachers for their 33,000,000 students. SAYINGS OF WISE MEN Common sense is not so common. —Voltaire. They can because they think they can.—VergiL In a false quarrel there is no true valor.—Shakespeare. Despair and confidence both banish fear.—William Alexander. A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.—Montaigne. Everyone excels in something in which another fails.—Publilius Syrus. They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright! — Robert Burns. Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.—Froude. For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.—Henry George. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN Cupid’s best friend is a good cook. More women than men live to be centenarians. In France more men than women fail in the driving test. Only ten British industries still exclude women workers. Mothers in Russia receiving largefamily government benefits are estimated at 270,000. Red-haired salesgirls in depart- . ment stores outsell their blonde and brunette sisters, it has been found. Not one woman in ten in London can get her foot in a size 3 shoe, and 25 per cent of them require 5%. The government of Sweden has decided that women will be paid the same wages as man teachers in secondary schools. FOREIGN TABS Osaka, Japan, is the largest manufacturing center in the Orient. Moscow's gold museum has more than 10,000 exhibits of Russian gold. Panama's monetary unit is the balboa, named after the discoverer of the Pacific ocean. One person in every six in England and Wales has defective hearing, says a specialist. . In Soviet Russia 43 per cent ol the entire population was born since the revolution of 1917. The Bank of Japan, the country’s central bank, was established in 1882 as a joint-stock company. The “Ai Coop” is the name of the union of more than 100 co-operative consumers’ societies in Armenia.

about: Species of Candidates. SANTA MONICA, CALIF.—It takes all kinds of candidates to make up this world. Maybe that’s why the world seems so i overcrowded. There’s the candidate who belongs to all the secret orders; if he left

off his emblems, he'd catch cold; knows every grand hailing sign there is; hasn’t missed a lodge brother’s funeral in years; can hardly wait for the next one to die. No campaign complete without him. Candidate specializing in the hearty handshake, the neckembrace, the shoul-

der-slap, the bear-hug, the gift of remembering every voter by his first name, and the affectionate inquiry regarding the wife and kiddies. When he kisses a baby, it sounds like somebody taking off a pair of wet overshoes. Usually has a weatherbeaten wife needing a new hat. Strutty candidate who’s constantly leading an imaginary parade of 50,000 faithful followers. Loves to poke his chest away out and then follows it majestically down the street. A common or standardized species. • * • Biblical Wisdom. TN THE Book of Nahum, Chapter A 11, I came upon this verse: “The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.” Those Old Testament prophets certainly peered a long way into the future. Because I traveled by night through a main thoroughfare leading from Los Angeles to the sea and vice versa, and I knew w’hat Nahum was describing. But not even an inspired seer of the Bible could imagine a record of traffic mortality so ghastly as the one we’ve already compiled in this year of grace 1937 A. D. (automobile destruction) —or a people so speed-mad. How to Fight Japs. TXT'HENEVER we have a Jap- ’ ’ anese war scare, I think of Uncle Lum Whittemore, back in west Kentucky, who loved to dispense wisdom as he hitched one practiced instep on a brass rail and with his free hand fought the resident flies for the tidbit of free lunch which he held in his grip. One day a fellow asked Uncle Lum, who had served gallantly in the Southern Confederacy until a very hard rainstorm came up, what he’d do if the yellow peril boys invaded America. “I’d hunt me a hollow’ tree in the deep woods,” he said. “Yes, soe, the owls would have to fetch me my mail. I been readin’ up on them Japs. They're fatalists.” “WTiat’s a fatalist?” demanded someone. “Near ez I kin make out,” stated the veteran, “a fatalist is a party that thinks you’re doin’ him a deep pussonal favor when you kill him.” • * • Hollywood Fashions. OME envious style expert says Hollywood fashions are too garish. If he’s talking about Hollywood males, I say they’re just garish enough. If they were any more garish than they are, visitors would have to wear blinders, and if they were any less garish, Italian sunsets would stand a chance in the competition. And I want the championship to stay in America. Billy Gaxton picks out something suitable for a vest to be w’orn to a fancy dress party and then has a whole suit made out of it. Bob Montgomery’s ties are the kind that I buy in moments of weakness and then keep in a bureau drawer beeause I’m not so brave as Bob is; and also I keep the drawer closed because I can’t stand those sudden dazzling glares. And Bing Crosby is either color-blind or thinks everybody else is. But his crooning is mighty soothing. And so it goes—red, pink, green, purple, orange, sky-blue and here and there a dash of lavender. Our local boys gladden the landscape with the sort of clothes I’d w’ear, too—only my wife won’t let me. Stop, look, listen! That’s our sartorial motto, and these jealous designers back east can kindly go jump in a dye-pot. IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service. Home of the Celt Little reference is made to Brittany in the ancient classics, save that Pliny speaks of it as the “Look-ing-on Peninsula,” with ‘s eye and vision set upon the Atlantic, and Caesar tells something of the fighting qualities of the Veneti who inhabited the southwestern seacoast. As is well known, it is the home of the Celt, and neither the highlands of Scotland nor the west of Ireland, nor Wales can produce a finer type of that ancient race that dowered Europe with a civilization long before Homer sang of the Greek gods. Queen Victoria Inked Music Music was one of Queen Victoria’s great interests throughout her life. The Etude says she played well on the piano, was taught the harp, and had a pleasing soprano voice. All the musicians of note who visited England ware invited to appear before the queen. “All Is Lost Save Honor” The expression “All is lost save nonor,” was first used by Francis the First of France after a military

