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THE MESSENGER. KY FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL) 12, 1929 PAGE EIGHT "THERE'S THE LINE, BOYS the "west and the east of the is 1 In Waslngton ConTTh Piim VnUUbka Ww Turk VorUt 1058 former foes, the shields were not uncovered. Meanwhile the Imperial Rusian government had been overthrav-n, but nobody complained serloisly about the czarlst emblem, st It remains in view today in the vaulted ceiling. International Dilemma The redecorators confront a complicated problem, and it appears that experts of state in Washington must decide some of the fine points involved. Ther is room for only 10 In- signiae in the ceiling.

Must Ais1 tria and Hungary each be gen space, now that they are sepaate nations? If so, where can found for an eleventh Or must one of them be omitted vara the panorama, and if so, wHch one? Is Russia entitled to a place tn the ceiling, now that its government is not recognized by the United States? If the answer is NO to the question about Russa's status, the question may be soTed nicely. The czar's symbol jan come out and there will be rora for both Austria and Hungar During the last 10 years re- In New York By G. D. SEYMOUR. New York, April 11 JP) To four European nations it should be In teresting news that the ceiling in the main hall of the New York postoSice is to be redecorated.

When the ceiling was created 16 years ago, the national emblems of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Austro-Hungary, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands were inserted in it in a long row. Four years later the United States entered th World war and patriots caused the German and Austro-Hungarian fields to be veiled. They were teovered with painted canvas, and fthey remain hidden to this day. When the unshroudlrilC of the emblems was in nrdwi 1920. I Germany had become i republic and Austro-Hungary was twV dependent nations, so that them, old monarchic shields were out of dsfete For that reason, and not becau of any surviving animus toward! A Better Health Longer Life Gorgns Memorial Inint This series of articles is prepared under the direction of the Gorgas Memorial, which is organized to perpetuate the life work of the late Major General Gorgas in preventing unnecessary illness.

Ex-President Coolidge Is the honorary president of the Gorgas Memorial, which its headquarters at 1331-3 street. N. W. Washington. D.

PARENTAL CARE VISIONARY By J. H.r Mason Knox, M. D.f Baytimore, What Is prenatal care? It Is not visionary or theoretical scheme, but one, intensely practical, that will save many lives. To save the mother or the newly born infant, and to reduce the number of infants born dead, one cannot wait until the child is born, but must begin the care of the baby by adequately caring for the jnother during her whole waiting period and at the time of the birth of her baby; that Is. one must make more general satisfactory prenatal care.

Prenatal care consists In the following sensible procedure: First: Every mother, as early sa possible in her pregnancy, should have a thorough physical examination to determine: (A) Whether there is any mechanical obstruction to the natural birth of her baby. (B) Whether the mother Is suffering from any disease or any condition that may become worse or be passed on to the child. If such a condition is detected, it should promptly be treated. Second: The waiting mother should see a physician at least once a month and follow his art-vice as' to her diet, exercise, rst, clothing, etc. She should consu't him especially concerning any troublesome symptoms that may arise, so that these may receive prompt treatment.

The blood pressure and condition of the kidneys should be determined at least monthly. Third: It is advisable to have the mother's teeth put. In good condition at the beginning of the waiting period. Fourth: It Is important that the mother live in an atmosphere as free as possible from worry and anxiety. Fifth: The arrangements for the birth of the baby at home or in a hospital should be made early eo that hasty and emergency may be reduced to a minimum.

All this sounds simple, yet the stake involved often the life of the mother and child is so mo mentous that it is remarkable so many do not insist upon having adequate prenatal care. A large number of mothers receive no e- natal examination and advice, aid do not call in the doctor or mid wife until labor has begun, ofcn too late to avert dangerous com plications. However willing doctors may be to give prenatal care to expectant mothers, however insistently health officers urge this care for every mother as a life-saving measure, it will not be generally demanded until the PUBLIC realizes its Importance. This is a matter in which 'the informed women of the country can play a major role. They can secure this care for themselves, and through their organizations and their meetings they can so practice and preach the gospel of life-saving that prenatal care will become a generally accepted practice.

