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Ralph Waldo Emerson. PAGE 4 The biggest reward for a Holy Week Discomfort Index U. S. Weather Bureaus will begin this year to figure the "discomfort index." This is a measurement of heat and humidity that tells how uncomfortable it is just to exist. It is figured by adding the figure 15 to four-tenths of the sum of wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers.

The temperature registered on the thermometer on the back door is dry-bulb; the weathermen have another thermometer which is called wet-bulb. When the discomfort index, as figured by this method, reaches 75, which many persons find oppressive, the temperature may be 75 and the relative humidity 100 or the temperature 80 and the relative humidity 60, or the temperature 85 and humidity 30. Before the index reaches 70 about 10 per cent of the people will be uncomfortable. When it passes 75, more than half will be in discomfort. At 79 all persons will be uncomfortable and some will be acutely ZIPPORAH 'And Motes was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Motes Zifporoh his Exodus 2.21 In these final days before Good Friday and Easter the thoughts of men turn more than ever to the concerns of the spirit.

Churches hold more services. There is an increased intensity of private devotions. Men are reminded to turn their thoughts to higher matters. In its solemnity and soul-searching this season differs from the other great festival of the church, that of Christmas, where emphasis is upon gladness and joy. Often unnoticed on the surface of everyday affairs, these observances signify man's highest yearnings and keep him in tune with the Infinite.

Exit Free Trade Area The "free trade area" in Europe apparently is dead. A commission of the six nations of the European Common Market has dropped the scheme as a basis for negotiating with Britain. The free trade area was Britain's idea of the way to gain the advantages of belonging to the Common Market which involves France, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, West Germany and Italy without being bound by its rules. These six nations have said, in effect, that this is not fair to them. Britain feels she cannot join the Common Market because this would hurt her trade with Commonwealth countries to which she gives preferential treatment.

Yet island nation doesn't want to be shut out of the trade-inducing tariff cuts and other devices planned by the Common Market. The British tried to resolve this dilemma by providing a half-way house to gain the advantages of both systems. This certainly was worth a try, but now the final curtain has been brought down on this by the continental nations. What Britain does now will be interesting to watch. New taxes proposed by the governor of Pennsylvania are equivalent to the entire cost of the state government 20 years ago.

Onward and upward is the politicians' battle cry everywhere. So They Say- Before we start writing billion-dollar checks on the nation's future, I think we ought to take a clear, hard look at Uncle Sam's bank account and see what we can afford to do in the face of the many urgent demands for the taxpayer's dollar. Housing Administrator Norman P. Mason, criticizing Democratic housing bill as inflationary. We have seen so many crises in the past 10 years that people find themselves under the spell of the old fable where the boy cried "wolf, wolf" too often.

But this is it. Alfred M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nominee, on the Berlin situation. All indications are that the Russians will put up the first usable space platform, most likely in five years or less. But man probably the Russians will land a manned space vehicle on the moon before that time, perhaps in two years or less.

Dr. Lloyd Motz, Columbia University astronomer. When Moses was forced to flee from Egypt because fie had killed a slave driver who was beating a Hebrew workman, he took refuge in Midian. This was a country extending from the northeast shores of the Dead Sea, far into the Arabian peninsula. Like any weary traveler, he paused at a well to rest and refresh himself with a cool drink.

It was while he was there that he lint met Zipporah. She and her six sisters hacf brought their flocks to the well for their daily watering. But some rude shepherds who had arrived first, would not allow the girls to bring their sheep near the well. Young Moses immediately came to the girls' rescue. He not only defied the shepherds, but he even helped the girls fill the troughs to water their flocks.

As he did so, he singled out Zipporah, whose voice -even in anger had the sweet tone of a dove. After the painted faces the Egyptian court, the simple beauty of her outdoor countenance refreshed him, like the cool water of the well. Perhaps he thought to himself: here is this country's heart, the sweet life of contentment Trust in God, for this child, is iov in the morning, and the distant tinkle of the ram's bell. God descends with the rain, and He is inhaled with the fragrant smell of the harvest. And shyly averting her eyes from the stranger, no doubt Zipporah was moved to thoughts of her own: Many men have done me good turns.

But this one if different. There is kindness in him; but there is strength and terrible power, like the lightning behind clouds. When the girls arrived home, their father asked: "How is it that ve are come so soon today?" Then they told him of the kind Egyptian who had helped them at the well. "Where is he?" said tlieir father, a little annoyed that they had not shown hospitality to the kind stranger. "Call him that he may eat bread." So Moses came to Zipporah's house.

