Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-13
IL NUEvo DIARIo, Caracas.--A
beautiful bronze statue has just
been unveiled of Gen. Francisco
Miranda the great military

been unveiled OF Gen. Francisco
IL Miranda, the great military
leader and strategiSt Of Vene-
zuela, who lent his sword to the French
Republicans at the time Of their his
toric struggle against q domineering
aristocracy. AS was eminently bef1tting,
the lifesize statue Of Gen. Miranda, the
work OF our famous Venezuelan sculp-
! tor, Lorenzo Gonzalez, has been set up
at Valfny, where on September co., 1892,
he led an Irresistible charge of the
French troops against q formidable
army of PrusSians, Austriar1S and Roy
alists. The French commander IN chief,
in this conflict. Gen; Keller1aan, also
has been honored with o heroic bronze
by a French sculptor: Venezuelans and
French colonists in Venezuela, together
| with the French legation in Caracas,
all contributing TO the fund, which
made possible two imposing memorials
| to these warriors of the revolution. Gen.
Miranda not only fought valiantly for
France, but also remains one Of the
most interesting figures Of Venezuela
and Of Spanish America.
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f44,2so SET Aside
For Moss Raising.
Irish Independent, Dublin.-The Free
State department of lands and fish,
cries has set aside the sum of ga $50
to be expended within the year
for the development and marketing OF
kelp and Carrigeen moss. The net cost
to the taxpayers, however, will be f10,
for it Is estimated that the receipts
10 be derived from the sale Of
the kelp and Carrigeen mess win amount
to- f44, $50. The benefits expected to
accrue from a system Of cooperative
ArLga will m
deserving sections of the community,
namely, the small farmers, laborers and
fishermen along the western seaboard,
whose existence is one stern struggle to
keep the wolf from the door. Last year
5000 tons of kelp (seaweed ashes) were
collected, and it is understood that the
present. estimate IS that almost double
The department of lands and fisheries
has set up special machinery for ex-
plotting the kelp industry by improv-
ing the quality and increasing the sales.
Research also has been conducted to
discover the most satisfactory methods
of preparing the keip, and Of so treating
the seaweed, to get the greatest iodine
products. In Finistere, the peasants are
able to maintain with profit IL iodine
factories. Surely the west coast Of Ire
land could maintain one. It is sin
cerely hoped that the proposed expert
ment will justify the generous expendi-
ture.
Mother Ballads
Have False, TinseI Touch.
The Daily Mail, London.-We do wish
that the majority of ballads about
motlier-love had not been writtFn by
large, noisy gentlemen hAiling from the
flasher quarters of New York. These
ballads give false, tinSel touch to 1t
all. We abhor the thought of silver hair
being twisted to commercial purposes
of the thin sweet plant of the cradle
song (and whenever a mother talks to
her child there is the echo Of q lullaby
there) being played on q raucous Saxo-
phone. It has made mother-love I'M
Northumberland those who have 1t
seem to cherish It almost as guilty
secret. Which is, perhaps, the expla-
nation Of the following letter written
us today:
Il am a woman of SO, and am al
ways In state Of fear. I am afraid OF
my children. fear they think am
old and boring. I expect I am, though
I try so hard! dread family meals. I
dread feeling so lonely, useless and
tiredl"
No doubt most mothers experience
the same emotions for most children,
whether they are 4 or 40, always think
of their parents-And especially their
mothers-as antiques. They forget that
their mother, not very long ago, was
proud and erect, in all the ardor of
youth, and that men, instead of pity
ing her. found their hearts beating
more quickly when she passed them by.
Somebody once said that the tragedy
OF age did not lie in the fact that one
grew old, but that one kept young. Every
aging woman knows that tragedy, and
II she Is the mother OF . family it is
terribly enhanced. For the coming Of
Winter is made only the more bitter by
the memory of Spring. And especially
I, this is so, If it is Springtime that all
the world has forgotten, and that bios
SONS, feintly and waywardiy, only IN
your own heart.