Evening star., 1924-08-31

the world for the seven days
i ended August 30.
The British EmplFe-I spoke last
week OF the steady falling off of un-
employment in Great Britain from
January. 1923, down to and including
May Of this year. In the past few
weeks there has been a relapse. In
the week ended August % unemploy-
ment increased by 10000.
The port Of London authority has
under consideration a plan for wild
ening, Strengthening and deepening
the Thames from London down. The
plan contemplates relief of conges-
tion and that the river shall be
navigable at lowest tide for the
largest vessels UP to London Bridge,
where the width is $50 feet. The
width at Gravesend is 2,1oo feet. The
necessity OF river Improvement" IL
London port is to profit by It's un-
exampled opportunities and not, in
deed. to fall into a disastrous de-
cline. has been recognized for several
decades past. Those especially in
terested in such matters will find
amusement in comparing the new
plan with. that of 1902; the latter. a
plan totally inadequate to present
needs, as its 'devisers failed to fore
see the monstrous increase in sizeNand
draught Of ocean craft. But you can't.
it seems, in this world, do a good
swipe to Paul 1t is doubtful if Liver
pool and the railroad stockholders
regard the new plan with enthusiasm,
How one could wish to have an au-
thentic vision of the name as it ap-
peared when the Romans pitched
their first camp on the site of the
present city" proper, a slight emf
nence intersected by a brook and
fiahked and protected on the west by
the River Fleet.
South of the camp was a wide
tidal lagoon dotted with islets
through which the Thames found it's
way uncertainty. The hills were COW
cred with dense forests. Many were
the feeding streams since filled in or
arched over to form sewers, their
names transferred to streets or dis
tricts; as Fleet street, Wallbrook
street, Tyburn. Controversy still
RACES as to whether or not the
Romans found a considerable British
settlement on the site of their camp.
Certainly the name LONDON" is Brit
fsh, as we'll as Thames" There is
4 like controversy about the first
bridge, but IL seems now fairly es-
.tabiished that the Britons got their
first knowledge OF bridge building
from the Romans. and that the Romans
built the first bridge on the site of
old London Bridge.
=. Timothy A. Smiddy, who for the
past two years has been a sort of un-
-officfzl representative at Washington
of the Irish Free State, is now the
official minister of the Free State
to the United States. He will. of
course, .cenfine his activities to mat
ters concerning the Free State not in
volvinH common interests of the
British commonwealth Of nations. Mr..
Smfddy is man OF high attainments
and the true milesian humor. For
fourteen years prior to coming to
this country he was professor Of
economics in Cork College.
CanadA's population averages 2h
per square mile as against the S54 of
Belgium, the 543 Of the Netherlands,
the 326 Of Germany and the IS of the
United States. About one-fifth of
Canadian land suitable for agricul-
ture is under cultivation. Canada is
the second country in the world in
the production of wheat and oats, and
the first in expectation Of wheat. 1t
Is asserted that 'one-seventh Of the
known coal deposits Of the world are
In Alberta
France-The French Parliament
ratified the London agreement: the
Chamber by more than a two-thirds
majority. the Senate by 206 to 40.
NJ. Herriot and Mr.. Macdonald are
going hand in hand to the league as