Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23

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VATICAN CITY.-On November 10
Pope Plus inaugurated the new tele-
phone system of Vatican City, the gift
Of the International Telephone &
Telegraph Corporation of New York.
He visited the exchange in his motor
car and bestowed his blessing: 81 want"
said his holiness Ito be like the blessed
Don Bosco, the noted educator, who
was beatifled last year. want to be in
the advance guard of progress"
Vatican City now has the highest
ratio of telephones to inhabitants of
any state in the world; namely 800
telephones to about 500 inhabitants.
About 800 miles of wire have been laid
The system is automatic The mounting
OF the apparatus in the Pope's workroom
is Of solid gold, with papal coat of arms,
the four evangelistS, ETC., in enamel.
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AUSTRLA.-Here Is a pleasant de-
velopment. The Parliamentary Club"
Of the Christian Social party of Austria
q. E. take it, all the parliamentary
representatives belonging to that partly
met the other day and resolved as fol-
lows: "All the members of the club are
bound by the Christian Social pro-
gram to adhere to the constitution, de-
Ginning to countenance any attempts
to alter 1t by violent methods of any
sort. The members of the clubs are
free of obligations to any group outside
the party" That is. they disavow any
association with the Heimwehr. Now
what will those flre-eating sons of Mars
and enemies of parliaments, the Prince
Won Strahemberg and Maj. PabSt, do?
POLAND-In the Polish parlia-
mentary elections Of November 16
Marshal Pilsudski's bloc won a major
Of 444 seats. But for his purposes the
marshal requires a three-fourthS ma
jority-that is, 1913 seats. In the old
Sejm, which he caused to be dissolved
because, he alleged, it "hamstrung" the
government, his bloc had lib seats
The world will watch with amused curl
oSity the marShalS next move. The
elections did not go off in perfect calm.
There were So casualties in Warsaw
80 IN LODI, etc., but apparently no
deaths.
The campaign was sufficiently fantas-
tic, even for Poland. Throughout 1t
Pilsudski kept some so of his leading
opponents, including two former pre-
miers, in jail. Moreover, he caused
sundry opposition tickets to be disquali-
fled on what he was pleased to call
legal" grounds. Yet cool critics are
by no means sure that on the whole,
the old marshal, truly the father of
new Poland, is not justified of his
works. He has to deal with fantiscali-
ties, and he does so Enthusiastically. He
knows his Poland. On the economic
side. Eove1er, fantastic" is not the
word. The new Poland has grappled
its economic problems with resolution
and intelligence. Such Is the impress
sion conveyed in the report submitted
by Charles s. Dewey, our countryman,
on his retirement after three years as
financial adviser to the Polish govern
ment. Poland shares in the planetary
slump, but her condition is by no means
as bad as that of several of the the
lave" far better than might be ex-
pected in view of the desperate economic
chaos in which she found herself upon
her reconstruction as an independent
state.
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