Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
LASGOW HERALD.-An old
farmer was complaining Bit
terly to the minister of the
kirk about the terribly bad
r,,anAhar for the crnI1s when

- LASGOw HERALD.-An old
farmer was complaining Bit
r terly to the minister of the
~ kirk about the terribly bad
weather for the crops, when
the latter reminded him that he had
much to be grateful for, all the same.
And remember" said the good man,
Providence cares for all. Even the
birds of the air are fed each day."
Aye" responded the farmer darkly,
land OF my cornl"
***
Apple Selling GOdsend
To Unemployed and Growers.
Manchester Guardian-Several hun
dreds of unemployed are earning an
average of Ell daily standing at street
corners in New York selling apples at
.2b pence EACH This activity, which
has greatly increased the New YORK
consumption of apples, has also been a
godsend to apple growers, who were
faced with surplus crop. Gov. Roose-
welt of New York State Is arranging to
make loans of small sums from State
funds to the unemployed to help them
to survive until they can find jobs. New
York City municipal employees are con-
tributing / per cent of their salaries
and this sum is being used to purchase
food for free distribution through the
police.
Among the sellers Of apples at the
street corners of New York was Mrs.
Oscar Hammerstein, the widow OF the
famous music impresario, who SAID,
Ladies must eat and 1t is the best i
can do now to earn living. MRS;
Hammerstein was at one time well
known In musical circles in London.
Her late husband built the London
Opera House, now the Ston Picture
Theater. in Kingsway, and was said to
have lost s250,00 in the venture.
Old Newspaper
Housed in New Structure.
Det Berlingske Tidende, Copenhagen.
This venerable paper, founded IN
174s, by Ernst Heinrich Berling, has
lust moved into its new building, Det
Berlingske Hus, construction of which
was begun in 1929. The cost OF the
edifice itself was 100000 kroner $780,
OOo) and represents by far the most at
tractive and convenient structure in
which the periodical has yet been
housed.
Exteriorly, the appearance is me-
dievaI, with small-paned windows ana
irregularly projecting stories. However,
nothing in this artistically beautiful
design and lighting has been permitted
to interfere with modern efficiency. The
massive presses were built by the cele-
brated firm of Koenig & Bauer, at
Wurzburg, and are the very latest, with
a capacity of 100000 80 page papers a
day. This will allow for expansion
even over the remarkable record estab-
lished by the paper last year, when 1t
used 100000 kilometers of newsprfnt,
and 125,00O Kilograms of ink.
The present circulation is 1888
copies, counting only the average net
number sold per day. Last year the
space used for advertising comprised
14,555, 900 column-millimeter and no
less than 620,172 notices, large and
small, were inserted. This enormous
business constitutes record not only
for Denmark, but in most European
countries.
The original paper, in 174s, consisted
Of single sheet of paper, IS cent?
meters long and something less than
20 centimeters in width 90 by incheS).
Even then, nevertheless, its timely In
formation, crudely printed from primi-
tive metal type, was eagerly awaited in
wineshops and coffee houses, in which
the entire edition was usually sold each
day to gentlemen of the period. In short
breeches, long hose, buckled shoes and
wigs. and smoking long pipes.
The little vendor with the damp
sheets Under his arm. was almost
replicas in miniature, of thee to whom
he purveyed the news. and There was
plenty of 1t, in the Europe of those
days, beset with wars and runaors of
wars. and dlNjng the convulsionsm the
Napoleonic ora which followed.