Evening star., 1925-05-31

formally accepted the gift to tie
Italian nation Ito take effect after
D'Annunzio's DEATH of the villa with
its valuable library and objects of art.
Some will have II that the recon
ciliation is happy prologue to the
swelling act Of some imperial theme.
Giddy rumor has spread abroad 4.
thousand tales of bizarre doings and
sayings at Gordone. Such rumors
properly discounted, one could wish
for d true chronicle of that episode,
especially of the conversations.
The Italian Chamber has passed
Mussolini's bill regarding secret socie-
ties. The bill requires every secret
association to furnish the police, on
demand, list Of its members, dis
bandment to be the penalty of failure
TO comply. Moreover, it prohibits
government employees from belonging
TO secret societies or any society
which requires q membership oath.
The bill. of course. is aimed at the
Free Masons and gives expression to
the view that F'reemasonry is
menace to the government and par
ticularly to the army.
One hears that Mussolini has pre-
pared an order for the mobilization OF
Italian women in case Of war
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United States of rica.-Imports
Of rubber into the United States dur
ing the calendar year 1924 cost Sl85,-
900, 900. The same amount at present
prices would cost S400, 900 900. An i'm
portant cause of the tremendous soar
in price is government restriction on
export from British plantations in the
East Indies.
The Shipping Board has resolved TO
sell for scrap 200 of the vessels under
its charge, of total deadweight ton
mage of 817,130.
Don Barber. the eminent architect.
is dead
1t is reported that a group of citizens
of certain school district in Kansas
have won renown by burning a set OF
books, the property of the school, for
the reason that they contain q discus
sion Of the theory of evolution.
MiscellaneOus.-No news of the
Amundsen expedition.
The Belgian government has notified
US Of its desire to initiate at an early
date negotiations with our foreign debt
funding commission toward definite
settlement of the Belgian govern
ment's debt to the United States Gov
ernment, and 10 that end proposes TO
send TO Washington q, committee OF
eminent f1nanciers.
" NdllIduA mas presented TO Inc
French Chamber a bill supplementary
to the budget presented by the Her
riot government faction on which by
the French Parliament has not been
completely calling for taxation in ad-
dition to that contemplated by the
budget, in order TO complete balancing
Of the budget. VI. Caillaux estimates
the internal debt of France as about
| 2S0 900, 100000 francs (the equivalent
| of q bout $1A 000 non OO0A
The Chamber of Labor of Vienna.
urges the Austrian government to re-
quest the Congress of the United
| States 10 pass a special law authoriz-
| ing the immigration of 900 Austrians
| into the United States in addition 10
| the regular Austrian immigration
| quota, the Austrian government 10
| finance the operation. Little Austria
/ has 1900 unemployed.
| TrotSky has been given some inn
| portant jobs, but he must still do pen
nance before he is restored completely
| to his old footing. He has been made
a member of the Presidium of the
Supreme Economic Council (headed by
| DJerJinsky) and chairman of the con-
| cessions committee.
| According TO the Russian informa-
ton bureau at Washington, Russia IS
now exporting petroleum in greater
quantity than before the war.
| Holy year pilgrims from all over the
world are pouring into Rome at the
rate of 80 200 TO 40 900 a day. Few OF
them, one hears, are we'll to do, so TO
most Of them the pilgrimage has
meant much self-denial
| The Persian Malls, or national as
sembly, has passed bill authorizing
| the engagement of u additional
American experts as officials in the
| Persian department of finance. Ar
| thur c. Millspaugh. formerly an Off
| Cial in our State Department, is di-
rector general of finance in Persia
| The annual convention of the
American Medical Association was
held in Atlantic City in the week juse
| passed. In his inaugural address the
| new president of the association, DIR.
William D. Haggard of Nashville.
Tenn. reviewed the recent triumphs
of this, our golden age of medical
achievement" with particular refer.
ence to the following
The discovery of the germ of 1u-
berculosis and the reduction of the
| death toll of that disease from 16a
per 100 900 in 1910, TO 81 per 100 600
| in 1922.
| The discovery that radium will cure
| certain forms of cancer.
| The new knowledge concerning the
4 functions of the ductless glands and
such marvellous results issuing there
| from as the gift of a normal mind
to a cretin and the transformation of
a grotesque dwarf into an apollo or
| Diana.
The miracle of insulin
The discovery that goitre is largely
due to deficiency of iodine in food or
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