Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
IL UNIVERSAL, Mexico, D. F.
American railways connecting
at the border with Mexican lines

at the border with Mexican lines
IL are planning TO bring monthly
excursions of visitors to Mexican
cities during the Winter months. MosC
of this traffic will pass through NueVo
Laredo and Ciudad Juarez, though some
excursionists will also come into tne
country via Matamoros. Botn Lne Lan-
wavs and the newspapers, particularly
in the state of Texas, are promoting
these opportunities for more Americans
to become acquainted with Mexico, ana
very reduced rates of travel are 10 De
offered. Nest of the trips will be 10
Chihuahua, Monterey, Saltillo and ram
nico as these cities are accessible LOT
northern tourists, and yet interesting
and typical of the country.
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Use of Electricity in U. S.
Amazes Austria.
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna.-It
is amazing that in the United states OF
America. where it is automatic tnat
everybody is pressed for time, they
are able to compile such detailed ana
complete statistics of everything trans
piring i'll the country.
We have lately had the opportunity
to glance over figures relative to the
use of electrical devices in the AMER
can home. According to these data,
housekeeping in the U. S. A. Is almost
entirely automatic. The sweeping, the
lighting, the cooking, the heating, the
refrigerating, the entertaining, the
washing, and even the opening and
shutting of doors and the passing from
one floor to another, Is accomplished by
electric current.
Needless to say, this employment OF
the mysterious element has greatly IN
creased electric bills of late years, put
not to a degree that as yet appears 10
cause any noticeable depletion in the
average American domestic excnequer.
OF 1000, 600 homes in the Unlteo
States. 66 per cent have practically all
the convenienceSA enumerated above:
Even families with an annual income OF
from 81 900 to $4,000 have vacuum
sweepers, and from $4,000 to $4,000 an
nual incomes enjoy electric ranges IN
the kitchen and electric central heating
systems.
The average American household
spends in a year for its telephone, $50;
for its radio. $28, and for current to OPP
crate it another $28; for the operation
of other electrical apparatus the Amer.
can family spends still another $40
yearly. Coincident with these luxurles,
they are not appalled, at further ex-
penditures of 500 year for canoy
(konfekt) and ice cream (gefrornes).
$68 a year for BENIN (gasoline), $1OO
for tobacco and an average OF saw
annually for automobiles.
These OUTLAWS vary little from year
TO year, sometimes more, sometimes
less. Americans are very initiative. II
one family gets something new, the
families next door, across the street
and around the corner must all get
similar equipment, regardless OF cost.
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Law Enforcement Spur
Seen In Robbery.
Berliner Tageblatt.-As II to demon
strate that there is no understanding
or adhersion between the local city gov
eminent of Chicago and the outlaws Oh
that somewhat unenviable celebrated
city, three miscrearts robbed Frau
Thompson, the wife of the mayor, OF
valuable jewelry she was wearing while
seated in an automobile near her home.
Among the articles taken from this lady
was a diamond ring worth some $lO,-
600. Frau Thompson and her chauf-
feur were held in check by revolvers
exhibited by the three men. It Is be-
lieved that the war against crime in
Chicago will now be pursued with a
new aggressiveness.
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Correspondent Declares
Scots Discourteous.
Evening Times, Glasgow Oetter to
Editor your correspondent, Mr.. H. P.
Dunn, asks II he received fair treat
ment from the car conductor whose
Miniature and vulgarity led to his pro-
test through your paper. He was, OF
course, shamefully treated by the man.
and, as he points out, the attitude of
the conductors superiors was even more
outrageous. But has Mr.. Dunn, after
all, much reason to be surprised?
have lived in Scotland since 1915, and
the rudeness of the people still makes
me gasp. Travelling in the train quite
recently with q gentleman Of fine in
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