Evening star., 1932-06-23
Z MATIN, Paris.-The toad in
nocently enough on its own part,
poor creature, has always en-
loved a Grand role in all the

poor creature, has always en-
IL joyed a grand role in all the
arts and rites Of sorcery and
superstitions 1t has ever been an in
| dispensable ingredient in love philtres
and other condiments OF the magician.
| and no witchery or incarnation has ever
been able, very successfully, to get
along without its toads. Through this
| animal is as a matter of fact one Of
the least progressing and most repel-
| liant found on the earth. its very pre-
eminence in grotesqueness has given 1t
| a charm and popularity which can only
be accounted for in the natural deprav-
ing of human impulse. II there were
any beast, bird, fish or reptile less en-
dowed with esthetic factors, you may
be sure that it would have been pre-
| ferred to this batrachian.
For our part, however. II We find 1t
impossible to inveigle the affections of
| q young lady without recourse to med
| ications associated to q greater or less
extent with extracts and essences OF
toads. frogs and other uncouth, how
ever interesting. saurians we will cheer
| fully surrender all hope of winning the
girl of our dreams. We would not care
to accept, upon such terms, even
Cleopatra, or Helen of Troy!
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Collection Of Food
Suggested in Schools.
Cape Times, Cape Town.-To the
Editor: May suggest means Of OBJ
tanning food for those in want? With
q little organization the scheme would
work we'll, as it does elsewhere. and en-
able every one to do something toward
feeding the hungry.
Let all school children take once a
week = potato, an onion, two table,
spoonfuls of rice or barley, ETC., as
asked for, the commodity to be indi-
Gated to the children by the school
principal each week.
Receptacles would be provided at
each school and in this way vast
quantities of foodstuf1s would be avail
able for distribution. A similar col
lection could be made from each shop
pound of potatoes would be supplied by
each one, or the value thereof, and l
pound rice, or onions, as the case may
be to swell the supply of foodstufIs.
The amount given by each store would
be, to swell the supply Of foodstuf1s.
would be big. j. B.
British Tariffs
Watched in Argentina.
La Nacion, Buneos Aires-0reat
Britain has lately changed her historic
policy of free trade for one Of protec-
ton. Heavy duties are charged upon
many articles and products formerly
admitted without customs charge. This
action has long been urged in British
political circles, but it was not until the
persistence of the United States in
these doctrines began to show such
beneficent results for that country, a
decade or so ago, that the British
Empire decided to take leaf out of
the same book and assess foreign
importations as drAstically as their own
manufactures and produce were as
sessed by foreign tariffs.
In one sense the decision Of the Brit
fish government is justified. In another,
It is not For. considering one phase Of
the question, the small area of the Brit
ish Isles Is incapable of supporting its
crowded population and higher duties
on necessary imports mean heavier
burdens upon the resources of the ccm-
mon people, already suffering from a
long session of unemployment. Yet,
and Notwithstanding, considering an
other phase. British industry. both in
the Isles and in the Empire. is freed