Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-12
= COLOGNE GAzETTE.-A resolu-
ton presented in the Reichstag
will raise, If 1t is carried, the
minimum residence In Ger
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will raise, If it is carried, the
~ minimum residence in Ger
many of those desiring to be-
come German citizens from 10 to 20
years. and also provide that no one I'M
der the age of IS may be naturalized.
Pending decision on this new legisla-
| ton, 362 petitioners for citizenship are
awaiting final action on their papers.
Under the empire, period Of 10 years
residence was deemed sufficient, but
political and social developments Of re-
cent years have shown that even a
! decades preparation is not always sum-
Gent. Once admitted, 1t is impossible
to deport such persons to the countries
from which they came. Thuringia and
Brunswick are particularly anxious to
have the era of probation extended.
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u. S. Achieves Record
For Deaths by Automobiles.
The Evening Post, wellington
These Yankees are hard TO beat when
they set out after records. As noted in
this vigilant column few months ago,
as far back as last october the United
States statistical authorities calculated
that 1880 would set new figures In the
annual automobile death toll. A cable
gram reveals that success had been at
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killed $4,000 persons - an improve
mentCD of per cent on the 1879 hst.
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Doubts Whether
Africans Have Been Aided.
Manchester Guardian.-At a meeting
in London, Lief Jones, M. p, moved a
resolution, which was subsequently car
ried, that the government be asked to
put an end to the sale OF liquor among
the native races of the empire. He
showed that the amount OF wines and
spirits imported into British West Al
RIGA had increased enormously in recent
years, with the most depiorable results
on the general character OF the native
races concerned. He stated further:
THE gibe that the gift Of European
civilization is heavily set off by the vices
that go with it is familiar enough, and
none the less true for being familiar.
A true imperialism would scrupulouSly
spread only the best it knew; a true
imperialist regards himself as an
apostle Of civilization. Unhappny, what
too often happens is that under the
stress of an unfamiliar and often, Tor
the European, an uncongen1al environ
ment he gives way TO the vices OF civil
lization without in any way demonstrat-
ing its virtues. And we may we'll Won
gained at all, in any real sense, from
their contact with us. II they have
not, then our African empire. whatever
It may have achieved economically, has
been a lamentable failure. The gift of
bad spirits to peoples unable to resist
their appeal is not one OF which we
Aeed be proud; and II the government
will take steps to stop. or at any rate
severely to restrict the trafilc in such
spirits. they will have done something
toward undoing a great wrong
Sir Oliver Lodge
Believes Dead Still Live.
News Chronicle, London.-Sir Oliver
Lodge. speaking at Leeds. asked for a
rational and scientific investigation
into psychic phenomena.
For SO years now" he said, Il have
been acquainted with the fact that
individuals who have departed this life
are not extinct They still exist. They
cannot display themselves continually,
but under certain conditions they can
give us messages.
Il say that everything In the uni
derstand In time
IF sane, well balanced people give
their minds TO this investigation II VIII
make progress. II Il making progress
now. The clue, In my opinion, IL TO
look for something In space"
Referring TO his late wife, who died
two years ago. he said. II speak 10
her II Is not dlfficult"
Ice Cream Making
Depicted in Own Exhibition.
The Daily Mail. London. lee cream
Is now in the category Of those things
which have their own annual exhibit
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