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New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
ADRIANOPLE CITY,.
 OF ORIENTAL TYPE
Turkish Mart in Europe But
 More Resembles Asia

Washington, D. C., Oct. 4-"The destructive wind which recently left Adrianople's windows without glass. feveled buildings and toppled lofty minarets, adds another, if minor, diRster to the history of the vener- able city" says a bulletin from the Washington, D. c. headquarters of the National Geographic society.
 Since Hadrian rebuilt the city in the second century, Adrianople has risen to envious heights among Turkish cities in commercial im- portance. It also has been en- gulfed in periods of distress.
 A City of The East
 "The city lies on the banks of the Maritsa and Tunja rivers, 137 miles northwest of Constantinople on the railroad which connects the famous old Turkish capital with Belgrade, Sofia and Salonika. Com merce that passed between the Bal kans and other portions of Europe, and Turkey, made Adrianople a great market and distributing point. Tariff barriers set up by the Balkan states and emigration of the city's population-the Turks eastward and the Greeks westward-have been charged with the more recent de- pression of the citys commercial importance.
 If visitors to Adrianople were unaware of it's location on the map. a tour of the city would lead them to believe that they were east of the Bosporus, for a marked oriental atmosphere prevails. Caravans ar rive as they do in Damascus; dusty, ruddy-skinned camel men mingle with the street crowds, peering into windows where a colorful array of oriental carpets. shawls, bric- -brac dominates: lofty cypress trees poke their uppermost limbs above the conglomeration of red roofs, and mosque domes dominate the irregu- lar skyline much as they do in Brua, while muezzins call the faithful Moslems to prayer from tall white minarets which point fingerlike to the sky.
 Commercial Glamor Gone
 "As one peers into Adrianople shops, guides decry the fact that their city is not what it once was. Before the World war. they will tell the visitor. Adrianople shops displayed handsome pieces of Aus trian crockery. artistic German iron pieces. fancy French jewelry, and English textiles. And during a shopping tour, the tones of an American photograph competed with the loud ,nickering of shop keepers and purchasers, and the boisterous calls of street vendors.
 Although the city now is quieter, it's population has diminished from S5,000 to 56,000 since 1905, and things Turkish appear to be moving eastward, Adrianople continues to hang on to a certain commercial prestige. Raw silk from nearby mulberry tree plantations, cotton, opium, rosewater, altar of roses, wax, and Turkey red dye are ex- ported, and the city still has a pride in fine wines produced from grapes from neighboring vineyards.
 "Adrianople came into it's own in 1861 when Murad II took resi- dence there and for a century it re- mained the seat of Turkish Sultans, Then Constantinople fell and Adrian epic was shorn of it's political inn portance. Bulgarians, Turks. and Greeks have all had a hand in gov erning the city from time to time since 1913. but in 1922 it was re- turned to Turkey"
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Swedish Bethany

Sunday school at 9:30 o'clock. pie. Mems Bible class. Morning worship in English at 10:45 o'clock. Sermon by Rev. c. J. Fredeen. The Highway to the Eternal City" The mixed chorus will sing. Evening by communion service.
 The Ladies' Aid society will have it's monthly meeting in the church parlors Thursday afternoon at 2:30. Midweek service on Thursday eve
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
LOCAL LIBRARIAN SPEAKS

Miss Madelyn Clish. juvenile librarian of the New Britain insti- tute, was one of the speakers at the state library convention in New Lcndon Thursday. She took as her subject Book Lists and Selection for Ages" She also reviewed a number of children's books, includ- ing Mrs. Elizabeth Morrow's "The Painted Pig" Angus and the Ducks" by Marjorie Flack, and 'The Round About Turn" by Les lie Brooks.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
MARTIAL LAW IN HANKOW

Shanghai, Oct. (UP) - Martial law was proclaimed in Hankow to- day, after an explosion in the Steam Boiler Power Company which killed five persons and injured nineteen.
 The blast, of mysterious origin. created rumors that a dangerous in trigue was afoot. Fear of com munist uprising was expressed.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
South Church Movies

