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Show This Week hj ARTHUR BRISBANB The Late Speaker Honor to Michigan Important to ParenU And a Petrified Elephant The death of Speaker Longworth will be deeply regretted In Washington Wash-ington and throughout the country. He was able, witty, good natured, tactful. His colleagues liked him, the Nation respected him for his ability and character. The country feels deep sympathy for his widow, daughter of President Presi-dent Theodore Roosevelt. Cltiiens of Michigan honor their State by refusing, in overwhelming majority, to restore the death penalty pen-alty in their State. That penalty, abolished in Michigan Michi-gan eight-four years ago, ia an Imitation by the State of the murderer's mur-derer's tactics. The installation of an electric chair in the State Prison Pris-on at Jackson would have been a blot upon the State, a backward step for a great commonwealth that has not known capital punishment for 100 years. It Is Important for parents to know that the dreaded pollmyletis, or infantile paralysis, attacks children chil-dren 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 most often by the fingers. Children should be taught from infancy to keep their hands away from mouths and noses. Influenza, In-fluenza, "colds," a dozen Infections start after being planted on the mucous membrane. A Chinese proverb forbids you to touch your nose or mouth, "except "ex-cept with your elbow." Children and adults should remember that. A hugs petrified elephant with tusks six feet long, a foot and a half thick, la found in the bed of a dry lake on an almost inaccessible mountain in the Mexican State of Nayarlt. Much bigger than any we know, this Mexican monster lived and died far from Washington. But unless Washington' Republican elephant manages to do something between now and 1932 about unemployment, un-employment, Nation-wide crime, racketeering, etc., it may find itself it-self much like Its petrified Mexican brother. Germany and Austria continue negotiations for a "customs pact," to help each other In business. England dislikes the idea, although al-though theoretically in favor of free trade. France frankly hates it, for today's to-day's "customs pact" may become tomorrow's "war pact." And the pact might spread to the Balkan countries, even to Russia, creating a mid-European "bloc" for the under-dog. America entered the war fourteen four-teen years ago. Let's hope it will be at least a hundred and forty years before we go Into another, especially into one that we didn't start. The war to keep out of war Is to keep out of foreign entanglements. entangle-ments. George Washington may be old-fashioned, and, possibly, not as wise as Woodrow Wilson. But he knew that, if you keep away from a man, you are not apt to fight with him. The Reverend Dr. Reisner objects ob-jects to Sunday loudspeaker advertising ad-vertising from the sky by airplane, and his objection is sound. The sky belongs to everybody. No one should be permitted to write advertising on the clouds, or bellow advertising copy into unwilling ears, on Sunday especially. "The Heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork." It shouldn't be made, by loudspeaker, to declare the glory of a dress goods concern, or anything else. What should be the first and last loudspeaker announcement from the Heavens will come In due time, when Gabriel summons us to rise, and explain ourselves. Yaqul Indians, In their villages, celebrate Easter in a way that whiter Christians criticize as barbarous. bar-barous. The whites contrast the rock sepulcher In each village, representing repre-senting the tomb of Christ: three little girls in white, representing angels, with the nearly naked Indian braves, their bodies streaked streak-ed with paint, faces hideously masked, dancing and chanting before be-fore the altar caudles. Those whites should know that a mixture in religions is the rule. Each new religion, in its turn perpetuates the beliefs and customs of religions preceding it Scores of religions before Christianity had their trinities, miraculous births resurrections. Christianity, today! borrows costumes, insignia and titles from pagan religions and governments of long ago. Careful investigation shows that because of unemployment, the wages earned by American workers In 1930 were nine thousand million dollars below the earnings of 1929. - 1910. by Kiat Fntww Srmdicau, iac j Unnaa( Vlow nlul (flcaa |