Evening star., 1932-01-12

times. There are by actual count,
/ ,4O3 fishermen in the island, depend
ing on the whole or in part on fishing
for living, and in 1880 they caught
5000, 100 pounds of fish, with q value
to the fishermen of s207,085 Based on
these figures, the net earnings of the
piscatorial experts was about 1912 per
year. While some earned more, others
profited to the extent of 500 or less.
Favorable Weather Aids
Farmers In Denmark.
Den Danske IandnandSbank, Copen-
hagen.-In october the weather was
mostly favorable to the different
made with the lifting of beets and
turnips and in several localities some
plowing was done. The beet and
turnip crops appear to be somewhat less
in volume than last year, but regarding
the quality which, in importance, COM
pareS with the quantity, no opinion can
as yet be formed. The condition of
the cattle was good and the yield OF
milk sufficient and normal for the sea-
son. Besides, the "Rigsdag' danish
ParliamenD has passed an act provid-
ing for crisis relief to agriculture. The
funds required for this assistance will
be supplied by means Of an increase in
the taxes on income and capital, as
well as of the dues on benzine, beer, and
silk in connection with new duty on
the imports of apples, pears and other
fruits and vegetables.
X X
Cost of Mainta ming Walker
Must Have Been Shock.
The Evening Times, Glasgow
nf hn I'll TOD L,
royal families by Americans is that
they cannot imagine why Europeans
stand for" the expenses OF maintaining
q royal household.
With the publication of the expenses
that will be required to maintain Mayor
Jimmy Walker in New York for one
year, those American decrierS of royalty
must have received a shock.
The total cost of maintaining the
mayors retinue of % assistants, stenog-
raphers, chauffers, policemen and
other office helpers is found to be Ga, 900
per year more than King Haakon VII
of Norway is allowed for maintaining
his whole household.
Figures are given comparing the cost
OF the mayors household with those
of four European royal families:
Mayor Walker and President Mckee
with stats, EOS, TAO; King Haakon, Nor
way, f37 500; King Christian, Denmark,
&53, 600; Queen Wilhelmina, Holland,
$4,000. The civil list income of the
Duke of York is f25, 900 year.
Il X
Post st-War Age
Produces Travel SnOb."
Central European Observer, Prague
An amusing but none the less acute
sidelight on the manner in which Gen.
tral Europe Is viewed by a certain cat
egory OF visitors is given in the Strand
Magazine, in an article by the we'll
known English novelist, Mr.. ]. B.
Priestly. The article is entitled Gravel
Snobs," and the author thus describes
one particular snob from whom Central
Europe suffers considerably:
The postwar age has brought into
existence a new and horrible travel
snob. He is the new-country-secret
police snob, and he Is usually Journal
ist, hanger-on to the League of Ma
tions or assistant professor of modern
history In some deplorable university.
The point about him is that he always
travels in those new states that were
created by the Treaty of Versailles. and
that when he is in those countries he
| is always spied upon by the secret po-
| lice. You may ask why such an in
significant person should be followed
| by the secret police. He never tells you
exactly why, but the inference Is that
| he is not an Insignificant person, that
since he wrote that article on Yugo-
slavia or gave that lecture on the Pol
| sh Corridor all the secret police in
Central Europe have been waiting for
him.
He sees himself as the hero Of a
sensational novel Of international in
tz1gue. he knows for certain that his