The seventh season for the popu- lar Sunday evening motion picture services will open at the South Con- gregational church tomorrow eve ming with the film Such Men are Dangerous"
 The picture was shown through out the country last year and is said to have created somewhat of a sensation.
 It depicts the love affairs of a rich and influential man, repulsive because of physical ugliness, and of how he overcame this handicap with the aid of a plastic surgeon.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Trinity

sunday, 9:30 a. m. women's Bible class, church school; 1O:45 a. m. sermon, Machinery and Christian lty', SIS p. m. Epworth league, Miss Lois Beach. speaker.
 Monday, p. m. W. F. M. s.
 Tuesday, p. m. w. c. T. U. meet ing; afternoon, Methodist group at the hospital; 6:30 p. m. Philathea class; 7:15 D. m. Boy Scouts; 7:45 p. m. class meeting; p. m. Ladies'
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04

Airplanes are being called in to help farmers in North and South areas. scatter insecticides over or chards, drop smoke clouds to pro- tect crops from frost, and to bring herbs to commercial centers.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
LEONARD HEADS I. o. X

Russell Leonard was elected chairman of the l. O. X. club at the annual meeting held last night fol- lowing a banquet in the club rooms. J. Melnyk was elected assistant chairman for the yeari L. Coyne secretary and J. Spurvy, treasurer.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
ELEVATED WORKER ROBBED

Boston, Oct: (UP) - In view of hundreds of persons, Inspector l.. Cranitch of the Boston Elevated Railway Company was held up and robbed of $500 in dimes in the An drew Square subway station shortly before midnight. The three men who engineered the robbery escaped.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Emmanuel Gospel

Sunday, 1O:30 a. m. prayer groups; 10:45 a. m. message to chill dren, preaching by pastor, com- munion service and reception of members; F noon, Bible school hour: p. III. combined young peo- ple's and evening services, rally Sunday for young peoples society special speaker.
 Religious instruction classes for the week.
 Thursday. 7:45 p. m prayer and praise service.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
PROF. GRIFFITHS DIVORCED

>Paris, Oct. 4 LP) Professor Thomas Griffith of Lampeter, Pa, was granted a divorce in the French courts today from Lidia Evans Grif- fiths. They were married in Phila- delphia August 12, 1921.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04

There are more than S00,000 in sured workers in southeast England ; ot these only per cent of the men and 5 per cent of the women were unemployed in May.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
LUTHERAN CHURCHES
First

First
 Sunday school 9:S0 a. m. Service in English 10:3O a. m. and 7:30 D. m.
 Tuesday evening the Ladies' Aid will have a coffee social. Women from the Meriden church will fur nish the program.
 Thursday evening the Luther league will meet.
 Friday evening the choir, and Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the confirmation class.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
St. Matthews

Service in English at a. m., in German >at 10:45. Sunday school between the services.
 Meetings: Monday. the A. A. L. quarterly; Tuesday. deacons' board; Thursday, Ladies' Aid society.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Peoples Church of Christ

Sunday, 1o:5o a. m. prayer in study room; 10:45 a. m. preaching. Harry Fender; 1915 p. III. Sunday school; p. III. preaching, Harry Fender.
 Tuesday, 2:30 p. III. women's prayer meeting.
 Wednesday, religious classes.
 Thursday, religious class; prayer and praise service.
 Friday, 7:45 p. m. choir rehearsal.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Reformation

Sunday morning service 10 a. m. Sunday school 11:15 a. m.
 The religious school will meet Wednesday and Thursday after moons.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04

1lliterate people form 40 per cent of the population of Spain; fifteen years ago the figure was 50 per cent.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Activities of Week
 Among City Churches
4 ssyrian Mission

ASSyrldn MlSSlOu
 Sunday, 1880 p. m. worship at South church, preacher, Rev. E. E. Adams.
 Tuesday, ? p. m. women's Bible study; 4 D. m. Jolly Juniors.
 Wednesday. 7:15 D. m. brother hood meeting.
 Italian Mission
 Sunday, 9:30 a. Ill. junior, inter mediate and senior departments of the Hunter road Sunday school; 10:45 q. m. morning worship. preacher. Rev. Natale Ricciardi; 2 p. Tn. beginners and primary de- partments of the Hunter road Sun day school; 4 p. m. worship at South church.
 Monday. p. m. choir rehearsal; 8 ?. m. Christian Endeavor meet ing
 Thursday, 7:15 p. m. prayer meeting at Hunter road; 8 p. m. rehearsal at Hunter road.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
St. Johns German

