The Carbon County news., 1931-04-16
This Week
I ARTHUR BRIsBANR

Bad News, and Good
A Useful Don't"
Honor to Michigan
The death of Senator Longworth
Will be deeply regretted in Wash
Agton and throughout the country.
He was able, witty, good-natured
and tactful. His colleagues liked
him, the nation respected him for
his ability and character.
The country feels deep sympathy
for his widow, daughter Of Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt.
The bad news from Europe deals
with probable revolution in Portu-
gal.
Cheerful news tells of better
feeling between Italy and France.
President Doumergue calls Italy "a
noble and friendly nation" and re-
calls Italy fighting gloriously and
yalorously at the side of France"
France, said President Dou-
mergue, had suffered enough from
war to appreciate the value Of
peace, but she has also acquired
too much experience through her
own history to ignore the fact that
there is no durable peace without
security of frontiers"
Dean Loomis of New York uni
versity offers among "don'ts" to
parents this excellent one:
Don't urge your children to go
to college because you went, or be-
cause you didn't, or because the
youngsters chums are going, or be-
cause it is the avenue to a sorority,
or fraternity, or to athletic sue
cess"
College life hurts as often as it
helps, and oftener. Better for
young man to spend four years at
work realizing his shortcomings
than more or less at study acquir
ing an exaggerated idea of his own
Importance.
Citizens of Michigan honor their
state by refusing, in overwhelming
majority, to restore the death pen
atty in their state.
That penalty, abolished in Michi
gan "a years ago, is an imitation
by the state of the murderer's tao
tics. The installation of an electric
chair in the state prison at Jack
son would have been a blot upon
the state, backward step for
great commonwealth that has not
known capital punishment for 100
years.
Mr.. Kenneth Collins, who knows
about buying and selling, and how
to promote both, says: Buying
power is on the upgrade" An i'm
portant fact, according to Mr.. Col
Inns, is that people are liquidating
their installment debts. The de-
preston of 1929 found them owing
about $6,0O00OO00O. They have
paid off half.
A great German military author
fly, Gen. Berthold Won Deimling,
declares that Germany no longer
needs a great army, because flying
machines, explosives and poison
gas will alone be important in the
next war. In the next war, says
he, the fighters will attack entire
populations with poison gas;
against attack from the air there
can be no real defense and no pro-
tection-at least for the masses of
the population"
1t is important for parents to
know that the dreaded poliomy-
Istis, or infantile paralysis, attacks
eAiidren mainly through the nose.
The germ infects water, and can
be taken through the nose passages
BY children swimming In unclean
water. So says Doctor. Weyer of
the Willard Parker laboratories.
The germ is probably introduced
into the nose often by the fingers.
Children should be taught from in
fancy to keep their hands away
from mouths and noses. Influ-
enza, "colds," dozen infections
start after being planted on the
mucous membrane.
A Chinese proverb forbids you
to touch your nose or mouth, tex
cept with your elbow" Children
and adults should remember that.
Quakers have amended their
arule Of discipline" for the first
time in thirty-eight years. Quaker
girls and women may add ''frills"
and lace to the plain Quaker garb.
1t is decided that mutton-leg
sleeves for girls, suits of plain
black with no collars or cuffs for
men, are not necessary to good
morals or happiness hereafter.
II the Quaker girls wanted to
attract attention, which presum-
ably they do not, the oldfashioned
plain gray dress would be the best
dress.
Many eligible Americans are
tired of ''frills' cut off above the
knee or below the waist in the
back.
In the cathedral Of Palermo,
Sicily, Prince Henri, son of the
duke of Guise, pretender to the
French throne, married Princess
Isabelle Of Orleans and Bragance.
Both are descendants of the last
king Of France Much royalty at
tended the wedding, the ceremony
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