Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1927, Page 23

DRY BILS' ADVANCE! | Trxe HANGS IN BALANCE Hope Is Dim for Putting Teeth in Voistead Act—Two Measures May Pass. | By the Associated Press { Attempts will be made to have the Senate pass the measures to place | prohidition field agents under the Civil | Service and to,reorganize the prohi bition and tustoms units, but there is little prospeot of action at this sew sion on the admintstration bill to put more teeth Into the Volstead act Repiying yesterday to inquiries by Senator Mayfield, oorat, Texas, Senator Curtis, the Republican 1eader, sald It was intended to get action on the first. two “if possible.” He ndded that he would do what he could to obtain consideration of the ad ministration measure to strenkthen the dry law. Wets in Congress, while not par | ticularly opposed to the Civil Service and reorganization proposals, will press for action on some of their vwn rmmnluons. particularly that oreat ng machinery for a national refer- endum on the eighteenth amend- ment and its enforcement statute, if either is called up. s QUESTIONING CARRIER DELAYS MAIL SERVICE . | Postmaster Urges Patrons Not to| Stop Delivery Men to Ask for Letters. |B Every time Ifttle Mary Jones stops the postman and says, * @ letter in that bag for my papa?” the delivery of mail is delayed a few min utes, oausing inconvenience to others who are walting to hear the latest from Timbuetoo or Winston-Salem, as the case may be, according to Post master Mooney. *‘Patrons would confer a great favor upon the post office and upon the let. | § ter carriers if they would not stop the carriers on the streets and ask them 10 go through their bags to find a let- ter for them,” sald the postmaster in an officlal announcement today. “Please remember,” he continued, | “that others are waiting at home for their mail. Alse, if residents would have important business mail deliv ered to their offices rather than to their homes, it would save time and unnecessary complaint.” The announcement stated that the |@ postmaster receives large numbers of letters from patrons complaining that the first delivery of mail does not reach them until after 9 o'clock in the morning. “It is quite impossible,” said the postmaster, “to deliver all the mail before that hour. Those living at the end of the mailmen’s routes will nat- urally get their mall later than those living at the beginning. WOMEN HEAR CANON. Right Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander Speaks on Crusade. The importance of continuing the work of the “Bishops’ Crusade,” inau- gurated last week with special ad- dresses in the Episcopal churches, was emphasized yesterday afternoon by Right Rev. thg M. Rhinelander, for merly Bishop of Pennsylvania and now a canon of the National Cathedral, speaking informally at the monthly meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Diocese of Washington. The St. Andrew’s Auxiliary was the hostess chapter, and the meeting was held at the parish hall of the church. Canon Rhinelander reiterated the purposes of the crusade—to reawaken and reconsecrated the whole church— and mentioned the part individuals may pl%\n making the crusade ef- fective. The work of the crusade must be carried on in an intensive fashion within the various dioceses of the chureh, he lained. . J. Dimon, rector of St. An- opened the meeting with a ‘The canon spoke after fon of the meeting. Re drew's, brier the business Mrs. Willlam D. Hurd, diocesan presi- dent of the auxiliary, presided. Re- freshments were served after the pro- gram. — Ransom Estate $403,477. The Washington Loan and Trust Co. bas asked the District Supreme Court to probate the will of SBtacy Ansom Ransom, who died at S8hanghal, China, August 26. The company is named as executor of the document, which dis poses of an estate valued at $403,- 477.24. Mr. Ransom owned es- tate at Shanghal worth $60,796 and had securities and other personal property in China and Engiand esti- mated at $212,871.82. His holdings in America are given as $139,709.42. He is survived by a w, Mrs. Bdith Ransom, and one gon, Capt. Robert B. Ransom, U 8. A, stationed at Platts. burg, N. Y. Arthur Peter and W. H. en are counsel for the trust com- y- Leo E. flm Gets Appointment. Leo H. Madigan, 1612 North Capitol street, has been appointed by the War Department a first lleutenant