Sunday, S:46 a. m. English serv- lce;s 9:45 a. m. Sunday school; II q. m. German service. subject: "Glorify the Lord on the Harvest Festival"
 Tuesday. 2:30 p. m. meeting of the Ladies Aid society.
 Wednesday, s p. m. business meeting of the congregation.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
ring at 7:45.

ring at 7:45. The Junior League concert will be held on Friday evening at 7:45 o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04

Scoutmaster Leslie Coates of Boy Scout Troop g, who recently at tained the rank of eagle scout, is the first member . of his troop to achieve that distinction. MT. Coates is also enc of the few scout leaders in this city who have risen from the ranks of the troops which they command. He first became scout in troop 9 a number of years ago, and his climb to leadership and to eagle rank have been steady and al most simultaneous. Mir. Coates re- sides at 2S Wilma street.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Stanley Memorial

Sunday, 9:30 q. m. junior, inter mediate-sen departments. church school; 10:45 a. m. morning wor- ship and sermon by Rev. R. N. Gil-
 man, subject: "The Poverty of Riches; 12 noon, primary and be- ginners' departments. Monday, 7:30 p. m. Boy Scouts, troop II. Wednesday, 2:30 p. m. united week day church school, grades 3 and 4.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Second Advent
Christian Science

Sunday service at II a. m., sub ject; "Unreality." Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
 Wednesday evening meeting at s o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Aid society.
 Wednesday, 2:30 p. m. week day religious school, 3rd grade.
MISCELLANEOUS
St. Marks Episcopal

St. Marks Episcopal
 The 18th Sunday after Trinity; 7:30 a. m. holy communion; II a. m. holy, communion and sermon by the rector; 9:30 a. m. church school. Monday, opening session of the Girls Friendly society, 7:45 p. m.
 Tuesday, 7:45 p. m. meeting of the Daughters of the King.
 Thursday. p. m. teachers train ing course directed by Miss Helen Stevens. director of religious educa- ton of the diocese of Connecticut; 4 U. m. confirmation instructions for younger candidates.
 Friday, 6:30 D. m. meeting of the Women's auxiliary. Supper at 6:30 D. m. Miss Jennie Loomis, diocesan president. will address the meeting At 8 p. m.. confirmation instructions for the adult candidates.
 Second Advent
 Sunday school, 10 a. m. Sunday morning service at II a. m. Eve ming service at 7:15 p. m.
 Wednesday, 7:3o p. m. praise service.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
Film (SwediSh)

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
BY HENRY w. BUM.

The following is a brief summary Of
the most important news OF the world
for the week ended January IL.
THE BRITISH EMPEROR Janu-
ary the total of unemployed among
registered workers of Great Britain was
about a million and half, there
having been an increase by over 1000
within fortnight and by over 100000
since the Laborites achieved the power
early in June.
National Gallery. presented to the Brit
ish nation by Sir Joseph Duveen and
planned under his expert personal
supervision, was formally accepted on
behalf of the country by Prince George.
The system of lighting Is novel one,
devised by Sir Joseph.
Politically, 1929 was a momentous
year for Great Britain, year marked
by installation of the first Labor gov
eminent resulting from victory at the
polls. To be sure, the popular vote
SLIGHTLY favored the Conservatives, and
though achieving a handsome plurality,
the Labor party lacks a majority in
the Commons, SO that at any moment
the Conservatives and Liberals could by
combining overturn the government;
on the other hand, neither the Con-
servatives nor the Liberals wish to go
to the country except on an issue OBJ
viously embarrassing to Labor, while
the government seems to be maneuver-
ing skillfully at once to avoid such an
issue and with view, all in good time,
to court defeat under circumstances IA
vorable to itself. We should have an
eve alert for interesting developments
in connection with any of the follow
ing matters-the Indian question, the
naval conference, the Egyptian ques-
ton, the Iraqui question and the new
budget.
one may not be too sure, but, with
full data to hand, we shall probably
find that the economy as a whole (the
so important invisible items of the in
ternational traffic included) somewhat
more than held its own over the year
Just passed. Assuming this to be so, 1t
Is perhaps somewhat remarkable In view
of the thwart factors, including the un-
certainty Of business preceding the cleo
lions, its post-election uncertainty as to
labor's intentions and the overseas
clutch of aurivorous Wall Street. I
cannot but think that uncertainty as to
| labor's intentions Importantly persists
as a damping influence (not lessened
! by recent dole legislation), but Wall
| Street has ceased from troubling.
No doubt the somewhat hectic activi-
ties Of the Labor government in the for
eign and imperial fields have been all
truistically aimed at acceleration of the
millennium, and not with the primary
object Of whipping up prestige that
| might prove serviceable toward achieve
ment Of those domestic objects which
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12

