Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1930, Page 40

SOCIETY. - REVOLUTIONS KEEP CUATENALA BUSY Volcanoes and Political Up- heavals Rotate Among Different Areas. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. Bpecial Correspondence of the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service. Copyright. 1930, by the Chicago Daily News, Inc. GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala.— Earthquakes and revolution prevent life | irom becoming humdrum in Guatemala. | The earthquakes are disastrous, for | wnen Guatmala, with its varied assort- | ment of volcanos, does get a shake, it is a good one. Fortunately—that is, ifi| there can be any good fortune connected with an earthquake—rarely more than one volcano is working at one time, so tit only the cities which are near the one on the job for the particular year | topples over. Consequently, earthquake visitations are rotating, but no city | need feel that it is slighted, rather that it will get its shaking sooner or later. Revolution Always in Offing. . The revolutions are somewhat similar. Political discussions are based either on Jast year's revolution, or one which is about to break, or another which is sure to come next year. They are popular substitutes for " elections, ‘neither being much concern nor interest to the great illiterate bulk of the population. ‘They may be annoying to officials who ar. obliged to leave hurriedly and to | those who do not get away hurriedly | enough. The Indians, who retain their own language in this country, do not know a revolution is going on. Last year's revolution was at Maza- tenango. It was suppressed in three | days and such of th: leaders as were caught were shot. The explanation was that the leaders got their signals mixed and the group in Mazatenango never received word that the opening date was postponed. They put on their show ac- cording to schedule and discovered too | late that they were having a revolution | alone. This year's discontent is said to | center in Quezaltenango, the second | city of the republic, where the popula- | tion is somewhat radical and peppy from the altitude, exactly the same as | Mexico City. To appease its jealousy of | the capital, the railroad is to be ex- | tended and electrified to give the dis- | trict an outlet for its grain and coffee | to Champerico, its port on the Pacific. President’s Aide a Fine Soldier. The which _elther | suppresses or makes revolutions, is a picturesque organization. It is Indian, | including most of the officers. Those | officers I met in the presidential palace | —and they were numerous, for the| usual revolution was being talked on| the street—were fine-appearing, intelli- gent men, well uniformed and gay with gold braid and insignia. One of them, | Col. Arturo Ramirez, is one of the finest type of officers I have met in any army. At present he.is aide to Gen. Lazaro Chacon, the President, but he has been Vice President, secretary of | agriculture and pinch-hitter in other| important offices. Soldiers are numerous on the streets, either on duty or off, and not as snappy | s the officers in appearance. Uniforms | are khaki cotton—some look as if they | were slept in as well as worn on dut; and the old-style laced canvas lej as in the American Army. There the| comparison ends, for all the soldiers are barefoot. Leggings and bare brown feet are a contrast. Takes Shoes Off to Run. “They are more comfortable in their | bare feet,” one of the officers explained. | “If we put shoes on them, they wouldn't | walk a mile; and as for socks, they'd Pprobably use them for tobacco pouches.” | The Marines have put shoes on the native Guardia in Haiti, but whenever | one of them is in a hurry, which oc-| casionally happens, he takes off his ghoes and carries them in his hand as| he trots along. Flying into Guatemala by airplane from Mexico is an inspiring sight. We | left Tapachula at 7:20 am., and half an hour later were down on the field‘ at Retalhuleu, a coffee and sugar cen- ter and hot even at that early hour.| Six passengers were waiting, but we| could take only three, and I never un: derstood why the pilot included a fa ‘woman. We were in the capital at 9: and the other three who hurried grum- bling from the field did not arrive by | train until evening. Circles Extinct Volcanoes. ‘The plane started to climb from the coast land over rippled mountains, | white roads circling over their ridges, white-roofed houses and occasional vil- lages in the valleys. As an added at- traction James H. Giffin. the pilot, circled old_Fuego, 12,581 feet, and Paxalia, 11,200 feet, only & few hun- dred feet from their extinct craters, | Fuego rises straight up from a level of 200 feet, without a foothill. It did | its stuff in 1773, when it destroyed the | old capital, Antigua, at that time a city of 80,000, with a university and | a hundred churches and_ monasteries. | Acatenango, 13.000, is close by and | then another circle around Agua, 12,- | 300, across Lake Amatitlan, cool and pretty, and the playground for the | capital, which seems to lie below. | national army, W, B. Moses & Sons SINCE 1861—SIXTY-NINE YEARS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE National 3770 Heather Puff Blue Sea Green Jade Green Seamless Broadloom Carpets Decorators of today show the trend toward more vivid and fresher floor cover- ings in their choice of cool sea green, rich Burgundy, warm rust. Against these simple one-toned carpets your small rugs, chintzes or brocades make a startling and effective contrast. Sale we offer a large range of colors. 9 and 12 widths in the selection. you want a varied selection and a great saving you | Visiting Relatives l MRS. JOHN H. 