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Washington.—The old mother hen, congress, has settled down, prepared to hatch w hat Will something from It Hatch? the nest of crop control eggs. At this stage of the proceeding, no one can make a guess as to the brood that congress will produce any better than a farmer’s wife can tell what will be hatched by a real hen in her chicken house. About all that can be said for sure is that President Roosevelt called congress into special session to enact crop control legislation and, therefore, there is likely to be crop control legislation of some kind. It may not be hatched in the special session; the chances are that the many differences of opinion and the many demands cannot be reconciled in the six w’eeks which the special session may occupy before the regular session of congress convenes in January. In addition to the lack of time in which to maturely examine crop control questions, a rivalry has developed between the house and the senate over the honor of drafting and putting through the law which will tell the farmers what they can and what they cannot do as farmers. Let me say just here that such a rivalry may w’ork to the benefit of agriculture because it is bound to mean a compromise between the house and senate on the legislation that finally is enacted. In other words, extremists, for and against any proposal, will have to yield and this may possibly result in some workable program for crop control. The main question before congress is the type of crop control law to be enacted. There are tw’O kinds. Control may be compulsory or it may be voluntary. Most of the powers that be in the Department of Agriculture seem to favor the compulsory kind—a law that will tell the farmers they can or cannot do certain things and if they violate the decree, they can be punished. Many groups of farmers, however do not want that sort of thing. In consequence we find in congress now proponents of both the compulsory and the voluntary programs and each side appears to be determined in its position. We have seen both types used. Potato growers will remember how the potato control law laid down the rule that a quota of production should be imposed upon every farmer and that he must pay 45 cents per bushel above the value of his potatoes for every bushel produced above his quota. These growers will remember also the agricultural adjustment administration requirement that all potatoes sold must be packaged in a certain way that was prescribed for the grower by the AAA. In this connection it will be recalled how there was a penalty in addition for those who failed to properly package the potatoes they sold. Beyond these requirements, there was also a penalty prescribed to be invoked against any person who did not properly package his potatoes and place a government stamp thereon. Besides all this, there was an “informer” section in the potato control law’. It provided something of a bounty for any person who relayed to the authorities any information he had respecting failure of any farmer to comply with the law and the regulations issued thereunder. It was reminiscent of prohibition days when informers were paid to squeal on bootleggers. • • * The compulsory cotton control law w r as less stringent but it had penalties attached Cotton so that any cotton Control farmer who failed to comply with the regulations had to pay a tax on cotton produced over and above his allotment. This tax was so high—--50 per cent of the value—that it amounted to a fine as punishment. The other kind of cotton control law, the voluntary plan, had no penalty provisions. This control was exercised by issue of subsidies or payments to farmers for raising various crops provided they limited the amount to the dictation of the AAA. Thus, under the voluntary control, the farmer could take the government’s money and limit his crop to what the AAA said was his quota and thus be paid for compliance. Or, he could refuse the government’s subsidy and raise what he pleased. Now, in addition to these propositions, Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture, is promoting what he calls his “ever normal granary” plan. This is to serve as supplemental to the crop control on the production side. The secretary has an idea that the federal government can take the surplus of good years off of the hands of farmers and hold them through the lean years when poor crops have failed to produce the amount required for American home consumption. The secretary’s “ever normal granary” plan is a red hot poker and there will be plenty of sparks flying off of the handle as well as the hot end when this thing is debated in congress. Opponents of the secretary’s scheme contend that this program is straight out regimentation and that it goes as far in this effect as anything done by either the Fascist Mussolini or the Communist Stalin. It takes no stretch of the imagination, therefore, to see what is just ahead in the matter of a controversy for crop legislation for the reason that each of the programs that has been thus far advanced contains political dynamite.

