Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
Higghlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

films that exploit them must be ruth
lessly eradicated.
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witnesses Come
In Three Varieties.
Morning Post, London.-Lawyers have
sought to divide witnesses into three
classes-the liar, the superliar and the
expert witness-to which Lord Bramwell
is said to have objected by adding land
my brother, Sir Frederick" who was a
great engineer and superexpert wit
ness.
Woman is often an expert in the
witness box, having skill in advocacy,
loyal sympathy with her friends case
and real delight in besting the other
side.
However, 1t Is new game for woman
to be witness, and she has not as yet
learned the rules of it, Being invited to
tell the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, she starts out to
tell the whole irrelevant truth, with
graphic detail, and is greatly discon-
tented at being told that the whole
truth" Is not always evidence"
The LAYS of evidence are incompre-
hensible to woman, whose unerring in
stinct tells her that they are wholly
artificial and absurd. 1t was probably
a fear of the superior common sense of
woman that barred them from the wit
ness box in the Hindu. Mohammedan,
Roman and medieval European codes.
In Switzerland, only a hundred years
ago the evidence Of two women was but
equal to that of one man. This seems
to be based on the custom and etiquette
of golf, where a scratch man Is sup
posed to be able to give any woman
golfer a half This he is not always
able to do, and he has also been known
to fail in the witness box!
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25-Mile Speed
Law Hope In Japan.
Japan Advertiser, Tokio.-Revision Of
the present automobile speed laws to
meet the modern demand for rapid
TRANSPORTATION is being planned by the
experts of the ministry of home affairs.
The existing regulations, formed some
| 10 wears ago, establish maximum
speed of Is miles. This speed is con-
sidered too slow, In view Of the fact
that there are now 10000 automobiles
in Japan, and the newspaper Miyako
reports that the ministry ofnc1alS nave
decided to increase the speed limit to
20, or perhaps to Is, miles an hour.
While these experts agree that the
present speed limit Is too low, they also
are convinced that change In the ex-
animation for chauffeurs will be neces-
sary before the limit can be safely In
| creased.
More complete technical knowledge
on the part of motor operators will be
| required under the new system OF ex-
animation for chauffeurs' licenses.
About 100000 persons are now licensed
to drive cars in Japan, and the num-
Der Is rapidly increasing.
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| Ancient Prison
Gives Way to Garden.
Ell Universal, Mexico City.-The old
and famous Prison of Belen, in this
city, is soon to be demolished, and a
beautiful garden will be developed on
the site where 1t stood. Flowers will
bloom, trees will cast their shade, and
fountains will play over the areas for
merly occupied by the most vicious and
outcast Of our population.
All of the prisoners will be removed
to the federal penitentiary, on the
grounds of which institution larger
quarters will be erected, and also court
rooms and judicial offices provided, in
new structures for these departments.
Tearing down of the old Belen Prison,
parts OF which were erected more than
| q century ago, viii begin early in 1880.