Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

oversteted the case. On the contrary,
if there was enc fault with that adj
dress, 1t was that he had understated it.
Has any one ever seen clean cow?"
he asked.
People professed to be shocked at the
fact that We had lost 100000 men in
the Great War, but seemed not at all
disturbed that $4,000, 900 men had died
OF cancer in the present century, that
SO, coo deaths were occurring from this
disease every year, and that 100 people
per day were dying from tuberculosis.
1t was an astounding fact that We
had in this country 100000 farms, and
Of these only 400 produced Grade "A"
tubercle-free milk.
There were only 152 licenses in this
country for the sale Of certified milk
and 1873 for the sale of Grade "a"
tubercle-free milk.
Forty per cent Of the cows of the
country were suffering from tubercu-
losiS, and that was a minimum estimate.
Higher Entrance
Requirements Cuts Students.
FL Dictamen, Vera CruZ-Matricula-
ton figures for the National University
in Mexico City show a total enrolment
OF about 8,C00 instead CT the $500 at
tending classes last year. This reduce
ton Is due to the setting of higher en-
trance requirements. Last year the
facilities Of the university were over
crowded and the professors were unable
to give individual attention to all the
students requiring it. 1t is thought that
such q substantial reduction in the at.
tendance will make for higher grade
OF scholarship on the part of those re-
ceiving instruction under the various
faculties.
BuSiness and Credits
at Low Level in Bulgaria.
Bulgarian British Review, Sofia
After two years of credit restriction and
allaround curtailment of trade commit
ments, the volume of business and
credits in Bulgaria has been reduced
to very low levels. As a result consid-
cradle amounts of liquid money are
being held unemployed by banks and
keen competition in undertaking rates
and business conditions to good firms
has caused a widespread fall in the
price of money. The National Bank
took advantage of this situation in re-
ducing the official bank rate from 10 to
8 per cent with further diminution in
prospect. Deposit rates have followed
| suit with reduction Of to ~ per
| cent
Although money has become cheap
er. there are no signs of increased &C
tivity in trade and industry as yet but
the general position is undoubtedly
growing sounder. Sales on credit are
| restricted to q minimum; substantial
rebates are granted to purchasers on a
cash basis. The readjustment to more
reasonable conditions of trade is be-
coming general feature of the trade
position.
The application of the grain purchas-
ing act IS already giving results. kc-
cording to offlcial information, $4,000
tons Of grain have been purchased by
the new Office and will be sold for ex-
port. Prices Of cereals in the country
are now firmer and peasants are OBJ
tanning money for meeting their most
pressing needs of manufactured goods.
There is q revival of hopes for better
trade In the coming Spring and it may
be reasonably assumed that orders for
foreign goods will expand, although
only gradually and in cautious way.