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Evening star., 1936-05-31
SUMMER GOODS
TRADE IS BRISK
Furnishings Demand Best
This Season Since 1929,
Manufacturers Say.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 3o.-The current
outlook for the highly seasonal busi-
ness in Summer home furnishings.
including porch and garden equip
ment, fancy window shades, trellises
and fiber rugs. is the best since 1929.
dealers and manufacturers reported
today.
Production demands for this type Of
goods are running well ahead of sea-
sonal levels, a survey indicated, and
optimism has been increased by un-
usually favorable weather conditions
All types Of garden and Summer
furniture are moving briskly, both in
retail and wholesale channels, mer-
chandise mart wholesalers reported,
with demand running far ahead OF
supply particularly in painted iron
and cane types. One major distribu-
tor reported that the trellis and per-
COLA business which has been negligible
for several seasons, was sharply
revived.
The popularity of Venetian blinds,
manufacture of which has been taken
up by several hundred companies
within the last two years, has focused
home makers attention on windows,
resulting in an appreciate upturn in
demand for all forms of window deco
ration, one manufacturer reported. He
said his shade business was 100 per
cent ahead of a year ago and he
credited the popularity of this type
of blind with leading the revival OF
the window shade trade.
Several shade factories representa-
tives said extra shifts were being
worked to keep up with demand, en-
ployes numbering the largest on
record.
More expensive types of painted
wrought iron and cane lawn furniture
have moved briSkly enough to keep
factories several weeks behind orders
and State Street stores reported
cheaper lines of steamer chairs and
wood benches are in demand. Sales
of Summer type rugs were reported
running more than 25 per cent ahead
of last year, one manufacturer hav-
ing shipped Is carloads of fiber rugs
to two large Eastern distributors with
L.. L. @u,o he
Evening star., 1936-05-31
6l Railroads Gain
1913 Per Cent in
Net During April
By tic Associated Press.

Dt Wv hSopC4Atcu EIrbS
NEW YORK, Nav 30.-EaHnings Of
the first 81 reporting railroads for
April improved considerably over those
recorded during March, when foods
cut sharply into their income.
April gross for these roads gained
I59 per cent over the same period
a year ago. while net operating in
come rose 1853 per cent.
Last month the comparable advance
was II per cent gross and l9 per cent
net over 81 companies.
Totals for the four months were:
Gross, up 1873 per cent, and net op-
Grating income, 1876.
Among the carriers making the larg-
est gains in net operating income for
both April and the four months were:
Erie. Nickel Plate. Kansas City South
ern. Missouri i-KansasITexas, st. Louis
San Francisco, Wheeling. New York
Central, st. Paul, Norfolk IL Western
and Southern Railway.
The most important losses, COM
pared to last year on the same basis,
were shown by Union Pacific, Boston
g. Maine, Chicago & North Western
New Haven, Seaboard Airline, and
Rock Island.
Evening star., 1936-05-31
NEW ISSUES CURB
LONDON MARKETS;
F RANCE WATCHED
European Capital Expected
to Enter Wall Street if
Rise Continues.
By LEONARD ]. REID

