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a a PAGE SIX THE PARSONS SUN THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1931. THE PARSONS SUN AND REPUBLICAN Published Evenings Except Saturday and on Sunday Morning THE GUN PUBLISHING COMPANY. 219 South Central, Parsone, Kansas Clyde Reed Lester M. Combs, Secretary Mgr. Entered at the Post Office at Kansas, second class mall matter.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (By Carrier). One Week One Month Pares Months Six Months One Year 1.00 (By Mall) One Month One Year (Parsons rural routes and trade territory) 4.00 Outside Parsons trade territory. One Year 8.00 The Parsons Daily SUN' ber of the Associated Press and celves the telegraphic report of that' great news organization of eaclusive afternoon publications in Associated Press exclusively entitled to the use for the republica. tion of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES Eastern and Western tives.

THE D. KATZ SPECIAL AD. VERTISING AGENCY, New York. City, San Francisco, Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta, Member of the Audit Bureau of 2 FOR CHRIST BIBLE THOUGHT AND PRAYER. a EDIFYING SPEECH--Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which 18 good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

-Eph. 429. We--more or less respectfully -call the attention of our Democratic friends to the fact that this week Vermont elected a Republican to the United States senate by the normal G. O. P.

majority. That ought to give them at least a brief pause in counting their 1932 chickens which have not yet hatched. Yes, we remember that Taft carried Vermont in 1912. OUR SATISFAUTORY HUHUUL SITUATION In some of the towns of Kansas the city election is centering upon school management affairs. Which permits Parsons to put its thumbs in its vest armholes and point out that in this burg the old members of the school board are being reelected without opposition.

This city may well felicilate itself upon the character of the men who have served it in that capacity for many years and the school policy they have followed. And also upon the high quality of the actual school adminiistration. No city in Kansas can show better men and women in charge of its educational department than Superintendent Rees Hughes and his corp of principals and teachers. May the board and its teaching staff live long and keep up the good work. All of which is not in unawareness of the fact that our school expenses and taxes have risen greatly---as have all others--and whatever of economy may be practiced without.

lowering the standard schools should, and of course, will' be done. HARD LUCK The Columbus Advocate points out one of the prize cases of hard luck in this era of that sort of thing. It says: "We heard of dropping a spoonful of ice cream just as one was putting it into one's mouth and a lot of other sudden disappointment, but think of Jo Gaitskill, well known Girard attorney who made the race for district judge last fall. "Jo won--a Democrat too, in a Republican county, and then the Republicans went into the legislature and had his district obliterated. Now Judge Gaitskill can't even draw a month's salary and has no court or district.

"Talk about hard times!" FIRE INSURANCE COSTS Up in Kansas City, Kansas, one of the issues in the campaign is whether to vote bonds to improve the fire department facilities. That is a matter on which The Sun has no opinion but in connection with the plan the fire insurance agents held a meeting and their spokesman said: "Kansas enjoys almost the lowest rate of fire insurance in the United States. The rates in this state are away below those of Missouri, Colorado, and Oklahoma, and slightly under those of Nebraska as it is." It was said further that a fire station in each block could not reduce the insurance rates more than they are now. Let's see! The present fire insurance rates in Kansas are the result of a settlement of litigation affecting such rates made last year. The litigation had dragged over eight years and apparently was going to last eight years longer.

The superintendent of insurance, the attorney general and the then governor thought it well to settle the case, and they did. Do you remember how that settlement was misrepresented for purely primary campaign political purposes? And when the primary campaign was over the criticism was dropped and hasn't been heard of since? And will not be heard of again in any important way. Such are the ways of polltics in a republic, SURPLUS WHEAT There is world conference on grain production and consumption meeting in Rome, Italy at this time. Yesterday the Associated Press carried the following news story regarding the surplus of wheat which now exists: "Elimination of present surplus world wheat stocks by disposing of them at extremely' low prices in China and other countries where little wheat 18 consumed was recommended to the world grain conference today by a special committee. "Wiping out the present surplus stocks, the committee said, would result in better prices for the next crop.

