Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-16

some wise man declared that troubles
never come singly.
If wool had kept its old price the
Langs of London would probably not
have worried about Australians debts
1t was when prices began to slump
that the Langs of London became wor-
ried. And then they found that, year
by year, for many years past, Australia
has been importing about 40 millions
(pounds) more than it had been ex-
porting, or, in other words, had been
running up debts to the tradesmen
that much in excess of its earnings. A
people running into debt in that
fashion is booked for disaster whether
there is any worldwide depression or
not. Having two lots of trouble to get
out Of, there Is call, not to do moth
ing, but to do lot.
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Wealthy Planters
Seek Modern COnveniences.
La Nacion, Buenos Aires.-Since the
installation of central water works in
most of the larger towns in the provinces
of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, which
enables city dwellers to have cold. and
in some instances hot, running water
in their own homes, quite a number
of the well-to-do planters are seeking
the same conveniences for their coun-
try estates. In most cases windmillS
supply the power necessary for pump
ing water from wells or rivers into
the habitation, and also about the do
main; in other cases stationary gaSo-
line engines do this pumping, and in
the more complete rural water systems
boilers are included, in which the water
is warmed by oil burner or electric
heat. This furnishes hot water in
abundance, at all hours, in all the
faucets connected to the heating tank.
The gauchos and vauqueros (peasantry
and herdsmen) have been recovering
somewhat from their establishment at
these supernatural devices which at the
touch of a finger produce water hot
or cold. At first some Of them de-
sired similar appliances for their own
huts, thinking the tap itself furnished
the element without any auxiliary ap-
paratus.
Erect Monument
To Balboa After 400 Years.
FL Mercurio, Santiago.-Vasco Nunez
de Balboa was an intrepid and yet
gay adventurer. Though exposed to
all the hardships and perils that must
De encountered III the eAplOIdClOH VI
a virgin wilderness, he never faltered
in his march, and through it all ex-
hibited the genial attributes of his
nature in encouraging and solacing his
companions.
Now, after 400 years, it is proposed
to erect a heroic bronze statue in his
honor upon the lofty peak where first.
in traversing the Isthmus, he beheld
the Great Pacific. From time to time
such a project has been considered,
that the effigy of this glorious discoverer
might stand forever, facing the mighty
ocean which he was the first of all
those brave voyagers to find. and that
the whole world might see him there,
upon that famous spot, clad in glitter
ing armor as of yore. This statue,
which will show the vigorous features
and, too, the pleasant expression of
the bold explorer, will be erected at
the initiative of the President of Pan
anna, Don Florencio H. Arosemena, by
a national commission, which already
has searched carefully for the authentic
site of the monument, which both his
tory, tradition and probability prove
to be the summit of an Isthmian noun
tain, near the present town, Las Cruces.
Here Balboa first saw the Pacific, the
discovery so essential in the develop
ment of the new hemisphere, Septem-
Der /, 1913.