Farmer's Advice By Alfalfa Smith Do you know the difference between "ague thinking and VIVID THINKING? Suppose I am in a theatre and I notics a curl of smoke coming from behind the scenery. Do you suppose it would be as effecitve for me to say: "Ladles and Gengtle-men I think the house is on fire and I ask you to go out as quietly as possible," or do you thing it would be more effective to yell Suppose you want an automobile or a country home, why not do some vivid thinking? Tho idea that will getf you the car or the home will not come in a second, but I know it will come when you least expect it. AS IS YOUR VIVID THINKING SO BE IT UNTO YOU. For Foot Comtort and Quick relief of hot, tired, aching, smarting feet shake Allen's Foot- Ease the antiseptic healing powder into your ahoea. It takes the fric tion from the shoes and make walking or dancing a delight.

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Brisbane's articles In The Messenger does not signify that this newspaper endorses or erees with his opinions or logic This column is published because The Messenger desire? to give Its readers the views of the world's widest read and highest paid editorial writer. The story of the "deadly bomb intended for New York's governor, Roosevelt, explodes, pleasantly. It was an imitation bomb, manufactured, placed and "discovered" by one whose hope was profit and a glorious memory. "The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives in fame the pious fool That rais'd it." The aspiring gentleman that invented the Roosevelt bomb will less fortunate. The Ford company statement, filed in Massachusetts yesterday, says Mr.

Ford has on hand Not exactly poverty, but seventy-two millions less than Ford had a year ago. This shows that it cost money to change one car to another, rip out great factories and install new machinery. However, the Ford plant is now producing more than 7,000 passen ger cars and trucks per day. That $72,000,000 will soon be replaced. Two million cars a year should easily yield $100,000,000 profit, five per cent on two billions.

President Coolidge becomes a director in the New York Life company in place of the late Ambassador Herrick. Such a man as Mr. Coolidge could not remain idle. 'And he could with difficulty find work more useful than life insurance. It Inculcates thrift, provides for widows and children.

A family of gorillas living in the Kivu district of the Congo, where they inhabited a peaceful volcano, killed by Carl Akeley, are now stuffed, in the Museum of Natural History in New York. All those that can, should see them. Nothing could have madethose gorillas, when romping around the volcano, believe that such a place as New York existed, or that they could ever go there. But it does exist and they did go. That might encourage atheists to believe that there may be something finer than New York and that we may go there, later, The United States, producing 4,600 airplanes in 1928, leads in aircraft output.

France in 1928 built only 1,440 airplanes. Great Britain sells more airplanes abroad than we do, France, however, has five times as many fighting planes than we have. Her fighting air fleet is so big it makes Great Britain very polite. France is the real aCrplane country, no matter what others may manufacture. Britain is catching up.

We lag behind, but that will change. Gentlemen of the American Defense society, who would only ac cept imigrants as much as possible like the Puritans, keeping out others, says "President Hoover doesn't know as much about immigration as some of us." Mr. Hoover knows a good t'jal more about immigration than tho American Defense society knows. Former Secretary Redfield, at a luncheon given by L. J.

Horowitz, to promote arbitration in place of law suits, said that the word "alloy" once meant always now that stands for improvement. Steels are made better by the mixing in of other metals. Human races are also improved by alloys, mixtures of other human beings. We need all kinds of humans that mix satisfactorily. For reasons known to Providence, the Mongolians and Caucasian races do not mix well.

I Those that gamble in stocks or anything else are foolish and will regret it. But the country Is prosperous and business Is good. United States Steel reports at the end of March orders unfilled of 4, 410,718 tons, a gain of ill tons for the month. United States Steel went up $4.25 a share yesterday. New York banks called 000 in loans for speculating In obedience to orders from a "higher Money went to 10 per cent.

