Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
The Story the
Week Has Told
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had EN-: This year is the year of the
sheep; it Is expected to be marked by
peace and quiet prosperity. Let US hope
that the expectation viii be realized. In
confidence Of such realization, the coun-
try uShered in the year of the sheep
joyously Such realization will depend q
good deal on us, on our market for jap
anese silk.
The past year saw developments
presaging a constitutional change of
epochal nportance-namely, drastic
reform Of the Privy Council. 1t is ex-
pected that the new year will see
adoption Of . limited franchise for
women.
Nature In 1890 dealt unkindly with
Japan by way of q dreadful typhoon
and q Sixable earthquake. Unemploy-
ment Is estimated as in the neighbor-
hood Of o million: not so terrible,
apparently, in comparison with certain
western countries, but, when you con-
slider the low standard of living, i'm
porting as much, If not more, misery.
The 1880 rice crop was bumper one,
an economic misfortune to many thanks
to the Enthusiastically of the modern
economic system and the elaborate
faulty of modern man.
Last year saw dropping of the ban
on export gold; a step blessed or
cursed, according to differing angles of
economic vision.
The universal suffrage act Of 1925
was first applied in 1880. We are told
that the Hamaguchi government pro-
poses to make it still more universal
by lowering the voting age from IS to
20, which would mean an addition Of
about two and half million voters.
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BRAzIL.-It is said that a loan to
the Brazilian government by British and
American bankers of about SIS, 200, 900
Is under negotiation. The treasury is
in a weakly state, which is or is not
the consequence of malfeasance and
Encouragement Of the regime recently
deposed. There is, indeed, desperate
need of general economic improvement
In 1880 the income of the coffee mag
mates fell of. It's said, by SO per cent
from that Of 1929. Foreign sales of
so per cent, except to the United States
which took 5 per cent more than
in 1929.
The new provisional government
shows a wise and eager interest in avia-
ton. Brazil'S terrific problem Of in
terror transportation seems destined to
be substantially solved by aviation de-
velopment. The absorption last year of
the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires
Lines by the Pan-American Anyways
greatly improved international commu-
nication by air. There is seven days
mail and passenger service between New
York and Rio de Janeiro.
X X X
UNITED STATES.-Dr. Edward
Charming, the eminent American his
torian, is dead at "A. His mother was a
sister of Margaret Fuller. He grad
uated from Harvard and from 1888 to
1913 he was instructor and professor at
Harvard. His great work was history
Of the United States from about 1000
AID, "the Morse discovery" to the pres
ent There have been few more diligent
handlers of source material, few more
impartial. DR.. Charming was eminently
solid If not brilliant, and has left a
record of economic, social, educational
and religious developments of very great
value Six volumes have been pub
lished and a seventh, completing the
story to the end of the nineteenth CEN
fury, is ready for publication. We are
glad to be told that the eighth and last