The committee also recommended active propaganda for greater consumption of wheat in other countries. "It would be impossible, the committee decided, to obtain a worldwide reduction in wheat acreage by any international agreement or law." Sounds almost as if the report had been written by the writer of this column. Anyway it reflects almost his precise views on the subject. That there is 'a larger supply of wheat as a result of big crops in three of the last four years than it has been practicable to absorb through ordinary commercial channels 1 is not open to question. But that there is an oversupply of food--and wheat is the best food staple grain known to the world- -while millions of people are underfed is seriously open to question.

Instead of centering all effort on reducing the production of wheat why not try the plan of widening the outlet by selling the surplus cheaply to those who need it and make them permanent customers--to the extent of their ability to subsequently buy--for a better food than they have heretofore known. This government has spent many millIons of dollars in a commercial consular organization to promote our foreign trade in industrial production. Long term credits have been arranged to make surch trade possible. Why not try the same plan and principles in disposing of our agricultural tion. Would not that be a better way than to say to the 23 or 24 per cent of our people, engaged in agriculture that there is no answer to their problem except to reduce their production to the requirements of our domestic trade? Kansas Clip Some nit-wits still refer to mail planes as -there "she" Western Spirit.

Grade crossing accidents are the lowest since 1922. The locomotive is making good. its bluff at last. -Wichita Eagle. "Just hold the receiver a minute," said one El Dorado woman to another, this morning, interrupting a half-hour telephone conversation, "until I tell my husband something else to do." Jessie Perry Stratford in the El Dorado Times.

Nearly every American store is ncW a department store. Meat markets are selling millinery, drug stores are selling tractors, and an Atchison garage will add a department of babies' lingerie. -Atchison Globe. If you want to avoid certain perrle here in Ellis the best way to do so is to lend them some small sum of Review. plaint at the passing of cheap There would bean far less comvaudeville it it hadn't been that all of the performers got radio -Ottawa Herald.

"Think of the money we save on our silk stockings since skirts are longer," says a thoughtful local girl. "But think of how much more we've got to spend now at the beauty parlors in the improvement of our faces," says an even more thoughtful one.Jack Harris. SALLY'S SALLIES (OH LISTEN 10 HIS ONE. 'The best way to keep a diary is under lock and key. little Benny Lee Pape.

Pop felt warm after supper, and he took his coat off and hung it on the back of a chair. Giving ma a ideer, and she got up and felt in the inside pockit while pop was looking up at the ceeling smoking, ma saying, Ha ha, just as I thawt, youve still got that chain letter I sent you. 0, was that still in my pockit, sippose I hevent had time to tear it up, pop sed. My goodness, does it take an infinite eternity to tear up a letter? ma sed. as superstitious putty and youre afraid it you dont copy it.

off and send it to 9 other peeple youll have bad luck, I can see through you just like a hole in a stone wall, you cant fool me. And yet I remember your very werds as though it were yestidday. In fact it was ony the day before yestidday. You sed if you ever receeved a chain letter you'd tear it up with plezzure, she sed, And so I would, and so I will, pop sed. Why dont you then? ma sed, and pop sed, I will.

Will you give me permission to tear it up for you? ma sed. It cant bring me any bad luck as long as youre the one that gave me permission, because your the one that receeved the letter addressed to yourself in the due course of the mails. Do you wunt me to tear it up for you, Willyou? she sed. Why not, it's nuthing in my life, pop sed, and ma sed, All rite, heer it goes in little unreckonizable fragments, and pop sel, Hold on, wait a minnit. Whats a matter? ma sed, and pop sed, After all, who am I to Judge peeple? If there are 9 af.

my acquaintances silly and stupid enough to get a thrill out of rereeving a chain letter and ignorant and superstitious enopgh to waist their time passing it on 9 times 9 more times, who am I to rob them of their childish plezzures? 111 get my stenographer to type the copies off for me, 80 it will cost me absilutely no time or trubble, so after all theres no use being meen about it, pop sed. Hee hee, youre as transparent as a blade of grass, and it you dont take the me movies Im going to tease you all evening, ma sed. The result being pop took her. FELLOWSHIP OF PRAYER DAILY LENTEN DEVOTION PREPARED BY THE REV. CLARENCE H.

