Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21


soaps, cash registers, mineral waters
homespun suits. laces, fancy linens
stained glass, sculpture, shoe polish
cottage industries. including tweed
and knitting, poplin, hosiery, agricul
tural implements, printing, jewelry
pottery and leather craft, were amoni
the industries represented at the show
The Royal Dublin Society will cele
orate its bi-centenary next year. com
on June Do. and its Sprinl
and horse show of 1891 will be asso
ciated with its special celebrations.
Testing New Battery.
Ireland is agog over the possibilitie
Of the Drumm battery, invented by
young university professor. EXHAUSTIVE
tests are being conducted, with a viey
10 ascertaining its usefulness and dura
bility for railway operation. The min
lister for industry and commerce, M
recently made public
statement on the invention. in whicl
ne explained that it is low resistance
alkaline battery CT robust construction
has so per cent higher voltage thar
existing alkaline batteries; that, du,
TO its low resistance, it can be charged
and discharged at much higher rate;
that the energy efficiency of the bat
terry is rs per cent under practica
conditions of operation; that its cur
'ent efficiency is 95 per cent, and. du
20 its simple construction. should b
cheap to manufacture
he pronounced tests conducted up t.
hat time as being "eminently satisfac
tory" The Irish Free State govern
nent is fostering the experiments being
conducted with the new battery.
Work is being pursued on the Shan
ION scheme by the German electrical
Engineers, the main plant being located
outside Limerick, at Ardnacrusha
Dublin and other centerS are alread!
nut in on the new electrical service. thu
wo biggest consumers of electricity
)eing the Ford tractor works at Corl
md the Dublin street car system.
The Electricity Supply Board, thu
agency dealing with thi;
phase of the national life. is at worl
With a strenuous campaign to make
he nation electricity minded" having
is own show rooms in the province:
o teach communities the worth of up
o-date electrical equipment. The coun'
nv has a series of electricity arteries
o that the remotest areas will soon have
in opportunity of using Juice, but i
S conceded that it will be some time
before the farmers will catch on to the
dea favorably.
Ireland is looking with a longing eye
O the business it anticipates will come
With the Eucharistic Congress, which
S to be held in Dublin in 1882, fol
,eeking tourist business is getting to bt
me of Erin's fortes. The Irish Tourist
Inc, and the Ulster Tourist
Association are broadcast
ng loads of illustrated literature extol.
ing the charms of a country that i
noted for its charm and scenery. Ar
American hotel enterprise is said to be
negotiating for the construction of 6
hahn of up-to-date hotels In the
Isle, so that the country may
compete the better with Switzerland
france, Germany and other areas be-
owed of vacationistS.
Schools Improved.
The report Just issued by the Irish
free State educational department has
,iven rise to considerable comment
German has largely disappeared from
he curriculum, but other modern Ian
yuages are coming into their own. A
school attendance law has
been in operation for the past few years
md Is beginning to bring beneficial re.
suits. Medical inspections are now car
led out and improvement in the public
health is expected to result from this
systematic survey of the younger gen.
sration.
Teachers are being required to teach
various subjects in Gaelic, the anceStra
tongue. Progress in this is rated as
slow, but there is a determined effort
% make this language live again in the
ives of the people and enthusiasm In
his cause is keen. 1t will need a gen.
Grafton or two, however, before the full
'esults are felt In the secondary sys-
EN- of education there is more liberality
han formerly, the set text book pro.
gram, prevailing under the old inter
Mediate system, now having beer
thrown overheard.
The Summer school at University
College, Dublin, a constituent college
If the National University of Ireland
S a growing institution, and this yea
Americans and Germans predominatec
among the foreign groups. Lectures or
irish economies, language, history, liter.
ature, archaeology and other phases o.
Celtic life were delivered by regular
professors of the university. The Ger.
mans proclaim that they are treated
better at Dublin than at oxford anC
ire coming to the Irish capital in in
,reaSing numbers.
In Galway, in the west, SummeI
schools are conducted so that teacher
may catch up on their study of Gaelic
and the national police force, the civil
guards, are being required to taxi
courses in Gaelic as part of the Irish
Ireland policy.
Swept by Dance Craze.
Ireland, at the present. time, is beint
swept by a dance craze with vari
alton of the American fox trot ant
waltzes being in the fore. Thanks t.
the United States-made "talkies,
American popular songs are as mucl
in vogue in Dublin or Cork as they ar,
on the banks of the Wabash or arount
the Golden Gate. American music
played in the dance pavilions and, du'
10 the fact that almost every Irish fam
lily has relatives in the States, Ameri
can. products are given hearty welcomt
In old Erin. Song o. My Heart" fea-
turing John Mccormack, was exhibited
in one of the leading theaters or
O'Connell street in Dublin a whole
month before 1t was shown in Wash.
Ington. The movie houses C"cinemas'
the Irish call them are well patTonized
for long lines wait outside the Brilliant!
lighted foyers to gain admission to Sc,
Lon CLANCY, Greta Carlo or some othel
American screen favorite.
Film censorship is a subject that /
getting the lions share of attention, To-
the Irish statutes prohibit the showing
Of certain types of films deemed detri
mental to the public welfare.
Ireland is interlaced with a network
of BUSES and one may travel from one
end of the country to the other at rea
sonable prices. A ride on the metropolis
tan tram cars" as the street cars ar,
termed, can be obtained for cents.
AS in other European countries, tn
average man in Ireland is unable t,
sport an automobile, although there /
an increasing number of privatel
owned vehicles, many of them of Amer
lean makes. The high import duty o
33b per cent, with % 20 per cent TO
British-made cars, is bar to the NOR
extensive use of automobiles and motto