LONDON, May 80 by Cable).-
Steady idleness characterized the
stock markets during the past week,
with selling restricted to the nor
NAL necessary trickle, but profess
sionals and the public are marking
time awaiting new developments in
the international situation.
A contributory factor to the mar
ket's quietude was the big flow Of
new issues of all classes. These are
absorbing the major portion of in
vestment attention, while the remain
der is confined to a few industrial
securities affected by special news
or expectations.
Over Whitsuntide, the new French
Cabinet takes Office. Its declaration
of policy may radically influence the
course of the markets next week
The tone everywhere is good, also
the technical position, but stimulus
is absent and little activity is like
ly until definite new factor emerges.
London purchases and sales in Wall
OblCCO dlC AlON oV aluminium foAAAlASS
but if the American upswing con-
tinues, resumption Of the transfer
of funds to New York from Great
Britain and the Continent is likely.
Idle conditions create an atmosphere
favorable to the spread of many ru-
mors, examples being talk of dear
money approaching and reports that
a stabilization conference is near. but
these are unworthy of credence.
The price slide in the commodity
markets, operating since the end Of
the Ethiopian War, is not fully
checked. The reaction in wheat is
thought possibly overdone and the
rubber outlook is becoming increas-
ingly favorable.
The changes in the British Cabi-
net will not be many or sensational,
and Prime Minister Baldwin is
slowly regaining some lost prestige,
but the big political factor in the
near future is Leon Blum's attitude
toward Geneva Another important
influence is the trend of the situa-
ton in Palestine.
(Copyright, 1896. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1936-05-31
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, May 30.-The rise in
rents, which began in February, 1884,
and which has been one of the primary
factors stimulating the current build
ing expansion, was extended in April.
The rent index, based on 1925 as 100,
rose from 1877 in March to 74.s in
April. A year ago the index was 68.7
and at the low for the depression in
January, 1884, it was 61.8.
The rent level in April this year was
thus 21.2 per cent above the low.
Rents in April, however, were still well
below the cost of building, according
to the Alexander Hamilton Institute
THE cost-of building index at the
beginning of May was e78, as COM
pared with the rent index of 74.9 in
April" the institute adds. "This dis
crepancy is the major reason why
building in the current expansion
movement has recovered only small
part of the ground lost during the
depression.
"It is apparent that q further ex-
pansion Of building activity will depend
on either further rise In rents or a
stduction in building costs. At the
Evening star., 1936-05-31
D. c. STORE SALES
LAG SEASONALLY
BEHIND WEEK AGO
Show Loss of 9.3 Per Cent
in Cool Weather, but
Stay Above 1895.
REMAIN 1858 PER CENT
AHEAD OF LAST YEAR
Visitors for Week Total 81, ,803,
Against 1880 Last Week and
1884 Year Ago.
BY DONALD b. HADLEY.

Department store sales in Washing
ton continued a seasonal decline dur
ing the week ended Wednesday, May
27, according to the Department Of
Commerce report. A loss of 9.3 per
cent under the previous week was
registered as cool weather prevailed
throughout the period.
Sales held well above a year ago,
however, at an average increase Of
1888 per cent. Bank clearings, $l8,-
1888, 725, against $24,949, sol last week
and $l5,224,384 year ago.
Building permits, s498 200, against
s979, 400 year ago. Last years total
included a $500, 900 sanitorium project.
More Tourists Arrive.
Tourist activities as indicated by the
number of visitors to the Washington
Monument increased both over last
week and year ago.
Visitors for the week were 21,803
against 1880 last week and 1884 a
year ago Included in the two 1886
weeks were about 5000 who visited
the Monument each week at the night
openings, an innovation this year.
Retail business experienced mod
crate seasonal dullneSS in the entire
fifth reserve district, but gains over
last year continued to maintain a
substantial margin.
Richmond bank debts, S28, 8,256 900,
compared with S30,636, 900 last week
and SIC, 6,265,000 a year ago.
Department store sales in Norfolk
declined from the exceptionally good
previous week, but were well ahead of
last year and bank debts compared
similarly. Trucking crops in the Nor
folk area suffered drought damage.
Baltimore Trade Good.
Business continued good in Balti-
more. although cool weather had a
moderately retarding effect. Gradua-
ton gifts, Summer clothing and vaca-
ton accessories were in active demand,
while scheduled bonus payment in
June, together with favorable employ
ment and pay roll trends, should main
tain retail volume at satisfactory
levels throughout balance Of Spring
and early Summer.
Activity in wholesale dry goods and
general merchandise trade showed
further advance as compared with
previous weeks and same time last
year.
Because of stable price conditions,
moderate inventories and encouraging
retail outlook merchants generally
continued reasonably optimistic over
business prospects for immediate
future.
Bank debts registered increase OF
Al per cent over corresponding week
of 1885. Output of electric power for
week ended May % showed gain of
POT per cent over corresponding period
Of last year.
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Sarin gs Total $53, 500, 900, 900
Retrieving Over Half of Loss