WILSON, DD FOR THE COMMISSION ON EVANGELISM OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA THE FAREWELL SUPPER "And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer." Luke 22:15. (Read Luke Meditation Apparently our Lord's wish to have the passover supper a farewell was in order that He might institute the ceremonial of remembrance. By simple and solemn rites the disciples and all who were to come after them, would pledge again and again their loyalty to their Lord and to one another. they were bound to Him and bound together until 'He comes. Prayer Almighty God unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known and from whom no secrets are cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of Thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love Thee and worthily magnify Thy holy name.

Through Christ our Lord. Amen. Gregorian Sacramentary. How's Yout Health? Dr. lago Gladston of the Y.

Academy of Medica BURNS A burn is a dangerous injury and, though it may cover a relatively small area of skin, the outcome is not infrequently fatal. For that reason an apparently superficial burn often taxes the physician's skill, our latest studies having shown that the body as a whole is affected by burns. The treatment of burns is too frequently thought of in terms only of the affected part or place. "What shall I put on the burn?" is the first question. While this is important, tematic care and treatment having in mind the whole body are as vital, it not more so, than the attention given the burned area.

Local treatment in burns aims to allay pain, preserve the skin and burned areas, prevent infection and promote healing. The specific treatment depends upon the type of burn, whether, for example, it is vet or dry, and upon the reaction the body to the injury. In general, burns should be disturbed and handled as little as possible. If there is clothing around the burned part, it should off. The should not be brokcut away, rather than drawn en through, if it is still intact.

If there is a skinless surface, it may be sprayed with mild solution of tannic accid. It is best to leave the handling of blisters to the physician. Burns, like injuries, shock the body. The person burned should therefore be placed in bed and should be kept from undue physical strain. Prompt medical attention is essential to safeguard life, as well as to reduce the risk of disfiguration in the healing process.

Because -burns cause the body to lose an astonishing amount. of Signs of Spring -Va. OUT, la AT, OWN TRAVEL YOUR RISK GOOD SIGN DETOUR MEN WORKING A 16E a CAL. TEXAS fluid, the blood becomes concentrated and a whole chain of evil consequences follows. To compensate for this the burning victim should take as much fluid as possible.

Tomorrow--Comforting the Sick. Maybe I'm Wrong By JOHN MEDBURY Two Chicago gangsters met in New York the other day and immediately began talking shot. Wonders of Nature. The park commissioner is thinking of giving a loving cup to the best necker this summer. Social Hiring a caddie to carry your Sunday paper.

Vital Statistics. There are enough speeches made in Washington every day to run all the wind-mills in the Today's Tightwad. out among lightning bugs to The fellow. who always goes read his newspaper. Take It or Leave It.

Whenever you find a model husband, the chances are he's an 1879 model. Advice To The Lovelorn. There's one thing about the Slovakian girls; They have plenty of Czech appeal. Null and Void. The butcher's wife who went to a surgeon to be operated upon and asked for one of his choicest cuts.

To Whom It May Concern. The Swiss government has placed. an order for a hundred and fifty thousand English echoes to supply the American tourists this summer. (Copyright, 1931.) Talks to Parents By Alice Judson Peale THE TODDLER'S PLAY One young father confided to me his worries about his twoyear-old son. "He treats woolly dog and his boat and his blocks all as if they were exactly alike," he said.

"He never makes up any games about them, and he doesn't have the remotest idea what the boat represents. He just carries them around and piles up in corners or dumps them in and out of his wagon. "I've tried to show him how to build with his blocks but all he wants to do is to knock them down. I really don't think he is quite bright." Unless one knows what to expect of a two-year-old, one is very likely to come to some such clusion after watching him at his play. The fact is the two-year-old is so engrossed with the mere excitement of walking and handling and discovering that he does very little else.

Merely emptying objects from one container into another, dragging blocks about the nursery in his little wagon, making his pull toys go, lifting, climbing and endlessly trotting back and forth and round and about within the confines of his small world, are all absorbing, new and highly satisfying occupations. Such activity should assure the parent that his child is developing in an entirely normal and desirable way. The background of experience and the imagination to use such experience in games of make-believe will not be his Forty Years Ago (From The Sun Files) Mra. F. W.

