Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1926, Page 23

) 7 —— POSTAL PROBERS SILENT ON RATES Life of Joint Commission Ex- pires Without Majority Report on Revision. The life of the Joint Congressional Commiission created nearly two years ago to Inquire into the advisability of revising postal rates came to a close vesterday without a final ma- jority report being made. The majority filed a statement with both the House and Senate announc- ing that because of “differences of opinion” there was no recommenda- tion to supplement that made Iast May and published at that time. “The recent investigations of the Post Office Department,” the ma- jority reported, “do not lead the Postmaster (ieneral to any conclu- sion which may be taken as a war- rant for further recommendations on the part of the commiasion.” Minority Report Filed. Senator McKellar, Democrat, Ten- nessee, filed a minority report, pro- posing that rates on second-class matter, as existing in 1920, should be restored as should the 1-cent rate on third-class matter. He also recommended repeal of the service charge of 2 cents on parcel post In a statement issued last night, J. D. Barnum, chairman of the postal committee of the American News- paper Publishers’ Association, —ex- pressed regret at the commission's fallure to make legislative recom- mendations. He said that daily news- paper publishers were hopeful Con- gress would see its way clear to ap- prove Senator McKellar's recom- mendation for a restoration of the 1920 rates and the establishment of a newsdealers’ bundle rate for trans- | Be Placed in Pan-Ameri- Most Authentic Likeness Will can Building. Copy in Marble Has Been Authorized by Congress After Many Years. Proclaimed officially the best like- ness of George Washington in exist- ence, the plaster bust of the first President by Jean Antoine Houdon, made in 1785 at Mount Vernon, and now reposing in the relic room there, may at last be taken out of its case to become the subject of a permanent and enduring bust of Washington in marble. Negotiations are now under way between the State Department and the regents of Mount Vernon to pro- cure permission to make a copy of the priceless Houdon bust, made by a world-famous sculptor cotemporary of Washingten from life, while the artist was a guest at Mount Vernon. When permission to make the copy Is wecured, and the bust made, it will be deposited in the Hall of the Amer- icas of the Pan-American Union as the gift of the United States. A bust of Washington, sald to be not as au thoritative as the Houdon bust, has | stood in the Hall of the Americas for | many ars, having been loaned to| the merican Unfon by Mrs. | Henr Dimock of Washington Congress has already provided the necessary -authorization to make the copy, and has authorized an expendi ture of £1,000 for the bust and a suit- able base, Creation of a copy of the Houdon bust is declared by Chairman Charles Moore of the Commission of Fine Arts to open an opportunity for ac complishing a_great service to art portation of daily . newspapers through the mails. “The American Newspaper Pub- lishers’ Assoclation,” he said, ‘‘re- grets that the congressional joint sub- committee charged with the duty of recommending to Congress a revision in existing unjust postal rates has closed its work without making any recommendations other than those which it reported last May. Since this joint subcommittee was author- ized under the law of February 28, 1925, almost two years have elapsed; hearings have been held all over the country and two large volumes of tes- ave been printed; vet, not- withstanding these facts, the majority of the members of the committee have not been able to agree upon a report within the time fixed by law for them to do so.” Upward Revision Recalled. Users of the mails cannot fail but recall, in the light of this situation, that two years ago a similar jomnt subcommittee, lkewise headed by Senator Moses, took only a few weeks to revise postal rates upward, not- withstahding protests from practically the entire mail-using public. “Daily newspaper publishers are hopeful that the Congress will see its way clear to approve the recommen- dation of Senator McKellar in his minority report for a restoration of the 1920 rates and the establishment of a newsdealers™ bundle rate for the transportation of daily newspapers in the mail Kvidence has been submitted to this subcommittee, which every pub- lisher of a daily newspaper in the United States believes clearly proves the justness of the position we have taken In favor of a reduction in news. paper mailing charges. Such a re- duction, in the opinion of publishers, is not only a just one, b ically it is a practical on BAL BOHEME-DRAWS NEAR Plans' Are Being Perfected for Event January 17. Plans are progressing rapidly for this year's “Bal Boheme' of the Arts Club, which will be held at the Wil- lard Monday night, Yanuary 17. 