Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-14
Hiigghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

r E SOIR, Brussels.-The Luxem-
bourgeois nuxemburgers) have
been coming to Belgium in
H. large numbers to visit the ex-
position at Antwerp and also the
one at Liege. How great an incoh-
venience is suffered by these people,
then. when : n changing their Luxem-
burg banknotes into Belgian money
they must submit to discount of from
10 to 20 per cent. We live, as do the
citizens Of the grand duchy, q simple,
thrifty life, and are, in reality, Of the
same economic community. The Lux
emburg franc is worth, nominally, the
same as the Belgian franc, and the
logic of fair dealing demands that coins
and notes Of Luxembourg be accepted
everywhere in Belgium, at face value,
Just the same as Belgian money Is ac-
cepted at par in Luxembourg.
If, for reasons impossible to under
stand, or to justify, certain Belgian
merchants refuse the legal tender Of
the grand duchy, or accept its coin and
bills only at discount, 1t Is time that
the public were educated on this point.
1t is most regrettable that such a dis
elimination exists, and 1t is high time
that the government instruct all rail-
road and post ONCE cashiers and agents
70 deal with our economic allies upon
an equitable and reciprocal basis.
There should also be established at the
expositions Offices where Luxembourg
money can be changed to Belgian
money without any stock jobbing opera
tons whatever.
u. S. Cited in Discussion
On Capital Punishment Bill.
The Daily Mail, London. - Giving
evidence before the select committee
which Is considering the capital pun
iShment bill, Lord Buckmaster declared
that the arguments used recently in
favor of capital punishment as de-
terrent were used, and for a long time
were successful, in the early part Of the
nineteenth century. when capital pun
ishment was a common punishment for
civil offenses.
There ere a few calculated cold
blooded murders" said Lord Buck
master, but the bulk of murders are
nothing OF the kind, but are committed
when man loses control of himself"
We believe, however, that there is
always a risk of forgetting the victim
In sympathy for the convicted murder
err 1t Is not humanity but sentiment
taliSm to lament the lot of the GRIM
inal and to ignore the fate of those
whom he has done to death. And we
are afraid that human experience does
not justify Lord Buckmasters hope that
social opinion may be strong enough tC
prevent murder. This is certainly not
what has happened in the United
States. In that country, socially ad-
vanced as 1t is, the death penalty, for
all practical purposes. has been abol-
ished, and can always be eluded If the
criminal has cash and powerful friends
But social opinion has not put down
murder On the contrary, the United
| States stands first in it's ratio of MUIR
ders to population.
Fewer Candidates
For Ministry in England.
The Evening Post, Wellington.
year sees fewer candidates In Britain
for ordination as clergymen Of the
Church Of England. The rate of de-
crease between 1921 and 1923 was 60C
a year.
The Evening Post, Wellington-Re-
Gently when the Palmerston North fire
brigade was called to suppress a fire II
found that a car had been parked over
fire plug, and the firemen were
obliged to make hurried removal Of
gear TO the next nearest plug. Thu
caused delay and the subsequent APP
pearance of the offending car owner in
the court Since then a sharp lookout
has been kept for cars parked over fire
plugs, with the result that several Other
! car owners were before the court re-
Gently. NJ. Abraham, who appeared fol
one of the defendants, commended that
motorists were invited to park ovei
plugs by the borough Authorities, who