Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-10

Y MPARCIAL Montevideo.-1n con-
formity with a recent announce
ment the Guild of Taxicab and Bus
4 Drivers held a public parade and
demonstration as an act OF protest
against the withdrawal OF certain Of the
rights and liberties Of various members
of the organization. A majority OF the
drivers of these public vehicles joined
in the manifestation, assembling at the
intersection of Avenida 9th Of october
and Bulevar ArtigaS. Forming process
sion at that point, In q vast array OF
motor cars, they took up their route
OF march, accompanied by a deafening
clamor of horns, along Avenida 18th OF
July and other central thoroughfares.
The chauffeurs declare they did not
mean, by this display, to express oppo-
sition to any punishment justly msted
out to refractory drivers affiliated with
their union. Those deprived of operat-
ing privileges for driving in an intoxi-
Gated condition, or in reckless manner,
to the hazard of public safety, are justly
suffering for their offenses, but they
contend that there are many other driv-
erS who have been affected with equal
severity for misdemeanors in no way
comparable with these TWO major de-
linquencies.
Men who have been convicted Of
minor and more or less technical in
fractions Of the traffic laws, and who
have lost their driving licenses in conse-
quence, should have their means OF
livelihood returned to them, or at least
should not be permanently disqualified
from following the employment for
which they are best adapted. The pa
rade was planned to direct the atten-
ton of the authorities to this latter
class, with plea for judicial leniency.
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SerumS to COunteract
Bites of All Snakes in Costa Rica.
FL Diario, San Jose.--The Senior DR..
Clorito Picado Of this capital is very
anxious that the Republic of Costa
Rica shall not be excelled in its ability
to provide antitoxins used to counter
act effects suffered from the bites Of
poisonous reptiles, especially snakes. He
has analysed the venom of all such
creatures found in Costa Rica, and has
produced serums in his laboratories
which are calculated to nullify their
deadly possibilities. At present most of
these serumS are very costly and DR..
Picado at present Is conducting series
Of experiments to see how the same ef-
ficiency may be procured by simpler
processes and less valuable ingredients.
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Statue Of Liberty Inspires
Christ Of the Andes" Statue.
La Verdad, Caracas.-Senor Daniel
v. del Burgo, consul general of Chile
in this country, gives us most inter-
esting description of THE Christ Of the
Andes" the inspiring sculpture which
stands at mountainous elevation OF
1000 meters $4,000 feet) on the
Chilean Argentine frontier. Senior del
Burgo says of this appealing figure that
the suggestion for its establishment
came from seeing the Statue of Lib
erty in New York Harbor. 1t is meters
high (23 feet) and weighs 3 tons. 1t
can be perceived for many kilometers
on all the routes connecting the two
republics of Argentina and Chile and
is held in veneration by the peoples of
both nations because it was erected, in
1902, to seal and commemorate the
peaceful settlement of the final disputes
between the two great South American
republics. 1t was the women of these
two countries who collected most of the
funds necessary to defray the cost of
the statue and its transportation and
erection and whose influence was most
exerted on the respective governments
to provide a site and perpetual main
tenance for the monument. "The Christ
of the Andes" stands in lonely and
as the wilderness in which The Man
of Sorrows" spent 40 days of His life
in prayer and fasting. Yet the statue
is not really lonely nor deserted, but
visited constantly by thousands in their
Journeys to and fro. who call it, too,
"The Christ of Anity," for this statue
Is the symbol of the bonds of friend
ship which henceforth and forever knit
these two peoples together in Chris
tian fellowship.
X \
Model Penal Institution
Under Construction in Argentina.
La Ra7on, Buenos Aires.-A new
penitentiary is being constructed for the
requirements of Buenos Aires Province
The institution will consist of eight
detached buildings, each of them some
As by IL meters (150 by 20 feetl
ground area and four stories In alti-
tude. This win permit the grouping Of