New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1925, Page 4

SLAVES FREED, CASTE SURVIVE Nepal Has Freed Servile Peoples From Enforced Servitude Washington, D. C, Feb. 17 The Maharajah of Nepal has re- leased some 50,000 slaves — an amazing event in an amazing little country, which the National Geo- graphlc soclety describes in the following bulletin based on a com- munication from John Claude White to its Washington, D. C, head- quarters: Kingdom of Nepal lles among the Himalayan mountains, of which it owns a fair share, It is one of the least known Aslan states “The road into Nepal is purpose: |y Kept in a bad state of repair and | runs over unnec arily difficult country. The Nepalese are a prolific people of very great energy and ac- tivity, eager to make the most of any opportunity which offers it- | self, The population is increasing so fast that outlets have to be found, and the trend of emigration now is to follow the foothills along Bhutan and into Assam., Festivals Are Numecrous ‘ “They also are a fighting people, | t army and organi- zation, and are fond of show, both in military display and in their re- ligious festivals. The latter are very numerous and in fact seem to be interminable. The women take prminent part in most of them. ' “Some of the semi-military pag- eants end In the massacre of hun- a dreds of buffaloes and indescr! scenes of blood and dead animals. In one such ceremony, known as the blessing of the the mander-in-chief dips his hands in a bowl of blood and clasps each ban- ner in turn, thus imprinting on each the mark ™~ bloody hands, The scene s somewha revolting, but probably has its use In keeping up & martial spirit in the army. Women Dress in Riotous Colors “The Nepalese women wear yards upon yards—sometimes as many as v hundred—of fine muslin plaited colors, com- |to torm a huge fan-shaped bunch in |any kind with castes 1 to 20. front, the back belng quite When a lady of rank drives In her she complotely fills the with her voluminous skirt nt hue. Above the skirt a vived little tight-fitting jacket, usually of velvet, is worn; the hair is dressed in & pecullar knot in tront, above the forchead, and fas- tened to one side by an enormous gold plaque with a jeweled center. A heavy gold and gold bangles complete her jewelry. ¢ imaginable shade is used pale blue, green, carmine, nge, white, yellow, turquoise, and lecp red—and the effect is wonder- ful, “Though slavery Is abolished the castes remain. The inhabitants of pal are collectively known as ‘Paharias’ or ‘dwellers In the Hills." The principal castes among Gurkhas, now the dominant barouche necklace race, follow in order of social precedence: | “The following are known as high caste “1, Brahams, who eat rice cooked 3 mbers of their own te. drink water from the hands of members of castes Nos. 2 to 19. 2. Surmgasi, who eat cooked by Brahmans, Thakuris, and Khas only. They drink water from the hands of all castes up to No. 19, MOTHER:- Fletcher’s Cas- toria is a pleasant, harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, Pare- goric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, especially prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. ‘To avoid imitations, a]wvs look for the signature of M Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend it, CONVEN! PAYMENTS ENT TIME the | rice | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 192% Thakurl, who eat rice cooked |by Brahmans only. They drink | water from hands of all members of {all castes up to 19, | “4. Khas or Chitsl, who eat rice cooked by DBrahmans and Thakuris only and drink water from hands of all members of castes Nos, 8 to 19, | “Middle Class” Castes, | “The intermediate castes run from |6 to 19, inclusive, and the lower castes from 20 to 24, inclusive, “The five castes from 20 go 24 do not have Brahmans as priests, Their pricsts are members of thelr own castes, They have no dealings of They | lof a member of castes Nos, 1 to 19 and call out to give warning of their approach. They may not enter the | courtyards of temples, | | *The Bantor, Danuar, and Drai| tribes belong to the plains, and no one knows how to classify them in | respect to soclal precedence, | | “Recruiting for the s British and | Nepalese armies is carried on only from certain of these castes. In| |addition to these, there are among | the Newars, or conquered people, 41 | castes and subcastes, | Then all trades are subdivided | into castes—such as masons, carpen- | |ters and potter: | STANDARDIZING 18 SLOW N EUROPE, Effort to Reduce Production Costs | Makes Headway Only Slowly; Ger- | many Making For This Goal. Berlin, Feb. 17. — Germany is struggling to establish general standardization in industries, and | | the progress which has been made | | was reported upon recéntly at a | meeting of industrialists. | Dr.F. Neunaus, dircctor general of the Borsig Works, who s chair- | imun of the standardization com- fttee, gave a survey of last years | Tools have been stand- a efforts. | ardized to a considerable extent. One |great forward step has been the | standardization of threads on pipes. | Industrialists in England, Holland, | Austria and Switzerland are inter- ested in extending the idea of stand- | ardization all over Europe, in the | hope of reducing production costs. | Practice Jazz Steps as Carnival Comes to Rio | Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 17.