Frye, who has been quite sick at the home of her mother at Oswego the past two weeks is convalescing. The farmers just now are busy plowing and sowing oats, and as a result but few were in the city yesterday. Yesterday being April fools day many a good housewife played mischievious pranks on her unsuspecting husbands, Miss Karr leaves tonight for a visit with friends at Carthage, Mo. Mrs. J.

J. Henderson left yesterday for Erie, called there by the illness of her son, Will. A movement is on foot among the owners of the old wooden buildings on Forrest avenue, between Central and Eighteenth, inaugurate a regular building boom in business houses on wood- the ground now occupied by the en structures. The movement is a praiseworthy one, and The Sun heartily believes that property owners will find it to their interest to erect the new business bouses. Dr.

W. J. Gillett will join Dr. Planck in his mission of selling medicine, and the two with a colored quartet will commence perations at Cherryvale Monday night. M.

E. Wolfe the new dentist from Humboldt, is in the city, making preparations for fitting up dental parlors in the brown block. over W. L. Bartlett dry goods store.

Among Our Neighbors COFFEYVILLE-George Eckhardt, defeated in the primary four years ago, led the field of mayoralty candidates Monday by a margin of 695 votes over his nearest competitor, George Coverdale, who polled 1,104 votes and became runner-up for the general election ballot next Tuesday, while Judge A. A. Baker, with a total vote of 819 and J. N. Moon with 250 votes, were eliminated from the race.

NEODESHA-Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Allen of this city Monday observed their 55th wedding anniversary.

They were married here March 30, 1876. IOLA-Mrs. Rose B. Knapp, 84, died Sunday in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Bertha Wisner, four miles north of here.

She was the widow of William Knapp, who was a an early-day buggy manufacturer here. PERU-The home of Mr. and 2. C. Appleby here was destroyed by fire Sunday.

FREDONIA Orville Loader, 31, of near New Albany, who since last Thursday has been held in the Wilson county jail here, awaiting a sanity hearing, almost succeeded night, in but suicide tempt Sunday was cut down by fellow prisoners as he dangled from the bars of his cell by a blanket he had knotted around his neck. Loader was nearly dead when he was cut down. CHANUTE C. Groskinsky, grocer, armed himself with a shotgun to protect his property Sunday, and as a result, Harold Raines, 20, is in jail, awaiting a hearing on a charge of burglary in the night time. Tipped off by neighbors that a man was in his store early Sunday morning, the grocer surprised the youth, and, threatening, him with the shotgun, until officers arrived.

Officers said Raines was intoxicated. COFFEYVILLE protest of the Missouri Pacific railway company against the fire protection levy of the city of Coffeyville has been disallowed by the state tax commission, and the money volved, amounting to $206.63, will be released to the city by the county treasurer. COFFEYVILLE-The days of good hunting in this vicinity was recalled Tuesday when a .410 gague shotgun fired by Arthur Brooks, felled a large female wolf-coyote on the John Perkins farm. The animal's pelt measured six feet and two inches from tip to tip and the animal was estimated to weigh about 80 pounds. Its size places it as one of the largest ever killed in this vicinity.

-Births reported here during the past several days include those of Dixie Lee, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ivins, March 28; Denver Jenkins, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Denver Jenkins Wathen, March 22; Harold Wayne, a son, to Mr.

and Mrs. Ira Frazier, March 25; Thelma Jean, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Hughic Benjamin, March 26. COFFEYVILLE-Supt.

A. 1. Decker has been invited to act as judge in the annual college regional debate elimination tournaent at Pittsburg K. S. T.

C. April 9, 10 and 11. Colleges of this section of the country are to engage in eliminations in debate, oratory and extempore for both men and women, during the three days of the meet. Wife Preservers Use colored basting thread, especially for light goods. It is more easily distinguished from the permanent stitching even in its crudest form for about another year.

It is a mistake, therefore, to urge him to a kind of play for which he is not yet ready. A parent who would play with his two-year-old must do SO on the child's own level. Sundown Stories By Mary Graham Bonner MOTHER OPOSSUM'S WAYS "My babies are still without hair," said Mother Opossum after John and Peggy and the Little Black Clock had sat. down. "but later on I they will have splendid fur.

