Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-14
Higghlights on the Wide " orld
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

| and reduced demand. with the ever
present menace Of foreign competition.
| Potatoes are the one agricultural crop
OF which we produce rather more than
are needed for home consumption. This
season farmers through the country,
driven desperate by the. ruinotIs pros
poets OF growing, have planter
10000 acres of potatoes in excess of
last years area. Last year more than
100 900 tons of potatoes were left to rot
In the clamps (piled in heapsl, owing
to there being no market for them,
fact that makes 1t easy to realize the
present state of the industry when a
market must be found for q further
excess Of 100000 tons produced by the
increased acreage.
AS regards the reduced demand for
potatoes. the consumption of this cheap
and most valuable food has fallen of in
England by something like so per cent.
The fallacy that potatoes are fattening
is no doubt the chief cause of this re-
duction. Cooked without fat, their con-
sumption is highly beneficial, even for
people who may be too stout. Boiled
or steamed, they are even IN the diet at
German SHINING" spas.
Have You Ever
Tried Them on Your Knife?
Sydney Bulletin.-Old Bill Smith
(buSh farmer)-Peas isn't easy to raise.
Farm Expert (viSiting)-Have you
tried them on your knife?
Boy-Granddad, have you ever been
troubled with dyspepsia?
Granddad-Only when I've tried to
spell 1t, Jack.
Preacher-Ah, think. my friend Of
all the homes that have been wrecked
by whisky! tassg
about all the ships that have been
wrecked by water?
Mother (to boy sliding down ban
isterl-What are you doing theres
Cyril?
Cyril-Making trousers for pd r little
orphan boys, mummy. IL
What. my child9-you'Henbrq len two
windows? 7o3
Yes. mummyl But what's window
or two when Australia's so mort Of
good cricketers!"
Mamie (tired and bored to bath as
the clock strikes 3)-And pa Bald he
was easy going!" -
Harry gave her . new for her
thirtieth birthday" ~
Yes, but she married Jkh1f tho only
gave her a birthday cakeR IL
"Ah, but remember he2 OK put Il
candles on It'll"
Rocky Road to R
Ell PradO Quarter.
Diario Del Concrete, HrfManuilla.-
One more time, and we hpd IL will be
the last, we desire to call hthk Intention
of whatever authority is HoncSfned, to
the terrible condition of Aduana street,
especially between FeliciaaA aad Tanque
avenues. ~ EYE
Sible for those in charge ton with
such indifference the cehdion of
streets as important This ege. We
have often emphasized in these pages
that Aduana street Is the SHORTEST route
between the Montoy& station and the
elegant FL Prado quarter. = but day by
day this route becomes more and more
impossible, until any one, who now
wishes to traverse this thoroughfare in
q car Is simply exposing his hide to the
direst disasters, from the multitude OF
bumps, mud holes, large rocks and
other hazards that infest this driveway.
We are not asking for asphalt, senorsS
much less are we asking for cement \
We are only asking that you level this
street up. filling the depreSsions with .
the corresponding elevations, so that we
may be able before long to traverse that +.
road without the labors and dificulties
encountered In the exploring OF q VIII
Let US at least have street that q
aat and smooth, even II 1t be upnaEa