Irvin S. Cobb

Chairman Jones of the house agricultural committee began work on drafts of bills for Jones crop control long Drafts Bills before the session convened. Several weeks prior to the opening day of i the special session, Mr. Jones ap- ' pointed six sub-committees; each was charged with drafting legislation applicable to a specific commodity. In doing this, Mr. Jones threw the door wide open. He included six farm crops to share the alleged benefits of crop control legislation, including the “ever normal granary” surplus control program. The sub-committees were directed to work out legislation covering cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, rice and dairy products. Inclusion of rice and dairy products came as a surprise. Heretofore, there had been little talk about including rice and none about dairy products. The information that filters into Washington is that a majority of the dairy people have no particular hankering for government dictation in their business. Chairman Smith of the senate agricultural committee likewise has been busy. Throughout the I summer he has been attempting to j get a line on farmer sentiment by a ' number of hearings in various parts ' of the country. From all indica-1 tions. Chairman Smith, who comes ; from South Carolina and is a farm- ' er in his own right, is not enthusias- j tic about too much government dictation in the field of agriculture. It is evident as well that some mem- 1 bers of the senate committee feel the same way as Mr. Smith does. Over on the house side of the Capi- I tol. Secretary Wallace has many fol- | lowers. Obviously, he will co-op- ! erate with them very closely. In- I deed, some of the house members i who do not like Mr. Wallace or his : “ever normal granary” scheme are referring to the Wallace supporters in the house as “Henry Wallace's j boys.” That indicates better than anything I can say how deep-seat- ! ed the feelings are. To add to the complexity of the { job facing congress. President : Roosevelt has said definitely that • if there are subsidies paid to farm- l ers in connection with crop control legislation, that legislation must I carry additional taxes to take care ! of the bounty payments authorized. | Simmered down, therefore, what Mr. Roosevelt has said is that if the farmers want that kmd of crop control legislation, they and all con- i sumers must pay for it with add-1 ed taxes. I have heard general commendation of the President's position. It surely represents a straightforward policy by the Chief Executive in this regard. He has told the country now that he is willing to support agricultural subsidies through control of the crops if the whole country w’hich has to pay the bill is willing to bear the extra taxes that are required. • • • Having presented the picture as I see it, it seems almost unnecessary to add that Two Big there will be two Lobbies enormous lobbies bearing down on congress in the special session as well as probably in the regular session that convenes in January. I think I foresee now how Secretary Wallace and those who believe with him are going to operate both within and without the administration. That is to say, there will be administration pressure and when anyone says that there is administration pressure, they are saying nothing more or less than that the administration is lobbying. It has always been that way and it is no exception that the Roosevelt administration does the same sort of thing. The other lobby will embrace a considerable representation of farmer sentiment that is opposed to Washington dictation and which feels that additional taxes will have to be absorbed in part at least by agriculture. This happened in the case of a processing tax which was thrown out as unconstitutional. It w’ill happen in every case for the reason that no one is going to absorb taxes when they can be passed on. When they are passed on to the farmers, that is the end because the farmer has no place to send them. The consumer is in the same fix. In addition to this farm sentiment, the lobby in opposition to the Wallace program likely will find certain phases of other industry aligned with it. It will in all probability find a certain share or segment of consumer opposition because the consumers will have to pay in higher prices. It is the ageold battle between those who have something to sell and who naturally want the greatest return possible therefrom and those who have to buy and naturally want to buy at the lowest price at which they can procure their needs. In view of these circumstances, it seems fair and safe to predict that a bitter division is likely to take place in congress. I do not know how lasting that division may be nor what it will do to the political fortunes of many who get out in front as leaders on either side. The whole circumstance is going to be influenced directly as well as indirectly by the fact that scores of primary elections will be held early next spring. This will be especially influential among house members because all of the house members come up for re-election next year and plenty of them are going to have stiff opposition within their own parties as well as battles to be fought out before the polls in November. It appears to be a political as well as an economical crisis. A Western Newsoaoer Union.