1 Both balirooms will be used for | dancing from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. There | will be two orchestras. L. M. Leisenring, chairman of the program committee, promises a com- edy climax in the true carnival spirit. Announcements, posters and Invita. | tions will shortly be sent out, and| tickets may be had at the clubhouse, | from members and. later on, at the | Willard. Boxes for the ball may be | had of Mrs. Fulton Lewis, chairman of boxes and patronesses, by address- ing her at the clubhouse, 2017 I street. Other subcommittes chairmen are: Tiosr, Roy L. Neuhauser; hotel, Henr; Staley; music, Mrs. Eugene Byrnes; tickets, Edward Hood Wat. on. The committee on u}nnu.mems in its entirety includes, in addition to A. Lyon, chairman, Mrs. Warren N. Akers, vice chairman; Mrs. Caro- line McKinley Ashbrook, Will C. Barnes, Walter Beck, Glenn Madison Brown, Henry K. Bush-Brown, Cam- eron Burnside, Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, Mrs. Willoughby Chesley, Mrs. Wil liam Penn Cresson, Mims Mary A. Cryder, Miss Alice Edwards, Mrs, Charles W. Fairfax, Mrs. Frederic arrington, Mrs. Marie Moore For-. Mrs. Anne Gaynor, Miss Myra cisenring, Alfred Fulton Lewls, elix Mahony, Arthur Edward E. Muth, Roy . Mrs. Howard Nyman, L. Ostrander, William Partridge, James Otls Porter, Miss Bess Davis Schreiner, Mrs. Maud | Howell Smith, Miss Aline Solomons, Henry J ley, Carlton Van Vall. kenburg, Edward Hood Watson and Mrs. Agnes M. Wickersham. RICHMOND GETS BUS LINE. New Service Starts With Two Schedules Daily. 1 F. Musgrave L. Neuhause Miss Emma Richmond and Washington now are cennected by a motor bus line. Two busses were placed in service | last week by the Richmond-V ton Motor Coaches, Inc. These busses leave Washington daily at 9:30 :w.m and 2:30 pm. R.-L. May, president of the Virginia Bus Association, is president of the new company: H. L. Chapman is vice president, and B. C. May, Ary-treasurer. ashing New Members of Y. W. C. A. Board orrig and Mrs. W were elected men bers of the board of trustees of the Young Women's Christian Associa tion, at 4 recent meeting of the board #ir. Morriz hax been identified with the new building committee and Mrs. McDowell has been connected with the board in former years. Both term: expire in 1929 Chusch Budget Ts $4,365,000. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., December (P).—Announcements were made today by members of the Southern Presbyterian Church Stewardship committee that the total hudget for henevolences of the Southern Presby. terfan Church for the vear beginning April 1, 1927, is $4.365,000. The committe says this equally distributed to the needs of the assembly presbyterias, synods ar Henry Curtis liam F. McDow 18 will various misefons be | ineluding and history. There are, as far as is known, only three copies of the Hou- don bust of Washington in existence. One, whose whereabouts came to light only recently, is of marble, the prop- Tty of the widow of Admiral Daven- port, which belonged to Lord Napler, when he was Ambassador to the United States from Great Britain. Another rests in the Louvre in Parls, vhile another is said to be in the pri- ate collection of J. Pierpont Morgan Criticism Was Heard. Considerable criticism has been caused, Director L. S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union wrote to Charles Hughes, Secretary of State in 1922, by the lack of a suitable bust of Washington in the Hall of the Amer icas. Mr. Row letter opened the negotiations, which now appear ready to bear fruit. On December 1 Secretary of State Kellogg wrote the Commission of Fine Arts asking their advice on the cost of making a reproduction, and seek- ing the name of a person or firm to whom the making of it could be in-| trusted. The commissfon, under date | of December 8, in a letter signed by Chairman Moore, declared the Hou- don bust the best likeness of George Washington in existence, and went into many details touching on the steps leading up to the creation of the bust and the human relations be- tween the artist and the subject when the great French sculptor came to Mount Vernon for the express pur- pose of memorializing the first Presi- dent in enduring material. Houdon was selected, Mr. wrote in his exhaustive and intereat- ing historical sketch of the creation of the bust, by Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to come to Amer- ica to make a direct study of George ‘Washington for the purpose of ex- ecuting a standing figure of Wash- ington for the State of