Authority on international Policy.
~ URING my recent visit to the
East went out from Peiping
~ villages in the heart of rural
China which are likely to fig
ure largely in the history of modern
civilization. They are the communities
where the Mass Education Movement is
working out its great experiment Of try
ing to find what should be taught the
400, 000,0 people of China as the ma
ton energies from its Asiatic past. II
that experiment succeeds 1t goes with
out saying that it will affect the world
more deeply than the establishment of
Chinese republic or any other incident
of current politics.
Ting Hsien, the district in which this
quiet but important effort is taking
place, lies little more than 100 miles
southwest of Peiping on the Peiping-
Hankow Railway. The Chinese, how
ever, do not measure distance by miles,
but by the time it takes to travel-and
properly so, for the best that the fast
est train could do to cover the ground
between Peiping and Ting Hsien was
something like eight hours; and even at
that, 1t is rare indeed that the train Is Is
according TO American railway time
tables the distance would be very much
greater. But, judged by other and
equally valid standards, Ting Hsien is
not eight hours from Peiping, but some
thing more than eight or nine centuries,
for apart from the work Of the Mass
Education Movement, there Is hardly a
sign of modern times in either the City
of Ting Hsien or in all the outlying vii
lagos we inspected.
The name Ting Hsien" is now used
as a name for both the central city of
county and a county itself. "Hsien"
means county-at least that Is as near
an analogy to the political division as
we have in the West. There are about
400 900 persons living in the whole geo.
graphical area of Ting Hsien. The pro-
vincial City Of Ting Hsien, however, has
only about $4,000.
The vast preponderance Of the popu-
lation here. as elsewhere all over China,
lives in little farming hamlets, cultivat-
ing farms that are divided up into little
plots like market gardens and connected
with each other by rambling roadways,
generally just wide enough for single
ox-cart and often going down 5 or 6
feet through the sandy soil, so that In
wet weather they are impossible or be-
come beds of streams. The short cuts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
CzechOslovak Currency
To Have Gold Basis

That long establish
ment of Czechoslovak currency on a
gold basis will probably become fact
when the new Parliament Is soon con-
vened. A bill has already been draft
ed fixing the Czech crown at 4458
milligrams of gold. Hrivny, Czecho-
slovak pounds, are to be coined, to
contain 4.458 grams of~fne gold. The
total weight of the hrivny will be
4.9533 grams, the difference being made
up OF copper-that is, 80 per cent
gold and 10 per cent copper. The bill
provides that the national bank shall
maintain a banknote coverage of gold
at IS per cent by the end of 1929, 80
per cent by the end of 1880, and by
1895 at least 35 per cent. Hitherto
Czechoslovak currency has been pegged
on the dollar. and the capital of the
national bank. $l2000,000, has been
in dollars. Now the capital will be
converted into 405 100000 crowns, at
the rate of 1915 crowns for 81. Each
Of the 10000 shares, now nominal
500, will have a nominal of 1875
crowns, when the bill becomes a law.
Czechoslovak currency has been sta
bilized for six years, so no difficulty is
expected in maintaining the gold stand
ard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12

