Evening star., 1933-02-04
High Lights ON the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

TINE BULLETIN, Syndey.-The
presidential election in the
U. S. A. resulting in the over
L whelming defeat of Hoover, the
Republican candidate, and the
return of Roosevelt and the Democrats
suggests that the whole business of poll
tics is largely a matter of leg-pulling
A government comes in on its election
platform. 1t has three or four years
Office, in the course of which the public
is disillusioned. Then another crowd
offers a new line of bats and the fish
take another chance. Almost always
the contest is between promise and
performance, and in the natural course
of events promise wins. Politics never,
or hardly ever, gives what it processes
to be ready and able to give, because,
knowing mans weakness, it offers
short cut to happiness which leaves
out hard work, self-denial, thrift and
most of the other old-fashioned virtues.
There were. no doubt, special in
f1uenceS at work in America. Among
others, the prohibition issue was raised.
In that connection, what is most of in
terest from the point of view of the
outsider Is that, while neither party
was satisfied with the law as it stands
or with anything else, for that matter
none was willing to wipe out prohibi-
tion. There is, nevertheless, proba bly,
some significance in the fact that
Roosevelt and the Democrats declared
themselves willing to go fartheSt in that
direction. The most likely practical re-
suit will be an amendment legalizing
the sale of wine and beer, but keeping
spirits and the saloon still out OF
bounds. The consequences will, of
course, continue to be Disappointing,
not because they may not be good, but
because they will not be as good as
it was promised they would be.
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Too Much Anxiety
About Future Costly.
La Razon, La Paz.-Too much anxiety
about the future is even worse than
not enough. This, at least, is now
| the opinion Of a woman, Teresa Nunez
Trino by name. who withdrew all her
savings from the bank and concealed
it in the house where she Is employed
as a cook The fund amounted to 100
bolivianoS 1880 at par, probably about
half that amount now: and was IN
banknotes of the 10-boliviano evalua,
ton. The small packet she compressed
between the roofboards and beam
and then went light about
her duties in the firm assurance that
should would not starve Immediately,
even though the rest of the country,
when the war Is over, finds itself ex-
posed to such a calamitous contingency.
But how fallible are our very best
safeguards and provisions. A few days
later the owner of the house, whose
name and address we withhold at his
request. employed a carpenter, one
Maximo Pena, to repair some leaks in
the tegument of the domicile. Working
under the thatch, Maximo Pena found
rotted board or two which needed to
be replaced, and beneath one of these
boards casually discovered, to his utter
amazement, the fiattened banknotes.
Undoubtedly suppressing his first i'm
pulse, to give up carpentry incontinent-
iy, Maxine Pena examined with care
every other quarter of the roof, remov-
ing sound planking as well as the de-
cayed. Then he departed for an un-
known destination. leaving the roof in
| far worse condition than he had found
it. Sonora Nunex Trino was not long
in discovering her loss, and her lamen-
tations pierced the sky. The police are