''And Moses was content to live with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter." Cope. WJS, TIMES-MlttOV SYNDICATt Rich Dividends Supt. Norman K. Morgan, of the Kis-Lyn Industrial School, writing in the March issue of the school publication, "The Banner," gives a timely message which is well worth repeating, remembering and practicing. Writing of courtesy, he says: "The other day I was abrupt to the point of rudeness with one of my fellow workers.

It doesn't matter that his telephone call came to me in the midst of a vexing problem which I was trying to solve. There is seldom if ever any justification for discourtesy even if it isn't intended as such. Of course I apologized but it occurred to me that very often people are needlessly discourteous to one another and the fault is not confined to teenagers. We adults are guilty frequently of this offense against good manners and the results are magnified because we are supposed to serve as examples of what children will eventually become. "So teenagers, begin now to acquire those characteristics which you would like to see in us adults.

In a few short years you will be in our position. It requires less effort to smile than to frown and we look better. Ben Franklin wrote, 'A teaspoonful of honey will catch more flies than a barrel of Although we will probably not make careers of catching flies, it is to our advantage to catch as much good will as we can and of course that was one of the things Ben was talking about. "Considerations of others is the true basis of courtesy and good manners. Invest in it heavily and enjoy a rich return on your investment." Dancers' Costumes Sturdy NEW YORK (JP) The Rock-ettes, one of New York's venerable tourist attractions, usually appear scantily clad as they swing into their famed precision kicking.

Actually, it's mostly a trick. The 36 young dancers cavort on stage in costumes as impervious to disaster as that of a hockey goalie. Costuming the Roekettes, as well as the Radio City Music Hall ballet corps' and others in the stage show cast, is the responsibility of 30-year-old Le- anne Mitchell, a Centerville, Iowa, girl who is in charge of a specially trained staff of the atrical dressmakers. Most New York theatrical enterprises rent or order costumes from one of three large costume companies. The Music Hall is one of the very few outside of the Hollywood studios which whips up its own on order.

Miss Mitchell estimates that she and her staff make around 100 costumes each time the bill changes. Costumes Must Wear Contrary to popular conception, theatrical costumes are not constructed of cheeslecloth and library paste. Miss Mitchell buys cloth by the thousands of yards-velvets, silk crepes, lame, cloth of gold, strong, long fibred cottonand all of good quality. "They must stand up to hard she explained. "The girls must wear them for every show for from four to ten weeks.

And after that they are stored and we may use them again remodeled, of course in three or five years." Miss Mitchell goes to work on the costumes as soon as she receives sketches from the theatre's costume designer. First she makes a pilot costume, which is checked for effectiveness by the producer and the choreographer. If she gets an okay, she goes into mass production with the aid of 20 full-time seamstresses and hand-finishers. There the 48 Roekettes 36 in theine, and 12 who fill in as the girls take their weekly days off. There are 28 in the ballet corps 36 in all and each girl is fitted to her costume several times before it is finished.

One of Miss Mitchell's problems is to make the girls look 'as much alike, in size and conformation, as possible. Although there is really as much as five inches difference in height between the tallest and shortest girls, Miss Mitchell uses a theatrical trick to make them appear uniform. "Mostly, it's making the hems even," she confided. "You make the hem lines higher for the short girls and longer for the tall ones. But, of course, when they are in skin-tight leotards, it's harder.

After all, legs are legs, and you can't do much about that." Shoes Important Another of costumer Mitchell's jobs is keeping the dancers properly shod. Each Rockette has a basic shoe wardrobe of four pairs of tap shoes black, red, gold and silver. A pair of shoes usually stand up through about two changes of the theatre's bill and then must be replaced. A pair of satin ballet slippers is worn out in a week, although the "flats" canvas which the ballet corps' uses in numbers when they don't dance on their toes are much more durable. "This is very stimulating work," she said.

"Sometimes you have interesting problems thrown into your lap like how to work things out so that the girls can light up like Christmas trees-bulbs, wires and a little battery attachment in the rear or using invisible paint so that you can change the colors of the costumes by changing the lighting." -Build her up to the children. Don't let them hear you criticize her or question her judgment. Don't keep her in the dark about your business affairs. Don't expect her to have a sixth sense that tells her how you feel about important issues. Let her know what you want out of life.