—Rio de | Janeiro has started training for the | carnival. Social clubs .throughout | the city, with the exception of the aristocratic suburbs on the ocean | beaches, are now giving dances | every Saturday night, and the peo- ple are staging street battles of con- | fettl. Amateur orchestras and bands are practicing American jazz and the maxixe, the Brazllian national |dance. | | Carnival opens on the Saturday | |night preceding Ash Wednesday and | |continues until Tuesday, when the |entire city surges down town to see | |the evening float parade. GOOD POLISH GORRIDOR CAUSES TROUBLE Frontier Strip Brings About Much Use of Profanity Marienburg, East Prussia, Feb, 17, ~The Polish Corridor has probably tight. [must leave the road on the approach |,een the promoter of more profanity than any other creation of the Ver- sallles treaty, It separates East Prussia entirely from the rest of Germany, being a narrow strip of territory which connects Poland with the Baltic Sea. Therefore all rail- way travel to Russla and the new Baltic states, as well as East Prussia, must pass over this corridor and no- body can enter Danzig from the west by land without touching Polish soll. While Polish visas are required for all persons who wish to enter Danzig by rall from the west, few travelers going from Berlin or other cities in the west know of this regulation. Danzig is a free city. No Danzig visa {s necessary to enter that city. Con- sequently tourists assume that a trip trom Hamburg or Berlin to Danzig does not involve any border diffi- culties. But there is great disillu- sionment when they reach the Polish Corridor, All passengers destined for Danzig, who have no Polish visa, are locked into cars which are seal- ed while the trains stop in Danzig and are not unlocked until the train reaches German soil again in this |elty. Consequently, Marlenburg has be- come a popular refuge for travelers who have no Polish chop on their passports. This city has become the chief station on an underground rail- way leading into Danzig, and on an average 60 motorcars dally leave Marienburg for Danzig, taking a highway which does not touch Polish territory between Marienburg and Danzig. This traffic in amazed passengers who are scarcely able to understand what the mystery is all about is in no sense illegal. It is merely a clever subterfuge which enables per- sons desirous of entering Danzig to dodge the irregular-shaped corridor created by the Versailles conference in such a manner as to enable Po- land to control important railway junctions, A motorcar or carriage taking the highway south from Danzig to Mar- ienburg, a distance of less than 30 miles, must pass through six differ- ent control stations. By taking side roads further to the east than the main road, and crossing the River Vistula'on a primitive ferry, it is possible to avold all these controls and enter the Free City of Danzig without question. Marienburg hotels are always crowded with persons who are try- ing to get into Danzig. Every train from the west side of the corridor brings many surprised passengers who thought they were on their way to Danzig, but were not allowed to stop in the city. Day and night mo- torcars are running to Danzig. NEWS lons all your laundry ora nickel a week. 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Geneva, Feb, 17. — Workmen's compensation will be the chief item on the agenda of the next annual international labor conference, which will open at Geneva May 19. Three other items on the program are really matters left over from last year's conference where, in the form of conventions, they were glven preliminary approval by the delegates. Now, however, they re- quire a final vote, They include equality of treatment for national and forelgn workers as regards workmen's compensation for acel- dents, the weekly suspension of work for 24 hours in glass manu- facturing processes where tank furnaces are used, and night work in bakeries, Albert Thomas, director of the international labor bureau, has {s- sued an appeal to all governments to see to it that complete delega- tions attend the forthcoming con- | ference. In addition to treating the subjects on the officlal agenda, the | May conference will elect the gov- erning body of the labor bureau and engage in a general discussion of the question of social insurance, Migration Made Easy For RetiredOfficers London, Feb. 17. — To facllitate cooperation in emigratien among retired professional classes with small fixed incomes, the Empire ganized here to care for retired Community Settlement has been or- military officers, civil servants, en- gineers and other professional men unfitted to go to the dominions as agricultural settlers in the ordinary way. It is proposed to establish them overseas on model farms, something like garden cities, with two to five acres, dwelling, stable and outhouse sites, and club houses where meals may be obtained at a low rate, After five years of this life the settlers would be expected to find a per- manent place in the dominion. Author of “Peter Pan” Gets Excess Publicity London, Feb, 17.—8ir J. M. 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