Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-21
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
.m BULLETIN, 6ydney.-CThe
writer, Berthold Palmertz, Is q
young Swedish journalist, who is
l working his way round the

TIME BULLETIN, Sydney.-CThe
writer, Berthold Palmertz, Is q
young Swedish journalist, who Il
II working his way round the
world. He has seen good deal
Of Australia and spent four months in
The editor Of Sydney paper asked
me to write something cheerful" for
him. As q Swede, I cannot be very
cheerful about your Australian tariff.
Unemployment Is almost certain TO re-
suit in Sweden because your tarih will
exclude electrical machinery, matches
and other things which we have been
exporting to you. The view in Sweden
10 that no nation can live In a water
tight compartment. There must be
trade between nations.
As to military training, 1t should not
be voluntary. In Sweden q man Is not
trained until he Is 81, and then he has
TO serve for whole year, the pay being
pence q day. There Is great compete
ton among regiments, which pride
themselves on their smart appearance
and devotion to duty, and there Is plenty
Of hard physical training. After he has
served his year, each soldier goes back
for . few short periods and is then put
on the reserve until he reaches the age
Of 40. This system has more real effect
|, on a mans efficiency and physique than
a lot Of week end outings and secures
discipline and protection.
Since came to Australia, an at
tempt has been made to introduce pro-
hibition into one Of the states. It would
be difficult to enforce prohibition in q
country with such a long coastline for
smugglers to use. Under the Bratt Sys-
TEN, in Sweden, the state controls all
intoxicating liquor, and manufactures
nearly all Of it. To obtain liquor, each
adult applies for book containing IL
pages, one for each month, and posses
sion entities him to four bottles Of wine
state demands these coupons from the
retailer In return for the liquor sup
piled, 80 no retailer can sell without
getting Q coupon. You are not allowed
to hoard your coupons to have q perl
odical burst" and at q restaurant you
are allowed only Q certain quantity at
each meal. If you want to increase
your allowance, you have to include
teetotalers in your party. We find this
system satisfies nearly everybody and
does not lead to the underworld trading
Human Race Marches
Onward Despite IcOnoclastS.
FL TELEGRAPH, Guayaquil-There is
scarcely anything more annoying or OBJ
jectionable In daily life today than the
unpleasant aspersions continually cast
upon every desirable achievement or
any commendable person by the para
sites Of society who never think or 40
anything worthy themselves. These
people, when they hear Of any triumph
or accomplishment, particularly OF one
who was companion or associate in
childhood or youth, can only remark,
without any attempt to conceal their
spite and jealousy, that they knew the
new celebrity or hero when he went to
school without washing his ears; that
he used to wear his fathers pants to
that fountain of knowledge, and that he
smoked cigarettes when he was ID years
old!
Let me tell you the sort Of fellow he
Isl" they viii cry. "At school, when he
was supposed TO be studying his sacred
history lesson, he would have q novel
or picture book behind the appointed
volume, which he would read clandes-
timely. That Is the sort Of q fellow that
has now become so conspicuous"
In the eyes Of the iconoclast, the
value, the tenacity, the vision and the
devotion Of the one accomplishing
some great good for the nation or for
mankind count for nothing. Whatever
such a one has done was done either by
accident or without any special effort or
desire to do so. Such a critic, while
conspicuous and envious of every worthy
deed performed by another, Is generally
himself most expert in the arts Of de-
ceit and chicanery. But in spite Of all
this unfair criticism and belittling, men
Of honor and action march straight on
TO the goal and through the efforts Of
these apostles, Of whom there have been
bright examples Ia every generation, the