Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

| greatest decorousness in dress; skirts to
reach at least inches below the
knee. When this sort of thing was
tried on in republican Rome. the women
marched on the Senate chamber and
| pulled the gray-beards' hirsute honors,
with result well known. And already
We hear of complications. At Genoa a
band OF ardent reformers stopped on
the street all feminine creatures" with
short skirts, and marked with black
paint on their stockings the minimum
! limit to which their skirts should de-
scend. Result: A glorious scene of fisti-
cuffs between the reformers and the
fathers. brothers and admirers of the
feminine creatures" The italian uni
| versity student is not permitted to go
bareheaded. In the interest of the
italian straw hat industry he is re-
quired to wear a straw hat this Sum-
mer, so he is informed by circular
issued by Turati, secretary general Of
the Fascist party. From this safe dis
lance. we say. Fiddle de -dee!"
Despite Mussolini's injunctions, the
italian birthrate continues to fall.
X
ALBANIA.-The foundation has
been laid for a new palace for King
Zogu of Albania. to cost a million dol
lars, the architect and builders being
Italians. 1t is at the center of group
Of government buildings already under
construction. Zcgu already has four
royal palaces and a sixth is planned
at the site of the house in which the
immortal Scanderberg was born. No
doubt Zogu needs all these places, and
that the Albanian people as we'll as
the Italian contractors will be ade-
quately benefited by the new construc-
ton. even though Albania is desperately
poor.
CHINA.-Anent the very strained re-
lations between China and Russia re-
sulting from the raids by officials of
the Manchurian government on Rus
expectation of discovering compromis-
ing matter tit is given out that very
compromising documents were found),
1t should be remembered that under
the Portsmouth treaty Russia was
given the right to maintain a force
OF about $4,000 in Northern Manchuria
to guard the Chinese Eastern Railway
(under joint Sino-RuSsian CONTROL. 1t
is obvious what a dangerous situation
would be created should Moscow see
mt to exercise this right. There seems
no doubt that since development of
the. present crisis considerable Russian
forces have been assembled on the
Russian side OF the frontier between
Manchuria and the Far Eastern Re-
public ca member of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics). No ac-
tive hostilities are reported between
forces Of the Marking government and
those of Feng Yu-Hsiang. supertuchun
Of Honan, Shensi and Kansu.
X
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
On June II Senator Borah's resolution
to limit tariff revision to farm products
and closely related schedules was voted
down in the Senate. 80 to SO, and the
same day the Senate resolved to recess
from Wednesday evening. the 10th, to
August 10, provided the House should
similarly resolve. The House obliged
and then some, for 1t recessed to Sep
TENDER %.
On June 10. just before adjourn
ment both houses of Congress passed
the resolution sponsored by the admin
istration providing for postponement
from August l, 1929, to May 1, 1880, of
the due date Of the debt Of approx
mately $400, 100000 owing our Govern
ment from the French government upon
the account Of war stocks left by US in