Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

TALLY divine The miracle OF the crea.
all the futile theories OF human knoWl-
edge and sophisticaticn crash.
Sages and scientists labor INCREASINGLY
in their laboratories. and evolve con-
ceptiong regarding light and sound. and
make each day new discoveries which
can conduce upon sober reflection only
TO the conviction that as yet We know
nothing, and that the basic realities and
forces of Nature will doubtless ever lie
far beyond cur mental grasp and COM
prehension.
When science has progressed to far,
1t finds that it can penetrate no farther,
and there 1t is that faith and Intangible
conviction enter in to f.5sure us of the
truths no instruments can measure nor
any formulas calculate. Life appears TO
be evanescent, yet, really. it is the only
permanent thing there is. 1t contin-
ually springs up clean and fresh from
its very immolation.
There is change and decay in all that
man has made. Even the eternal pyra-
mids are falling into dissolution. with
scarcely one stone remaining solidly
upon another, while all around them
beats. and has for centuries beaten, sue
ceSsive waves of human generation.
Man has made the airplane, but he
u,
crepancy alone in his achievement he
must acknowledge that he has accom-
plished nothing. so vast Is the gulf be-
tween that made by mans hands and
that called forth from the void by the
irresistible command of God. And yet
in all this lavish manifestation of divine
grace and power, which man can dimly
see but never understand. We still have
fools who pit their feeble knowledge
- -
Deity who ordained and controls our
Universe Such a man or scientist
chooses rather TO esteem himself
dancing mannikin in an automatic
world than to admit his kinship with
his Creator and his inheritance in eter-
nifty.
Austria to Penalize
All Unmarried Persons.
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, VIENNA
resolution has been introduced in Par
lament providing penalties for all I'M
married persons. The bill will not only
affect bachelors. as does most legislation
proposed of this kind but will tax men
and women alike. between the ages OF
80 and IS. unless sufficient and ex-
tenuating circumstances can be shown
for persisting in a state of single bless
edness. The amount recoverable, &C
cording to the proposal, which has faint
hope of being enacted into law, would
be from 20 to IS per cent OF the in
dividual's income tax. In the case OF
widowers, widows or those whose mat
rimonial bonds have been severed by
legal process, two years exemption
would b. allowed before the provisions
of the law would apply to them. as
originally presented,
X X kh
Seeks to Protect Those
Unable TO Pay Rent.
The Evening Post, Wellington.-Fro-
lection of families VINO were unable
through unemployment 70 meet pay
nentS of rent CT interest on mortgage
&as sought by P. Fraser labor. We'll
lington CentraD in the House OF Rep
resentatives.
Mr.. Fraser asked the minister OF
finance, the Right Hon. G.. w. Forbes:
% Whether he proposed TO introduce
legislation providing for the protection
of the hundreds of working class fami-
lies who were threatened with election
from their homes owing to inability TO
make payments through the reduction
or cessation Of their family incomes
caused by the prevalent widespread I'M
would introduce legislation providing for
the protection Of families who were in
danger of losing their homes and their
savings through inability to pay interest
and installments on state advances and
other mortgages. 90 Whether the gov
ernment proposed to make adequate
provis.on for these families which
through the aforementioned causes had
been reduced to the position OF refugees.