Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1925, Page 13

R/ DEATH RATEIN .. |SBELOW AVERAGE This Summer Unusually, Healthy, Surgeon General’s | Reports Indicate. es | ar been lower last five years, nminzs of the United States | Health Service said yesterday Health conditions over the country have been zenerally good. he said. ports from State and city health s indicate that most of the more | common communicable diseases have heen less destructive than usual this he said iphtheria on Decrease. ht weeks since the Ist of States which report regularly United Sta Public Health | ive have recorded approximately | 0 cases of diphtheria. Last year | for the corresponding period these same States reported nearly $.100 « decrease of 20 per cent. Dur 1= the same period of time reports indicated a decres from istUvear of 27 per cent, while scarlet fever dec sed 14 per cent During the Spring and Summer month: evale » of infantile 1ses. This year inereas me parts of the | Has bee rked. Thirty-two es of infantile ks this Summer ar for the same Worst in the West. is not uniformly dis articularly noticeable | Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South | Wisconsin. With the all weather the dan- | diminishes the incidence of has been reasing in | her for two months, téstimopy dis- | ation in th fron@ 35.9 in | his year, how there seems 1o have bheen a slight tion. Since the 1st of July 33| es have reported 7.173 s of e, which may be compared cases last vear, an increase wvever, may. be due to comple! reporting o with 5,01 increase. more nearly 200 VIRGINIA BRIDGES FOUND INADEQUATE Survey Indicates $3.000.000 Will Be Needed to Make Im- provements. he Star September ges on the system have been dec for the demands made | they are eithen too weak too narrow < determined by a survey | the State v _depart report indicates that not 0,000 will be necessary to | suitable bri i as the t ate high will have to of the county roads. it ny miles of the so-called nstruction will have to be rebuilt | these discoveries will re I sult in a complete change in highway ction, including bridges and assignment of all revenues from gasoline to this purpose, will be one of the problems for the legislature. | About $100,000 a month is now going | to the counties from the gasoline tax. the counties having the right to dis- burse this e s they see fit— efther or sther purposes Demands Air Plans Proceed. (viation pioneer passed by Good Road convention stood in tribute to the dead today. The minute’s silent v men, DRY AGENTFIRED | | Mr. Budnitz asked Williams to turn| | in his_resignation | said ; farmer. PARK CONCERTS OF WEEK. No Program on Labor Day, Col. Sherrill Announces. The director of Public Buildings and Publié Parks has announced the fol lowing park concerts for the week beginning Tuesday: Tuesday—Montrose Park, Thirtieth and R streets, Navy Band, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Thursday—Rock Creek Park, Six teenth_and Kennedy streets, Army Band, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday—Sy! ment_ground: 9§ p.m. | iday—Garfield Park, Third and| treets southeast, Community Civie Band, 7:30 to Saturday— Theater, Marine Band, " Theater, Monu arine Band, T:45 to Y. FOR COURTING GIRL Williams Ousted for Making Love to Miss Canada to Get Evidence. MORE, Md., Septembe signation of John T. Williams shington prohibition agent, was asked today by Edmund Budnitz, pro hibition administrator of this district. The action came as a result of Wil liams® courtship of Sally Canada, 1ghter of the postmistress at Glen ho. Williams made love to the girl an endeavor to “get something” on | er. Miss Canada, 18, daughter of the icho postmistress, was dis. sed_by States Commission- er Suplee when Williams charged her with selling liquor. He had courted | closed, taken her auto riding. 1o din- ners and on visits to Washington and | Baltimore. ~ She obtained the liquor | with money he gave her “‘as his mes- senger” Suplee said. Williams was summoned to Mr. Budnitz's office to- day. The two men, it was learned, went over the case in question ‘‘very carefully.” At the conclusion of the conferenc Williams agreed to resign. His resignation is to be. come effective September 15, it was | TWO DIE IN GAS FIRE, WITH $800,000 LOSS | High-Pressure Stilt of Utah 0il| Refining Plant Burns as Re- sult of Leaky Joint. By the Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY, September 5 Two men were killed and two paintul Iy burned in a fire which brok in the high-pressure gasoline still The dead: Frank Storm, shift fore man: Kelly Arnold, still foreman. | A leaky joint in the high-pressure still is presumed to have been the ause of the fire. At 4:30 pm. t fire was under control. All fire-fight. | Ing apparatus of the city was rushed | to the scene to augment the com- pany’'s facilities. Twenty tank cars of gasoline were drawn to safety. Officials said the damage would amount to about $800,000 if the fire is confined to the still. - = TITLED MEN TILL SOIL. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, September | 5 (#).—Manitoba and Alberta wheat | lands are acquiring a colony of titled | tillers of the soil from Hungar H and Julius_de | mer colonel of | nd of aristo- | have bought a section | zel Ridge, 456 miles from Winni peg, and expect to become real “dirt Another Hungarian noble- | man, Baron Czavessy, recently bought | 2,000-acre ranch between Calgary | nd Banff. liflRl(L ’S VACATION IN 1925 1 COST $3,000,000,000 IN CASH| Best Available Records Quoted in Estimating Money | Expended by Holiday Throngs—30,000,000 | Persons Listed as Having Taken Time to Play. 1 BY HARDEN COLFAX. An a's vacation during 1925 drawing now to a close, has cost about $3,000,000,000. That, in round figures, | the hest available measure of the | of money that has been poured | by holiday throngs during the | er at mountain and er vacation resorts. It stands, per- ps s a record spending for the an Approximately 30,000,000 persons, it ieved, have taken an average of ght off to play The number r this ye: than usua ntry has been sing free strikes and industrial and \Imost everybody who W to work | has had a job. To this general rule | 16 farmer alone stands as an excep- | tion. Anyhow, from the nature of his work, Summer is not his vacation time The estimate of 30,000,000 vacation- sts allows for two persons out o every three gainfully employed, as shown by Census Bureau estimates. | does ot _consider the perennial va- tionist of the moneyed class, who| s from Maine to Florida with the| No line is possible for meas- ring their outlay for holidays. What Railway Reports Show. Railroads show on their menthly re- ports to the Interstate Commerce Com- mission a_ passenger traffic this Sum- considerably above the average. T'he transcontinental movement has heen particularly heavy, and Pullman reservations hard to get except far in advance. California and the great na- ional parks welcomed this vear, it is believed from this showing, far great- er holiday crowds than ever before. Summer resorts generally have never had & more prosperous season. Reservations have been impossible | during August at several of thegmore | popt Atlantic coast resorts, except t the great hotels, which cater more | » the tourist than the two-week vac tion spender. Mountain resorts have | ared with the seaside in the spend g8 of the holiday crowds. iere at Washington it is estimated | {hat the annual vacation of Uncle m's home and field forces have cost That emploves have had a vacation, a re- freshing contrast to recent years| " | would run to more than $2,000.000,000. | manufacturin when the stress of post-war adjust fment has held thousands to their desks without the customary Summer | relief. Tourists' Camps Overflowing. Free tourists’ camps throughout the East have been overflowing, in | almost every instance, this to an extent never before a !'A few years ago there was room to spare at nearly all of them. Now the | rule appears to favor line formation f applicants. More persons have lazed along the open road in 1925/ than ever before. | An average estimate of the spend- | ings of each vacationist during his | time off this Summer has been | placed, for this correspondent, at ap- | proximately $100 by welfare workers | here. Such an estimate is hard to make, they admit, but the figure ar- rived at is considered ultra-conserva- tive. Assuming that it applies to the 30,000,000 vacationists, the total spendings run to $3,000,000,000. This figure is checked loosely by estimated totals of sums paid wage earners and salaried workers annual- throughout the United States hus economists have placed -this annual sum at from $60,000,000,000 to | ,000,000,000, figuring the average nnual income at about $1.500. The weekly pavments, under these esti mates, run from about $1,100,000,000 to $1,500,000,000 for wages and sal- aries Matter of Salaries Considered. Two weeks' wages and salaries therefore, would mount to from $2, 200,000,000 to $3,000,000,000. If ghe average vacationist spent only ®his two-week pay the vacation spendings 1y Y When to the vacation spendings are added the fortunes spent weekly by the American people for sports and in other forms of play, including theaters and motion pictures, the cost of play this Summer has run to sums which cannot even be estimated. 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