Evening star., 1925-05-03
Story Week Has Told
Comprehensive Survey of Latest Events i'm United
States and Abroad.
BY HENRY ". BUM

decline began after the war Of 1870.
Before that war there were about q
! million births annually. In 1907 the
number had fallen to 774,00o. In 1924
1t was $4,000. The annual excess of
births over deaths in Germany is
about 300, 900.
| The total debt of the French govern.
ment is about the equivalent oe
$22,OOO,000, 900, or $3.50 per capfta
The total debt of the United States
Government is about $21, 900, ,00O, 900,
| or $188 per capita.
| On April 80 the completed American
Memorial Hospital for Children was
turned over to the municipality of
Rheims by Ambassador Herrick. The
endowment is generous.
| Whether or no with the consent of
Abdul Krirn, the Riff tribesmen are
aggressing upon the French pro-
tectorate Of Morocco and clashes with
| French detachments are reported
| Marshal Lyautey may be trusted to
| handle the situation.
Germany.-On April 26, Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg, candidate of the Right
| bloc, was elected President of Ger
many. The official returns show: For
Won Hindenburg. 1853, ,399; for Marx,
the candidate of the Republican or
Weimar coalition. 1882, $40; for
Thaelmann, the Communist candidate.
] .931,591. 1t is generally held that
| the women's vote elected the old
| Warrior-no other remarks.
The Luther ministry viii retain
Office.
On April 80. it was moved by the
| Bavarian premier and unanimously
voted by the Bavarian Diet that the
Diet and government adjourn to the
HofbrauhauS, TO discuss" the May
book beer. 1t is not true that the
parliamentary institution is failure
in Germany. The Germans are eating
meat to about the same extent as
before the war.
The German minister Of finance
estimates that the national govern
ment expenditure for the year 1925
will total about five billion marks, and
that revenue will balance expenditure.
The fiscal year ended March 81 showed
a comfortable surplus.
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United States Of America.-James
NJ. Beck has resigned the Office of
solicitor general of the United States.
! Ralph d. Paine, the famous war
correspondent and author of charm
ing and virile books, is dead.
Eleven States have a ratio of less
than five inhabitants TO one motor
vehicle. Californias ratio is three in
habitants to one motor vehicle; Iowa's.
four TO one; Nevada, Kansas, Ne
braska and Oregon follow in that
order. Alabama foots the list with
one motor vehicle to every sixteen in
habitants.
An ''under-cover agent" of the Fed
eral prohibition enforcement depart
ment has resigned his Office for what
will seem to all patriots an unworthy
reason, namely, that his work has
required him TO consume an average
Of so drinks Of liquor daily.
Mira.-It would seem proper that
a summary of events on this planet
should take account from time to time
of said planet cosment, however, dis
tant relatives. Several weeks ago l
noted some facts about the star Mira,
the diameter which was recently as
certained by DR.. Pierce. Here are
some more facts. The diameter is
90, ,000, 900 miles-that is, 800 times
the diameter of our sun. CThe diam
eter of Antares. the largest star, is
400 ,0O0. 900 miles) Mira S volume is
27,000. 600 times as great as that of
the sun, but, owing TO its extremely
! low density, its mass is less than 100
times that OF the sun. II varies 500
. fold mot 200. as l previously stated)
in brightness through cycle of 332
days. II is moving away from our
solar system at the rate of about 40
miles a second. or 1900 100000 miles
a year. ONe might suppose at first
blush that its light would therefore
appear to progressively fainter.
But ii is air ady SO far away that a
difference on that account which coul.l
be registered by the most delicate IN
strument yet devised would involve
thousands of years.
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Miscellaneous
May Day passed off quietly
throughout the world.
The population of Austria is APP
SproXimately 6,50O,000
1t is reported that D'Annunzio pro
poses to fly in a hydroplane from
Italy to Buenos Aires in June.
One hears with pleasure that Paul
Raditch, nephew of Stephen Raditch,
speaking in the Skupshtina the other
day for the Croatian peasants party
and its leader, his uncle, proposed
that bygones be bygones and an
nounced the intention of his party
to accept the constitution and to col
laborate cordially henceforth with the
| other, parties: hoping, however, of
course. to effect autonomous changes
by normal methods.
Bulgarian developments OF the past
| week do not require Speclal comment.
1t would seem that the government
is slowly ''liquidating" the crisis, TO
use an overworked expression.
A considerable decentralization OF
government is said to be under de-
bate by the Greek National or Con-
stituent Assembly. Such a change
would be sensible.
Great Britain has 62 mine sweeaers;
the United States, 45; 1taly'%&40;
France. %. Japan is just beginning
with this type.
Prof Penck, the German geogra-
pher, calculates that the present
population of the earth is about 1,S00,-
900 900; that the maximum population
the earth could sustain is between
eight and nine billions: and that ar
the present rate of increase that
maximum would be reached within
800 years for the temperate zones
within $50 years.. The maximum pop
ulation North America could sustain
he sets at 1,120.000,000. Brazil,
he says, could sustain the larg-
est population per square mile a
total of 1,200, ,000, ,o00
Trieste Is Regaining
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