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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane The Late Speaker Honor to Michigan Important to Parents " And a Petrified Elephant The death of . Speaker . Longs-worth Longs-worth will be deeply regretted in Washington 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 sympa-thy for his widow, . daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. ' Citizens of Michigan honor their State by refusing, in overwhelming overwhelm-ing majority to restore the death penalty in their State. That penalty, abolished in Michigan Mich-igan eighty-four years ago, is an imitation by the State of the murderers mur-derers tactics. The installation cf 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 poliomyle-tis, poliomyle-tis, or infantile paralysis, attacks children mainly through the nose. The germ infects water, and can he 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 alike should remember that. A huge petrified elephant with tusks six feet long, a foot and a half thick, is found in the bed of a dry lake on an almost inaccessible inaccess-ible mountain in the Mexican State of Nayarit. JVIuch bigger than any we know this Mexican monster lived and died far from Washington. But unless Washington's Republican elephant manages to do somethinr between now and 1932 about unemployed, unem-ployed, Nationwide crime, racket- ZTm may find itself much ePetrmSaMexican brother. Ocrmany J' T-o,ct a-ions for a cus--" - meorlucally in favor of f-.-ee trade .. for t0 trance framJy at-SK, day's "customs pact tht torao.rw's "war pact, pact might spread to he nScans entered the war four- r'arSsta hundred ind forty 4 before we go into another especially into one that we didn t StThe way to keep out of war is to keep out of foreign entanglement entangle-ment George Washington may be old-fashioned and possibly not as wis- as Woodraw Wilson. But he Tnew that, if you keep away fr.m s man, you are not . apt to Eight with him. TV- Rev Dr. Reisner objects to Sunday , loudspeaker adwrtlslta from the sky by airplane, and his oblecticn is scuijd. - The sky belongs to everybody. No one should be permitted to wite advertising on the clouds, or bellow advertising copy into unwilling unwill-ing ears on Sunday especially. "The Heavens declare the glory of God- and the firmament shew-ith shew-ith His Handiwork." It shouldn't be made, by loudspeaker, to declare the glory of a dress goods concern, or anything else. What shculd be the first and last loudspeaker announcement i'rr m the Heavens will come in due time, when Gabriel summons us to rise, and explain ourselves. Yaqui Indians, in , their villages, celebrate Easter in a way that whiter Christians criticize as barbarous. bar-barous. The white contrast the rock sep-ulcher sep-ulcher in each village, representing the tomb of Christ; three little girls in white, representing angels, with the neary naked Indian braves, theirb odies streaked with paint, fa ces hideously masked, dancing and chanting before the altar candles. Those whites should know that a mixture in religions is the rule. Each new reigion, in its turn, perpetuates the beliefs ' and customs cus-toms of religions preceding it. Scores of religions before Christianity Christian-ity had their trinities, miraculous births, resurrections. Christianity, today, borrows costumes, insignia and titles from pagan religions and governments of long ago. Careful investigations shows that because of unemployment, the wages wag-es earned by American workers in 1930 were nine thousand, million dollars below the earnings of 1929.. Nine billions are a great many dollars, several times the value of the country's wheat and automobile output combined. The American Federation of Labor La-bor figures the 1930 drop even higher, high-er, at ten billions. |