Evening star., 1925-08-02

responsible. And of the living agents
whether these or those are the more
70 blame. one would be quite bewil-
dered to decide.
|. The Upper Silesian question Is still
with us. unsolved, pregnant with the
most hideous possibilities
AS to the Industrial situation in
Polish Upper Silesia the lie passes
oriskly. Some say red revolution i'm
pends, others reply that reports in
that Kind are vicious propaganda via
Berlin and Moscow.
United States of America-WiIliam m
Jennings Bryan died in his sleep on
July 70, at Dayton, Tenn, of heart
disease.
Edgar A. Bancroft, American Am.
passador to Japan, died at Toxic on
July 2S. '-
The Macmillan expedition is ap-
preaching Etah, it's naval base.
+ Inc Arcturus, with William Beebe.
ms 10Th expert assistants and a cargo
OF the most astounding deep-sea speci-
mems Is home again at New York.
Inc commerce year book of the
department of Commerce for 1924.
Just issued, Is an extremely cheerful
document. The American people 4"
says Secretary Hoover, have little
right to complain about their eco
| nomic situation"
Eighty-six persons in the Tinted
States paid taxes in 1928 on incomes
exceeding 100000. Incomes, if YOU
please.
The widely held theory that the
trees in Central Park, New York
City. are being killed by gasses ha s
9een exploded by chemical tests
Tests of 347 samples of air in Central
Park show that no gas which in con-
cehtrated form would be lethal to
vegetation exists in the air of the
park In such proportion as to be
oa3eful. Insufficiency of water and
soil~ appear to be the main causes of
the terrible tree mortality.
X x X x
MtscellaneOus.-The Belgian debt
funding commission is on it's way to
Washington.
RECENT local elections in France
nave emphatically favored the Left
groups. 1t is reported that Herriot
has come out in favor of the capital
levy.
Franco. Belgian evacuation of the
Ruhr was completed July 81. II ,s
reported that the German gove-r1rsea,
| proposes government aid to the Ruhr
| coal barons. which should enable
them to dump their immense over.
stocks on foreign markets at 10 per
cent below world prices. CuriousIy
one of the simple expedients to this
end alleged to be in contemplation
fails to arouse enthusiasm in a GER
tain quarter-namely, to increase
working hours without increasing
| wages.
Signor Orlando, formerly prime
minister of Italy, was mobbed recent.
f, ly at Palermo by Fascist fanatics
after making a speech rejecting on
| the methods of the Mussolini govern
| ment.
Little Esthonia, with a population
of only 1,200.000 has university
with 5000 students, of whom one
third are Of the feminine persuasion
There is practically no illiteracy in
Esthonia, which has universal suf
frage and compulsory education. The
Esths are Mongoloids of the Fin
nougrian stock. A splendid people
but perhaps. like the Greeks, they &c
in little too ardently for the "high
! er education
Latvia Is making preliminary ar
| rangements looking to funding of hel
little debt to us of about $3.50 900.
| The report of the league commits
sion on the boundary between Iral
| and Turkey (the Mosul question: has
gone to the league secretariat. It Ii
a very serious document to which ]
expect to refer later.
| DR.. Harvey j. Howard, the Ameri
can on the staff of the Rockefellei
Foundation Hospital in Peking, who
was carried off by bandits a fort
night or so ago from the ranch OF
the Manchurian Development Co. Ear
American OUTFIT, near Harbin, Man
churfa, is still being held for ransom
1 The anti-foreign strike at Canton
China, continues full blast. That al
Shanghai continues waveringly
The Japanese coalition cabinet
headed by Viscount Kato, has re
signed =. -