Ma And Pa Want A Minute’s Rest Class Room Should Be Used To Teach Child And Not To Show Off Parents. Spartanburg Herald. We do not recall that there has Been voiced previously, the protest that parents are making these las', lew months against the very gen eral practice of the schools in giv - ing children “home work." During the summer the subject has been didtussed in many newspapers and magazines, and -4n some of them settously. - As the result of this practice many homes are turned into study halls, and often what the parents teach the children in the evening. Is untaught by the teachers in the school room on the fallowing day. Hence instruction and school room instruction fail to harmonize Some teachers are saying that the protest is but another manifesta tion of the parental shirking of re - sponsibilities. while others who arc giving the question more seriou:, consideration are inclined to be lieve there is merit in the protest o: the home against being wholly ab sorbed in class room worn every evening. The question receives at tention in the Pee Dee, where the Dillion Herald, supporting The Mar Ida Star, advances the argument tor home and fireside: Editor Johnson of The Marlon Star, who has a way of spcaKing his mind when plain words are neccs gafy, says "it will soon be time fo> ma and pa to go to teaching again The Marion editor referring to the opening of schools when children i will have to labor over textbook; long after school is dismissed. There is something^ wrong with a sc hoc i system,” Editor Johnson adds, "which offers no instruction to pupils. We honestly believe tne study hour under a wise and able teacher is far mbre valuable to young America than' a ‘recitation hour' when Tommy and Mary show off what ma and pa taught them yesterday afternoon and last night.’’ The point is well taken fn the e strenuous days ma and pa are pretty well worn out from the day’s duties when the evening hour Comes. Pa. at least, wants to take Up his favorite magazine while ma s routine is not completed until the chiidreti have been tijckccl away lor tlie night. But the most serious ob jection to heme study is the burd; n placed upon the child whose* par ents v.411 not or cannot assist it with its lessons. If the child is not un usually bright, it sutlers next day .n the classroom. In large families e double burden is placed upon par ents. In that it i> physically impo,--' sible to instruct each child thor oughly. The Herald believes it would be a better plan to prolong the session an hour each day if nec essary and teach the child in tin* schoolroom Pellagra Deaths In State Increase Twenty-Five Pei Cent Greater Dur ing The First Six Months This Year Thun Last. Raleigh—Deaths in North Caro lina resulting from pellagra were 2-‘> per cent more during the lirrt sis months of 1927 than during the corresponding period in 1926, the state board of health revealed to day. A campaign of education to warn eating of bad food is to oe undertaken in billboards in an ef fort to stern the rapidly number of deaths from the disease. During the first six months of this year 249 persons died of the pella gra in this state, the report reveals, while during the first six months of 1926 only 199 persons succumbed The figures give proof of the theory that the death rate from the disease riser, end fulls inversly with the price of cotton end other staple crops. The theory is that the diet of the poorer class is depleted of the nec essary foods with the coming of lower price and less cash, while with good price green foods, milk ant' eggs ate restored to the diet, pre cluding a wide appearance of the disease. Pellagra, the health rc shows, is rarely found among more prosperous people whose daily dia ls unafefctc-d by the some condi tions which deprives the poorer people of their full diet. jjossip of Staff Carespa 'Jeifo at hStrld Centers a * Population (By Fred J. Waiker. INS Staff Co rm pendent, > Chicago.-—Soviet Russia was do- < scribed today by Prof. Boris E. Em bers, president of the Russian sur gical association, as a lund of the toothless. "Russia is losing its teeth,” said Prof. Linbergh. “Hardships under- , gone by millions of Russians during the past ten years are undoubted ly responsible. The various ailments caused by bad teeth are providing us with a serious health problem. "We dond know the exact cause of much of the mouth disease now sweeping the country. The popula- | tion appears to have developed the teeth diseases during the past two years. | “We are looking to America for Artificial teeth. There are none in I Russia. Russian agents in New York are now negotiating for large quantities of dental supplies." Prof. Linberg said the dental problem was only one of many sim- , liar ones now confronting his ' country. "<_>ur surgeon;;, ne saia, are handicapcd by an absolute lack of ether. We have no laboratories manufacturing ether. “All of our major operations arc j performed with local anaesthetics. Imagine a patient operated upon j for appendicities compelled to 1 watch the surgeon cut into his ab- I dominal cavity.” According to Prof. Linberg the j average Russian physician is paid . $50 a month by the department of | | health and education and few are , aide to live with any degree of com - ] ■m 2,000 POUNDS OF COAL FREE I I • _ t •£* ■ ■ BIG SALE All This Week We will give absolutely -FREE! —i 2,000 * Pounds o f lump coal with every Washing ton Home Furnace bought .during this big sale, j Washington Home Fur /nace itself will reduce ’ your coal bill one-third to one-half. -IMPROVED AIR DUCT Increase* heating efficiency 33 1-3'., making Washington Home Furnace greatest fueLsaver known. Produces circulating moist heat—most healthful heat known. WILL HEAT AS MUCH AS TWO OR THREE STOVES OR FIVE OR SIX GRATES. HEATS FROM FOUR TO SEVEN ROOMS. NO CEI J,AU TO DIG. Grained Mahog my Finish. All cast-iron inner construction, produce i more heat. 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"This plan ought to do more to ' cure the crime situation in Chic ago than anything else the depart ment could do,” said Hughes. ”If it works we may be able to extend it I successfully to older men. “The old saying about an idle mind being in the devil's workshop is absolutely true. Any policeman can give you facts in proof of It.” Police have been "instructed to turn in the names of bovs on theirj beats who have finished the re- J quifed period of schooling and are I loafing with corner gangs, not j knowing what to do with their j time. “A surprising number of the boys who go wrong are not crimin als at heart,” Hughes said. “They start going with bad companions and before they know it they are in trouble. "The average young fellow gets dissatisfied and looks for thrills if he has nothing to keep him busy In too many cases the “thrills” lead him to the reform school or the penitentiary.” Prominent business men and so cial service agencies have enthus iastically endorsed the campaign. Berlin.—The idea of placing at important traffic centers police men who speak foreign languages the carrying cut of which was be gun in Berlin on a modest scale fif teen years ago, but was interrupted by the war, has again been taken up and so developed that the Ger man capital now has 130 police lin guists on duty. They wear a red band around their left sleeve, on which are printed the languages which fcfiey speak. Many of these policemen learned their language during resi dence abroad. The main foreign tongues spoken are English and French, but there are also many policemen who speak Russian and Polish. Regular courses of instruction are held, and there arc so many applicants that a care ful selection can be made of tl% besfc'iinguists. ' , Psychoanalysis, the modern science invented by Prof. Freund of Vienna whese teachings have swept the world, is “digufiting, un manly and milkscppy,” in the opin ion of Professor August Bier, Ger many’s most renowned surgeon, u In place cf psyclioanalysis he re commends the discipline of the old German army and the tradition of its officers. Bier was the surgeon who operat ed on President Ebm and Hugo Stinnes. The Germany aiiny has made up a reparation bill of its own and has presented it to Captain Ehrhardt, ' German fascist leader, for pay ment. The bill is for C.OQU.OOO gold marks and represents damages suffered by the German army as a result et the Kapp putch in 1920, when for a while President Ebert and the - German governmant were drive r ! out of Berlin. Ehrhardt was one of j the chief leader; of this revolt. 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