Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-29
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

been ready to pour out her money for
philanthropy and her blood for q
principle.
These characteristics account, no
doubt, for the fact that while the
United States has necessarily suffered,
and hardships of the current universal
depression, she has never reached the
extremes Of misery and penury now so
evident In practically all other coun-
tries. America Is singing, even Gin the
rain"
Government Saves Through
Handling of Salvage.
Ell Universal, Mexico, D. Five
hundred and sixteen thousand pesos
have been saved by the central de-
partment of the federal district in a
little over two months. This depart
ment includes, principally the cap
ital and its immediate suburbs, and
the economies referred to have been
in the more careful utilization of ma
terials and in the salvaging OF equip
ment formerly discarded or destroyed.
These savings have been accomplished
without the dismissal of any employees,
who now, through their exercise of
carefulneSs and efficiency, have become
assets rather than liabilities for their
various bureaus.
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Fascist Methods with
MaIcontentS Scored.
Italia, Geneva.-In the seventeenth
century, when the pestilence was raging
at Milan, the authorities tried to catch
and segregate the infected. In Fascist
Italy, when discomfort with conditions
grows greater, they wish to hang the
destitute and unemployed. 1t Is Carlo
Delcroix, president of the Association
of Fascist Disabled War Veterans, who
is the pSeudo-patriotic demagogue-
such q man as Pietro Gobetti denomi-
mated a moral abortion"-that has
been called to the aid of the state in
its activities against these forlorn ele-
mentS.
Behold, then, how the Corriere dele
Sera, under date of September 5, laud-
ed the efforts of Delcroix and de-
nounced with extreme vigor "the timid
poltroons who relinquish every effort
and evade all hardship, instead of
endeavoring to remedy the fatigueS and
disbursements with which the coun-
try has to contend" This malady,"
continues the Corriere dele Sera,
SIS very contagious Gust like the pes
thence above referred to- and requires
the exercise of vigorous preventive
measures. These murmurS of diSSatis-
faction are affecting both the high and
the low. The heat of Summer has ac-
centuated the epidemic until it re-
quires the control Of new discipline.
This half-concealed disapproval of the
national program is undermining both
finance and economy; the whispered
calumnies of these disloyal subjects are
compromising our prestige and attack
ing our statesmen. THESE people pre-
tend to forget that the present crisis
Is universal: that our neighbors, even
those countries more powerful than
ourselves, are suffering even more than
we, and unjustly lay the blame for all
our discomforts at the door OF FasciSm.
This is a behavior well-nigh unpar-
donable, for If 1t were not for the
criticisms and complaints of these NAL
contents, our parliamentary form OF
government would be able much more
quickly to apply remedies than the ex-
ternal regimes of centralized authority"
Thus the Fascists catalogue those
whose burdens and griefs have become
so intolerable that they cannot sup
press their signs and protestations!
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Diversified Farming
Relieves OverprOductiOn.
La Voc Del Interior, Cordoba-Suf-
fering from an overproduction of que
bracho (grain) in recent years, the
Province of Cordoba has been In a
very unsatisfactory state economically,
until the last season, when the large
proprietors parceled out their land to
colonizing families who had moved into
remoter districts from overcrowded
cities BY cultivating fruits and vege-
tables, instead of grain and cereals.
these newcomers have not only raised
enough to support themselves, but they
also have been able to sell much OF
the produce, which found much
greater demand in the markets than
the uniformity Of crops previously