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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell S. C n Thursday, May 28, 1936 SUCH IS LIFE— By Charles Sughroe Would Teach Driving to Cut Motor Deaths A TEMPLE OF MUSIC By LEONARD A. BARRETT <£- High School Courses Urged as fcesult of Survey. N'ew York.—Spread of automobile driving and safety courses In high schools as a means of cutting down thj? high death rate from motor mishaps Is advocated as a result of a national survey conducted on the subject by the Woman’s Home Companion, which makes a stirring appeal to parents to insist on safety education for their children. Parents are also urged to back up what can be taught in schools spurred on by the realization that “at the pres ent rate! one out of every three chil dren faces the probability of death or maiming from motor accidents in the course of a lifetime.” "Schools are doing far too little to teach safe driving,” the survey reveals, "in fact most of them give no automo bile safety training. When they do try to teach highway safety, they often find themselves handicapped by having to offset the poor Influence of parents As children approach driving age they should be taught in the high schools, by experienced and qualified persons, how to drive safely. There is no good reason for not giving driving and high way safety instruction to every hig.j school student in the country. The es sence of the had driving problem would be attacked, for not only do the rec ords show that drivers of high school age are poor operators, but from our high schools will come most of the future oj»erators of motor cars. Action in Nine States. i "Steps have been taken toward pro vidingdriving Instruction tor highscliool students in nine states, the District of Columbia ami the city of New York. Several'of the states have been doing it for some time. In New Jersey, where f><» high schools provide this training, credit is allowed to students taking the safety courses. *'ln the Garfield high school, Akron. Ohio, there is a student Motor Traftlc . dub which studies the difference be- TINIEST HULA GIRL Who wouldn't wish to return Hawaiian islands after being welcome by Patsy Yannatta, lulu’s smallest hula* girl? She great favorite among visitors to Amer ica's mid-ocean pleasure land. tween highway conditions before and after enactment of traffic laws. “There should be more of that sort of thing. , "The most effective instruments for improving the situation, so far as the younger generations are concerned, seem to be education and example. The latter is of first importance to parents because with operation of motor vehi cles, as with other phases of family life, the child is deeply influenced by what the parent does. If you are care less and teckless with your car, yon cannot expect your children to drive much differently. If you scoff at traffic laws your child cannot help agreeing with you that such laws are silly and not to be taken seriously. If you are a parent who tells your boy or girl to* watch out the rear window for motor cycle officers while you challenge death by stepping hard on the throttle, you haVe no right to expect youth to he law-abiding. Death Toll 36,000. “Approximately 30,000 persons were killed in this country by automobiles in 1034, an all-time record! During that year one human being was killed by automobiles in the United States every 15 minutes, and somebody in Jured every 31 seconds! “No furlher statistics are necessary. If only every parent In the country would think about these simple fig ures! If they were any kind of men or women they would do something to remedy the tragic situation. Once a sufficient number of parents realize what it means, some sort of solution will be forthcoming. “Members of parent teacher associa tions. and those parents who try to he an influence for good in their com munities through service clubs or other organizations, can do a great deal tc arouse other parents to action. “People are not behind the vehicular traffic laws. Until they support those laws, ar substitute new ones which are universally popular as well as effec tive. there" will he little slackening in the fatality rate. They will not back up the laws until they are willing to obey them, and they will not do that until they are awake to the murderous potentialities of automobiles which are not operated by safety-conscious driv ers.” Pant, Will Replace Old Garb of Siamese Bangkok, Siam.—By order of the Siamese government the “panung,” the national "pants” of the Siamese, is abolished In favor of -Kuropean trousers. The order has caused consternation throughout Siam. For centuries the natives have worn the gaily colored “panung.” which was a length of material some ten feet long and three feet broad, wound round the thighs so that they looked like very short shorts. Only the women may now con tinue to wear the “panung ” AMAZE A.MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS — BY ARNOLD In the poem, “Abt Vogler,” Robert Browning builds a temple of music for the poet that he may express his soul's Inspiration in extemporizing upon an instrument of his own invention. On wings of music he soars to realms far above this mun dane world. a“nd from that “retreat” in the upper air of reality, he looks down upon the struggle and the suffering of the hu man race, and sees It as God and the angels see It, The trials and heartaches on earth seem broken arcs to him, hut "in the heaven a perfect round.” He seems to sense a spiritual harmony in which blend, in perfect unison, all the discordant notes of earth. He has heard the music of that “sovereign harmony which takes unto itself every wandering tone.” The poem is of far more value than a sudden flash of Imagery and beauty. It moves with a spirit intensely per sonal and speaks a message exceed- “ENEMY” BROTHERS 9& < 7Vou _ . By Lydia Le Baron Walker sefiofS When the Boston Bed Sox and the .New York Yankees meet, in almost any game, these two brothers may he found on opposing sides. Bill Dickey, first-string catcher of-the Yankees, is pictured with George (“Skeets”) Dickey, rookie catcher of the Bed Sox. standing behind him. WNU Servlc*. ingly practical. It has words of good counsel to all who will take the time to read and understand It. While much of the inspiration