Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-24
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
! UNIVERSAL. Mexico City,

F." L UNIVERSAL, Mexico City,
l. Because of the exigencies of
the present crisis, most of the
IL banks of Mexico have adopted
a very tolerant policy when col
lections are due or credits solicited
This extension of banking favors,
within proper limitations, has been
chiefly the result of the efforts of the
Confederation of the Chambers OF
Commerce, though the banks them
selves must be credited with initiating
From reliable, If not official, sources
has come the information, too, that
ARRANGEMENTS are being negotiated
with the Fuchard Banking House, In
Paris, for the investment OF 2OO,OOO,-
600 pesos 1894, 00O, 000) IN a subsidiary
bank for the promotion of agriculture.
which. is, after all, the backbone CT
Mexico's industry. This fund VIII take
the place of the now extinct Banco
Nacional dc Credito.
Taxicab Ruling
Hurts Oxford Street Trade.
The Daily Mail, London.-One hum
dred thousand leaflets asking the users
of taxicabs to cooperate with the
drivers in a protest to the ministry OF
transport against the new reghlatlons
in oxford street west have neen piaceo
in the vehicles in London.
These regulations forbid taxicabs 10
wait outside shops in Oxford street
while their fares are shopping.
H. Ross, secretary Of the Cab Pro
nrietors' Council, told Daily Mail re-
porter that he. watched the eject ot
fine new regulations. People in taxi
cabs were unable to shop in oxford
street" he said. When they were told
that their taxicabs must not stop long
er than to set them down. they ordered
the drivers to go elsewhere InuS the
regulations are anectlng Ihe Iraue OF
some of Iondon's most famous stores.
taxicab driver has been reported
for an alleged offense under the new
regulations and If he Is summoned the
CAB Proprietors' Council will make 1t
a test case.
Price Cut Sought to
Increase Business.
Berliner Tageblatt.-The Summer
fair at Leipzig has been attended By
such an unprecedented thron2 OF I'M
necuniolls people that the merchants
have lowered the original prices on
their goods so to IS per cent. Despite
the fact that this reduction from the
regular prices encouraged the public TO
b1iv verv briskly the first day and busi-
ness was satisfactory, the shopkeepers
are now hard-pressad to find room for
new stocks coming IN.
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Father "Dies" TO
Provide for Children.
lie Matin, Paris.-The terrifying
COLLINS which Dante encountered in the
TNrI lac nfx fIAf oh ~
sustain their own eXistences. Justin
Makaire, a pitable mendicant, has ex-
ercised instead an inventive faculty
sufficiently ingenious. and supports
himself. his parents ana his children
hv diving himself instead-that Is,
rather. by publishing reports that he
has died, as as been shown by an in
vestiQetion of iois heartrending circum-
stances in the court of the fifteenth
Jurisdiction.
While the decadence of the parents
in this drama incites disgust, the misery,
nhysical end moral, of the children in
ing righteousness behind the whole
protect that disposes one almost to
laugh.
FOR Justin AIakaire, destitute of any
other means to keep his family and
himself manages to psrpetuate their
lives by living, as 1t were, posthumotis-
wi Each morning he indites and de-
liyers to his two children, a daughter
years old, and a boy, 5, letter os-
tensibly written from a hospital and
directed to a supposititlous companion
Of his happier days, who tenderly wait
I'd on him in his last moments, thank
ing him for his kind offices.
These lines Justin writes In a weak
md trembling hand. and then adds in
lear, round characters, as If a nota-
lion appended by this friend, "They
wish to buy wreath for their father"
The implication is, Of course, that