even interrupted by the depression.
Their record has been one Of con-
tinuous growth since 1880 and while
the pace somewhat slackened after
1881, the total gain since then
amounts to some Is per cent of the
total of that year.
The depression record of mutual
savings banks deposits is almost as
good In this respect as that of the life
insurance companies. There was a
consistent increase in total deposits
through 1882, when the peak figure of
SIC, ,039, ,958 900 was reached. A de-
cline in the next year carried this
down to $9,76o, ,221 900 and it has
subsequently recovered to $9,S71 $685.
600. That is, the funds of some 49,
4l5,000 depositors are now less than
3 per cent below their record.
Savings deposits in other banks
and the assets Of building and loan
societies have not Jared so well. The
former have increased substantially
since 1888, but are still well below
their 1928 peak, while the latter ex-
perienced q turth@ decline in 1884"
Evening star., 1936-05-31
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, May 30.-Total ma
tional savings as represented by the
deposits or assets Of saving intitu-
tions, according to the Index of the
New York Trust Co., have made up
more than half their depression losses
and now aggregate more than s5s,-
500, 900 900. as compared with the
high point of $56,OOo, 100000 attained
in 1880.
OF these savings, assets OF life in
surance companies with 63,000,0OO
policy holders amount to $23,20o, ,0O0.-
600 or more than 40 per cent OF the
total, savings deposits of 100000
persons in mutual savings and other
banks to s22, 500, 600 900. and assets of
building and loan associations with
5000, 900 members to LAS, ,000, 900.
THE renewed upward trend in ma
tional savings, rejecting the increase
in national income since l933," the
Index says, has not been uniform for
the various classes of institutions
cited. The assets OF life insurance
companies, for example, have con-
tinued an expsnsione which was not
Evening star., 1936-05-31
RAILROAD CREDIT CORP.
STATEMENT is ISSUED

E. G. Buckland, president Of Rail-
road Credit Corp, authorizes the fol-
lowing statement:
The Railroad Credit Corp. on May
81, 1886, will make its twenty-eighth
liquidating distribution to participat-
ing carriers, amounting to S735,SSl, or
l per cent of the contributed fund. OF
this amount s394,6O3 will be paid in
cash and $341 ,27S will be credited on
carriers indebtedness to the corpora
ton.
This will bring the total amount
distributed to so per cent of the fund
or S36. 6.794,036. OF this total $l7,5l7,-
lis will have been returned in cash
and $19,276,920 in credits.
Evening star., 1936-05-31
FOOTWEAR PRODUCTION
DROPS DURING APRIL
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A decline in footwear production
in April is shown in reports to the
Census Bureau from GAL factories.
Output totaled 26,978,346 pairs of
boots, shoes and slippers, a decline Of
about 100000 from March and
100000 from the comparable 1885
total For the first four months,
production maintained a lead over
last year, totaling 130,888, ,419. gain
of 1,657,000 pairs.
Evening star., 1936-05-31
BUSINESS LEVEL HOLDS
STEADILY ABOVE 1895

BY the Associated Press.
The weekly summary Of the De-
partment of Commerce says business
has held steady at level substan-
TALLY above year ago, both in retail
trade and industrial production. The
department attached particular signi-
f1cance to the statement of a leading
motor manufacturer that the COM
pany's May sales would equal the
April record. Further increase in
lumber outputs was reported along
with other signs of building revival.
Evening star., 1936-05-31
APRIL WOOL STATISTICS
SHOW ADDED RECESSION
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A further recession in the woolen
industry from the high level it at
tanned last year is indicated in April
statistics gathered by the Census
Bureau. Average weekly consump-
ton of raw wool in the apparel class
fell to 4,118,00o pounds from $685.
900 in March. A decline in ma
chinery in operation also was re-
corded.
Evening star., 1936-05-31

These figures were computed from
reports received from 38 companies
reporting sales in identical stores for
the three periods compared. The
store units were located in SO States
and the District of Columbia, and
represented about AZ per cent of total
chain store units.
Sales were reduced to daily aver
age basis before the percentage
changes were calculate Equal
weight was given to each day of the
calendar months involved.
Evening star., 1936-05-31
CHAIN DRUG STORES
BOOST APRIL SALES
Average Daily Turnover Rated
46 Per Cent Higher-Fountain
Income Up 8.3 Per Cent.