Pay her the kind of compliments that mean something to a woman. She'll be glad to hear that the dinner was wonderful, but she would be much more pleased to hear that you think she looks especially pretty. Don't make her ask you for money every morning. Any wift ought to be a financial partner, not have money given to her like a child. Be pleasant-around the house.

It's an awful thing for a. worn-man to dread her husband's homecoming each evening because so often he comes home looking for trouble. in Pregnancy goiter belt a Region where there is nqt an adequate a of idoine she must be careffl to supplement her diet with this element or else her baby may not develop a normal thyroid gland. These are just examples of how important food is to the baby. These days pregnant women are urged not to gain too much weight.

This is important, but it's also important to make sure that what food is eaten contains all the essentials for baby growth. You cannot grow a healthy baby on coffee for breakfast, a lettuce leaf for lunch and a glass of skimmed milk for dinner! Nutrition Needs Diet during pregnancy should be low in total calories but high in meat, eggs, milk, fruit and vegetables. A diet especially prescribed for you is one of the important things your doctor will do for yon as he cares for you during your pregnancy. If you have been" eating a good diet all your life you will not need to make many changes in it during the months your baby is under your belt. You will doubtless need a little more meat or eggs, maybe more fruit and vegetables.

You are likely to find that you are hungrier than usual especially after the first few months. Be sure that you satisfy your increased appetite with an extra glass of milk, a piece of fruit, a salad, maybe another serving of meat but not with doughnuts, candy, potato chips and pastry. If your diet before you became pregnant was not too good, this will be a wonderful time to learn about a good diet, how to market for it, how to cook it and how to enjoy eating it. Not only will you have a sturdy baby for your efforts but you will feel better yourself, and so will all of your family. Dick Stern, the father of four, says: "The best thing that ever happened to my figure was Clara-belle's first pregnancy!" 50 Years Ago Joseph Coleco, McAdoo barber, has moved his shop to the Spring Mountain Hotel in Jeanesville.

James Simmons has retired as motorman on the Lehigh Traction Co. and will take a similar position on the W. B. H. He will succeed Arthur Treible who has become chauffeur for Dr.

Harry M. Keller. The Sunday School Class of St. John's P. M.

Church at a meeting on Thursday decided to purchase a new piano for the class room. James MeGinty, a printer on the Daily Standard, has been appointed constable in the Ninth Ward. The Hazleton School Board will make a tour of all schools in the new wards. C. A.

Stauffer of this city, who has been very ill in the U. of P. Hospital in Philadelphia, will be brought to his home on Saturday. Scott Drum at a dinner at his home on South Church street in honor of his 34th birthday. Jack McCarthy, Hazleton newspaper man, was the entertainer and speaker.

Rev. II. C. Wallace has resigned as pastor of the M. E.

churches at Jeanesville and Audenried. "Cheap John" has a shipment of imported potatoes on Spade's siding. A. O. Riegel, station agent for the LVRR at Conyngham and Henrietta Kistler of Weatherly, will be wed next week.

The Hazle Sextette Club is considering sponsoring Wednesday night dances at Hazle Park pavilion for the summer season. There will be a in Jacobs' Academy on Wednesday night. The invitations are being sent out by W. H. Perry and C.

F. Smith. The drivers at the Coleraine colliery will hold a meeting in the Leviton school house tonight when they will organize a union. The first group of local men to arrive home fiom college for the Easter season are Harry Maue, Irving Schick and George Cressling, all of Hazleton, and Harry Kulp, Harwood, all student at Lafayette College, Memo to men who don't want an unhappy, frustrated wife: Don't expect her to take yur love for granted. Most women need to be told that they are loved or they begin to wonder and worry.

Try to get one fact through your head: No matter how many labor-saving appliances a woman has, she carries a heavy load of work and responsibility if she is a wife and her know you know that. Talk to the woman you are sharing your life with. Women need, to talk and the most frustrated wives are those who say "My husband never talks to me." Treat your wife as you would a date when you take her out. That means pay some attention to her. Help her in and out of the car; pull out her chair for her; listen attentively when she talks; act as though you're having a good time.

Right Diet Vital By DOROTHY V. WHIPPLE, M.D. The baby in your womb is in a safe place one of the very safest he will ever find during his whole life. You keep him protected from falls, from changes in temperature, from light, from sound and from confusion. In this warm, dark, silent, safe place he is busy doing the important job of developing enough independence to live on his own.

