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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
CIVIL PENSIONS.
ACTION ASKED

The necessity for a new valuation
Of the civil Service retirement fund,
to- determine the accrued liability
OF the Federal Government. was
stressed by President Coolidge In
the annual budget message which
he submitted to Congress today.
In his measure the President made
direct reference to only two subjects
directly affecting the District-the
retirement fund and the new Federal
building program.
His statement on Civil Service re-
tirement follows:
Neither the estimates of expendi-
ture nor the estimates of appropria-
tions contained herein include any
amount fer meeting the accrued
| liability OF the Government to the
Civil Service retirement and dis
ability fund.
'"The pay-as.you.go policy should
apply to this and an appropriation
be made to meet the accrued liability
of the Government.
1.-THE act of Congress- approved
July 3, 1926, provides for the annual
submission OF a budget estimate OF
appropriation for this purpose.
"Sueh an estimate. however, re-
quires an actuarial valuation of the
fund under the new law. This
valuation is under way. but is not
yet completed. When completed, I
shall submit to the Congress an esti-
mate of the amount required for the
fiscal year for this purpose"
Referring to the Federal building
program. the President said:
THE Congress has made wise and
substantial provision for the con-
struction of much needed Federal
buildings. both at the seat Of Gov
eminent and in the States.
"Contemporaneously with this the
Congress made similar provision for
our foreign building requirements
and also for permanent housing at
our military posts and stations.
These measures give us a much
needed construction program. The
funds which we spend to complete
this program will be a good invest
ment and bring US adequate return"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
Increases Are Many
In D. G. Budget
by Luers. staff PHOTOGRAPHER
e, inhaling smoke.

Sewers, $1.447,OOO to S1,6O1 500.
Collection and disposal 81 refus
81 40, $50 to $500 $50.
Electrical department. $s52.zl0 3o
$97S, $50.
Public schools. $1O.sO5. al to Si3.
81. 701.
Teachers retirement compensa
ton. $40, 600 to $3.50 900.
Health Department, 1851 $50 90
$685., $40.
Board Of Public Welfare. ss17,5O0
to $685.. 460.
District workhouse. sas774O III
$3.50 .O40.
District reformatory. 100000 q
SITS 800.
tuberculosis Hospital. s115.4OO q
$12S, 800.
District Training School. s217.5Oo
st. EIizabeths Hospital s1.ccO.OO0
to $1,000. 900.
Anacostia parkway. $i70.OO0 to
$1S5 900.
National Geological Park. s22s.1ss
water Department. s1.Os1.ssi %
$1.5ss.O10.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08

while the District budget II re-
earded AZ exceptionally conservative.
the figures submitted TO Congress
today show q number Of increases.
mainly due TO increased population
suf the city and to salary increases
Tor District employees under the
classification act. The principal IN
creases follow:
Executive office. increased from
$226, 72O, appropriated for the cur
rent fiscal year, to $234,260.
Corporation counsel's office. $40,-
O4O to $4,000.
Superintendent OF weights and
measures, $S6. $50 to $39,9s0.
Employees compensation fund,
$12 900 to SIS. 900.
Traffic directors office. $56.SsO to
sec, 1000.
Public libraries. 3271. 300 to
$2S5, 500.
General salary increases at the
District building, $1,735, 800 to
Paving. under the permit system.
sci. 900 to $50. 1000.
Street Improvement and repair,
$2.719.750 to $s,689, 800.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
BUDGET CLOSES
! BATHING POOL

One OF the Districts four public
Fairgrounds bathing pools win have
to be closed this summer as a re-
suit of reductions made by the
Budget Bureau in the playground
estimates submitted to Congress to.
day.
The total playground estimates
were reduced from the $176,965
total appropriated for this year to.
$171,965 The bathing pool item.
was reduced from $4,000 to $4,000,
the bureau directing that this be
used for maintenance of three OF
the four existing pools.
No salary increases are provided
for anybody in the Fairgrounds de-
partment. the total salary item re-
naming unchanged at $94,0S5.
The item for general maintenance
was increased from $4,000 to
$4,000 and the fund for summer
playground operation from $4,000
TO $4,000. The reduction is due
in part to a $4,000 appropriation
made this year for purchase of q
site to takcj place of tho closed
Gallinger playground.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
SECOND RESCUE SQUAD
PLANNED FOR FIRE DEPT.