which tires the souls of poets and artists comes from that world “which impinges on this world of ours.” yet we do not have to he poets nor artists to climb those heights from which we. too, may look down upon our personal strug gles and apprehend them from the van tage ground of a calm detachment. Many times we are too near our prob lem to thoroughly understand it. much less discover a solution for It. The beauty of an oil painting is obliterated when we stand too near it. We must view It at the right distance if Its technique is to live sublimely in our vision and its tone be more than a mere daub of paint. Just so with our serious human problems. When we get away from them and analyze them apart from the grind and strain of our daily environment, they do not seem so serious or impossible of satisfactory solution. Many a vexing problem, a “broken nrc” as It were, is made to become a “perfect round” when we go apart and become sufficiently quiet and silent. Then, In an instant, we see how we can ride safely through the storm to some haven of safety. — Some tell us there is a solution for every problem if we could only find it. The solution is more likely to come to us if we look down upon the problem from a point of view above and beyond the problem itself. From a mountain top we can see farther because the atmosphere is clearer and there are no obstacles to obstruct our vision. So It is with our thoughts and emotions when we climb t*.some mountain top of calm detach ment away from the stress and Strain o. the tangible things which constantly surround us. © Western Newspaper Union. Mountains Form Shrines The mountains of Japan are detl nitely associated with the religious idea and most , mountains have their special shrine oh top with special day* set apart for the worship of the dei ties cMinecied with the mountain. W ORDS spoken in anger are gen erally regretted when the temper passes. This should he remembered in a home. Do not harbor the words said by one whom you know loves you. and believe a hard and disagreeable truth lies hack of the things which were said. Sometimes angry words do strike home, because you realize they are true, although spoken in the heat of an argument or in midst of a dis pute. Even so. It Is the part of wis doni to remembei also the balance of p 1 e a sa n t things said to you by the very same person, and to remember them as clearly as t h e disagreeable ones. The clever per son knows thar words of anger often fall on those at hand to hear, and. in a way, these words have nothing to do with the one toward whom they are directed. In animate tilings are a cause for many an angry word Unless the listener realizes this, a dis agreeable situation may arise, and feel ings lie wounded, unnecessarily. In-tanrrg. You may ask a question deserving an agreeable reply, hut if you ask it just when the other person has knocked over a glass of water, or harked his shins on an offending chair, the “soft answer" does not come. Or if you want information on a matter of mu tual interest and. all unwittingly, ask for it'when .the other person is puzzling to know what she has done with an article of immediate need, an annoyed Inflection creeps into the answer, if mH actually an angry word. There is no trace of a hard feeling toward yon, hut it sounds so. The annoyance is for herself, that she should not know what she has done with the wanted article. Since It takes two to make a a quar rel. it is the part of wisdom and hap piness not to give an angry retort without knowing what is behind the cross words spoken. There are two who will have cause for regrets if an gry words are met with angry words, and in the interim between the dispute and the, recovery, each person is miser able. You can spare yourself the dis comfort of hitter reflections by giving the angry person the benefit of the doubt that you were the person re sponsible for the other's burst of temper. • • • Drop Leaf and Tip Tahlra. Tables, many and ^diverse in type, have* drop leaves In Pembroke style, or tip. as do some of the old-time card tables. These last may act as screens when tipped, or merely prove decora tive. taking up the smallest space pns slide for the size of the surface when turned for table use. Whatever the model. It is well for the homemakei to realize that a 'perfect adjustment must he made when the table is open. or there Is danger of imperfect bal ance when articles are disposed on the top. The styles of tallies that are not in fluenced uy the arrangement of the things they hold, are those with legs at each corner, and center legs, when tables are large; and pedestal tallies in which the spread of feet from the base of the pedestal is wide enough to counterbalance surface arrange ments of weight. Table* Th«t Tip. The type of tables that overturn easiest when the weight is not even ly distributed on top, are butterfly tables and .all those that have the leaves upheld, when open, by any swinging or hinged support that does not extend to the floor. Drop leaf (Pembroke) tables, even when they have swing-legs, require a certain ambonnt of care about distri bution of weight on leaves. The mov able legs work diagonally from one an other, and must he pushed to be at right angles with their standard to insure correct support. Even so, dis aster results when there Is an over- balance of weight on either side wher* the distance is greatest between leg** Small ,tea stands and coffee tables frequently are in dainty butterfly style The homemaker must use caution to have the heaviest articles in the cen ter which is always well supported. The tip table style must always' have the catch perfectly adjusted. When Mils is right, the spread of legs from the pedestal is generally sufficient to insure, stability. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Ser.vlca. SMART TUNIC Navy printed taffeta with "pinks" on a navy blue background is fashioned Into this smart tunic with white pique vestee. collar, and cuffs. The skirt Is navy blue heavy sheer. The navy leg horn hat lias a fluted brim. Complete outfit from Anne Davis, Inc., Ea Mai-) s< n Francaise. -To Keep Unused Faint Do not leave a paint can open aftei you have finished with it. Put the lid Back on and press It down tirwly. 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