Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

spectacular industrial debacles Of the
world The latest tabulationS disclose
that approximately 10000 men and
women, desiring work. are unable to OBJ
tain it. Such a number out Of a total
population Of less than 1000 900 repre-
sents an enormously diScouraging fig-
ure.
Even those working are paid only a
fraction OF their former wages, which
adds to the general discontinue, for at
best these people can purchase only bare
necessities, and none CT the So-called
Injuries in the shape of manufactured
articles and more expensive commool-
ties. The government continues to cur
tail the budget and to reduce the wages
of state employees until these last, too,
can hardly be distinguished from the
other pauperS.
In former times, when work was
scarce in Austria. many unemployed
were able to find occupation In Ger
many Belgium or France, but now these
countries ind themselves in a situation
as difficult as or worse than Austria
and therefore closed to proletarian i'm
migration. The most uncompromis1ng
feature of the whole situation Is that the
government can not undertake relief on
a sufficient scale without heavier taxa
ton, and industry and the public gen.
orally can scarcely survive under pres
ent national assessments.
II X \
Real Mother Love
, Displayed by Street Vendor.
Ell TELEGRAPH, uayaquil.-With fire.
quency we observe a poor woman Try
ing to earn a little money to keep oody
and soul together, not in the shelter OF
a small kiosk, but out on the city street
exposed to the rain, the wind, the heat
and the cold. We behold such woman
sometimes with baby at her bosom
and no matter how ragged and thin
and meager her own clothing, the vest
, mentS of the baby always are warm ano
clean; the baby is cherished and pro.
tected with every evidence OF maternal
care and love.
We have observed for sine time such
a woman; and once we saw a fashion
ably dressed lady, passing by, reproaCn
her because she did not leave the chho
at home instead of carrying 1t about
with her, exposed to all the vicissitudes
of the weather and the streets. The
lady did not understand that the vend-
or could not leave the baby at home
alone, and that she had no one she
could trust with It. Another time, 9
clergyman met the mother, and tried
| to persuade her to let him take the
child to place in an asylum. The poor
woman, though with expressions Of
gratitude for his good intentions
refused
The baby is not a burden to me.
she said. TT is my only Joy and no one
can care for it as well as I. even though
it accompanies me on all my weary
way. If suffer from hunger and thirst
look at my baby, and am restored anc
strengthened. If feel that TIM golns
to fall upon tho street, glance at my
sleeping baby and am restored"
We were near enough to see that 81
the sound of the mothers voice, the
infant smiled as II it not only heare
but understood how dear 1t was to it!
mothers heart, and that in 1t she has
all the recompense she needed to maxi
a poor and toilsome life happy one
That woman Is a mother. She know
that a child is q benediction, and tina
/, though one possessed all otheer treas
ures but none of these, one is poor In
deed, while direct poverty is wealth
when frightened by an infants laugh
| ter. Were we a painter, we would tr.
to portray this group upon o canva
that would last foreverl