Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-13
BY HENRY w. BUM.

TIME following is a brief summary
of the most important news of
the world for the seven days
Il ended April H.
X
THE BRITISH COMMON
! WEALTH OF NATIONS-The Brit
| ish realm is waiting breathleSSly upon
what may be disclosed by the chancel-
lor Of the exchequer in his budget
speech to the Commons tomorrow.
Apropos of the three-hundredth an
niverSary of the death of Charles II
one could do worse than to read Sir
Henry Imbert-Terry'S "A Misjudged
Monarch" in which issues are taken
with the structures of Macauley and the
prevailing estimate of the merry one,
largely due to Macaulay. Heliogabalus
has, I believe, been rehabilitated and
soon the great work of our day will
be completed, the black will have been
transmitted to shining white and vice
versa. And then, to keep the bright
boys out of mischief, it will be necessary
to reverse the reversal and so on to
the next ice age. But after all. what
harms done-or good? What's Hecuba
to me or me to Hecuba?
Charles centenary should mean nigh
links among the Jacobites who still
constitute a considerable body Of pleas
ant SymposiastS.
On April 6 Mahatma Gandhi violated
the government salt monopoly. Arriv-
ing in Landi, hamlet on the Gulf OF
Cambay, he went down to the beach,
collected a handful Of the salt in
crustation, and sold it at auction for
the equivalent of about $3.50. The
government refrained from arreSting
him, but arrested several scores of others
Gncluding the mahatma'S SOM, who,
responsive to his incitationS, violated
the monopoly the same day. This was,
I believe, the mahatma'S first overt act
of disobedence in the new movement OF
'non-violent resistance" He now pro-
poses campaign for the boycott of
foreign cloth and for the prohibition of
liquor.
Australias population has risen by
about a million since the census OF
1921. The present total is nearly
100000. The most populous of the
Federal States is New South Wales,
with about 2,460,000
Lord Wellington, governor general of
Canada, makes the suggestion that
Canada take over from the mother
country the British West Indian pos
sessions. X X
E GERMANY.-The German political
situation is developing obscurely. The
against legislation to favor the agrartan
interest which should injure export.
The Bavarian Peoples party holds out
against the proposed so per cent in
crease of the beer tax. OF course. the
proposed increase of the Turnover tax
is displeasing to sundry interests. It
is to be hoped that compromise will
be reached and that Chancellor Bruen-
ing will not provoke constitutional
ricic ~ hind
voking the much debated enabling"
clause of the constitution.
SINAI. - Certain inscriptions on
stones of the very first interest were
recently discovered in the Mount Sinai
Desert by an expedition under the joint
auspices of Harvard University and the
Catholic University of America. Pre-
liminary study thereof indicates the
probability, almost amounting to GER
tainty, that they will completely con-
firm the theory of evolution of the
Phoenician alphabet from the Egyptian
hieroglyphics. They seem to represent
stage in the process of conversion
of the picture writing of the Pharaohs
into arbitrary signs representing Semi
tic consonantS. They were found near
the site Of the turquoise mines of an
cient fame and In the ruins OF a
temple of Hathor, an Egyptian god
des resembling the goddess Freya OF Cne
Morse mythology in her attributes and
perhaps really Isis under another name.
said discovered" but "redis-
covered" Is the proper term, for as
far back as 1905 the famous Sir
Flinders Petrie saw and hurriedly noted
them in the course Of an expedition
cut short by Arab hostility. He
couldn't remember precisely where he
saw them, so that extended search was
necessary to the rediscovery.
Now that I'm upon Sinai, am