A second rescue squad will be or
ganized by the Fire Department next
week, Fire Chief George S. Watson
announced today. Headquarters of
the new squad will be in No. IL
engine house on Fourteenth Street,
between Irving and Kenyon Streets
Twenty-four members of the Fire
Department will form the new squad
1t will be intensively trained in first
aid and rescue work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
MATCHING FLOWERS

Mrs. Suddenricii was fond Of flow
ers. but WIS not familiar with the
Names. She WAS giving directions to
the gardener.
ION this side Of the walk" ahe
said. ''put out sOme Of those saIivas.
Now what would you suggest for the
other stde?"
well, madame" said Pat solemn
~. maybe IL. would be a good Idea
~ put some splttOonIas there
- OIDONO,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08

boat, $40 900.
Purchase Of police patrol speed
boat, $4,000.
Installation Of radium equipment
at Gallinger Municipal Hospital,
$4,000.
Purchase of 65,00O-acre site for
the garbage disposal plant in Prince
william county, Virginia, SO 1000.
Erection of an addition to the cleo
trical department storehouse, $1,000.
Preparation of plans for a new
Police Court building, $4,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
THOSE POETS OF OLD

The poets or old were wonderful.
Sweet thoughts they did devise.
They urged girls Of those days
To drink to them with their eyes.
Ask a girl Of today 70 do this
And she'll say. with q painted lip;
s'Nhat yer trying to give me, kid?
"Ain't yer got nothin' ON yer hip?"
GINGER jim.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
Ben Drops His Pen

SINCE THE start Of the $780,
900 United Jewish campaign. Ben
iamin Meiman, Washington cor
respondent for the Jewish Daily
VOrWaerts. hasn't written q line
for his paper. He is rated as 3
captain" in the drive. his team.
being among the leaders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08

The Democrats are going
to rip into Bag campaign
funds for United States SEN
ntors. When politicians cant
dip into these big funds they
rip into them.
HEZEKIAH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
FfBBERS rye NET

sLove like OURS can never die
Gosh! How these women lie.
aThs race b fixed; put II on his
Beexer.''
HEevegse the sentence. "a liar. Heeza.'
''Just cane In. Bottled in Bond"
FROM, not across the pond.
This bird wins the bathtub cake.
MERCURY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
STATIONS

Mrs. Nina Van WinEle in
dorses the Good Fellows, bat,
oh! whGt she does to the bad
ones.
a recent item states that less
than 5 per cent of WGshingto1s's
pianos are is tune. Why limit
It to Washington?
While IN this country, Queen
Marie booked numerous railroad
trips, social functions, etc. NosO
she's tired out and is due to
Bucharest. SILICUS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08

ceive 100000 for the purchase Of
new park lands. all but $4,000 of
which will be subject to the limita-
ton of cost of not to excaad % per
cent above assessed valuation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
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WBILL Pace
REC us.PNr OFFICE

LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR
The fellow next door IL musical,
The saxophone IL his big dish;
He practices ON It night and day
Until all the neIghbOrs wish
That In another world he'd dwell,
And there spill his saxy doggerel.
The other places name you know well
But at giving It / do now rebel.
STEAMBOAT STEVE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08
Jack Dempsey thought he
sOas poisoned. 1t 1oGs Tun-
ney's NIT that aOGs poison to
him. JACK RIGGLES.
THE BEAUTY
THE MISUNDERSTANDING


The sparkle of sapphire skies
Was stolen for iSeaUty's eyes
And as sacredIy sent
As q sacrament
TO him who cOlOred her eyes.
The richest rose Of the south
Was ravIshed for BeAuty's mouth,
Torn from It's bed
In It's first flush of red,
BY him who fashioned her mouth.
But then, to set her apart
He put nothing warm In her heart.
In the Icy white
Of an arctic night
He shaped and moulded her heart.
KEXIN OGILYIE
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-08

Myrtle Combs lives in Kan
sas City, but all the same she
wears boyish bob.
In the same town Albert Peck's
wife sued him for divorce, and
all his friends speak of him as
in a peck of trouble.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-11
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II, 1926.
A GOOD CREED

DO not keep the alabaster boxes of your love
and tenderness sealed up until your friends are
dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak
approving, cheering words while their can
hear them, and while their hearts can be thrill
ed and made happier by them; the kind things
you to say when they are gone, say before
they CO. The flowers you mean to send for
Their coffins send to brighten and sweeten their
hon;es before they leave them. If my friends
have alabaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant
perfumes of sympathy and affection which they
intend to break over my dead body, 1 would
rather they would bring them out in my weary
and troubled hours, and open them that I may
be cheered by them, while need them. / would
rather have a plain coffin without flowers, a
funeral without an eulogy, than life without the
sweetness Of love and sympathy. Let us learn
to anont our friends beforehand for their bur-
ial. Postmortem kindness does not cheer the
burdened spirit. Flowers on the coffin cast no
fragrance backward over the weary way.
Author Unknown.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-11
ROADS AND RUBES
DR.. Roy L. Smith