Virginia. The voyage would not have been made had it not been for an implied prom- Moore THE SUNDAY HOUDON'S BUST OF WASHINGTON | TO BE OFFICIALLY REPRODUCED The Houdon Bust of George Washington. “probably the one authorized by the Continental Congress and located at the junction of the axis of the Mall with the axis of the White House in the L'Enfant plan.” Materials Left Behind. Through some slip the material for Houdon's work was not loaded on the ship which brought him to America, and he Improvised the requisites from what he could find at Alexandria He arrived at Mount Vernon at clock Sunday night, October , after Washington and his family had retired. Three assistants accom- panied him, and he spent most of the week studying his subject. Mr. Moore then related portlons of Washington's diary of the succeed. ing weeks, which showed the great interest the first President took in the work, and explained the steps taken by Houdon. An entry dated October 19 says: "“Mr. Houdon, having finished the business which brought him hither, went up on Monday with his people, work and implements in my barge to Alexandria to take a passage in the stage for Philadelphia the next morning."” The bust is “surpassingly satisfac- tory as far as an authentic portrait is concerned,” Mr. Moore added, declar- ing that it is made so by the fact that the elements of individuality in Washington were observed and re- corded by a master sculptor who had sufficient time fully to flludy‘ his subject. Loss Would Be Irreparable. Moore said the bust is exposed to the chances of injury be- cause of great crowds who visit it in a very constricted space. “If by any mischance it should be overthrown and broken the loss would be irrep- arable.” The regents, Mr. Moore points ont, may see in the present negotiations an opportunity to do service to the country and at the | same time remove the possibility of ! destruction of “this treasure which they hold in trust for the people of the United States.” Mr. Moore closed his letter with the recommendation that the amount ap- propriated for the making of the replica, including pedestal, should be $2,000. The entire subject is hbld at the.| State Department to be one of the most interesting as regards the his torical facts and the known au- thenticity of the Houdon bust that has arisen respecting a relic of George Washington. In the office of Assistant Secretary of state Wilbur J, Carr stands a bust of Washington done in black basalt, in almost every degree a duplicate of the Houdon bust. This bust was pre- sented to President Roosevelt in 1905 and turned over by him to the State Department. Mr. Carr presented a bust of Washington to the city of 11 ise that Houdon would also do an equestrian statue of Washington, Gothenburg, Sweden, during a recent wvisit to that ‘countr; STORE SANTA CLAUS THRILLED BY ROLE DESPITE HARD LABOR Three Widely Loved Men Wewier Weary of Youngsters' Pleadings—One's Long Hair Is Not Make-up. On the night before Christmas a handful of old men will sit nursing their memories of a job recently done. They are the men who have been the silver bearded, rotund patron saints of thousands of Washington's boys and girls during the weeks before Christmas, and they have the vision of youngsters that only Kris Kringle himself can hope to have—they play the department store Santa Claus. They are an interesting lot, these men, and when you see them sitting patiently as they smilingly submit to the pulling and mauling of clamber- ing youngsters, and watch them bend down to glve ear to a wee tot's con- fession of “‘naughtiness,” or more fre- quently to his plaintive request, you're certain that they've known children all their lives. But listen: Not one of the three antas of as many big stores has a child of his own—nary a one! Dean of Them All There's the old Santa at Woodward & Lothrop's: he's the dean of them all Carl Hermann Braatz is his real name, and he was born, as his name testi- fles, in Germany, away back in August, 1846. No wig or beard for him, for, as he'll tell you himself, | “God fitted me for the place of Santa by these gifts, is it not 502 and he'll i stroke affectionately his own silver | hair that sweeps to his shoulders and | his white beard that | upon_ his venerable and ample chest. | “Why shouldn't 1 be Banta Claus {to them?” he'll ask you, and Mr. | Braatz isn’t apt to stop with that; he'll go on with his story. “Mister,” he's likely to begin, love this Santa Claus job because’ the children love him so, yes? And I live {him the best I can. 1 played Sants { Claus for the first time just 52 vears ago, over at Coucord at Twentieth and G streets, and then {1 had my beard, too, only it was dark, land my hair was dark, but the