Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1926, Page 32

“CONSCIENCE FUND” | BIGGER THIS YEAR $5.241.31 Rece ved by U. S as Former Workers Re- pent Misdeeds. The American people’s conseience hurt them more mnm: uw year ended fune o, Vit any time sinee the World War This is indicated hy Their contribn the “conscience fund” in Tncle Sam’s Treasury. which is the rendezvous for all sorts of things, which have heen lying heavily on gnilty minds and hearts, from stamps to ihousand doliar bills tione tc 3. accord- 1.31, which is far abov e the World Ity consciences sent SO0 in 1997 £ 100 $3.500 and in 1974 Reason Unexplained. Officials of the Treasury were ai a il to explain the unusual inecrease the apparenily sven stream of re- turns to the Government from nn known contributors. Perhaps pros- perity, or more religion., or decrease n Government emploves, with the growth of that feeling” when ~ bailiwicl th i, accord- estimates, No one t only mone hings which 0 from the Gov \e of the onscience Recently some ane returned a valu ahle slide rule used by saientists and miathematicians, saying thev had taken it from the Government What to do with these thinzs some times proves a poser for Gevernment emplores. especiallv when use can be found for some of the articles Money Goes to Several Funds. The practice however, tha whick the 1 fund of the miscellaneous receipts The three lizhi hulbs ware under stood to have been sold and the money turned into the mysierions conscience fund has heen adopied all money or property Treasury, or 156 of the shde rule it was found that i how ever a Governr conducted transaction by which a fa e was paid out of a tions for the azency the conscience fund As a matter of fac the money which is thus®received from anony mous givers never has been sem gated iy am one piace. In other ds, there is no such thinz as cience fund. It acquired thai imply because people hezan send und The money propr and turned into st he fund from » defra that time there have heen more or less regular contributions. Some times several will arrive within a few days. the publication of newspa Z1 articles often ‘stimu such contributions, according to some officials Half Million Received. amount rec from since the was is shown on Treasury records to be $535.080.75. as of June 30, 1935, the end of the last fiscal The total “eonsciences opened in 1811 ness of vellow paper. W @d. it was found to he £30.000 in I Another packaze contained $10,00 Only last week some one Wall Atreet post office statior Cit i 00 hills SOL HERZOG—9th & F Sts. [ Pay a weekly payments. = w % $25.00 Suits and "Overcoats You pay $1.50 at.time or purchase and $1.15 weekly $30.00 Suits and Overcoats You pay $10 at time of purchase and $2.00 weekly $35.00 Suits and Overcoats You pav §19 at Muw o purchase and $2.50 weekly $40.00 Suits and Overcoats You pay $10 at time of purchase and $3.00 weekly Budget Plan Pr Are Same As Cas veceived must be turned intn |y 10 Weelks in which to pay It’s just the same in clothing as one year to pay in automobiles—15 years to pay in buying real estate or many other finance plans—YOU’LL AGREE THAT IT’S LOGICAL—you’ll be enthusiastic. Men! like this Herzog Budget Buying Plan small amount when yvonu vour purchase and_the The bill is quickly paid. Relow are a few examples: ORCHESTRA CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall. tomorrow ai 5:45 o'clock: March, “Civilizntion chertzinger Overture, “Ald; Oriental suite, Fixcerpis from musical com. omebody's Sweat . Bufonna “The Darkey’s Lansing an Moonlight” (request Klickman Finale. “No One’..........Ager The Star Spangled Ranner.” TWO0 DEAD IN CRASH. Three Others Kn]\lr‘d Near Wnfl Palm Beach. WEST PALM BEACH. Fla., January 22 (®). Two are dead. Ross Fvans and an unidsentitied yman, as the re. | sult of an automobile crash near| Bovnton, at 3 « ok this morning. | and three others are seriously injured They are ohn lLeonard, Latana| motor evele patrolma Jack Stuckert and Hazel At = of Lake Worth .AH: were brought to West Palm Beach. | Evans, the dead man. is a former| West Palm Beach motor cvele | patrolman cteristic, Patrol’ Waliz, “Haw | velope. Curiously enough it was learned from a dispatch from Alhany N. Y. vesterday that : me an individual tched from the Wall Stre three 2100 hills to the State g ment at_ Albany for the conscience fund Speculation pointed 10 v\|‘| same person. although. of course. no | one will ever know, except the eased conseience. The sum of 4 cents in stamps was sent some rime ago by one who signed | poor. hut honest female citizen (so far as & Washingtonian i< a citizen).” | The letter was postmarked Washing | ton It reads as follows “Borrowed™ Newspaper. “Kindly accept the inclosed sum of | 4 cents (stamps that 1 hay T« 3 debt wit s, Mhie. Aot wnreh| 1 render me a sub- | ation by a ‘commit- ! ause of its seriou bredly result in my ted to a4 penitenifary for honestly gotten overnment property Sometime ago | was desperately in story which could he pro- | rom s newspaper in the Aleroom of the Library of Congress I visited every aut-of-iown newspaper | stami in the city, and was nnabls to zet the paper 1 needed. Finally | ound it in the Lib: v and discovered it ws 1o 1 neede I commitied ject for in possession n % <everal columns that story—in faet | to have it —and gan inzenius if criminal. soul in a great hurey, ‘I borrowed the paper from the hles Since that time I have wanted to send the price of the paper to the library. but. fearing detection and i ve hesitated but honest female citizen (so a Washinztonian 1= a citizen), The stamps were and the monex 1urned into the | Few persons who contribute to the conscience fund thus wax specific and confess their particular sins. accord ing to Treasury omficials. Most of them send short lerters. Some men tion the fact that they have “zoi re ligion' and must clear their con science. A few have asked that the receipt of the money be not mentioned in the newspapers. while many do ask that some r he sent to the papars 80 that they may have the satisfac tion of knowing that it was received. cecure rest in {0 divided January Clearance REDUCTIONS STYLPLUS & HERZOG Suits & O’Coats $30 and 242 "lnhl“..l:‘, sg;:j..:: Prices $35 Values You pay $3.50 at the time of par- chase — and THE EVENING STAR., WASFINGTON, For Success and Happiness National Thrift Week D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 1926. TWoodward & Wotheap For Success and Happiness National Thrift Week Week End Candy Special, 2 pounds of our Homemade Chocolates and Bonbons, 95¢ Smocked Sports Dresses In Becomingly Youthful Styles $19-50 In the Misses” Section Keeping in the trend of the tailored, bovish fashion is the two-piece frock in the new Novelty Bal- briggan—in all the lovely pastel shades and white. Equally attractive is the one-piece style with a touch of wonl embroid- ery on the fashionable balloon sleeve. Roth the one and two piece styles show smocking somewhere—across the front of the skirt, on the shoul- der or sleeve—a requisite of the truly smart dress. Misses’ Saction. Fourth flor. Our Finest Overcoats for Younger Boys, 3 to 8 All Greatly Reduced to $ I 3.75 This One Low Price to mothers of small an overcoat now. or for next \Winter. The hut there is a good selection in these Both imported and domestic fabrics 1 much more. Radical reductions offer hoys. 3 to 8—~who need quantity is limited. of course sizes—and they are our hest. are included. 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