Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1929, Page 16

16 CHAPON RLE SHOT QTS CORPS Sergt. Maj. Schriver of the| Marines Retires With ( Official Review. ( Rea NSRS 14 Wearing “medals enough to sink /a battleship,” as rine Corps say, Sergt, Maj. O. “broke out” troops and the famousZband | of the organization do it / | buddies in the Ma- | America is becoming a Najion of care~ E. |less stamp-lickers and /the mucilage Schriver, famous rifie shot, officjally | alone is not the cause left the Marine Corps today. and “they | ping off envelopes * ,_l THE EVENING. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1929. 'STAMP-LICKING AJRT DECLINING. POSTMASTER GE.NERAL BELIEVE Stickiness of Muci/}iage Found Satisfactory in Many Insf;':;mces. but Further Tesf.fi Are Planned. Postmaster General Browy, fears that| The first thing the Postmaster Gen- |eral did was to assemble some of the wayward stamps and.subject them to 7 stamps drop- | careful scrutiny. One theory had been thoroughly. but an examination showed Investigation has sifown that stamps they still had plenty of 7 v still enty” of that the stamps were being licked too | satisfactorily affixed to an envelope and | temperature-regulated pipes to Lhe!lts journey through the pipes. | they will stay there. | | “That indicates that a great man_\" {of our stamps are not being properly | [licked. 1 am not certain but that I| will make a speech over the radio | about it.” | This indictment of stamp lickers, opens up several avenues of discussion. | On behalf of the Mckers it must be | pointed out that complaints have been de by them in the past regarding f postal mucilage. Most of have come from habitual ual lickers usually llow their griev- There are, on_the other hand. a few eavy lickers who are wont to atta stamps avariciously. The extra licks they get in on a defenseless stamp frequently cause it to curl up and be- come lost in the letter scramble. Stodies Sticking Quality. To be perfectly fair to the lickers Postmaster General Brown admits that some of the fault may lie however, roller. The Postmaster General has sug- gested that some way be devised to test the “stickum” just before it is placed on the stamp, instead of before it starts | Mr. Brown states, He thinks something may happen to it en route. “The question of ‘stickum’ on stamps,” ious one and we are taking it seriously.” - BEST TONIC AFTER, The Eyes of the Wise Your ey The wize person realizes the urgent neces- sity of visual acuity. Your eyes like ge rest of vour body must be kept in perfect e udition to remain strong, healthy and accurate wise thing for your eyes by having an Etz Eye Examination are the most delicately organized part of your body—see that they are examined regularly :fee Etz and See Detter” Do the by Etz. (OPTOMETRIST 1217 G Streets =0Q) At 9:30 oclock this morninsy there | AT¢ Not being licked these days as they ;::pnnh official review A vdnr 'Marine | used to be. and as a/ rpsult they refuse s barracks, Eighth and ¢ streets ; - e southeast, and the noted serg gant ma. | Say Put. Stamp-forsaken envelopes, Jor, who has shot his way to «' me, was of course. are A firag on the postal “paid off” for good / service. The inc! ing problem they Born in Washington, No'g.mber 17, |Dresent has becomeyso serious that Mr. 1880, Sergt. Maj. Schriver fonlisted in | Brown himself hag undertaken to see what can be dow, about it. them. “Stickum” is Mr. B offi- cial designation of ‘what ought to be on the back of a stamp. Finds Sufficient Mucilage. “A great many of these stamps, in fact practically all of them.” the Post- master General announced, “can be in the “stickum.” He has gone into the sticky side of the question quite studiously. Stamps. he has learned, are priated by a ratary press which turns | them upside down while a roller ap- | plies the glue. The glue is tested be- | fore it goes through a series of ' STRENGTH USED IN 154 HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS the Marine Corps in 1895./ and began conspicuous shooting bac§: in 1902, when he was detailed vn/vho Marin Corps shooting team. Hg is the only | enlisted man of the M:@ine Corps to . . LB e ot T i s T N A TION A I ,S . buddies say. ;’ I For two years he c setts Agricultural C: and in 1909 he coach ington University's i'}’nm and made its members champions /in the intercolle- giate match. He coa fhed the Navy team at Camp Perry, OF o, in 1918, and was re £ High School for five | e has been coaching ied Massachu- ge_in shooting, George Wash. | Which won in t' Je contest against On- | tario, Canada. | Sergt. Ma American t on the pan- Ayres in He was $5 Aliowance on Yeur Old Refrigerator This 3-Door Refrigerator $23.75 Less Allowance. 5.00 $18.75 1.00 Delivers Any Refrigerator on the Olym Two-Burner Oil Stove Reliable eon- struetion and a ic team in 1920. He has frequently “scen on the nwmnnnm),‘ teams. har,dling small-bore weapons. He was hi ;fn man on the Dewar team. in 1924, @nd won the internations.l small-bor / championship. In 1926 he was aga'h on the same team and, a| year Iat gr coached the famous org/in- | ization. , i Wher/ Maj. Gen. Wendell C. Neville, | comm? fydant of the Marine Corps, was 8 firsf, lieutenant in Cuba, in' 1898, Sergt Maj. Schriver was vinning renc' /m, for he holds a special letter | fror / the commander of the/ Marine for bravery. aking his home at 1414 'V street, cgt. Maj. 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