Evening star., 1932-01-16
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including the manufacturing industry,
the selling chances being reduced either
for the reason that only smaller
quantity of goods can find a market,
or because only reduced price is OBJ
tainable for the goods produced. Ac-
cordingly, the number of our unem-
ployed has been rising, though 1t Is as
yet far from giving cause for serious
anxiety. Generally speaking, 1t must
be said that the difficulties experienced
by industry are due to outside in
fuences, while the internal affairs OF
industry on the whole are in good
order after the financial and technical
reforms which have taken place in the
course of the last few years.
When further it is taken into con-
sideration that the balance of trade
is in good order, and that the agricul-
tural production has exceeded all pre-
cedents, it is not unjustifled to main
tain that conditions in our economic
community as whole are far from
unsatisfactory, even though trade Of
the Importance of agriculture has come
into a critical situation owing to an
unforeseen decline in the prices OF near
ly all its produce.
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Camaraderie of
English Sailors Is Charming.
LIE Soir, BruSsels-A sailor from an
English ship, the Montcalm, coming
ashore at Antwerp without proper au-
thority to do so, was being escorted to
the police station for investigation,
when six of his companions, beholding
his predicament from the deck of the
vessel also came on the wharf and liter
ally assaulted his escort, taking him
frOYa them 6PSnitp all their
efforts. When police reintorcements
arrived the seven marines were all back
on the boat, from which it was i'm
possible to take again the original
offender, inaSmuch as the vessel was
considered the same as British terri
tory. The camaraderie of English
sailors is very charming.
X x
Circulation of Bible
Increases In European Countries.
Central European Observer, Prague
The annual report of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, recently pub
lished, gives interesting details of their
work throughout the world in 1880. In
Central Europe we find that in spite
of the prevailing economic depression
the circulation showed q considerable
increase. One hundred thirty-one
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copies were circulated in Germany,
34,435 copies in Austria 1886 copies
in Hungary, 39,389 copies in Poland,
34,606 copies in Switzerland and 1890
copies in Czechoslovakia. OF the 47,000-
odd books issued from Prague and cir
culated in Czechoslovakia 34,220 were
in the Czech and S1ovak languages,
4,915 in German, 4.119 in Hungarian,
l,340 in Russian, Oil IN Polish, 800 in
English, 298 in Hebrew and the re-
mainder in % other languages. The
Bible Societys total circulation was
II 1,886,226 copies and translations in IA
additional languages were published.
The total number Of languages on the
society's list is now 644
Among the IA new versions We notice
a translation of the Gospel of St. John
foE the Gipsies in North Germany.
Though primarily for the German
Gipsles the translation can also se
understood by many located in Czecho-
slovakia. The increased circulation Of
the Bible not only in Central Europe
but elsewhere. for instance, in Great
Britain Is rather a surprising fact in
this modern scientific and materalistic
age. The well-known secondhand
booksellers Foyle of London have re-
Gently stated that whereas two or three
years ago they were sending old Bibles
away to be pulped, today they can even
sell secondhand copies of the cheaper
Bibles.