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AIR WAL SHOWS BIG IMPROVENENT Postmaster General Files Report for the Year Washington, December 4, P—Re- sults of an improvement and expan- sion program in the American postal service, particularly in the air ma, ‘were get out by Postmaster General New in his annual report to Presi- dent Coolidge which noted an oper- ating deficit of $33,363,148 for the vear ended June 30. The operation of the Jones-Whits Marine Act, designed to stimulate American shipbuilding with ald from postal revenue, was mnot re- flected in the report as new con- tracts could not be made to begin during the period. The five cent rate on letters sent by air also was made effective since the date of the report but Mr. New said that the contract air mail service appears to Justify his opinion that private en- terprise can perform the work cred- itably, The postmaster general reco- mended amendment of the Marel act under which contracts were let during the past year for transport- ing the mails by air between XNew York and Montreal; Key West and San Juan, Porto Rico, and between Key West and the Canal Zone, ask- ing authority to make contracts for routes between the island possessions and foreign countries, between such islands possessions, and over routes in foreign countries, “The fiscal affairs of the depart- ment indicate careful and econom- ical administration of the service,” he said. “Notwithstanding the de crease in the increase of postal rev- enues under those of the preceding vear, the operating deficit increasea at a lesser rate per cent.” Increase In Revenues The revenues of the service were placed at $693,633,921, an increase of 1.54 per cent over last year whe the increase was 3.53 per cent. The audited expenditures were $725,699,- 765. The final estimate of the sumn needed to run the department was £760,973,279 and the amount carr in the appropriation act, $755,336, 200. The task of ascertaining the rev- enue derived from and the cost of carrying and handling the various classes of mail was continued, Mr. New said, and recommendations for appropriate legislation will be sub- mitted to congress shortly after it convenes. The average per capita expendi- ture for postage was $5.11. A redue- tion of 8.5 per cent in the number of undeliverable letters was noted, but these “dead” messages totalled 23,649,044 pieces. The decrease was ascribed to the department's cam- paign to induce mail advertisers to use envelopes bearing return ad- dresses. Money found in dead etters or loose in the mails totalled $98 - 678 and 461,441 parcel post paci- ages went unclaimed, Surveys of all matter mailed free under the penalty privilege by the several government departments and under the franking privilege accord- ed members of congress showed an estimated number of 520,117,717 pieces of mail. Had postage been collected the revenue would have been $17.634,510, it was esti ed. The postmaster general asked au- thority to extend the free mail priv- ilege to the diplomatic corps and consuls of Pan American countries. Mr. New reviewed the revision of postage rates under the act of May 29 of this year. Significant changes made were restoration of the one cent rate for private mailing of post «cards, reduction in rates on news- papers and periodicals when mailed by the general public and on the ad- vertising portions when mailed by publishers, and merger of the spe- clal delivery and special handling charges on matter other than first class, Serious Disadvantage American exporters “are placed at a serious disadvantage with those of competing countries,” he said, by | | [ i Moslem University Drops Ancient Ways Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 4 (#—The 1- cient Islamic university of El Azhar, ! the greatest in all the whe: the 14,000 students pay no fe nd vention with Cuba. Cuba refused to|wrist watch, Mrs. M. C. LeWitt, peal the law prohibiting importation | basket of flowers. Both gifts were He termed the law “obnoxious and |the Sisterhood. sion, realize how unnecessary and per was served, about 50 being ests of our people.” among them one to prohibit the | asked were: More drastic punish- | FA[;E []lFFl[;”LTIES registered, insured or collect-on- collect-on-delivery parce punish- of “blackmail”; authority to require | Atlanta, fines on steamship companies and |the downtown district last night in quencies; permission to hire motor |undertaker, police admittedly were clearly the authority for requiring| Meanwhile, Mrs. Ruth Cone, foreign mails brought by steamships | his death, is being held for ques- \ Unsteady Auto | s for possession of the steering |heard within the car, and the auto the professors get no pay, is to be ot with football teams, cheer |Vacant lot. and providing schools organized on |suit and wearing a brown slouch Mohammedan world. Instead