Average daily sales of chain drug
stores in April, 1886. were as per cent
higher than in April, 1885. Compared
with the same month a year ago to-
bacco sales increased 76 per cent,
fountain sales increased 8.3 per cent
and "all other" sales increased 2
per cent.
Without any allowance for sea-
sonal variation. April sales were 80
per cent higher than sales in March
Of this year.
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Evening star., 1936-03-08

of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Jennings
In Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss IneZ Moore and Miss Lucy
Reardon left Sunday by motor to
spend several weeks in Florida.
Mrs. Richard Gibson and Miss
Clarence SnoWden have returned from
a three-week motor trip to Florida.
Miss Marguerite Penn is home from
visit to her uncle and aunt Mr.. and
Mrs. Julian Young Williams in Long
Island City.
Mr.. Douglas Smith entertained at
dinner last evening in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. Hans Faber of Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry B. Burden of
Aulander, N. c.. announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Millie Lynn,
to Mr.. Elmer w. Mervine, son of Mr..
and Mrs Edward j. Mervine of Alex
andria, Friday, February %, in Court
land, Southampton County, Va, with
Rev. James Rotten officiating Mr.
Mervine and his bride will live in
Alexandria.
Mrs. Isadore Bregman and her sons,
Morton and Robert Bregman, returned
Monday after spending three weeks in
Miami, Fla.
Mr.. Henry Donero of Harrisonburg
is visiting his son-in-laW and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. John Logan. Mr..
Logan's mother, Mrs. Lee A. Logan,
also is their guest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell P. Nicholson
have returned from New Orleans,
where they attended the Mardi Gras.
Evening star., 1936-03-08

Manganese Exports Up.
Brazils manganese exports were
2,300 tons In 1884, but in 1885 rose
to 51,8l9.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Social Activities
In LOudoun County

Mrs. Joseuh Taylor Clement and
her son have returned to their home
IN Round Hill from a visit of several
DAYS in Washington with Mai. Glenn
ent. Tuesday afternoon Mai. and
Mrs. Clement were among the guests
at Mrs. Roosevelts tea. and Tuesday
evening they were hosts at dinner at
the Shoreham Hotel, when their guests
were Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs. A. j.
Spriggs and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Colds
borough. Maj. and Mrs. Clement also
were among the guests at a cocktail
party given recently by the air attache
Of the Italian embassy and Signora
Livia Coppola Viola.
Mrs. William S. Mitchell has re-
turned to her home at Middleburg
with her children, Billy and Lucy,
until their school closes.
Miss Betty Littlejohn has returned
to her home in Leesburg from Wash
ington.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Noland and
their little daughter, who have lived
in Leesburg for some time. have gone
to Charlottesville to make their home.
Evening star., 1936-03-08

100 Cities in Top Glass.
There are 100 cities of 100000 pop
ulation or more in the United States
and Canada.
Evening star., 1936-03-08