Reliable estimates indicate that the
United States will spend more than ST.
OOO,OO0,OOO on the building and mainten-
ance of rural roads during the year 1926.
This means the disappearance of the
"rube' from American life. You may be
able to find him on the stage, in vaudeville,
in the movies or between the pages of alleg-
ed humorous magazines, but not on the
farms
The "rube" is a product of isolation
and the spending of one billion of dollars
for rural roads means an end Of isolation.
The American farmer from now on lives on
main travelled highway.
When the days work is done he is only
few miles away from entertainment. If
he prefers to sit by his own fireside he
may read his daily paper delivered by the
rural routes, get his daily market reports
over the radio, or listen to the best music
and lectures that America can offer any,
one.
His children are seldom more than
twenty minutes away from an excellent
high school. There they are being train
ed in all the social graces, taught the fund
amental principles of culture and living a
life as broad and beautiful as that enjoy
ed by any of the city children. On COM
mencement day it is impossible to distin-
guish between the youths from the farms
and those from the city.
The cooperative marketing associa-
lions have taught him the art of working
with other men. The good road makes it
possible for him to attend frequent meet
ings, participate in the discussions and be-
come part of the busy world Of thinking
and action.
Rural roads put him in easy touch
with distant markets. If his local mer-
chant cannot supply him with the goods he
wants a couple of hours driving will bring
him to city of several thousand or more
where he can buy anything he wants.
The modern farmer is not easily i'm
posed upon. He is a poor customer for
gold-brick merchants. Bankers figures
show that the average city dweller is much
the easier victim of the con man.
Improved rural roads mean CONSOLE
dated schools, less loss in crops, advantag-
eous marketing. The hard surfaced road
has done much to give the American farm
er his opportunity as business man.
1t is true that the rural church has had
hard shedding, but the farmer can reach
the village or city church with greater ease
over good roads than he could get to the
rural church a few years ago through the
mud.
Good roads make good citizens. The
election booth is seldom more than five
minutes away from the kitchen door and
the farmer is voting, rapidly learning his
political lessons.
One billion of dollars spent for rural
roads means that the American farmer is
now living as close to the world as the city
dweller. He no longer lives alone, astride
his pillow. He is on highway where ''the
race of men go BY"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-11

will be acted on in the fall. Neither candidate
was worth the price, in humble opinion"

will be acted on in the fall. Neither candidate
was worth the price, in our humble opinion"
+ +
Manford Evans of the Sherburne Advance
Standard is bit fed up this idea that the
farmer is the only one who has problem Like
some of the rest of the workers in the industrial
field, Mr.. Evans admits that the farmer has a
problem all right, but contends that he is not
alone in this condition-everybody who hasn't re-
tired with a million dollars more less has
just about the same problem. Clever politicians
(and some not so clever) have made political
thunder of the farmers circumstances because
the farmer is the most numerous in the North
west. That is one reason why his difficulties
loom so large-they are multiplied by so many
There is no mistaking the fact that the farmer
is carrying heavy burden But aren't we all
Here is what Mr.. Evans thinks of it-and nobody
will deny that there is at least grain of truth
in what he says:
eff one were to believe all the farm
er friends have to say in the matter,
he would Immediately come to the con-
clusion that the word problem" primar-
lily belongs to the farm. In other words
one has any problems but the farmer.
The editors have problems, the butch
er, the baker, the candlestick maker
have no problems they all on the
old farmstead. AMI the place to make
success Of farming and solving prob
lens is, according to some Of these wise
owls, in Washington or ST. Paul. The
truth of the matter is that the farmer
is not half so badly off as these political
artists trying to paint him. But he
50 has been hearing his fool friends singing
that miserable tale of woe, until he has
come to the conclusion that he is just
about due for the poor house, even
though he may have to make the trip
in his new shiny sedan or limousine" |
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-11

We are rather proud of the physical prowess
of two of our sex this past week. One Ameri-
can woman all but made the English channel I'M
der weather conditions that made the feat impos-
sble and stayed in the water hours longer than
any other swimmer had ever done under the
same conditions. The other, also an American
woman, achieved the channel in less time than
any other person has ever done, beating the
record Of all men who have swan the channel
and accomplishing what no other woman has
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-11
SMALL TOWN TALK

