Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-02
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Willingly laid the foundations of a sound
democracy.
X
Petitions Court
Regarding Liquor Ruling.
Ell Tempo Bogota.-Dr. Jose Arturo
Andrade has petitioned the Supreme
Court OF Justice with reference to a
ruling upon the validity of article %
OF Law No. SO, ratified in 1928 with
the design Of gradually obsoleting the
traffic in alcoholics. BY means of the
particular article cited, extraordinary
powers were granted the government.
after the expiration of six months. to
put in effect penalties on both the
sale and consumption of all liquors, in
Guiding beer, either at the date thus
| sanctioned by the law, or at any later
| date deemed more suitable to permit
OF the exhaustion of existing stocks
lawfully procured. DR.. Andrade, how
ever, considers that this article No. %
Is in violation of article No. SO of the
legislative act No. 3, in the year 1910,
giving the right to sell, under appro-
pirate license, unspecified supplies of
alcoholics bearing the government
stamp and seal.
After study of all the legal aspects
of the subject, the Supreme Court de-
clared that the later law Supersedes the
earlier on every point wherein they are
in conflict, and that therefore it re-
afarmS the validity of the section cited.
X X X
America Possesses
Worlds Highest Rate Hotel.
Cologne Gazette.-America whose
pride it is to possess the greatest, best
and dearest of everything on earth,
must naturally possess, also, the high
est-priced hotel in the world. This
fond desire has been realized in the
Sherry etherland, skyscraper tow
ering up upon famous Fifth avenue at
Central Park, with its IS stories.
Nevertheless, the stranger standing
before this hosiery of million
aires for the first time is scarcely
the tavern charging the most stupen-
dous rates on the globe. 1t has no
stately reception halls; no snowy
entrances nor exits; no marble stair
ways; no bronze bedecked walls nor
ceilings.
Even as the modest adornment of
the jewelry house of Tiffany, situated
in the same thoroughfare, has nothing
more to indicate the luxuries which
lie within than the name and designa-
ton of the firm in its windows,
lionaire's exhibits nothing of its regal
luxury to the casual observer. Only a
narrow canopied passageway leads
from the street to the interior. One
has merely the impression that he is
entering a very large and perhaps well
managed apartment house.
It is only when one learns the prices
of the accommodation that one is NOR
titled to find that he has unwittingly
stumbled into the wrong establishment
For in the Sherry etherland there are
no "single" rooms, in the ordinary
sense: even the smallest unit has a
living room, bedroom and bathroom,
with a servants room also, naturally
with a bath, and the ensemble costs
for one night around 400 marks ($l0o).
You can readily see that it well be-
hooyes one to be a millionaire, If con-
templating any protracted stay: Yearly
Recommendations range all the way
from 100000 to 100000 marks. ($28,-
$50 to s5s, 5000, and the only comment
we care to make in this connection
is that the assessments are the most
unimIe feature of the establishment.
Diorenes could be, and doubtless was,
as Comfortable in his barrel.