Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07

Cruz needs a band OF music
but is not able to pay for 1t. No
IL provision was made in the bud
get for this year for a munich
pal band, as it apparently was forgot
ten at the time the fiscal program was
under consideration Due to the re
forms and economies inaugurated in
the army by the new federal schedule
all bands are dispensed with, except for
troops stationed at the capital. This
leaves Vera Cruz, one of the most I'M
portant cities and the first port of the
republic, entirely without the. privilege
of hearing the frequent musical enter
tainments which have been such de-
light and solace in the past. Mexican
army bands have no superiors IN the
world and we seriously question the
wisdom of disorganizing them, even in
the interest of much-needed govern
mental economy.
X X X \
Germany Offers
Bonus for Large Families.
Cologne Gazette.-France is not the
only country offering bonuses for large
families. The German Province OF
Westphalia is offering annually to the
so largest families within its borders
congratulations and a prize of $50
marks to the youngest child. The pres
ent awards are going to families whose
progeny total 900, or an average OF IL
children per family OF these 900 chill
drew, however, 81 are dead of
them having fallen on the field OF bat
tie OF the living children there are
three families with 10 offspring, Two
with Is and II with II. OF the total
900 the economy of nature is observed
in that 458 were boys and 442 girls.
Heel OF Crystal
For Masculine Costume.
LIE Matin, Paris.-It seems that the
masculine costume is to be enriched
with a novel embellishments heel of
crystal! A young man thus arrayed has
Just made his debut, and no doubt has
already inspired profound envy in the
bosorns of the young ladies who still
have to content themselves with heels
of gold with jewels for nails, except
those aristocrats who never wear any
thing but red heels.
But that these sorts of initiatives
have acquainted us many times before
with the puerility of the human soul
and the feeble functioning of the mind
in the case of certain people, who think
they have accomplished something when
they devise some such absurdity as this,
we would have disquieting qualms
about the future of the race. Men like
those who invent the elegance of the
crystal heel undoubtedly think they
have contributed much to human adj
vancement A deeper culture-a real
knowledge of right hving-of true de-
velopment in spiritual values, is not so
much to their taste!
That which is difficult is not so much
to be recognized by our heels, as 1t Is
to be esteemed for more intimate quail
ties of intelligence.
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Perhaps
The General Is Right.
North China Standard, Peiping,-
Gen SHUTS told America on complet-
ing his tour, that greatness and
strength in nation excite the envy
and malice of other nations; unless
mellowed by kindness and made gracious
by benevolence bestowed on India by
Great Britain, on Manchuria by Japan
and on the Philippines by the United
States, there seems mighty little return
in appreciation. However, ID benevo-
lence and graciousness have their own
rewards, perhaps the general IS right.
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Plan New System
Of Train DiSpatchiig.
Neues Wiener Tagblatt vienna.-As
announced in these columns some time !
ago, the directors of the Austrian State |
Railway are considering the adoption |
of a new system of train dispatching, |
used successfully in Germany and |
Switzerland. This new procedure in |
wolves the use of the "befehlsstab," or |
direction stick which is a round staff |
with large colored disc on one end |
for use by day. and a bulb which can |
be Ilum nated by q contact in the