Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
\ l. UNIVERSAL, Mexico, d. F.
4 An exposition Of Mexican civil
ization will soon be held In this
- city, If the plans of Chancellor

- An expoSlClOn OF Mexican CIVIL
ization will soon be held In this
IL city, II the plans Of Chancellor
Garcia Teller of the National
University are approved by the govern
ment. A group of university professors
has formulated program for such an
enterprise, which will display the evolu-
ton Of Mexican culture from prehistoric
times down through the Aztec and Toll
tee eras, up to and including modern
achievements. The exhibits will Illus
trate the entire history of this part of
the continent, in the fields of art, re-
ligion, science, geography. industry and
intellectual development.
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Hardships Of Old Age
Viewed With Indifference.
lie Matin, Paris-It is told that at
the age of 10l years Nine. Delpierre
still is working. People say that is adj
mirableI 1t is admirable, in that Nine.
Delpierre yet has the courage to carry
on. But there is something frightful
about it, too, and that Is that she rnustI
All those who have in their families,
or under their protection, aged persons
constantly cherished and attended may
well try to imagine the state of these
beings, so dear and yet so fragile, were
they sent forth into the world to Sc
cessities of the most wretched exist
ence; the scanty breakfast, early and
hastily prepared; a tiny room, insult
ficiently warmed; the meager comforts
in the intervals of relaxation.
It seems, indeed, that our social de-
faults pertain both 10 the cradle and
the grave. We permit suffering and
hardShips upon our children, and now,
It seems, we view with indifference and
apathy the disabilities and burdens Of
our infirm and superannuated fellows.
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Serbs PredOmInate on
Industrial Commission.
La Macedonia, Geneva published in
Switzerland because of censorship at
home) The dictatorship government
has appointed by ordinance commits
sion for the defense of industry. The
commission is appointed for i've years.
OF it's rs member, 20 are Serbs and
only non-Serhs, despite the fact that
the industrial centers are situated in
Croatia and Slovenia, where Serbian
industry has yet to be created.
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Wellington Homes VIII
Be Properly Numbered.
TIL Evening Post, Wellington.-The
REMEMBERING Of houses in the streets Of
the Auckland city area is shortly to be
commenced by the City Council staff.
The new numbers are to take the form
OF individual figures, inches high, cut
out OF solid brass and screwed onto
conspicuous portions of the various
premises, such as gates or gate posts,
yeranda posts and the lintels OF shops.
1t is anticipated that almost $4,000
OF these metal numbers will be required
and the cost Of supplying and affixing
them, approximately $1,000, will be
borne by the Council.
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Hollywood Fails
To Impress English Couple.
News-C Chronicle, London.--Jan and
Cora Gordon, our vagabond painters
musicians lecturers, have been ma
rooned in Los Angeles for months, be-
cause Of Mr.. Gordon'e breakdown in
health, and they have had opportunity
to contemplate Hollywood from an
angle all their own. This Los Angeles
cum Hollywood, they say, is kind of
disease breaking out on the deserts
face.
It is q town Of a million Middle West
ern farmers, children OF the Middle
Western farmers and parasites on Mid
die Western farmers; 1t IL q refuge
where such people, worn out and spirit
ually overwhelmed by the in1mensities
OF the great echoless wheat plains, can
huddle happily in 400-square- mile
labyrinth of tna ainsiest and crazlest