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Grant. 3d, director of public | | buildings and public parks. | Explaining the arrangements that will | | be necessary, Lieut. F. B. Butler, as- | sistant director, said West Executive avenue would be closed to all through traffic during the two weeks that it will take to complete the job, but that limited arrangements for parking auto- mobiles on the street during tae work will be made. Lieut. Butler said the work would be | done for the Federal Government by | the Paving Department of the District government. In order that it may be completed as rapidly as possible, men will be worked in two shifts. This street, which runs only a few feet from the en- trance to tHe President’s office, is | under control of the Federal Govern- ment. ‘When this work is done, State plaee, which 1s the short street immediately south of the old State, War and Navy Building, will be repaved. | “In about two weeks' time, Licut. But- |1er explained, the work of repaving | Pensylvania avenue in front of the White House will be undertaken. It had |been hoped to do this work while the President was away on a vacation in the West, but in view of the fact that he is not going. the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds with the as- | sistance of the District authorities will rush the work with as little inconven- jence to persons going in and out of the White House as possible. Trains Get Periscopes. LONDON (#).—Periscopes have been placed on trains of the Southern Rail- way so the brakemen can sit in com- | fort in the trains and still see the sig- | nals. The periscopes protrude through | the roofs of the cars. German and Swedish firms plan to combine and operate a system of de- partment stores in the two countries. 9 AM. to 6 P.M. [ ] For Misses and Women $4975 To introduce to you the newest coat fashions for the coming Winter. 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The genius, Mrs. Trevor, only ex- ceeded the sum by $10, and managed at the same time also to provide four new dresses for “Lady Windermere's Fan,” which_has left th: Everyman for the West End. Mrs. Trevor creates delight- ful costumes from modern furniture fabrics. She is also a bargain hunter. There seems to be a revival of interest in Oscar Wilde just now. The produc- tion of “Lady Windermere's Fan" has proved successful, while at Sir Nigel Playfair’s Lyric Theater at Hammer- smith there is a fantastic but very amusing revival of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” It is carried out en- tirely in black and white, and is slightly burlesqued. The result is alluring. Mabel _Terry Lewis, Jean Cadell and John Gielgud are in the cast. yright, 1030, by fftoRe er Alllance.) D. C, - | berets and bonnet styles of advance th American News- North A b AUGUST 17, Busy Curling-Iron Season Is Planned By Hairdressers Sausage Roll and Bangs| Will Be Popular, Says Famous Parisian Dressmaker. | | | PARIS (/).—Are women going to cul- | tivate Gainsborough curls to accompany | their big velvet Gainsborough hats next | | winter? | The hairdressers’ league of style | | headquarters thinks they will and is| preparing for & busy season with the curling iron. Milliners are not so sure. One of the woman designers who takes | a Ieading part in launching big hats of velvet, for formal afternoon occasions of Autumn and next Winter says that softening curls are not necessary for successful wearing of big hats. short hair and a clipped neck. It's the | same style of hairdressing used for the | Autumn and the current season. “No, I don't think women will give up | their short hair and present pretty out- lines of head and neck.” a Rus de la| Paix male dressmaker said. He asserts that sausage rolls are the chignon a la mode. They must be soft and worn at the nape of the neck, he says. Pringes, otherwise bangs, are the hair | style of the immediate future, according to a he-hairdresser who operates on both sides of the Atlantic. “Short hair is doomed. 1In fack. it's already gone,” he said positively. “Curls are coming in.” E Child Given Alligator. BRISBANE (#)—Driven insane by the continued sight of huge alligators | basking on the bank of the river which | runs through her husband’s farm at Conway, North Queensland, a mothqg | threw her 6-month-old infant to the | monsters as “a sacrifice.” | Political Appointees Few. | NANKING (#)—Only 87 of th 15,591 staff members of the Nan king government are political appoint- | ees and only 1.286 belong to the Kuo- mintang party, There are 172 women the lists 1oo0—I-And’ She wears the wide brims herself with | ;5. L aaulS. AMERICAN TRACTOR SHOWN IN PORTUGAL Campaign Expected to Free Por- tuguese of Gold Exports for American Wheat. VILLAFRANCA DE XIRA, Portugal | (#).—The first American-made tractor | was shown at an agricultural exhibition | here. | President Carmona, who is leading \ the “wheat campalgn,” which is to free | Portugal of gold exports for the pur- chase of American wheat, was at the throttle. Portugal this year had a thousand | farmers taking courses in scientific agriculture. Relief measures to farmers include a (u;ther increase of the tax on foreign wheat. | Rubber Quiets Pounding. PARIS (#).—French Deputies lost | their thundere during the last recess of Parliament. They made it by banging | their desk lids, a time-honored and ef- | fective method of drowning out an un- | popular orator. But the house commit- | tee had strips’ of rubber nailed on the 5. Imported Cretonnes A large selection of un- usual colors and designs, suitable for every decora- tive requirement. 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