Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25
The Story the Week Has Told

of its French and not imposaibly too
It's Belgian and italian markets
through collapse Of the franc and
sympathetic degradation Of the Boil.
gian franc and the Ira.
German tax receipts for the first
three months Of tho fiscal year fell
short of budgetary estimates by $780,
0O0, 900 marks. There are still i zoo, 600
Germans unemployed.
The Germans are finding in the de-
velopment of western Europe argu-
ments for downward revision of the
Dawes plan.
German securities floated in the
United States since the Dawes plan
went into effect, total 1609, 250 ,000 The
municipal issues have almost ceased.
Most Of the current flotations are
bonds Of private industrial plants.
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Russia.-Felix Dzerzhinsky is dead
of heart failure at the age Of 40. No
doubt he worked himself to death, be-
ing, moreover, of a somewhat frail
habit Of body. His personality was
one Of the most striking of his time
and is sure to cut a great figure in
romance. He was the perfect fanatic
not TorQuemada, nor Robespierre, but
more so, and he was as incorruptible
as the "sea-green" one.
Communism seems to have beer
as truly a religion to him as the
Catholic faith to Torquemada, and
apparently the thousands of judicial
murders and mutilations committed
under his authority were ordered by
him in the sincerest spirit of religious
bigotry. He conceived and with mar
velous efficiency directed the Cheka-
!. e., the extraordinary commission
for combating counter revolution and
speculation; that instrument whereby
domestic resistance to the Soviet
power was deracinated
That is the role by which he will
no doubt be chiefly remembered. but
his services in rehabiiitating the Rus
sian railway system and later as chief
OF the supreme economic council were
scarcely less remarkable. His meth
DDS as economic administrator sa.
vored not little of those of the
Cheka. He procured a certain eff
cheney through terroristic discipline
1t might plausibly be urged that under
the conditions there would not other
wise have been any efficiency. II
may not be denied that the Soviet re
gtme Is greatly weakened by the loss
Of him.
United States of America.
Washington A. Roehling, builder OF
the Brooklyn Bridge is dead at SO. He
fought In the Civil War.
The Bureau OF the Census of the
Department of Commerce estimates
that on July 1. 1926. the population
Of the United States was 117,136 900
as against an estimated 1855, 900 or
July /, 1925.
The Census Bureau estimates the
population of our largest cities as OF
date July 1 as follows: New York
about 100000; Chicago, about 5000,
600; Detroit. about 1900, 900; Cleve
land, about 100000. Other cities tor
100000 in the following order: st
Louis, Baltimore, Boston, Los An
geles, San Francisco, Buffalo, Wash
ington, Milwaukee.
Sites for four new Federal buildings
at Washington Contemplated unde,
| an act of the late SESSION. have beer
chosen. The buildings are to be: a
Commerce building, an internal rev
enue building, an archives buildina
! and an Office building for the Depart
| ment Of Agriculture.
Mr.. Hoover informs us that over
the last 10 years North Carolina, has
led the States in rate of economic de
velopment.
Observation-Disclosures despair q,
effective diminution Of the customs
barriers between her and the success
sion states.
The foreign trade surplus of Italy
for the first five months sof the year
was unfavorable by 1856, o00, 900 lire
about 20o,000,0o0 more than for the
same period last year. The showins
is the sadder In that last years sad
showing was attributable in no small
degree to heavy importations of food
stuffS, necessitated by bad harvests
That explanation does not apply tc
January-June this year. The italian
fiscal year just ended shows a budget
surplus Of 1.40o ,000, 900 lire despite ex
penditures authorized by Parliament
Of $500. 100000 beyond original esti
mates.
Three former Greek premiers, name
ly--Kafandaris, Papanastasion and
Michalakopoulos- been arrested
in connection with the alleged dis
covery of a plot to overthrow the
government and murder Presiden,
Pangalos. The latter has banishe6
them to one OF the isles.
Giving the lie to rumors importing
| that Pilsudski, fooled in respect Of the
objects aimed at by his coup d'etat
proposes to recover his prestige by ad
ventures against Lithuania or Rus
STA, or both, the premier and foreign
| minister of Poland have been at pain:
| to give assurances that Polish for
eign policy is to quite an extraor
binary degree pacific. Pilsudski con
tinues minister Of war, but Premier
Bartel has announced that he's the
boss, and that the war minister exer
cises no control over foreign policy
Not 20 only, as stated by US last
week, but so more Turks are to bt
| tried for conspiring against Ghaz
Mustapha Kemel.