in’ the 1| your face—dull eyes with no spar- Finance Corps Reserve of the Army. ED ZONSTON’S FEBRUARY SALE OF SHOES A Most Substantial Reduction on All Foot Form Shoes For Everybody All Physical Culture (Style Plus Comfort) Shoes for Women All Stacy-Adams & Co. Shoes for Men Also All Children’s Shoe- Regular and Corrective EDMONSTON & CO., Inc. ANDREW BETZ, Manager 612 13th Street Wayside Friends. \ OME ONE han taken the®lit. ¢ tle white house, Ted. I could hardly pass this morn- ing for the moving van in front of it and the children There must be a doven, or else they are the hereand-there kind that mul- tiply themselves! And there was a dog that tried to chase my car’off the street, Oh, Chester street will be lively enough now. I'm glad they don’t live next door, Two blocks off i quite as close as I want that dog." Lora Minton added an extra spoon of whipped oream to Ted's lump-o™ joy pudding. 8he saw a teasing laugh threatening from the twinkle of his eye. He knew her criticlems of old and she knew hin delight in them. “But I don't care, Ted," she went on. ““Phat's the dearest little house and arranged so wonderfully inside. To have a family of harum.scarum youngsters tear it up, and after my dearest friend lived there and was so happy so ahort a while, I wish some one lovable had come.’” “Lovable? Aren't chiltren that? 1 noticed a8 1 came home tonight that they .adore their father, at least. About five were meeting him at the corner and hanging on him wherever they could all the way into the house.” “Healthy youngsters, but somehow a bit taggy-looking. Reminded me of what our bunch were like when mother had heen away somewhere for a week. Maybe~-—" Lora grew thoughtful. She hadn't seen any one who could be identified as “mother” in the three of four times she had passed the house that day on marketing or shopping bent. Her in terest in the place itself could be ex- cused, too, since her nearest friend, Anne Saxton, had too briefly known the house as home before an untimely E| You'll Enjoy Freedom —from heating troubles after Colbert replac that out-of-date fu nace with a mode Vapor or Hot-Water Plant, with _minimum venience to you. 8% Prompt Repairing Maurice J. Colbert Heating—Plumbing—Ti in, \ j 621 F Street it an § KEEP LOOKING YOUNG | The secret of keeping young is to feel young—to do this you must watch your liver and 18— | there’s no need of having a sallow | complexion—dark rings under your | eyes—pimples—a. bilious look in | kle. Your doctor will tell | per cent of all sickness comes inactive bowels and liver. Dr. Edwards, a well known phy- sician in Ohio, perfected a vege- | table compound mixed with olive | oil as & substitute for calomel to act on the liver and bowels, which he | gave to his patients for years. |, Dr. Bdwards' Olive Tablj itle h It 3 penstnlitrdeds B all ould enjoy by toning up the liver and clearing the system of Impurities. olive Tal o et O Rabi "L ke 90 from At candy counters wayside ' THE EVENING STAR, EVENING STORY death. Lora had hoped that some one would come there Who might In a measure replace Anne. But this wild brood! And only & stout woman with “maid” stamped all over her was In evidence to rule the young mob. Per- haps there wasn't any one clse. Any one but a father—helpless things, fathers! Next morning when Lora drove her little car down the street as she went marketing she made a point of care: fully surveying the “little white house."" A boy and girl of 8 or so were swinging on the gate. The girl's brown halr was pulled back until her eyes seemed drawn upward, but her face was clean, Too clean to be nat- ural. The boy's blouse lacked a but- ton and he had on one brown and one black shoe. Another child of inde- terminate sex came whooping around the house followed by the offending dog of the day before. A last flecting flnm‘fi at the dwelling showed no tw blinds raised to the same height— sure proof to Lora's mind that a hired head was in charge. “Even kl&e day after one moves the &hades ard evened If nothing else. And those poor chiidren! “I wonder Who they are. ahyway? Maybe some of us can do something.” But no one seemed able to find out anything about the newoomers, ex- cept what the children volunteered in their excursions about the neighbor- hood. These were enough. Lora Wloodward & Lnthrap A Pre-Season Selling of WASHINGTON, would say after the new