Foreigners and big corporations are lending money at the high interest rates. Banks obedient to orders lend comparatively little of a Stuyvesant Fish, sues officials that stopped his yacht, looking for liquor, of which he had none. It was a new yacht. Mr. Fish wants to "protect the rights of yachtsmen." Even to protect the rights of row boats and other small craft Is, or ought to be, even more important, in a republic, since there are more of them.

However, republic or no republic, stopping a rich man's yacht 6eems to create more excitement than breaking into a poorer man's house and killing his wife. 'Million nte SuriT because it mke hair soft ami pliable, and keep it combed aD day. A liquid tonic Not cocky. Mot greasy. A few drop suf ft.

ROT tor tne most stuDoorn nair. i tj ic FAT3 land." This area included the rich lands of the island. The Porto Rican has awakened to the fact that he has no where to lay his head. He lays it where the landlord will let him. He counts himself fortunate if he can retain even for a brief time one of the primitive huts on the land of the sugar companies, controlled by great corporations.

Each of these huts is -occupied by a field worker, but he remains there only so long as his employment by the sugar company lasts. In most cases this is but temporary, ending with the close of the harvesting season. Then he is forced to move on and seek another abode and other employment equally trans-lent. More serious still is the meager diet on which the rural workers are forced to subsist, consisting of black coffee, tubers and rice perhaps once a day, which is not sufficient to maintain the amount of vitality needed for the long hours of hard toil to which the field worker is subject. The result is an appalling amount of disease.

Mr, Barcelo, in his address In 1919. in relating the sad story of the condition of his people, and the causes leading to it, said: "I wish to Impress upon you the extraordinary enormity resulting from the fact that we are obliged to live under, the protecting margin of your tariff by virtue of which your products monopolize our markets and prices increase to twice or three times the amount for which we could obtain products elsewhere, or for which we could buy them from your own selves If the tariff protecting your Industries did not hold there." The American tariff has brought. immense profits to the great sugar growing corporations, but these large returns have been unwillingly wrung from the toiling masses and home makers of our own country as well as those of Porto Rico. To the Porto Rican the tariff has been a two-edged sword. It has not only contributed to th9 creation of the land monopoly, making him a wanderer in the land of his birth and rewarding him only with starvation wages, but it has added to his distress by imposing upon him a trlbuti which he must pay for the men privilege of carrying on his precarious existence.

FEWER ONE-ROOM SCHOOLS In the modern school system the trend is toward elimination of the "little red schoolhouse." These little one-room schools of the rural district, which were so large a factor in the development of American civilization and so generally held in affection', are slipping behind In the march of progress. Each year witnesses abandonment of 5,000 of them: Consolidated schools are supplanting the one-room school, each one of the former taking the place of several of the latter. Though great credit Is due the "little red schoolhouse," it was not as efficient an educational machine as this new Institution with its supervisor and teachers trained In un iversities and normal schools, the most modern of school buildings and equipment, and educational standards on a par with those of the large town. The one-room school served its purpose well, but its successor is more in keeping with the demands of modern times. Consolidated schools are increas ing only because of the Increasing number of improved year-round highways, greater rural prosperity and the awakening of rural Amer ica to the need of education.

Each of these Imposing structures is a monument to the desire for know ledge and appreciation of the value of education which are evident among- people living close to the soil. "Wonder if indigestion makes some people grouchy or if being grouchy makes them have Indigestion? Looking Backward TEX YEARS AGO (Messenger of April 12, 1919) F. M. Barns run down by automobile being towed by truck, at Fourth and Frederica streets. "Work on new Mary Kendall home in Phillips court progressing nicely.

Rollin Thompson, of Rome, bu- lot in Waveland from Short Bros. To build residence. Short Bros, sell farm owned by Mrs. K. Y.

Berkshire, east of Owensboro, to Murray Roberts. Mrs. Henry S. Berry elected president Anti-tuberculosis board of directors. J.

J. Trefz goes to St. Louis. Death of Mrs. J.

P. Curtln. formerly of Owensboro, at Tulsa, Okla. Youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. O. Hagan. Internal revenue collections $88,225.31. Liquor Collections.

