Evening star., 1928-01-29
The Story the Week Has Told

plaiion. To coincide between Jackson
vile and Havana via Key Wesp fr> M
Havana. one would go via Yucatan
British Honduras. Honduras. Guate-
mala. Salvador. TO San Juan Del Norte
Nicaragua. the other almost in a
bee line from Havana 10 San Juan Del
Norte tVIa Cape GreciaS Adios and
BlucfieldSi the two lines coinciding
thence VIA Costa Rica to Colon.
Motor vehicles registered in the
. United States In the first sixth months
of 1927 totaled 20 s9l.333
The Department OF Commerce IN
forms us as follows More than 90 per
cent OF the automotive passenger cars
in use in the world are OF American
manufacture and more than S6 per
cent of the auiomotiye trucks. OF the
automotite vehicles In the world the
United States ana Canada together use
81 per cent
The Department OF Commerce an
nounceS that deaths from automobile
accidents IN this country are iucreaS-
ing both absolutely and in proportion
10 population In 1926 the total was
1851. or lT9 per 100000 Of popula-
ton In 1928 the rate was II. in 1924
II was 1877. IN 1929 1t was l49. and in
1922 II vas i25 In the above figures
deaths from collisions between auto
mobiles and railroad trains or street
cars were not included Including the
latter, the total Of deaths in 1926 was
20,89l, or 1873 per 10000 OF popula
ton.
The number OF Americans With per-
Soual incomes over million dollars
In the calendar year 1926 was 2cS. an
fsaHy
high. The number of personal incomes
over five millions III 1926 tat any rate
according 10 the tax recordsl, was IL
as against In the preceding wear The
total net income for 1925 OF persons
enjoying income above "A million Was
$490 800. .47S The number OF persons
Ming tax returns for 1926 was 40IS,
Si2, their total net income WAS SAL
SOS l76.326. and the total tax thereon
was $T2T 4T9,426
OF our total internal national revenue
OF about $4,000 600 600 for the fiscal
year ended June 30 last the tobacco
tax furnishes about - per cent of IN
ternal revenue The amount Welded by
the tax. namely. SS76 600 900. is aboIt
equal to the entire internal revenue for
1914 Seventy-nine billion cigarettes
were smoked IN the country IN 1928
The monarch at the California for
eSts Is Sequoia S0S feet high, 30 feet
In diameter and containing 36l 800
board feet of merchantahie lumber
In his last report aS Governor Gen
eral of the Philippines Gen, Wood with
abundant Justification spoke ot the
"lamentahle lack OF interest" Of Fill
pino politicians In the economic devel-
opnient of their country II would seem
has ErkA IA
bly, always Will be overwhelmingly the
chief national interest OF the Philip
pines. agricultural problems are be.
meath the interest ot these "intellrc~
tuals," One Is told that "A nutca to-
haeco expert sent to the Philippines to
study the tobacco industry there IN view
~ representation that It's competition
threatened the Sumatra industry. le~
"a
nothing to fear from tho competition
with Filipino tobacco. bat good deal
to fear lest Filipino tobacco diseases
spread ta Sumatta lie found the work
at the Government experimental sta
lions. under Filipino super lmtendeatS, to
be beneath contempt
Mates one hears With satisfaction
that Portugal Is 90 return to eonstI'
tutional basis
Anisso,ini IL writing his mema'rs IN
100 900 words iils arVtetatN Is trans
a,ins them into English ,Riehard
Mashhugn Child one4tlme cur Amhass
sador to Italy, viii edit The translationl. .
and VIZ are told that the translation
win appear III all Amctcan masaAlhe,
on JANUARY ~ the Japanese ntet Was
dissolved 0eneral elettlans, In whlch
tor the FIRST tine In Japan complete
manhond suffrage will obtain Viii he
held ahaut a month hence,
Apparently the Sandna tnsnreetoS
ATE scattered IN tuesday detaehs
ment NJ Marines established itself on
n Chindte, aandinas ) mountain "strta,s-
hoid " Ne enemy bems conspicuous u,
his ahANnoA