Evening star., 1932-09-17
yEUES WIENER TAGBLATT. vi
enna.-A new national traffic
N ordinance has Just been pro-
Y mulgated in Czechoslovakia

1 Y mulgated in CzechoSlovakla
whereby, among other provi-
sions. all motor cycle riders will be re-
quired to carry with them their own
first-aid kits. This Is the tardy result
Of recommendations made at the Inter
national Highway Conference in 1926,
which have already been followed IN
some respects by other countries. Om-
cials at Prague have decided that TINS
protection to motor cyclists is no longer
to be a matter of personal option. but
medicine rnai taen chest @ With with standard Supplies
Of drugs, splints and instruments, ready
to be used in case OF any ACCIDENT OF
emergency.
Composer Continues
Study of Folk Songs.
Moscow Daily News.-Alexander Ia
taieyick, an authority on kazaK iolk
music and a composer, Is ABOUT 10 start
for a prolonged stay In kaZakstan ior
the purpose of new researches In tne
music. of this Soviet republic. "a
taievich has published already TWO VOL
umes containing coliectaom ION s,,as Oh maand and
instrumental pieces. Some OF these
have already been separately arranged
for pianoforte.
Water Famine
Scored in Jerusalem.
Palestine Bulletin. Jerusalem.-An
open letter to the high commissioner Oh
water supplies:
Your excellency: On behalf OF num-
ber Of my reighbors beg to address
the following observations to you on
T The tenants Of the houses In my
neighborhood pay an average OF 10Y
mills per month in water rates. YET
they receive water only once In every
five or six days. and the amount OF
water then received Is a tr1cKle. Htts M
more than sufficient to clean out the
dirt which has settled in the tanks
during the interim since the last sup
nlv None of the houses In our vicinity
has a well upon which it is possible to
draw for additional supply. r
We are, therefore, not 30 nappiiy
situated as the various members OF the
water board, who either reside In quar-
ters where there Is q more generous
supply of water or are able to draw
water from private wells. And we are
much better off than hundreds OF poor
people who reside within rev hunoreo
wards OF us ana CidIIlOI oS Jul NSA
every morning for the gift OF q kettle
full of water. =.
not suffer as we do, and we, therefore,
And it difficult to believe that your ex-
cellency can be fully acquainted with
the true facts of the situation. the
menace to the health of the city and the
risk of a terrible epidemic Is q real ana
most serious one. As have said, we
are better of than some OF our neigh
bors, yet our plight is a miserable one.
At a time when It is difficult to squeeze
sufiicient water out of the tap to pro-
vide q man with his daily shave, we
have in one house woman daily ex-
pecting to be confined for childbirth. In
another house baby down Nth dys-
entery, and in another an old man lying
at deaths door. In our misery, neither
the water supply department nor the
public health department appears to be
able to give US relief.
AID we are now told that the various
springs are running dry, and that we
shall shortly be supplied only once q
week and perhaps even less frequently!
Surely, the time has arrived when
your excellency and the directors OF
health should cry "stop," and we feel
sure that It is not necessary TOR US to
indicate what steps ought to be taken