183,066.64. TWENTY YEARS AGO (Messenger of April 12, 1909) Prof. H. W. "Woodruff returns from Louisville, called by death of brother, Charles R.

"Woodruff. "Wallace Hays entertains with Informal musicale at home in Anthony street. Numbers by Misses May Hays, Bessie Crawford and Mr. W. H.

Horner. Stuart Todd, attending school In Cincinnati, home for Tisit to parents. Dr. C. H.

Todd and Mrr. 'd in Frederica street. Dr. II. Strother goes to Big Springs to spend Easter with mother.

J. D. Powers returns to i i Mm I i i -i ILmii fUJ 'w-ii'i'iM By RIRKE L. SMPSON. Washington, April (JP) It's a bit odd, perhaps, that tie last session of the seventieth congress should have opened ind closed with rows afoot aboutuhe reap portionment bill.

Looking back to house proceed ings of the first day of the session, December 3, Rep. Roy Fitzgerald of Ohio will be found challenging the constitutional right of that body to do any business whatever. Having failed to comply wltli constitutional requirements for apportionment of members among: the states, he held for purposes of the Congressional Record only that the house was unorganized and could not be organized until the apportionment was made. That was all very well. It caused a good laugh in the house, and that was all, at the time.

But when Vandenberg of Michigan, with less than a year in the senate to his credit, took over the job of forcing some sort of action in that body op the reapportionment bill subsequently passed by the house, it was quite a different kettle of fish. The Michlgander opened fire at a time when the senate dreaded delay to its final hours of essential business. Wherefore, majority leadership hastily capitulated and agreed to load the April special session of the seventy-first congress with reapportionment debate as well as farm relief matters. Newcomer Out fn Front That was quite a notable victory for a senate junior. The records do not disclose that a senate newcomer has very often managed so ijuickly to set his mark on proceedings.

Clearly, Senator Vandenberg was well advised on senate strategy, or is an unusually astute observer of senatorial ways. He will bear watching, regardless of how his reapportionment campaign turns out. And so far as that is concerned, his victory in the seventieth congress skirmishing is quite apt to prove to have a pyrrhlc flavor. The reapportionment bill for which he did battle is anathema to senators from the more rural states. Senator Black af Alabama assailed it bitterly almost at the close of the session.

City-Country Fight "I will not vote for a measure which is destined In the long run to change prematurely the balance of legislative power in this nation from the rural districts to the great metropolitan areas," Senator Black said. There you have it. Roughly speaking, the "major factions'' method of reapportionment employed by the house bill would shift more than a score of members from rural to bfg city states. The voting effect of that in the house, on a rural vs. urban Interest question say, would aggregate a potential loss of almost 50 farm bloc votes.

And In a special session primarily designed to relieve the former. it hardly seems likely that congress would begin by relieving him of voting strength In the house. Guiding Your Child By MRS. AGNES LYNE "Albert, you've lost your gloves again! That's the fourth pair this winter. I don't understand how you can be so careless.

I don't believe you care whether you have gloves to wear or not." And Albert's mother at once goes to the store and buys him a fifth pair, which Albert will lose as surely as he lost the others. Ordinarily, gloves are nothing in Albert's life. He really hates to wear them except when the weather is extremely cold and then he can be sure that mother always will produce a pair for him from some mysterious source. He knows he won't be allowed to freeze, so he loses one pair after another with sublime indifference. There are three things which may be done to check such prodigality.

The first is to permit him to go without his gloves until he, himself, asks to put them on. Then when he does ask to wear them they may be fastened to a string attached to the back of his collar, or pinned securely to the sleeves of his coat. If he scorns these devices as undignified and unbecoming to one of his advanced age, it can be pointed out to him that he must assume responsibility for his gloves, and if he loses them, he will have to help pay for a new pair, or go without any for a long while. Losing things is a distressing habit which no amount of lecturing can cure. Gloves, handkerchiefs, mufflers; to the child they are so many meaningless, worthless articles.

