Evening star., 1932-12-24
EUTSCHE vERKEHRsBLAET.

EUTSCHE VERkEHRSBLAET-
TER. Berlin.-Mayor Mayr OF
- nounced that the Passion
Play" will be presented agair
in 1884. This sacred drama, enacted
1890, and in the normal course would
not be offered again until 1910. The
reason for departure from this rule
after four-year interval Is that the
year 1884 will mark the 300th ami
versary Of the initial performance.
Each of the approaching jubilee
events will be preceded by an intro
ductory play, lasting about an hour
and showing how the Passion Play
originated from a VOW made by the
villagers In q time Of stress and plague,
In pious gratitude for deliverance from
their perils in A. D. 1884, the holy
drama has been reverently depicted at
intervals OF q decade beginning with
the year 1640. The players are select
ed for their most faithful resemblance,
both in disposition and appearance. to
the characters of the New Testament,
and it Is presumed that their lives are
so conducted in the intervening decades
as to make them even truer exponents
of their parts.
The exception, of course, to this rou-
tine Of study and discipline IS discov-
cred in the role Of Judas, preparation
for which, in the persistence Of natural
human depravity, needs no long ap-
premiership.
The commemorative performances
probably will begin in June, and con-
tinue until the middle Of September.
The village council Of Oberammergau
l-I t1ak
lures are to be made Of the preliminary
scenes showing the historic development
Of the Passion Play"
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Treaty Violations
Held World Menace.
Diario del Comercio, Barranquilla.-
The "sanctity of treaties" has become
q phrase fraught with new slgnlh-
canoe. The whole world condemned
the denomination Of one important Is + It
generally acknowledged that interna-
tional relations would be desperately
uncertain and intolerably arbitrary II
governments felt they had the privilege
of repudiating their expressed and spe-
cifac promises any time they considered
u wise to do SO. y nations ore to have
any confidence in each other, 1t must
be thoroughly understood and agreed
that concurrence In all the provisions
of such documents. once signed ana
sealed, must be faithfully observed.
The Salomon-Lazano treaty, signed
in 1922 by the highly accredited agents
and representatives Of Colombia and
Peru, was negotiated upon the basis OF
mutual confidence and justice. It en-
hodies the unconstrained pledpeS of the
signatorieS. It Is a breach Of this faith
and of these promises to act in CONTRA
diction to the terms Of such treaty.
The whole fabric of international rela-
tionship may easily be rent by such au-
dacity. In the specific case to which
we have alluded, Colombia Is not the
revoking party.
Chess Has Place
In German Schools.
Egyptian Gazette. Cairo.-Many Ger
man schools include chess In their cur
riculum as q form Of mental training
that makes for prompt and sound deci-
sions. Practically every German ofdcer
Is good chess player and q famous
general described the military situation
Of the Fatherland before the Armtsttce
as q "zugswang," o chess term mean.
ing q position in which It Is impossible
to move without losing, but where q
move must be made nevertheless. A
number Of German masters" have lately
been complaining that chess Is not being
taught well enough even in their coun-
try nowadays, however. They quote the
estimate Of DR.. LAsker, formerly world
champion. Of the worlds chess players
and their comparative strength. Ac-