The tuberculosis death rate is actually
rising in some of our cities.
\ \ 4
NOTES.-The financiers at The
Hague are making plans for floating
the first Young plan loan-probably to
total about the equivalent of 5000. 900;
loan. that Is, to be issued by the Bank
of International Settlements (the out
standing feature of the Young plan
machinery and to be based on the
unconditional payments under the
Young plan.
January 10 was the tenth anniversary
Of the birth of the League of Nations
On January 10, 1920, the covenant OF
the League came into force with deposit
of ratification Of the Versailles treaty
by Germany. Twenty-four States con-
stituted the original membership, which
increased gradually to Sc. but, Brazil
and Costa Rica having withdrawn, the
present total is 81.
Gen. Maxine Weygand has been ap-
pointed chief of the general staff Of the
French army, in succession to Gen.
Debeney, retired.
The other day the Moscow Com
munist party committee adopted reso-
luton to the effect that not only must
the kulak or rich peasant class be
"liquidated," but that this process
must imply basic liquidation Of the
part being taken by private capital in
commerce and liquidation Of the 'nep-
man. class In the Soviet state" In
other words, militant communism, -
suspended, but only suspended. by that
great opportunist Lenin, Is to be re-
stored to full function, or practically
so, In the Soviet state.
It Is proposed to translate all the
major Greek and Latin classics into
Turkish. A beginning has been made
with Virgil's Georges"
The storied Orontes in Syria is to be
harnessed for electric power; a power
station to be erected between HONS and
Hama. Part Of the power will be used
by way of pumping for irrigation pur-
poses, so restoring the anciently famed
fertility of the valley, similarly as to
a stream In the Lebanon, whose waters
will be conveyed through tunnels to
turbines in Beirut. Apollo Is fed, He
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
The Story the Week Has Told

of the same genus, or of different
genus? Come, Come: Give us his brain
capacity. Then, by comparing 1t with
those of Pithecanthropus erectuS OF
Java. of the Piltdown fellow, of Homo
HeidelbergensiS, and the rest OF EN-,
we can approximate conclusion. May
be he only dates back seven or eight
thousand years-a mere modern, an
uninteresting fellow.
declining in value, with the usual ef-
fects on the general economy. 1t is
now worth 80 cents in American money,
as against 49 cents IL months ago.
The project Of a Barga Soviet Re-
public seems to have collapsed.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Among the most striking developments
Of the past year was that of air express.
Today over IL air services are deliver
ing express directly to over 80 cities.
The possibilities boggle the imagination.
Already aircraft are rushing hats.
dresses and lingerie of the latest Paris
styles to Midwest and Far West cities"
Even greater blessings to humanity
through such transport are thinkable.
Among the most interesting items In
a report for the year 1929 by C. G..
Abbot, head of the Smithsonian 1nstt-
tuition, is the announcement OF COM
pletion, at the National Geological Park,
of bird house believed to be the best
in the world, and beginning of con-
struction of q reptile house designed to
be of like superiority.
The Census Bureau estimates that
this years census will show a national
population of about 122,000,000, as
against about los 900 900 shown by the
1920 census. One hundred and twenty
two million Is about nine times the fig
ure 100 years ago.
LOSIS-Recently I noted
as among the important advances made
by chemistry in the year just ended the
isolation by Treat B. johnson and r. T.
Anderson Of Yale University of toxic
sugar produced by the tubercle bacillus.
The other day DR.. William Charles
White of the Federal Public Health
Service and chairman Of the standing
committee of the National tuberculosis
Association discoursed of this develop
ment to the American Association for
the Advancement Of Science, in session
at Des Moines. This sugar seems to
act as co-ordinating agent between the
tubercular bacillus and the human cell,
and so may be regarded as the imme-
date cause Of tuberculosis. There is,
therefore, high hope that its isolation
may point the way to sovereign cure
for tuberculosis.
DR.. WHITE stated that there are prob
ably more than 100000 deaths annually
49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
London to Experiment
With enc Tip" Takes

London is experimenting with a new
taxicab A feet Of fifty is shortly to
be placed on the streets with uniformed
chauffeurs pledged not to accept tips.
A notice to this effect will be placed
In each cab, and chauffeurs accepting
tips will be subject to dismissal. Fur
ther, there will be instruction in cour-
tesy similar to that of the London
cabbies will be taught is not to hide
their change in trousers pockets. They
will be employed by company which
will pay an adequate wage, obviating
any need for tips. The first chassis OF
the no-tip taxicabs have been sent to
Scotland Yard for the usual fitness
examination An interesting feature
of the new taxicabs 10 their air-cooled