years. spreads itself | Church, there | he appears surprised: “Why, these are my children,’ he sweeps with his hand a wide area, including the hundreds of children who stand before him in awe, and he'll go on, “And this is my life, my heaven; that's it, my heaven, for didn’'t He say, ‘Of such is the king- dom of heaven? Tired of them, you want to know? No, mister. He sald, ‘Suffer little children to come unto Me,” and how can I be tired of them?” And when he waves his “So long, mister,” you see him trundling off with a string of youngsters on each hand, bound for some toy to show off. Another Santa Claus. And then there's W. P. Taylor at Lansburgh’s. He is considerably younger than Mr. Braatz, 20 years younger, in fact, but he, too, is a sil- ver-haired man, though he has not the beard and long hair of his fellow Santa. Mr. Taylor is a 8panish War veteran and he lives out at Soldiers' Home. “Yes, I like this business,”” he says. ““The children come here and they ask for things and they are 8o sincere just like the children of any age down through the years. Modern children? Well, some of them—the older ones. don’t bother so much with Santa Claus, you know, but.the younger tots are Just the same as they ever were. They ask for the same dolls and the sam little trains as they did in my day. After all, it's the toys rather than the voungsters who have changed.” Does he ever tire of talking to the youngsters? | “Well, I'm patient with them, you | know. 1 sorta like them even though I'm a childless man myself—and I've heen married twice, too. They mean a good deal to me, I'll tell you!” and | then he disappears down the crowded aisles, leading a parade of happy gur gling children, who seem not at all perturbed by the fact that they may | just have left Santa in Mr. Braatz at Woodward & Lothrop's. well, somehow 1 seem more like Santa this way, don't you think so? \ Do They Believe? | And when Fyou might ask you nod yvour approval, Jim if the children who come 1o him actually_belleve in the good St. Nicholas. Mr. { will lift his white brows high. | “Believe? Of course they belleve. Imost of them, but you know, mister, |there are some people who don't be: |lieve in the Lord Jesus, and yvet He | was here, « man who lived. Santa is here, too; maybe =we don’t see him, but he's here, the children know, you see,” and then you realize that M Braatz is a_religious man. In con- |firmation of this realization, he'll | speak of being “born again” in 1895 {and he'll tell you that in 1896—on his birthday told me to ‘pack your trunk and go to the Union Mission.’ ” He went there and there he lives and works tod playing Santa in a diffesent way men rather than his haeved Shildseny Ask him if he has any olf)drea = to Braatz | “the Lord spoke to me and | Third Kriss Kingle Seen. And the third n {in the role of | High Palids Royal. Like his | fellow Santas, Mr. High is not a very | voung man, as he, too, has reached his sixtleth birthday. I you happen to k him about his enactment of the role of Santa Claus, he'll tell you |about it as a job: | “You see, young man,” he might begin, “T've been pretty sick and this | is the first wark I've done in two | years and I'll ®11 you I enjoy it. It | is pleasant work, being here among | all these little boys and litie girls that love you—because they certainly | do. They come here, all kinds of | them. little and big, black and white, and you treat them all alike—they | look for it and they deserve it! | “Well, no, I don't get tired of the | voungsters, but after being on my feet |all day and walking around with waem 1 feel pretty much played out— Tgat 'wav, vou know. But the next you might meet ingle is E. H. | ment, and | STAR, WASHINGTON, EAST SIDE FRAUD DATA IS MYTHICAL cate mase Fom s ones of Bird Entices Hen Qut of Underbrush. b C. DE Commerce Chamber Fails to Produce Evidence to Sus- tain Fleecing Charges. ; | Long Vigil Nets Good Sunday Dinner—Bald Eagle Is Also Hunter’s Reward. | | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 18.—The serpent of heartless fraud, which ralsed its head when the downtown Chamber of Commerce announced | that a band of 50 Westerners had fleeced poor residents of the Bast Side of some $500.000 for fake hous ing bonds, .was said by city and State authorities today to be apparently as mythical as the sea serpent. The commerce organization, how ever, defended the truth of its state although admitting that per haps the announcement was made 00 soon. Nothing Is Found. Police Commissioner McLaughlin | ordered an investigation after read- | ing the chamber's announcement in the papers, but his detectives fafled to find even so much as a single East ider who had bought a fake bond for a model tenement house project