of 14,- the automobile was reached Bran- e | Brandon was seen In company | termination of the parcel post con-|dent, Mrs. C. J. Greenstein, with a extend the agreement, he pointed |who was elected finan-ial secretary out, because congress would not re- |for the fourth term, Wwas given & of cigars and cigarettes in quantities | given by the Sisterhood members as of less than 3,000 to the pachage. token of esteem for their work in archaic” and said “it is hoped mat\ T sl aae Oenoxated® wath congress will, at the forthcoming ses- |\ jlow and white chrysanthemums. abjectionable the present law is and | /isent. how contrary it is to the real inter- A long list of recommendations for legislative action were made made, sending of unsolicited articles | through the mails for Others | ment for mail robbers; a fee for in quiries made for patrons concerni FI]d E 1 0[ Wea](]] Ufldfl livery mail and postal money orde y y demurrage charges on undelivered lflkel’ m Amomobfle ment for those attempting to extort money through the mails by means steamship companics to carry the |ing only a meagre description of a mail when tendered and to impose man seen to leave an automobile in air mail lines for unreasonable and | which was found the body of Rob- unnecessary delays and other delin- |[ert M. Brandon, wealthy Atlanta vehicles from carriers for use in the | facing difficulties today in solving service, andspower to define more |the mystery surrounding the slaying. the delivery, in accordance with the | widow, who was seen in company requirements of the department, of | with Brandon about an hour before frog abroad. | tioning. She is said to have furnish - ed police only scant information. An automobile driven unsteadily, though a struggle was in pro- wheel, was first noted by pedestrians. A few moments later two shots wer mobile was seen to bound over a | modernized. lcurb and crash into a fence on a leaders and campus flappers, but by Witnesses told police they saw *“a ng the standard of education, |tall, thin man, dressed in a light | modern lines for the thousands of |hat,”” step out of the car and dis- | students who gather from all the appear into the darkness. When 1000 students, as at present, the num- | don was found dying, with a bullet { ber will be limited to 5,000, | wound in the right temple. 1G4 ood with Mrs. Cone earlicr in the eve- Gifts From Sisterh ning at the Atlanta Athletic club, Presented to Officers wicre Mrs. Cone's two daughters A meeting of the Sisterhood of |were engaged in a basketball game. | the Congregational Brethren Sons ot | Mrs. Cone is said to have admitted Israel was held yesters afternoon a quarrel had occurred, but denied at the home of Mrs. Nathan Berson knowledge of the slaying. of Stanley street, | _— . Rabbi Gershon Hadas spoke of !ht" Birds are said to have voluntary newly elected officers and their du- control over the size of the pupil of He presented the former presi- ‘ the eye, of the Laxative Habit In all history, no Indian was ever| known to have constipation. Nor| nced YOU. He chewed the bark of a tree called ecascara. Today, we have the candy Cascaret. Cascarizing the bowels Itorms a laxative habit. It formed, an occasional Casc usually break the habit. cara strengthens the muscular walls| of the bowels, and their need of an aid at all grows constantly les What other cathartic has this char- acteristic? The writer knows of none. An evacuation brought gently about by cascara will, nine times in | ten, be followed by full functionin of the bowels on the morrow—an [ or days after. For there is no RE- ACTION as with sickening salts, or |,y wno don't! Especially parents: any of the man-made purgatives|yio 00 100 et P e, that go through one’s system like | (iiit™ Aiie which, for® days-on a bullet. | end, the bowels will be seen to work ~ Physiclans tell us cascara ls the| o (pir own e v ideal laxative—and the tongue telis|* ; g | The only habit from cascara is that of rcgularity! Cascarets tone and trzin the bowels. But at the first sign of returning sluggishness another Cascaret is as effective as the fir | There Cascarets, ilaxati ideal people us candy Cas are its form. At le million know this; what a pity there CASCARETS i 't 2 druggist who hasn't They Work While You Sleep' so WHY experiment with EVSRY sudden drop in temperature always finds thousands of people with low coal bins in the rush for immediate deliv- eries. Some have to wait, and shiver while waiting, because demand outruns the human possibilities of delivery. This year, be one of those who meets cold waves calmly because your bins are filled with Famous Reading Anthracite — cleaner, more carefully sized Pennsyl- vania hard coal. Call your Reading coal merchant today; then your family’s health and comfort—and your plumbing — will be safe. 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