ADVENTURERS* CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Killer Elephant” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter Hello, everybody: This yarn stars Ike Rosen, our latest club member. But Ike would have given a couple of million dollars to have been left out of the cast. First we go back to the early days of moving pictures—l9ls to be exact—when Ike was employed as a technician at the Universal studios in Hollywood. Animal pictures were going great in those days and there was a complete zoo on the lot. The king of that collection of beasts was Charlie, an elephant bought from a circus. Charlie was a good actor, but nobody could handle him except Curley, his personal trainer. Well, Ike stepped into the dramatic part of the picture when Director Smalley began staging the wedding procession of an Indian prince. It was comedy, and, for the parts of the Indian prince and his bride, tw’o actors, weighing nearly 400 pounds each, were cast. Ike's job w r as to build a huge canopied chair in which the prince and princess were to ride in sthte on the back of Charlie, the elephant. Charlie Didn’t Like Ike. Ike finished the royal howdah. Workmen tried to budge it and found that it weighed nearly 2,000 pounds. Twelve men heaved and struggled to saddle Charlie with the gorgeous structure. Then, 700 pounds of prince and princess went up the ladder. That’s w’here Charlie took a dislike to Ike And then, when the director called for more ornaments, Ike put a stepladder against Charlie’s side and climbed up. There w’as Charlie's chance. He whipped his trunk around, seized Ike by the leg, trumpeted in anger and lifted him for a dash to the ground. Curley, the trainer, sank his curved elephant hook into Charlie’s forehead and Ike limped away. That was his first round with his monstrous enemy. . The trainer knew elephants. He knew what to expect in the future, so he warned Ike. “Charlie's going bad,” he said. “He'll kill you the first chance he gets.” * Ike did watch out. But one night a w’ild chimpanzee cleverly opened his cage and almost killed a keeper. Ike hurried over to devise a lock that the chimp couldn't open. Charlie's big stall was next door. He sensed ike’s presence and went berserk. He lifted his iron water tub