report aboard the U. S. S. West Vir-
ginia for duty on the staff of the COM
mander, battleships, Battle Force.
Mrs. Jenkins will remain with her
parents in Yorktown during the Sum-
mer and will join Col Jenkins on the
West Coast in the Fall.
Maj. and Mrs r. A. Robinson en-
tertained yesterday afternoon at a
cocktail party in their quarters Their
out-of town guests who ~.c"~ r ---
Daniel Hunt, Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. w.
q. hawthorne, L4C~... 80, -. --o.
Clifton Gates, Capt. and Mrs. c. c..
Jerome and Capt and Mrs. Elmer
Hall. all of Washington, were also
supper guests of the Robinsons Friday
evening.
Today Maj and Mrs. Robinson left
to spend a few days in. New York
City.
Miss Mary Miller Kress, daughter of
Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. c. c. Kress,
was hostess Sunday afternoon at a
farewell cocktail party for Lieut.. and
Mrs. J. c. Bigler and Lieut.. and Mrs.
NJ r. Wirthlin.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Bigler with their
infant son James, jr. leave in a few
days for New York to board the
U. S. S. Republic for Mare Island.
Calf, to await transportation to
Shanghai. China, where Lieut. Bigler
will report for duty with the 4th Regi-
ment.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Wirthlin left late
this week on leave which they will
spend visiting friends and relatives in
st. Louis. Mo-: Little Rock, Ark. and
Hattiesburg, Miss. They will make the
trip by motor.
Capt. and Mrs. F. H Armstead and
their son Robert left the post this
morning for New York to visit for
week with Capt Armstead's mother,
Mrs. F. c. Armstead, before they sail
for Bremerton. Wash. aboard the
U. S. S. Republic. Capt. Armstead
will be on duty in Bremerton at the
Marine Barracks. Puget Sound Navy
Yard.
Mrs. r. E. Hopper was hostess
Thursday afternoon at tea in honor
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Mrs. Roosevelt
Luncheon Speaker

The Women's League of the United
Synagogues of America will hold its
1886 convention in connection with
the United Synagogue at the Willard
Hotel March Is, Is and II.
The B'nai Israel and the Adas Israel
Sisterhoods, who are working in con-
junction with national headquarters
of the Women's League, have been
active preparing for the convention
under the leadership of their presi-
dents, Mrs. Samuel Benjamin and
Mrs. Joseph Kaminsky, and of the
local convention chairman, Mrs
George w. Levy.
On Monday morning, March 16,
there will be symposium, "Today's
challenge to the Jewish Woman-How
Shall She Meet It?" This will be fol-
lowed by luncheon, at which Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be guest
speaker.
A joint dinner with the United
Synagogues of America will take place
in the evening, at which Secretary
Harold L. Ickes will be guest speaker
and Mrs. Samuel Spiegel will be
among the speakers of the evening.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
News of Residents
At Fort Belvoir

An interesting reception was given
at Mackenzie Hall Friday in honor of
the new class of Engineer Reserve Of
ficers and National Guard officers,
who will be at the engineer school at
the post until June /. There are 80
new officers and number have been
accompanied to the post by their
families
In the receiving line at the recep-
tion were Col and Mrs. Laurence ".
Frazier, Col. and Mrs. William r.
Dear Col. and Mrs William A. john
son and Col and Mrs. John R. D.
Matheson. There were several small
dinner parties before the reception.
Capt and Mrs. Benjamin Chadwick
of Fort du Pont, and daughter. Miss
Josephine Chadwick, were guests over
the week end of Capt. and Mrs. Karl
B. Schilling, as were Mai. and Mrs.
c. j. Ball.
Maj. and Mrs. David L. Neuman of
Richmond, Va, were guests over. last
week end of Capt. and Mrs. Heath
IWltchell.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Frederick G. Saint
entertained at tea last Sunday in
honor of Mrs. r. B. Warren of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, sister of Mrs. Saint.
A horse show will be staged Friday
at the post, with Maj. Harry A.
Buckley in charge There will be
included in the classes a stand-off
jumping class and a ladies' saddle
class.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Richard M. Seig,
announce the birth of a daughter,
Suzanne Sauber.
Mrs. Robert Lothrop and her in
FAINT daughter, Joan Marie, have
Joined Lieut.. Lothrop at the fort,
Mrs. Joseph L. johnson, wife of
Lieut.. johnson, will leave Wednesday
to spend two weeks with her mother,
Mrs. j. G. Upton, in New York. Lieut.
and Mrs. johnson had as guests over
the past week end Miss Nancy Cecilia
Woodward, daughter of Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. John E. Woodward.
Hosts at the dance Saturday at the
fort will be Capt. and Mrs. Heath
TWitchell, Capt. and Mrs. Garges and
Lieut.. and Mrs Edward A. Brown.
The post orchestra will furnish the
music.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
News. of Interest
In Sligo Park Hills