dog had chased her pet cat “Mistah” so far up the porch elm that it took a ladder and long coaxing to persuade kitty that earth was safe, ‘“Ted, can't you speak to that gen- tleman about those awful children? The twins—Milly and Billy—btoke the cellar window with their ball yestér. day. And that littla one, Bunny they eall her, came in With Mrs. Adams when she called hére this aftertoon, and Mre. Adams thought she was sotie child T had adopted. She told Mrs, Adams she was going to live here, if vou please. And I don't think Mrs. Adams altogether believed me when I said the little tmp just played around our gate as if it wete her own, al- though she lived two blocks down the street. 1 think Mrs. Adams thought I was ashameéd of the child—some poor relation or something. “Ted, isn’t there anything to do? And that_housekeeper they have Is 8o simple! Milly says ‘daddy has to take what the agency sends, ‘cause nobody stays long at thelr kitchen.' T believe that!” Lora looked hopefully at her hus- band. He could sometimes think of perfectly wonderful ways out of diffi- culties. And he just must do so now. The family in the “little white hotise’ bade fair to distupt the neighborhood. Mrs. Neville mourned the 1088 of her best ferns, trampled by Milly and Billy and thelr older and younger brothers and sister, Mr. Parsons, who raised choice roses, vowed he would tan the hides of the little devils who destroyed a whole row of his best peas. Kvery- body had some grievance. And oddly enough, the worst day of the week for the “terrors” was Sunday. Lora D. €, WEDNESDAY giggled that it was because their names weére Holllday. But Ted walk- Hday 4 time or two, and after that always had a word of pity for the man “His wife's been dead two years, Lora. And he hasn't a relative to help him out. And hired maids— what are they? He says the kids are worse with him, anyway, because he hates to make them think him a bear —when they've nobody else. “Let’s pllo them in the ear next Sunday, all we can, and take them out to Aunt Meda's for the day. She's brought up five boys of her own, and on that big farm they can't hurt much. T think they need a char.e to just break loose, if you ask me. The eity's no place for a live kid. Gosh! Lora, what would T have done when I was 10 i T'd had to play up and down a street—no swimming hole, no or- chard—" ; Lora remembered that about the orchard the next Sunday when they had safely depositéd five scrambling Hollidays in Aunt Meda's back yard | That good lady did not seem alarmed |at the avalanche, but Lora trembled. She hoped apple trees. peach trees, the barn itself would be standing When night came. She could not, un- derstand the older lady’s cheerful ac- ceptance of Billy's falling from his first apple tree and Milly's decoration with a couple of bee stings. And the dinner the children ate would certain- 1y kill them Yet night came and all were well and dirty. Mr. Holliday even had a relieved air and looked rested after a long talk with Aunt Meda in the grape arbor. “You won't have #6 many passen- 10th, 11th, F and G Streets . CRYSTAL REFRIGERATORS (All-Steel Case—Cork Insulation) At great savings on the regular prices Although Winter is still with us the wise .housekeeper will prepare for Summer—and her preparation will be extremely wise as well as economical if she purchases one of the high- grade Refrigerators offered at unusually low prices during this pre-season selling. “All Metal” Crystal “ALL. METAL” Refrigerators are really pieces of beautiful furniture as well as highly satisfactory servants. Every one of this special type is fitted with aluminum trim- ming, glass shelves and doors that neither swell nor shrink. 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It was pitiful, Lora, to see how hungry they were for the things that are every day here on the farm. Little Milly had a great bunch of weeds gathered to take home. She sald they were corner’ That's what she {s, Lora— a flower in a fence corner—and she'll turn into a weed if somebody doesn’t care for her. “Come to think, the weeds, as we call them, were flowers until they were %0 neglected—until nobody cared for them. “Trouble? Mercy! here for, child?" Lora thought hard about that last speech of Aunt Meda's. Thought all the way home, while the baby “Bun. ny” slept in her lap. 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