E j * jUAV Charlie Reduced Jerusalem to a Wreck. and beat at his chains and bars around his enclosure. The whole zoo trembled from the elepuant’s fury. Curley, the trainer, again rushed to the rescue. “For God’s sake. Ike, leave this studio if you value your life.” Curley said. “Charlie's turned killer. He’s out for you. I.ucky for you his chains held.” Ike took no more chances. He gave Charlie a wide berth. But one day, when his work called him to a remote part of the movie lot, he rounded a hill and ran smack into Charlie, tethered to an anchor of . poles and railroad iron, driven into the ground. The Elephant Really “Went Bad.” Ike had no time to turn back. The bull elephant? ears flattened against his head, eyes blazing and his trumpeting echoing from the hills, charged. Rosen was trapped. His only chai ce was to dive for a shallow gully that separated the movie lot from an Indian village. He flung himself into the gully and flattened himself against the side. The earth was vibrating under those plunging feet. Ike only hoped for a quick death. Then, there was a clank of chains—the groanings of the heavy anchor poles set deep in the ground. Charlie had reached the end of his chain. His head was jerked down. He stumbled, plowed the earth. The maddened beast was halted only a few feet from Ike’s hiding place. Rosen could see those bloodshot eyes gleaming with hatred—a lust to kill. The long trunk slashed out in fury. Ike felt a thud on the side of his head as Charlie’s trunk grazed him and snatched off his‘cap. For a moment big Charlie paused to hurl his enemy’s cap beneath his feet and trample it to ribbons. That pause saved Rosen. He was on his feet, running, limp and ripping with cold sweat. But Charlie bided his time. For days he worked quietly. And then, during the making of a spectacular film in a setting of old Jerusalem, Ike crossed the set and came face to face with his old foe. Once more Charlie charged in an insane desire to crush the man who had tortured him with that huge, 2,000-pound saddle in the earlier picture. But this time Ike was in the clear. He ducked to safety. The baffled elephant, once more cheated of his vengeance, turned upon the set. Jerusalem, with all its splendor—thousands of dollars worth of costly settings—crushed into a heap of dust and splinters. This time Charlie did not quiet down. He was ready to kill anything in sight. Men with long, spiked poles, ripped his hide ar.d jabbed him into helpless submission —but only for a moment. How the Killer Was Killed. A few* days later he saw Ike in the distance and went into another frenzy. Rosen scurried out of sight, but Charlie, thirsting for a kill, seized his trainer, Curley, lifted him high into the air, dashed him to earth and then, with his massive forehead, ground him into the dust. Curley w r as killed instantly. “Killer elephant!” The words set Hollywood trembling. It was no longer a single foe. It was the life of any human being. Charlie must die, studio officials ruled. But how? Poison and dynamite were rejected as nftt sure enough. Ike Rosen’s technical skill w’as enlisted. Despite his narrow’ escape, he hated to be Charlie’s executioner, but many lives were at stake. A heavy w’ire cable was rigged over pulleys, looped around Charlie’s neck and lashed to two heavy trucks, headed in opposite directions. The trucks started. The loop tightened. Cables sang with the strain. Charlie looked sorrowfully and inquiringly at the men around him. His knees buckled, his head sank. His great bulk rolled over—dead from stranguI lation. © —WNU Service.

Squirrels as Forest Planters ( Gray squirrels are natural forest planters. Ernest Thompson Seton i estimates that a single squirrel may I bury as many as 10,000 nuts in a season. Obviously they do not re- | quire nearly one-half of them for food. Hickory nuts, walnuts and butternuts w’ill not take root from the surface of the ground like acorns. They must be planted or they dry up before their shell can burst. For that reason it is almost safe to say ' that nearly every hickory tree was planted at one time by a squirrel. The squirrel meant to come back for the nut, but didn’t. Fear Sharp-Shinned Hawk The smalt song and insectivorous birds are more fearful of the sharpshinned hawk than any other predator. It is lightning fast on the wing and seldom misses its target as it swoops dow’n out of the sky on its unprotected prey. Britain’s Custom of Paying Bills Bills of exchange and promissory notes in Great Britain and Ireland are payable on the preceding business day when the iast day of grace j falls on Christmas or Good Friday. I

Canton Island Canton island is the chief spot of land among the tiny dots which make up the Phoenix group 2,700 miles north of New Zealand. The importance of this archipelago, which lies just south of the equator, is readily seen on any map of the South Pacific. The Phoenix group lies almost on a line between New’ Zealand and Honolulu, practically half way between the tw r o. Canton island covers about eight and a half square miles, nourishes shrub vegetation and provides a salt-water lagoon navigable to boats which draw up to 5 feet. Germantown, I nited States Capital Germantown, a Philadelphia suburb, was for a time the United States capital, when a yellow fever epidemic swept through Philadelphia in 1793, forcing congress and President Washington to flee. Write Prayers on Sheep Bones Tibetans write their prayers on the shoulder blades of sheep and hang them over a pathway. When set in motion by passers-bv. the bones are believed to offer up the i prayer.

Shame Is on Him He who stumbles twice over tha same stone deserves to break his shins. Environment has much to do with the formation of character, but there were several among the Pilgrim Fathers who were not at all pious. Some pray for guidance and then do as they please, claiming that that is the guidance they asked for. Goes for the Autoisf, Too Discreet stops makes speedy journeys. One grows hard-boiled by experience, but that doesn’t make being hard-boiled pleasant. Even the most moral pedestrian daren’t keep to the straight path. Lies sometimes result from one’s being too inquisitive. Men who sway the world know what other men’s brains are W’orth in helping them do it. ' ME STAY ’ HOME FROM WORK? NOS/R! NOT WHEN GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN EASES HEADACHE

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