Evening star., 1928-11-25

races, he applied the superartistic Chi
nese method of understatement.
Upon the occasion of the coronation
OF RaStafari Makonnen as King of
Kings of Ethiopia (AbysSinia), the con-
quering Lion of Judah and the Elect of
God" all Abyssinia to man knocked
off work if the Abyssinians may be
said ever really to work. for seven
weeks. Oh, yes, there was some work
done. but only by the butchers, the
tapSters, the cooks, the walters and the
carpenters; by the last-named because
1t seemed the ticket to erect a trium-
phal arch in honor of the Cohquering
Lion of Judah every few yards through
out the kingdom.
Certainly the Elect of God received a
magnificent Send-off. BY the way.
there's magnificent new edition out of
Dr. Johnson's "Rasselas, Prince of Abys-
Sinia" Why not take an hour off from
the movies and read it? My recollec-
ton is that the doctor wrote 1t to de-
fray the expenses of the funeral rites
OF his mother-in-law. How surprising
that no masterpiece has resulted from
such inspiration! There's still color and
hot ginger In out-of-the-w places of
the world. American Standardization
still has work to do.
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United States Of America.--In the
short session the Seventieth Congress
is expected to legislate satisfactorily to
the President respecting Muscle Shoals.
the Boulder Dam, and cruisers, and to
ratlfy the Kellogg pact. Maybe 1t will
find time also to vote legislation respect
ing any or all of the following-farm
relief, re-apportionment and railroad
consolidation; and maybe it won't.
The House is to have three more
woman memberS-namely, Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick of Illinois, widow of
Senator Mccormick and daughter of
Mark Hanna; Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen
Of Florida, daughter of the commoner: ::
and Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt of New York,
who has shown herself sufficiently re-
doubtable. The four women already
in the House were reelected. which
looks mportant-namely, Mrs. Edith
Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Mrs.
Florence p. Kahn Of California, Mrs.
Mary T. Norton Of New Jersey, and
Mrs. Katherine Langley Of Kentucky.
OF these four all but Mrs. Norton are
widows of former congressman.
On November 10, Herbert Hoover,
President-elect, sailed for South America
on his good will mission" 1t has been
under the auspices of Mr.. Hoover as
Secretary of Commerce that our sales
! to Latin America have grown until their
! total surpasses the combined total of the
sales by Great Britain, Germany and
; France But great though 1t is, our
trade with Latin America is only in its
infancy.
An international civil aeronautics con-
| ference Is to be held In Washington,
, December IL. 13 and IA. Three Hun
dred and twenty-eight persons reported
incomes of $1,000,000 or more for 1927.
an increase of SO over the 1925 record.
It Is, however. of sad note that the
! number reporting incomes Of $4,000, 900
or more fell from IA to 10. OF still
| sadder note, perhaps, is a falling-off Of
| the number of persons reporting incomes
between $4,000 and $4,000.
The rate of fatalities from automobile
accidents is rising sharply.
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Notes.-The Parisians, ignoring our
! claims attribute the invention of the
cocktail, to Capt. Cap, Partisan. On
| November Is, the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of Capt. Caps death, grand
priX du cocktail" was held in Paris. the
grand prix going to the mixer of the
best cocktail, and the competitors. in
Guiding persons of the first eminence.
Hermann Sudermann. the German
dramat!St and novelist. Is dead at IL.
A generation ago Magda, in Der Hell
| mat" as played by Duze or Modjeska
or Mrs. Fiske. was tremendous draw