"But they will not leave my pouch until they are quite goodSized. In fact, they' will not leave until there really isn't any room for them any more. "They will learn--as all opossums do--to pretend they are lifeless when danger is near. "But you mustn't think they are cowardly because of this. Oh no, indeed, but they will not take any foolish chances.

"You will notice that I have a snout something like the snout of a pig, but that doesn't bother me. am not very clever, and none of the other members of the family are. "We will eat anything at all, vegetables, chickens---almost anything. "We go marketing at night. for we like night time best of all.

The day time we consider best for sleeping." The children looked at the hole beneath the stump of the tree where this opossum family made their home, and they saw other opossum homes in holes in other trees. Then the Little Black Clock asked some of the opossums it they would show John and Peggy how they dead," All the opossums forth and suddenly dropped down to the ground. They looked so limp and lifeless that John and Peggy could hardly believe they were really alive. Then they all got up again. and said they must really go to sleep, as was daytime, and that hoped John and Peggy would not think they were rude.

The children and the Little Plack Clock left them then and the Clock that they would now go and visit a whale! Huge Head" Twenty Years Ago (From The Sun Files) J. H. Bridger, who was painfully injured Saturday, while at work with his bridge gang on the Neosho division of the Katy, is resting well at his home at 1729 Appleton. Mr. Bridger was struck by a falling iron, which hit him in the face.

Mr. Bridger is foreman of the gang. Milton Ross, Milton Lewinsohn and M. Carawayyare the champion sprinters of Parsons, unless some one better will show up at once. In a cross country hike last Sunday the trio walked to Cherryvale, 19 miles.

In the first ten miles the record was a mile every 14 minutes. The boys were on duty Monday morning and seemed none the worse for their trip. Wilbur Elder, who was hurt at the International Harvester company last week, is improving and will be out in a few days. C. 0.

Humphrey went to Chanute on business yesterday. Miss Nora Smith, teacher in Lincoln school, was off duty today because of sickness. Glen Hand. driver of Haynes Hart's laundry wagon, came near being injured yesterday while collecting packages in the second ward. The young man was stepping into the wagon when the horse started.

throwing him under the wagon. He was dragged some distance and would have been seriously injured had not someone stopped the horse. L. J. Raymond of the International Harvester company, made a business trip to Oswego today.

The work of rejuvenating the Hotel Matthewson is progressing rapidly. The pepering will be finished this week. The east side fire department made a run to 1603 Kennedy this morning to the Perkins home. where a small blaze had started in the wash house. There was no damage, the fire being put out before it spread.

The department made the run during a heavy shower and found plenty of mud before reaching the station on the return trip. EL DORADO--Walter Stanley Campbell, professor of English at Oklahoma university, who has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim foundation, was for three years a pupil of Harley French in Severy, Kas. Mr. French is now principal of Jefferson high school here. Campbell was awarded the fellowship in recognition of his work as biographer of Kit Carson.

He is engaged now on a biography of Sitting Bull. IOLA-The fifth annual Rural School day will be held here Friday, April 3. Prof. C. G.

Iles and chamber of commerce are cooperative sponsors of the event. Nineteen schools will be represented by from 50 to 60 young athletes and agricultural experts. ARKANSAS CITY After three months of restricted operation, the Shell refinery will return to its old schedule tomorrow. With three more Dubbs units and one additional crude still back into operation, the change will result in from 30 to 40 operators to a full-time schedule of 216 hours a month. The men have been working about 160 hours a month since the reduction Jan.

1. INDEPENDENCE Odd Fellows and Rebekah members from all corners of Kansas and especially the southeast corner, will for guther here Friday and and dedication Saturday of the meeting the new Odd Fellow temple and the Grand Sire meeting. EL DORADO-W. R. Mannion, appointed a few weeks ago by Gov.

Woodring to be deputy state oil inspector for this section of the state, will take up his duties toHe will succeed Henry Sa.difer, who had been the deputy Here for several years and who has handled the work excellently. Mr. Mannion will have charge of th- two refineries here and one at Who Will Be Mayor? No One Knows! But you can be assured of a sound financial administration by electing L.A. (JOE) WALKER For Finance Commissioner He Will Protect The City Treasury. (Political, Advertisement).