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18 THE EVENING STAR.” WASHINGTON, T. C. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1926. WAKEFIELD ROAD PROPISEDINPLAN Urged in Connection With Restoring of Washington’s Birthplace. Washington's i to President € A plan for restoration o ton’s hirthplace, in Wes County, Va.. and consiru masni way (o it from the Capital, ecommends. Mount Ver- throuzh the | <ection with | life was Presiden IHe sugzests that built with funds e people rather than tion from Con ! Only One Feature of Plan. Mr st veport. which was | submitted il commission he fore transm: to the President, points out that the memorial should | nd plan | In his report to | he out- tion n and Presider tor a driver's permit . .| the views of some applicants for oper- wilere are som auestiens.” | ators permits. Ax further proot of |(.l,4| w‘;d:n\.rm an this he cites the fact that in a series h Iony Lonmel of tests, conducted among students s onaie dCyd {of Georze Washington University, & ATiwhicy monmiipi £roup of local taxi drivers, a group of i e colored truck drivers and 73 soldiers \ready passed the rear door but no: 1n the AMotor Transport Corps at the front door when the cap sione | P Ilolabird, every one of the so- | you should. 1. back up 10 feet hehina | Spiel Toolish answers has been lthe rear door and stop: 2. stop im- | S BED.Diie oFnhe otlis mediately and remain vest until Truek Drivers Stumped. the street car moves on: 3. pass on slowly, exercising zreat ecaution; One of the questions, directly con- \4. advance the throttle and zet out €Orning truck drivers. was a big SEthe stumbling block for that very class » of operators. It was: “Which ve- In Case of Accident. | ould keep nearest the eurb— DRIVERS’ INTELLIGENCE TESTS | PROPOSED TO TRAFFIC HEADS i el Wt .No Cotter Pins to Hold Human “Nuts” in Pls.lce, Says Dr. F. A. Moss of Hoover Highway Safety Conference in Compiling Set of Questions. - Convinced that inadequacy of men- tor of trafic for a duplicate; tal drive Al tests now given motorists In without one until the date new per- \Washington when they apply for|mits are itsued; 3, ask a traffe driving permits is largely responsible | policeman for one: 4, borrow one for the accident complex here. Dr. A M F.| from a friend. . professor of psychology at| If you had started to pass a moving ! Washington University 1‘|\’1\.|n|nn|nbll(> and notice a closely ap- secreiary of the committee on cause | pronching automobile from the op. of accidents of the Hoover Highway | pogite divection 1. Blow Safety Conference. has devised and| vour horn and o nhead. 2, Increase recommended to local traffie authorl: | vour speed and cut in ahead quickly ties a specialized “intelligence “tes & you are the: aute 4. Slow down obile ahead of for drivers, | ana The test consists of a of 20| vou questions bearinz on well known traf- | A% pidiculous fic problems, with four solutions sug- | gagted answers may appear at first ted for each question. the correct | reading, Dr. Moss declares that there | replv to by the applicant i< not one of them but that represents follow some of the sug- recommendation as | ! hishway extend- | e to Wake-| County, Va ! such high-| pass through | Vernon and! h in rela-| 1d culminate in t v as possible of | ling house at \Wakefield, in! which Washington was horn. | Would Appeal to Public. It is believed that t will appeal t > as one meost ire of the cele he site of the old Wash ymestead—it woufd seem fit ed. if the 200th anniversary ington’s birth can be made on for - wmal dedication o his memory.” | g said there is ample s work and have bruary 22, 1932 that he had asked the { Public Roads for an es the cost of the memc which will vary, in acc 167,140 10 $9,485.000, exclus ht of wav. He pointed out that | 'ad should be marked and park-| eIy S0 that it will | be | a Washington memorial | ed di known highwa FAIR CHANCE IS ASKED FOR UNWED MOTHERS Child Welfare League Speakers Say She Must Be Given Chance to Rear Child Well. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, February 2. Snejety must discard its “standoffish® atti tude toward the unmarried mother and help her to rear her child in the pProper environment, speakers at the | session of the Child Welfare e of America convention, as velfare board of control, ite laws to force the un er to support his child and to compel the recording of his name with the birth records was ad- vocated by Miss Ruth Colby of St. Paul, Minn. “The fathers of illegitimate chil- dren are usually quite willing to provide for them,” said Miss Henrietta J. TLund, Bis - N Dak., “provided they aren't scared to death by the girl's relatives and undiplomatic welfare workers.” HANGED MAN BURIED. | War Service Fails to Get Military Funeral for Holmes. NEW YORK, February 22 Joseph Holmes. who h. Chicago last week for par in the Drake Hotel hold-up der, was buried Saturday Cemetery, Queens, There was tary escort for his funeral. Though his famijly asserted he merved in the World War, authorities at Fort Totten refused to send a fir- ing squad on the grounds that no evidence of his war service was sub- mitted. ), zed in RELIABILITY - s USED CAR sxox. ' Joseph McReynolds ! | 14th STREET AT R ‘ WE SELL THE FAMOUS EASY | WASHER e Wea will do yYour next wash free to demonstrate the wonderful advantages of this remark- ahle labor-sav- Ing device. < MUDDIMANG 09 13th St. Main 140 A moment after applying “Heet" | discovered by the Edward Wesley he Neuritic area von wiil fecl a | Co- chemists. Cincinnati. It doesn'’t eoaild iR O, burn or hlister— smelly or tingling glow: a soothing. penetrat- | greyey. ~{ing warmth: then the Neuritis pain | “Heet” acts just as positively in | torture, aching 15 gene—Yes, Gone! | Rheumatism, Lumbagn. 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