Mrs. Theodore Rose was given a
surprise party In honor of her birth
day anniversary Wednesday night in
her new home. The company included
Mr.. and Mrs. James Holland, Mr.. and
Mrs. Julian Berry, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam @. Rose, Mr.. and Mrs. Ashley F..
Lanphere, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G..
Rose, Mr.. and Mrs. B. z. Inman, Mr..
and Mrs Oscar Gingell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Prentiss, Mr.. and Mrs. Ran
dolph Crockett, Miss Myrtle Linthi-
cum. Mrs. Margaret Mirsch, Mrs. L..
c. Gingell. Miss Agnes Gingell, Mrs.
Mary Bufin, Mrs. Mary Prentiss, Mrs.
Dorothy Prentiss and Mr.. Patrick
Turner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Savee en-
tertained at dinner Friday night in
their home. The guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred c. Jones, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Wallace, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Callahan of Washington. Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Semple of Woodside, Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Coumbe, Mr.. and Mrs.
John B. Sterling, Mrs H. T. Land and
Mr.. William Jones of Sligo Park Hills.
Miss Loretta Yost, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Yost. ST., and Miss
Alice Jane Walker, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William H. Walker of Ia
koma Park, Md, gave a dance last
night at the formers home for a COM
pany of 80 friends. Refreshments
were carried out in the st. Patrick
color scheme.
Mr.. and Mrs. Justin Lawrie gave
the second of series of dinner parties
Thursday night, when their guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Shorts, Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin Waite, Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy DAuby, Mrs. Frank Collier, Miss
Helen Wilcox, Mrs. Harriet Burnham.
Miss Eva Birch and Miss Mabel Fagan
OF Washington.
Mrs. Arthur Nilsson with her chill
dren, Arthur Nilsson, jr., and Urna
Nilsson, left Thursday for Overland
to join Mr.. Nilsson, where he Is pro-
fessor of economics at the Overland
University. They have leased their
home until June to MIR. and Mrs.
Robert Llyod of San Francisco, who
recently came to Washington
Mrs. Richard F. Junker will arrive
today at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. E. Francis McDevitt, after pass
ing six weeks on Long Island and
Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. Porter, with
their daughter, Miss Betty, are in
Pittsburgh, where Mrs. Porter's father
is seriously i'll.
Evening star., 1936-03-08

OF Mrs D. w. Torrey, ir. The guests
were Mrs, v, e. Mcgee. Mrs. T. j.
McQuade, Mrs. B. c. Batterton, Mrs. p
o. Parmelee and the latters sister,
Mrs. Dorothy Beckley. Mrs. H. T.
Elrod Mrs. Stuart Stetson. Miss Mary
Miller Kress. Mrs. j. S. E. Young, Mrs.
M. T. Starr and her mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Moorhead; Mrs. Lawrence
Norman, Mrs. G. c. Herndon, Mrs. E.
A. Montgomery, Mrs. F. H Wirsig,
Mrs. L. H. Delano, Mrs. F. G.. Daley,
and Mrs. Torrey's sister, Miss Helen
Banks.
Lieut.. and Mr. T. p. Julian have
with them over the week end Lieut..
and Mrs. Sam j. Jack, also Of An
napolis.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Mrs. Hankin to
Speak at Dinner

Mrs Caroline Hankin will speak on
"The Supreme Court and the New
Deal" at the dinner Of the Radcliffe
Club of Washington, to be held at the
University Club Tuesday evening. Mrs.
Hankin was recently awarded the
Crusade Fellowship Of the A. A. U. W.,
under which she will go abroad to
study the high tribunals of European
countries.