Neither could he find any one approached. When nothing could be found efther by the bureau of frauds pre vention of the Attorney General's of fice, Keves Winter, in charge, sub poenaed Harry M. Schlacht, presi- dent of the downtown Chamber of Commerce and director of August Heckscher's planned campaign to re [':‘Hl"”l‘”l W. E. Williams of the Sixth precinet knows how to talk tur- ey He talked 4 wild one into being the plece de resistance at his Sabbath | dinner today Maxing use of his peculiar gift, Williams baffled most of the wild tur- keys in nearby Virginia during a hunting trip from which he returned yesterday, and he also duped a bald eagle, to boot Noises Fool Birds. Policeman Williams utilizes a regu- lag old-fashioned turkey caller, made from the shin bones of one of the fowl, and the noises he is able to pro- Juce with it are calculated to fool even the most sophisticated of turkeys. For many long, dreary hours the | talented policeman sat in the under brush near Occoguan ng chills | and calling turkeys, he heard | the answeri Al of the wild birds, | In the meantime a bald eagle had heard the gobbling and alighted in a tree to investigate. Two shots had ended his curiosity sefor CEMBER 19, POLICEMAN GETS WILD TURKEY | IN VIRGINIA BY OLD-TIME RUSE]| | gobbles hoarser, he newed ings fe & o & 1926 PART 1. » 23 Removing Greens From City Parks Will Cost Plenty Those desirous of getting their LARGE WAREHOUSE had better take along at least $40 | with them' to pay expenses. For that will be the minimum col- lateral which wiil be taken from those found cutting trees or mu- tilating shrubs in any of the parks, it was explained at park police headquarters yesterday. The first report of depredations on park property came to head quarters yvesterday, when it was discovered that someone had de. stroyed a beautiful holly bush, full of berries, in the Montrose Park Lieut. Patrick J. Carroll has doubled the forces on duty in the parks and has given explicit in structions to keep sharp lookout for destructors, and to insist on the maximum’ collateral if arrests are made. Record Move of Building Is Being Made at Twelfth and E Streets S.W. The largest single building to moved to a new site intact in Wa. ington is now being shifted at Twelfth and E streets southwest. The structure, a large warehouse, 44 by 185 feet, welghing 2,000,000 pounds, is being moved from its location at the corner of Twelfth and E streeta 875 | feet to the railroad tracks which ad Join the lot The move is being made at the ex pense of the Pennsylvania Railroad Policeman W. E. Williams and the urkey he shot. Toward dus| were as_the growing w eard the answer hen. Williams, whispered sweet noth. rs of the wayward °d it into the clearing from this point on, is too policeman’s f a turkey vigor, into th owl and inve The story ad to rela build the tenement district Fails With Evidence. Mr. Schlacht reportel at Mr. Winter, but was unable (o pre sent any actual evidenc= to back up his announcement of wholesale fleec ings. After hls conference with Mr. ter, Mr. Schlacht today said “I made it plain to Mr. Winter tnat as spon as odr investigators get some definite facts concerning the “opera- tions of these confidence worke we would relay it to him. It is possible that we broadcast onr warning to the East Side too soo for the capture of the persons engagedl in the swindle, but we are satisfied we have stopped their nefarious wor | < TIMLES SNVED BY NEW HIGHWAY Thursday to Mark Opening of Washington Annapolis Route. [ Special Dispateh to The Star UPPER MARLBORO, Md.,—Decem ber 1R, ursday will mark formal | recognition of the opening of the Na- | {tional Defense Highway between An- napolis and Washington. The Mary DOMINIONS’ STATUS IN EMPIRE DEBATED) 5. Degree of Independence Achieved{mup at Collington in Prince Georges County:. at Imperial Conference Sub- | At Collington there is a detour be £ S cause of the construction of a bridge ject of Dispute. Win, over the Pope's Creek branch of the | Pennsylvania Railroad. The bridge will eliminate the grade crossing. The By the Associated Press. detour, however, is over a cinder road NEW YORK, December 18.—Liber- |in good Immdnhm al, conservative and radical represent- | Completion of the highway, which { cuts the distance from Washington to atives of British opinion agreed today, | Annapolis from 40 to 28 miles, would at a luncheon of the Foreign Policy | not have been possible for several Y ‘o toward : Y®ars had it not been for the co-opera. Assoclation, that an advance toward fo e i ia1o g residents of Anne independence of the dominions Within | ATundel and Prince (eorges Countios, the British Empire has resulted from |through which the road passes. They the recent Imperial Conference at |ralsed $200,000, one half of which was London., | subscribed from each county and loan- Some.. difference of opinion was |€d It to the State when its post road voiced, however, as to how much of | funds had become exhausted. One half an advance is represented. {the cost of the highway has been John 8. Evart of Ottawa, Canada, | borne by the State and the other half former vice president of the Canadian Y. the Federal Government. 