Evening star., 1928-04-08

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| Work is beginning this year on harbor
| improvements at Haifa. The importance
| OF that harbor will be immensely boosted
/ IT, as the British insist. Ii is made the
terminus OF a pipe line from the Mosul
oil fields.
| The cirtrtis fruit industry Is a proved
success. Realization of irrigation and
| foreStal programs In contemplation
would make the country bloom indeed
! with good management, they can be
/ realized.
United States. - Former Senator
chauncey NJ. Depew is dead at "a.
There are four woman members in
the new House of Representatives. Mrs.
Rogers OF Massachusetts,. Mrs Langley
of Kentucky, Mrs. Kahn Of California.
Republicans. and Mrs. Norton of New
jersey. Democrat
The number of marriages in 1926
| was greater than the number In 1925
by IL per cent. the number of divorces
greater by 81 per cent There were
l.020.079 marriages In 1925. as against
l80. .868 divorces.
The Boeing Air Transport, which for
six months or so now has maintained
daily air passenger and mail service
between Chicago and San Francisco
Il 900 miles,. Is doing good business.
The time between the two cities by
its planes Is less than "a hours, the
time by train Is three days,
The national air transport conducts
daily air-mail service between New
York tHadley Field, N. j. and Chi
cago. 1t Is expected soon to add regu-
lar passenger service. Daily mail leaves
New York by air. TO reach San Fran
cisco within IS hours
A vigorous mail order business in
family trees Is developing. This ar
boreal decoration should be installed in
every domestic establishment. not even
giving place to the radio apparatus or
the baby carriage. One can be pro-
the dark ages for the piddling sum Of
$3.50. Thus the world is made safe for
snobbishneSS, which Is completely
democratized. We are told that 1884
written applications were made in 1926
to the family history department Cf the
New York Public Library for works OF
local and family history"
The arts of the world" says Ralph
Adams Cram the distinguished archt-
tect, ARE suffering an eclipse. Creative
music has almost ceased. Painting has
fallen back and sculpture, too, all the
arts except American architecture have
declined: but the revival OF American
architecture since 1880 Is one OF the
most remarkable manifestations of mod
ern history" But has not MIR Cram
overlooked certain other exceptions,
even more notable-namely the arts
of propaganda and mendacttyP
NOTES-It Is rather startling infor-
nation that the Belgian Communist
party. which began only seven years
aao with a membership OF only about
500. now numbers 10000, 1t Is not
surprising though this method OF eS-
peiling one person Is a dubious onel
that a Fascist movement should have
been started to combat the Red menace.
The Soviet government has consented
that German offlcial should visit the
German engineers ineareerated al
Rostov,
Oft-vexed old Smyrna has another
disaster; not at the hands OF man thls
but from nature, On March u sue
cesslon of earthquakes shook the city,
killing about 90 persons, causing great
deal OF material damage.
Japan has invested about three
quarters OF a billion dollars IN Man-
chnria. but she Is getting only about
fifteen millions nf profit annually from
the investment. "if,s says an author
lty, allowance II made for the cost OF
the garrison which Japan maintains In
Manchurla and for other incidental
nuhlie OUTLAWS. Il will be found that she
Is making no profit at all out OF the
country"
That intrepid adventurer, the Aus-
trallan, Capt George IL, wilkins, and
his no less intrepid pilot, Lieut., Carl
n, Ellison, have been at Point BARROW,
Alaska since March 10. waiting for q
hFeak In the weather favorable To their
proposed flight Of a,ln0 miles ever the
North Pole to spitsheFgea,