Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-08
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several thousands. The best ones are
indestruet bic and will preserve the
body indefinitely. Burial is seldom
made for a year or more, but the coffin
is sent to q "cofin house" furnished
by various guilds. Services for the
most diligently during the next seven
weeks.
Russia Must
Expand Metal Industry.
Soviet Economic Review, Leningrad.--
The industrialization process now I'M
der way in the Soviet Union neceSsi.
tateS . rapid expansion OF the coun.
try's metal industry. The iron ana
steel industry in particular. which has
never attained a development corn.
mensurate with the needs Of the coun-
try, Is scheduled to increase its output
to about three times that of pre-war
within q few years, in order to take
care of the needs of new railway
construction, and of the many new
machine building industries being de-
veloped in the Soviet Union. Among
these new activities are those pro-
duclng automobiles, turbines, tractors.
combines, machine tools of various de-
scriptionS. internal transport equip
ment, and the like. Plans for the nom
ferrous metal industry likewise cali for
an expansion Of production within the
next few years at q rate probably UNI
surpassed by any country in peace
time.
The nve-year plan for the develop
ment of the national economy Of the
Soviet Union, covering the period end
ing September 80. 1888. provides for
ton and improvements In the entire
metal industry of ,950,000,000 rubles
(S2,034, 000). This will be about 80 per
cent of the total sum to be invested
in state industry during the period. AS
a result of new construction and re-
building Of old plants, the basic capi-
tai of the metal industry is expected
to increase from 100000 rubles as Of
October /, 1928, to 100000 rubleS at
the end of the five-year period.
Leather-shoe production Is expected
to reach l45,000,000 pairs by 1928.
Pre-war production of leather shoes in
Russia was only 5,500,000 pairs, the
bulk of the demand for shoes having
been satisfied by neighborhood cob
blers. Hides of dogs, swine, camels and
sea animals are to be utilized extensive
Il is greatly desired to increase the
number Of domestic live stock.
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Watch Smoke
OF Burning Cows.
Cork Weekly Examiner.--For some
days past columns OF gray smoke have
been drifting In the west wind across
our parish. We have all seen them and
smeiled them. We have been watching
them with a queer feeling of sadness,
for we know what they mean. Away at
H Farm they are burning the cowsl
Nearly a hundred Of the best COWS
Guernsey cows with the rich milk. A
score Of them have foot-and-m0uth
disease-and for the sake of all the
rest of our cattle this golden herd is
burning. So dies the glory of this
farm, They say the old owner Is nearly
mad with grief, but we cannot go to
see, for police have closed every road
and path and gate.
Later more fires will be burning.
For "Old SIS" cows have been grazing
in fields adjoining those OF the youngest
farmer among us. His 20 had been
close to the others, as nigh as only q
hedge between So they must burn, too,
so swift-spreading Is the disease-on
the very wind. some think.
On the whole, these farmers accept
as a necessary evil the killing and burn
ing OF animals that they find they love
II the loss will benefit their neighbors.
They do discuss bit why the animals
must be killed, and are not very clear
about 1t, for the authorities do not tell
much, or suggest what they themselves
might do to prevent the disease spread
ing. As the wife Of the rector has just
put 1t, 1T Is q great sorrow on US all.