2 Bar Associate, criticized the report | BY the new route motorists leaving of the conference as ambiguous. It ‘Vashington will proceed outs the Contradicts ltself, he said, one part | Bladensburg rond mortheast to Blad- declaring the dominions sovereign or | ®nsburg, where the Washington-Balti {ndependent states, united by common | more boulevard ~folns the Defense allegiance to the crown, and in an- | Highway, instead of making the trip other part saying the British Parlia- (Y, way of Upper Marlboro. e It is expected that considerable ? e dominant part ';;;"'P"";‘;:“" the d y | traffic, especially of the lighter type, orof. H. can Hall of the Uni-| Wil travel the new road when mak- \9’|sri‘L,§ olt‘ s:l;;r:-v, Australia, now ex- | ing the trip from Washington to Bal- change professor at Syracuse Univer- | limore, as better speed will be possi- sity, viewed the report as an indi- | Ple because the section is not so thick- cation of complete constitutional m—!“ settled as that along the Washing- dependence of Brltsh ,l,)fmfwns' Trxmx;x(‘: FASCIST FOES ARRESTED pi BY WHOLESALE IN MILAN Round-up Declared to Be Result of Flight of Socialist Leader. By Cable to The Star and New York World (Copyril 1926.) LU NO, Switzerland, 18.—Wholesale arrests of anti-Fas e are reported from Milan as a sequel | to the flight from Italy of Filippo Turati, veteran Soefalist leader, and other prominent members of the op- position who are hiding their identity to avoid the arrest of their friends and relatives in Italy. - Among those arrvested art Caldara and Filippo Socialist deputies and former mayors of Milan; Giovanni Zibordl and Enrloo_Gonzales, Socialist deputic Prof. Nino Levi and Raffele Pirri, Lulgi Resnati and Ezio Vigorelll, lawyers, Resnati was chief of Freemasons, DAY CHARGES DROPPED. Son of Millionaire Was Accused of | Intoxication in Chicago. CHICAGO, December 18. (#).-—Two charges against Darby Day, jr., son of a millionalre realtor, arising out of a celebration he staged December 10 after he was divorced from his wife, were dismissed today. Day told the court he was eager to spend the holidays with relatives in California, where his former wife js { ton-Baltimore boulevard. will be somewhat longe: than that by way of Hyat Laurel. The most direct route to Baltimore by traveling the Defense Highway will be by way of the Robert Grain Highway after the Patuxent River is reached. The Defense Highway was designed primarily to facilitate move- ment of troops between Annapolis and Washington in time of & PAGE PROCLAIMS FETE. Georgetown Has Medieval Way of Announcing Celebration. The advent of the Christmas sea- son is being given a medieval touch in Georgetown by a page, in costume, equipped with trumpet and banner, appearing on the streets and in the «chools to announce the approach of the community celebration to be held in Montrose Park Thursday evening. John Verella”is the herald. In ac. cordance with the old English Yule- tide custom he sounds blast to gather an audience, makes his an- nouncement and posts in a conspicu- ous place a proclamation which reads: “Christmas carols! Come and _sing them in old Georgetown’s p: Mont- rose! Thursday, December Bring your familles Christmas carols! Come and sing them!” .. The center of Georgetown’s outdoor celebration will be a large spruce tree decorated and lighted for the occa- sion. A community chorus will lead the carol singing. the Milan now in prison for throwing acid in her husband’s face. Day had been charged with intoxication and dis- orderly conduct. { | morning T'm il | again.” And Mr. High will tell you, too, that children today have the same wants that they did years ago. They ask him to bring them thing: Careful About Promises. “I try to make them feel happy without causing them any disappoini- ment. When some little fellow doesn’t 100k %0 Very prosperous comes along and says, ‘Santa, will you bring | me an automobile?” and he shows me what he wants and it is an expensive one, I have to be very careful and; then I just say, ‘Well, Santa will do the best he can and he’ll remember you somehow.’ " Mr. High has no children of his own, either, but he's playing Sarita to some of his nieces and nephews and young- | stel Mr. High has always been in some sort of tuoch with children, for he was for years a member of the police force here. He was sworn in, he says, in 1896 at the third precinct and later he was transferred to the White House guard. He speaks with just a little pride when he tells you: “When they began dropping a lot of the men after Mr. Wilson left the | White Housa I was one of the few | left on there! And I stayed on until | two years ago when I had a nervous breakdown and was retired on ac- count of disability. Bo you see, young man, 1 am glad twice that I am here on this job.” ready Yor them ‘Thousands of poultry raisers now et 509, 10 70% more eggs. And fxealthicr,stmnzcrbirds, Birdswith abundant vitality toresist roup and cold weather diseases. Pratts f’ou]- try Regulator brings more eggs from any mash. Improves diges- tion, increases resistance to disease; strengthens breeding stock. Even among your neighbors, the paying flocks are Regulated flocks. 5 Aou J fa_fl R'e:ul.l:g 0 Our Customers= We stand bekind Pratts Pouitry Regulasor uncondisionally. Either you et more eggs from the same birds or we returs Jour money. For sale by all feed and poultry supply de: Father Everett his 1-year-old son e ed of the f and | lie of his 5-ye: | But he return [ ¥ f t Dies Baby After Saving. Girl. NILES, Mich 18 @ Johnson, vears old, Trying to Rescue reet cars pe for their fares at them every sure nobody is December 20 were fatally Kling | nd the oppressive h succeeded in saving the r-old daughter Lucille. i too late to save the haby boy, receiving burns which proved fatal. . i and the Washington Storage and NOBODY EXPECTS BOYS | Terminal Co., to serve as a freighc the railroad and the storage company President of American Uni- that a saving of $25,000 is made by the American household who re. | OVer which the building, properly | picking up the pennies on the corner | the building and 240 jacks placed to RS by a h 1 winch — | Charles R. Watson, president by a_horse-turned wind yards north to the side of the railroad are not expected to be honest When in motion. the building | and the conductor lool entire project will take two and a d Saturday night when fire destroy- | will some day lead the Moslem world, charge of the project, is not at all dls smoke, Charges brought against Ray|a considerable distance while the - the Government warehouse, were dis- | slowly moved, day by day. In Mon warehouse to fruit and produce com IN EGYPT TO BE HONEST | mission merchants. The warehowsa and its upkeep are being arranged by And They Seldom Are, Declares | free. It is estimated that it would cos: $50.000 to reproduce the building and Vem‘ty of Cairo., having it moved By the Associated Press The actual shifting itself is done-by CHICAGO, December 18.—The son | ® Serles of elevated railroad tracks himself with great difficulty | Draced, Is slowly moved on rollers from sampling the frosting of the| VVork was started a month ago when cake on the pantry shelf or from |& tunnel was dug under each side of | it 2 OrDer | hold the structure. The motive power newsstand might like life in Egypt, | et where little’ boys are neither honest | ! 8lide the structure overthe rofiers nor expected to be so, thinks “(:;"P:NN‘"”' bl b Gt A Sl | e Unl capoit,, Dresident of the | The building will be moved 250 yards TWO FATALLY BURNED. | votian vouthe " saye Dr. Wat. | West. turned around and moved 125 it | son. “have no foundation of morality. | YEIGE Ny 20 AR N O Ly I huge timbers that have been tested “On Egyptian Audispsves bl St it a Lo moved at the rate of about two feet R | per minute. Twelve men are working and | o otk ir on the job and it is estimated that the burn-} Despite this moral plight, Egypt | haif months to complete, or about six b weeks_more. their home | Watdon belleves. R. C. Cole, the superintendent in Johnson, awakened by the « T 1'000 S 2 ot &t a1 s obbed of $1, 8, . |turbed at the moving of this large Gt $ ¥y building. _Recently in Omaha he ERIE, ¥ December 18 (®).— | moved 4 fivestory apartment house Yeager, deputy collector of customs|tenants remained in the building here, in connection with the disap |Sewerage and electric light facilities peargnce of a quantity of ale from | were extended as the building was Tur has an extensive program | missed by United Rtates Commis- sioner Enoch Filer, today for lack evider or the improvement of railways and elephone servic weal he moved seven-story depart ment store. as he saye, “moving this buil simple, job.”" AMERICAN FURNITURE C0O.—512 Ninth St. N.-W.—Near E St. . ODD SUITES 4 ODD PIECES, Etc. All Must Go in a Great PRE-INVENTORY SALE This is our first inventory sale—it marks the first milestone in our first few menths of successful business. 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