What you do and what happens to you during these crucial nine months of your baby's life have an effect on how your baby develops. Time was when people believed all sorts of superstitions about how the baby could be influenced by his mother's life. Many of these old beliefs we know now are not true. It is nonsense to think that a terrifying sight experienced by the mother can "mark" her baby or that a loud frightening noise like thunder could affect the baby's voice. We know now that much of the old folklore has no basis in fact.

Yet the baby is dependent on his mother for his very existence and she must supply him with all his needs and protect him from harm. Building a Baby What the mother eats is certainly important. She must supply him with every last building stone he needs to construct a healthy body. The baby's body draws to itself what it needs from the mother's circulation. If there is only a tiny amount of some important substance present the baby will grab it away from his mother and her body may suffer, but if she just doesn't have enough the baby cannot develop normally.

There used to be an old saying, "A tooth for every baby." This of course need not be true. If the mother drinks enough milk she will have plenty of calcium not only for her own needs but also plenty for the baby's developing body. If the mother-to-be lives in a 25 Years Ago James Welliver of Tomhicken yesterday was elected president' of the Luzerne County Interdenominational Youth Conference. Joseph Sherrock of Hazleton Heights escaped injury when a driver crashed into his new car at the Drums-Freeland crossing. His new machine was wrecked.

Dr. Thomas McGeehan is at Temple University, Philadelphia, attending a dental clinic. Trustee William Kuntz, of the Blue Eagle Club of West Hazleton has announced that the club will hereafter be known as the Blue Bird Club. Allan Sharp, who has built a modern bakery in Freeland, will have a formal opening of the establishment next week. W.

H. Barto of Weatherly was elected as a trustee of the Carbon County Sportsmen's Association which held its annual meeting at Lehighton last night. The Master Barbers Association of Hazleton announced today that it will turn in the members to the NRA if the cut in price from SO to 35 cents is to be carried out. Stanley Caughey, Robert Belles and Charles Beck, three young men from Hazleton, were injured in an auto crash at Catawissa when a car driven by Caughey left the highway and upset. Mayflower Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star at a meeting last night elected May Bicking as Worthy Matron, and Laura Boone as Associate Matron.

A. J. Hardy has taken out a certificate to operate a bus line between Shenandoah and Hazleton via Ringtown. Barbs People would be better off if they didn't have so much patience with themselves. Don't believe all you hear or try to tell all you know.

It isn't half as hard to get up early in the morning when you don't have to. There's trouble ahead when a man gives his wife everything credit can buy. Volunteer Weathermen Are Vital By Dorman Cordell LOUISVILLE, Ky. (P)-Every night at exactly the same time Charles E. Barret walks out to a little shed in his back yard at nearby Anchorage.

From thermometers in the shed, he records high and low temperatures for the past 24 hours. Then he checks a guage for rainfall or snowfall during the period. Across the nation, more than 7,000 other persons make similar trips to gather the same information. They make up the Weather Bureau's unpaid Cooperative Observer Corps. The Weather Bureau calls the data the group gathers "an invaluable treasure" for the study of climate and climate changes.

Volunteers Neccessary O. K. Anderson, chief meteorologist at the U. S. Weather Bureau here says, "We simply couldn't do the job without these volunteers." Questions and Answers Isak Dinesen Talks of Her Art to Bureau The Weather Bureau figures that the observers spend an average of 15 minutes a day taking and recording the observations and making monthly reports.

That means all observers contribute more than 79,800 full eight-hour days of work each year all without pay. The observers recognize that their importance has increased over the years. "Years ago they didn't pay nearly as much attention to the weather and those voluntary stations as they do now," Barret says. "Since the airplane has come into use, you know, that makes a big difference." Despite their unpaid status, the voluntary observers show great devotion to their work. Barret says he can't explain exactly why he faithfully takes readings every night.

"Just got interested in it," he says, adding that he likes to keep records of things. story teller, I write what is passed on by word of mouth." Her stories have plot, but also they have the "air" of which she spoke, the air for which she admired so much Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" with "its splendid feel for the mighty river." The people in her stories are not just real, they are in fact bigger than real. There is a party ghostly quality to the scenes and action, a touch of Arabian nights, of the unearthly and supernatural. Was there some connection between her birth and upbringing in an agricultural country with respected traditions, and the aloof, non-involved, cool handling, the classical or aristocratic handling, of her stories? She wasn't sure. "Democratic literature," she said, "is realistic literature.