Our best course is to dispense with the unessential and gradually teach him to assume responsibility for those things whose worth experience has taught him to appreciate. Barbecued supper. Knottsville, afternoon and evening. April 13. Benefit St.

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The merit rating plan for automobile liability insurance has now been put into effect in all states except Minnesota. New 'Hamnshlre. Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and "Washington. Under this plan persons who have Ave nasseneer cars will con tinue to be rated under the experience plan. Owners of fewer than five cars must pass prescribed tests to oDtain tne 10 per cent discount allowed the experienced driver.

Among these tests or requirements are proof of two years' driving without an accident, conviction for drunken driving, evading respon sibility for an accident or arrest for reckless driving, and regular Inspection of brakes and steering mechanism. urns means the owner who keeps his car road-worthy and op erates it safely will pay less for Ms liability insurance than the reckless driver of a vehicle that belongs in an automobile graveyard. The latter mnlrM tfco rotoa VilwVi bo should pay the penally. CREDIT CONTROL EFFECTED Excessive nhsnrntinn nf (ri1lt cor speculative purposes is a detriment to business and industry. It is upon this principle that the federal reserve board's latet to member banks is bas- sound, and the proba'lities are, therefore, that the requested cooperation will bo iadily obtained.

But the board is insistent, "fn case ine aesirea readjustment not brought about by voluntary exoneration." it savs. "the tdfral reserve system may adopt othr methods of influencing the situation." This Is certainly the plainest Kind or an indication that there will 'soon be release of an Increasing of credit for trade purposes and a general ceasing of the mon-, ey situation. Whether Wall street likes makes not the slightest difference. Some critics are sure to de Bounce the board's strong action as being unduly dictatorial and autocratic. unis, nowever, win Via tiJwm.n( 9 iU lilt of people who, If their fingers were not actually burned In the speculative furnace, would at leat suffer indirectly through continued flaunting of the policies of Bound finance.

CONDITIONS IX PORTO RICO Conditions existing in Porto Rico people of the United States. The situation there presents some prob- I0Bs that might be studied with profit by our own people. by our government at the close of the war with Spain. The condl- tlon of its people had not ed under the control of the Span- Tn pnvprnmpnr. ym.

lr i aariv pie there has grown from bad to worse under the government by the United States. Attracted by s-Z, sured profits under the protective tariff policy of the United States, capital quickly gravitated to the island, after it became a posses-" sion of this country. From 1900 ed four-fold and has continued to increase from year to year. As a corollary to this rapid ex- pansion of the sugar industry a virtual iana monopoly was ed. The sugar growers constantly crease their production.

Accord- ing to the Porto Rico census of 1899, there were in that year 247 farms of less than eight acres each. The United States census for 1920 shows only 15,981 farms of less than ten acres each. At a hearing before the Comittee on Insular affairs, held at "Washington I In 1919, Mr. Barcelo, an outstand- ing leader in Porto Rico political affairs stated: "Four large cen- trals practically, own the south, m-otests have beM made tJ postal officials against the contin ued covering of the German ana Austro-Hungarian shields. But of the thousands of people who walk daily through the vaulted corridor of the great postoffice behind the Pennsylvania-terminal, only about two a month, the guards say, stop to look at or to inquire aoouc tne shrouded emblems.

What visitors to the postoffice do notice Is the heroic Inscription cut in the structure's stone portico, and reaching for almost two blocks across the front of the buildinsT It reads: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor eloom of night stays these cou riers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." William M. Kendall, of the ar-rbiteetural firm which designed th postoffice, found the sentence while poring over Herodotus account cl the Greek expedition against the Persians. Herodotus referred to the mounted couriers of the Persian king Cyrus, but the quotation so impressed Kendall as applicable to the postment that he caused It to be inscribed across the por- I tico. You must visit our rug and drapery department, we are showing a beautiful array of patterns for every room select yours at once Our new Rugs and Draperies were bought right and we can save you money on them. KEEP FOODS FRESH Gibson Refrigerators are built to preserve food and at the same time consume a minimum ot Ice.

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