Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

now lying waiting Tor opportunities Oh
investment on mortgage at per cent;
whereas not long since 10 and IL per
cent, or even more, could have been
obtained readily on excellent security.
"A day or two ago one kepositor with
drew some 10000 from q bank on the
rate Of interest being lowered and took
the sum to an investment society, which
was greatly perplexed at having TO re-
ceive so large sum In the present
plethora Of money, while, until its rule
now in force should be officially altered,
the unwelcome 'embarraS de rlcneSSeS
could not be rejected.
THE moral and practical lesson to
be deduced alike from our late depres-
sion is that we should rigidly escheW
and strenuously discourage that spirit
of wild and reckless speculation which
has been our curse in the past and de-
vote all our energies to the genuine and
substantial development Of this colony
and its legitimate trade"
Today, so years later. II there Is no
great amelioration of industrial and
financial conditions to be at present OBJ
served, at least conditions are not get
ting noticeably worse, and II we follow
faithfully the good advice in the pre-
ceding paragraph happy days will soon
be here again, and stay hereI
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Half Peanut
Supplies Brain Food.
Manchester Guardian.-According to
DR.. Francis Benedict of the Nutrition
Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute,
half a peanut supplies all the brain
food q university professor needs for an
hour of continuous thought"
This, of course, explains why univer-
sity professors are rarely found on fair
grounds and competing in those feats
of skill or strength where the urize
usually is cigar complete with band)
or alternately, a bag OF nuts. The reck-
less presentation of so much food for
thought might result in spontaneous
combuStion-the unfortunate professor
might 60 on like a tin of petrol, con-
sumed by the fearful energy Of his own
mental processes.
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Cleansing Of Temples
Must Be More Regular.
FL TELEGRAPH, Guayaquil,-For laxity
In keeping the churches OF the city In q
clean and sanitary condition. the COM
missioner Of health, Senior Manuel Lo-
zada. has sent circular to the heads
of all the different religious institutions
them that cleansing of the temples must
be more regular and efficient, due to the
great concourses of humanity which
gather in them daily, and thus expose
the population to divers n aladieS with
which many Of them may be afflicted.
To obviate such fatal consequences to
the faithful, the interior Of all churches
must be thoroughly washed with disin-
fecting solution every three days, in
nu AZ
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Doubt Report
OF Peak Higher Than Everest.
Irish Independent, Dublin.-The re-
ported claim Of an American geographic
expedition to have discovered Tibet
peak higher than Everest must be re-
ceived with reserve for the time being,
though 1t cannot be ruled out as in any
way impossible. We are still only on
the fringe of accurate knowledge of the
Himalayas, especially the Tibetan side
OF them, and i'll the absence of any
thing like detailed survey of the coun-
try, 1t Is conceivable, though hardly very
likely, that Everest has a superior. 1t Is
commonplace to every traveller that
the highest peaks are by no means al
ways the most impressive. Everest itself
Is said to be far less stupendous in ap-
pearance than the Matterhorn, and
there are times and atmoSpheres when
our own local Sugar Loaf looks as If 1t
might require all the resources OF an
Alpine Club.
Too Late for
TOmmy's Prayers.
The Bulletin, Sydney
Mother-What about your prayers,
Tommy?
Tommy (after late night at the pic
tures)-Oh, mum. they'll all be gone to
| bed I'D In Heaven.