Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
ESTADO DE SAC PAULO, Sac
Paulo.--The National EXPOSE
ton of Architecture, Decora-
ton and Construction will be

direction of the Sac Paulo Institute of
Architects. One section will be used to
display the minerals methods and &C
ceSSories necessary for all varieties OF
interior and exterior embellishments.
This exposition will stress both the ma
Of construction, and gold and silver
medfls will be awarded for the best ex-
emplihcations Of both.
Accept With Good Grace
Little Adversities Of Life.
LIE Soleil, Quebec.-Do you wish to
knC the best means of protecting
yourself against the depressions and Ill
humors to which you are no doubt SUBJ
Ject, like every other mortal? 1t is to
accept with good grace all the little
adversities of life. In other words,
Smile at pin-pricks!" Trivial annoy
ances are the common lot, and no one
should let himself be incenSed by them
When we become impatient and ex-
asperated at every little difficulty and
inconvenience. we work ourselves up
into chronic state of ineptitude and
diSsa ABSTRACTION which makes it impossi-
bic for us to meet with courage and
composure the Sterner realities of hu-
man existence. We lose first that price
less possession, calm serenity of soul,
which is the chief fabric of every happy
life, and then as we continue to yield
to every irascible impulse, we sink still
deeper into a perpetual malcontent
which fills each hour with care instead
OF JOY. Nor is it, indeed, the token of
any light and frivolous character to be
able TO sustain with patience and good
humor the thousand little jabS of the
needle" which each one of us must sub
NIT TO In the course of the day But
the greater the uncomplaining acquies-
cence with which we greet these troubles
the more we are strengthened and de-
Velopeo, until eventually we become
able to face the real crises of life with
1ortitude and energy. The best victories
OF this world are those over our own
weak wills and hasty temperaments
x X x
Russian University
To Teach Collective Farming.
Soviet Economic Review, Leningrad.
A new university. devoted to the
study of collective farming, was recently
opened in Odessa. This institution
Will have 35 experimental stations or
ganized In the neighborhood of Odessa.
The students will be recruited from
among the poorer peasants and mem
oers OF collective and socialistic farms.
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Bottom Falls Out Of
Chinese War Picture Market.
The China Weekly Review, Shane-
hal.-For several years q group of en-
terprlSing young men in Shanghai,
most OF them newspaper men, have
been able to earn little extra money
by selling Chinese war pictures to
newspapers and picture agencies in
America and Europe. But the market
for pictures depicting the Chinese civil
warfare has been spoiled by oVerpro-
duction, somewhat like the wheat and
silver markets. 1t hasn't happened all
at once: the market has been falling
on gradually for a considerable period,
but China'S last civil war, the strug-
gle between the government forces and
the So-called Northern Rebel Coalition,
was a complete flop from a picture
standpoint. Early last July number
OF American and British correspond
entS visited the front in Honan and,
Of course, they we're armed with the
usual battery of cameras. Pictures
we're snapped by the dozens and upon
the return OF the correspondents to
Shanghai the prints were hurriedly de-
veloped and rushed away on the earliest
available steamers and trains for Amer
lean and European newspaper off1ceS.
But the pictures didn't sell. AS a
matter of fact, only one American
newspaper made a feature of the pic
lures in one Of its Sunday issues. The
other newspaper .offices turned them
down. Recently the representative in
Shanghai for a London picture agency
received q letter from his home ONCE
reading as follows: For some time
now the papers, more especially the
picture-Side Of the papers, have not
published any Chinese war pictures.
Chinese wars have been going on so
lnna noW that soma Of the art editors