Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
BY HENRY w. BUM.
.HE following is q brief summary
of the most important news Of
the world fer the seven days


ended April IL:
BRITISH EMPHASIZING coun-
try England, despite so monstrous an
accumulation of economic woes, the
Easter season, we are told, was the most
cheerful one Of many years. 1t seems
that heart of grace was taken by rea-
son that for two successive weeks there
had been some decrease OF unemploy-
ment altogether, about $4,000 and
that the end of the late fiscal year
March 81 showed a smaller budget
deficit than had been apprehended, so
that. presumably, the tax increases OF
the coming budget will be less dreadful
than was expected. 1t Is said that all
records are being distanced in the num-
Der of automobile licenses being issued
and that, whatever may be said OF
steel, iron, coal, shipping, etc, the au-
tomctive industry is in the full tide
Of prosperity: the highways are so
crowded that a snails pace is racing
speed. And the end of all this one is
an optimist or a peSsimist, and that's
the humor Of it.
On Maundy Thursday, in the close
Of st. Paul's the royal almoner dis
pensed "Maundy pennies" and clothing
to 66 poor men and women, the num-
Der corresponding to the Kings years.
to be succeeded as chairman of the
Conservative party organization by Lord
Stonehaven, recently Governor General
Of Australia Lord Stonehaven was
created a peer in 1925. prior TO which,
as Sir John Baird, he had parliament
tary career Of Is years, including posi-
tons In sundry governments.
Chancellor Bruening and Foreign
Minister Curtius of Germany are TO be
the guests Of Prime Minister Mac
Donald at Chequers from June TO
June g. They will have an audience
with the King.
The proceedings at the recent All
India Moslem Congress in Delhi were
not exactly favorable to the prospects
of Indian federation. Resolutions were
passed denouncing the Hindus as re-
sponsible for the recent race riots in
Cawnpore and elsewhere, in which
several hundred persons were killed.
Speakers declared that the Nationalist
had "belied their creed Of non-resist-
ance," expressed utter lack Of conf
dence in the Nationalist congress, ridi-
culed Gandhi's Bill Of Rights" etc.
SPAIN.-On April 2, by ancient Gus
tom, King Alfonso OF Spain, on his
knees. washed the feet Of IL poor men,
while Queen Victoria, magnificently at
tired and adorned with jewels. did the
same office for IL poor women, the
two then serving food with their own
hands to the destitute group. Mobiles,
church magnates, including the papal
nuncio, and high-ranking ofhcers OF
the services looked on. Throughout the
realm no abatement was observable as
to the ancient diSnally picturesque OBJ
seryances Of Holy week, political and
social differences being postponed to
penetential gloom.
The first municipal elections Of eight
years are being held in Spain today.
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JAPAN.-The Japanese Diet recently
ended a session generally agreed to
have been futile.
In the last days Of the session a bill
proposing grant of the suffrage to wom-
en- in respect Of municipal elections,
after passing the House Of Deputies.
was defeated in the House of Peers
through the argument of q noble lord
to the effect that, though Japanese
women are superior to the men, but that
superiority can be preserved by restrict
ing them to the home sphere. He added
the horrid observation that the vote
has only been a white elephant to the
women of America"
That Japan shares in the planetary
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lowing statistics japanese exports of
the last quarter Of 1880 totaled $685.
100000 yen in value, as against AGO.
000,00 yen for the corresponding pc
Rod of 1929. Japanese imports of the
last quarter Of 1880 totaled $50, 600, 900
in value. as against SIS, 900 900 for the
corresponding period of 1929. (The
par value Of the yen is 49.S centS)
worth Of Cincinnati, for six years
Speaker of the House OF Representa-
tiyes and for 80 years a participant in
public life, Is dead of lobar pneumonia
at the age of 81.
On April / National Air Transport
and Boeing Air Transport instituted for
the first time Atlantic Pacific Affair
night-arld-day passenger and mail serv-
ice. The scheduled westward time, New
YORK to San Francisco (2,770 miles,, is