I am not a realistic writer. And my own well-springs seem to lie far back, in the Denmark I knew before I went to Africa in 1914. I do not belong as a writer to any particular generation in Denmark." She thought there was some special sensitive quality, some softness which she prized, about countries that border the sea, missing in Russia and Germany, she said, but to be found in England, France, and her native land, which has given us also Hans Christian Anderson and Kierkegaard. She loves cities. "I love Rome, I love Paris, Hove London.

When I go back to London, I feel that I am going home. Now that I have seen New York with its fantastic man-made heights, I add it to the list of cities with a firm place in my consciousness." The 75-year-old Barret is one of 21 persons who have served more than 50 years as voluntary observers. He's made the trip to the backyard almost every day since the fall of 1900. On days when he's been ill or away, he's always arranged for somebody to take the readings. He retired from an electrical firm in 1951, but kept the observer's job.

Barret didn't officially become the observer at Anchorage until September, 1903. "My father started it for the Weather Bureau in 1900," he says, "but I guess he didn't much like to do the work, so he always sent me out to take the readings. I started it with the title on Sept. 1, 1903." North Carolinian The dean of the Cooperative Observer Corps is Barry C. Hawkins, Highlands, N.

who has been taking the readings since 1891. few extra weeks of pure enjoyment, with the intention of seeing New York and its museums and other cultural activities. "I'm going to accept all invitations," she said excitedly. One of was to be guest of honor at a dinner of the American Academy and National Institute. An incredibly weightless wisp of a woman, with an almost breathless, disembodied voice, she has turned in her 70s into a sort of presence as airy and fantastic as the stories which have made her famous.

"Though I didn't know I was famous," she remarked, "until I came to the United States." It is here, rather than in Denmark, that she has scored her chief success. Married in 1914 to a cousin, from whom her title comes, she lived in Africa until the early 1930s helping run a coffee plantation. "There was air in Kenya," she remembered. Born at sea level, living now only 100 yards from the shore, she occupied an African plantation 6,000 feet up. "I loved the atmosphere.

I never felt so well. And there were certain books, I found, that read particularly well at that altitude. Racine, for instance, did very well." She never went to school, but was brought up by governesses. She read Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Racine, Turgeriiev. She studied painting in Paris, and was in her 40s before she achieved much success in story writing.

Though it has been rumorecl that she wrote one novel under a second pseudonym, she said: "I can't write a novel. I'm a What term is applied to the divisions of Switzerland? A The country is divided into 22 cantons, which correspond in a general way to the American states. A Thought And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgement. I Kings 3:28. God gives manhood but one clew to success utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

Wendell Phillips. By Galbraith T.m. s. Ptt o. ft 9t9 HI A Srne.

Ine I4T 7 A KM Was the slant of the Leaning Tower of Pisa planned? A No. The white marble building sank into the soft earth on which it stands during the 200 years it was being built. It. has tipped one foot in the last hundred years alone. How many committees are there in the U.

S. House of Representatives? A There are 19 standing committees. Each committee has jurisdiction over specific matters. Any special committees which may be set up require special action by the House and expire at the end of Congress. Which is the world's highest volcano? A Jit.

Cotopaxi in Ecuador, with a height of 19,334 feet. Side Glances 3-23 NEW YORK "Air, that's what I require in a book," said Isak Dinesen, sitting in the exclusive East Side club where she stayed during her first visit to this country. "I begin my short stories with the stage, or setting," this distinguished Danish writer continued. "Of the four elements, it is air that matters most. For ine, the element in which people move comes before the people." Isak Dinesen is a pen name.

Her father was William Dinesen, a writer himself, officer in the Franco-Prussian war and, curiously, a one-time visitor to our West where he was for several years a trapper with the Pawnee Indians. Her real name is Baroness Christence Karen Blixen-Finecke. But more people take of their hats now, and always will, to the abiding aristocrat Dinesen than to Blixen. Author of five books, she has had three Book-of-the-Month Club choices: "Out of Africa," "Seven Gothic Tales" and "Winter's Tales." Two new books have appeared within a year, "Last Tales' and "Anecdotes of Destiny." Theres a note of finality about one title, but the baroness said: "No, I shall never stop writing. I have just had to spend a couple of years in a hospital, and all the time there I kept thinking of new things I wanted to write." She was invited here under the auspices of the Ford Foundation Fund for the Advancement of Education and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and she made some educational films in Washington.

After fulfilling all Iht duties she settled down lor a "This looks rather small, so I'd better not get into it I'm due to meet my husband in 20 minutes!".

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