Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-22
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

erals, our dilatoriness in developing coal
| and iron mines is all the more remark.
able and all the more inexcusable.
With all the ingredients at hand in
lavish accumulations we continue to
import all the steel we use, and even
import coal. though. this requires only
excavation to become available. If our
people ever would grasp the idea Of
| fabricating steel in PERU from the iron
! ores so abundantly existing It would
mean the creation of new and lucrative
industries. Millions of tons of these
valuable minerals and metals are right
under our feet--much Of them in actual
sight-yet instead of establishing foun-
dries and FORCES, instead of digging our
own coal and ore, we import, at high
| prices, all the steel and iron we use in
materials already fabricated such as
| rails for tramways and railroads, boil
ers, plates, corrugated roofing and the
like.
1t may be that such manufactures are
incompatible with the present knowl-
edge and temperament of our workers,
sbut surely we can learn some new trades
and endeavor to turn our vast supply
or black diamonds" to some practical
and economic account.
/ The statement of some of eur eco
nomic experts that 1t is impossible to
establish the steel industry In this coun.
try is inexplicable nonsense.
/ \ \
Retiring Mexican
Government Leaves Balance.
/ Ell Dictamen, Vera Cruz-Twenty
million pesos $4,000, oo0) are on de-
post to the credit of the retiring pro-
visional government This is the bal
ance on hand in the national treasury
which the new administration of Senior
Ortiz Rubio receives as the FIRST re.
sources Of its primary activities.
Unlike many previous administra.
tons, which have begun their duties
with deficit, the new Mexican gov
eminent takes ONCE with the financial
affairs OF the country in q gratifying
condition.
Street Car
Driver Races With Train.
A. B. c., Madrid.-At the Central
Police Court in Barcelona a street car
driver, Rafael Marin. was Sentenced To
two months Imprisonment for atternpt-
ing to get his car over grade crossing
at the very moment the gates were de-
scending and astrain approaching. For
tunately. by turning on full power.
Marin was able to get the car over the
railroad track without a collision, but
in the panic which occurred in the car
while he was doing this. because of the
passengers struggling to get out, two
persons were injured seriously
The authorities are Sparing no efforts
to put an end to these calamities and
punish slightest infractions Of the rules.
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Found Blind,
Waits Sight Is Restored.
A Note, Rio de Janeiro.-Of all the
little ones in the Hospital of the Red
literally Vermilion) Cross of this city
none is more loved or pitied than little
Jehova. Jehova is 2. possibly 8, years
old. A pale, thin, though aIiuring little
mite. he was found wandering about the
taken to the sixth precinct police sta
ton by a motorist. It was late In the
evening: no one was in charge of the
child and, toddling about from side
walk to street and from Sereet to side
walk, he was In imminent periIlof the
traflc. It was not until he was taken
to the Red Cross Hospital the next
morning that the discovery was made
that the child was blind-probably born
blind.
As days passed 1t became clear that
the child had beeh deliberately aban-
doned.
Wen fed, warmly clothed. With toys to
play with, he presents q very different
spectacle today. Even his blindness Is
gone. DR.. Orlando Goes Of the medical
stan of the hospital enlisted the inter-
est OF his brother. DR.. Mario Goes, the
noted octiiist, IN the case Of Ielaova the
Abandoned, and after prolonged and
slsillfuI treatment he has restored the
vision Of one Of JehoVa'0 large brown
eyes and entertaius confidence 81 hrings
ing light TO the other sas -