'SNNNNNVNN"NNNNNNN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Redwood Falls has turned into a bit of
holly hook city. A few flower-lovers planted
the seeds originally and now they have drifted
around, finding their ways into the back yards
and the hearts of a lot of us until we have come
to love their snowy uprghtness. That's why
this little poems written by Wayne Gard will
find an answering echo in the minds of home
folks here
The streets of heaven, I've been told
Are paved with bricks of solid gold;
The gates all of precious stone
And poverty's thing unknown;
No thunder showers enter there
For every day is dazzling fair.
Yet, strangely, have never heard
flower mentioned or a bird;
And Pm quite sure that 1 would tire
Of playing golden Tyre.
So, if there's room, along the walks
l think I'll plant some hollyhocks,
And soon as they begin to grow, 80
I'll tend them with golden hoe.
If Gabriel should pass my way,
I'm certain he'd sit down and stay.
IT +
Somebody with not whole lot to do has
figured out just what will happen when the cal
endar is adjusted to fit thirteen months instead
of twelve Here is what has been discovered:
"Sol' is the name proposed for the
new month that would be created if the
projected Cotsworth calendar put in
to use. This calendar would have 10 STAN
dard months of % days each, the twen-
ty-eighth falling on Saturday. The new
month would be inserted between June
and July. The Seth day of the year
would be December 20 but it would have
no week day name. 1t would be known
"Year Day" and would be holiday
and in leap year the extra day would be
placed between June 28th and the first
day of 'Sol." 1t would be known as
"Leap Day."
There is difference between the ac-
complishment of permanent wave and per-
manent shave than just the little matter of the
first two letters. Both are about equally desir-
able.
IT +
"The storm raging about Suzanne Lenglen's
decision to turn professional is wholly ludicrous
Minneapolis Journal. 1t certainly is! SUI
anne can turn anything, handsprngs, for
all it really matters to the general public.
I +
One of the popular gasolines, in it's adver-
Using is using the would-be "wise crack" "He
who drives with one arm waists the other" 1t
might also be added that he may lose them
both.
IT !
Forest rangers in northern Minnesota say
that because of the extreme dryness this sum-
mer, the autumn fires are likely to be more pre-
valent in the woods than for many years past
If you happen to be camping smoking in the
north please remember this little thing.
! /
The St. Peter Herald gives the following
few facts on the rise and cost of government
ut costs the taxpayers of the United States just
$4,000 to find out if Thomas Schall was en-
titled to his seat in congress. The senate before
adjournment voted $4,000 to reimburse Schal
for expenses incurred in defending his seat The
bill Of Magnus Johnson amounts to $4,000 and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-11

We used to have a friend named
Tom Weaver in Minneapolis. He was
in the tailor business, and had for
his slogan: From Weaver to Wear
en-"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-11

Scandal is something that's start
ed by unattractive women or someone
else by virtue Of the fact they haven't
enough charm to start one of their
own Scandal is born Of envy.-Ex.
Evening star., 1926-06-01
BETHESDA REALTY
GAIN $2,485,1O5
Leads Montgomery County in
Huge Development; Whea.
ton District Next.
spscial Dispatch 10 The star.

Sp81aI DlepdtCn 10 Ihe Stdi.
ROCKVILLE, Md. June THE
wonderful development of Mont
somery County in recent years, es-
pecially that section bordering on the
District of Columbia. is revealed by
figures compiled by Berry E. Clark,
clerk Of the county commissioners. In
connection with the annual tax levy
tust signed by the commissioners.
The figures referred to show that
within the last 10 years the taxable
value Of the real and personal proper
ty of the county has jumped from
s2o.ee0,420 te $54.2S1.e75. or more
than 15s per cent, and that there mas
been a proportionate increase IN the
assessment on securities of various
kinds.
A large part Of this growth has
been due to the extensive building
perations, and the consequent influx
Of new citizens, in Bethesda and
Wheaton districts, although Rockville
district. which stands third in that re-
spect, has aided not little. or the
s4.o445sO increase in the countys
taxable basis. real and personal prop
erty, since the last annual levy, Be
thesda district supplied $2.4s5.1oa.
while the increase in assessments on
securities in that district during the
same period accounted for $137. .54a or
the total county increase Of s233. .44o.
During the fiscal year now drawing
to q close, the assessed value OF real
and personal property in Wheaton
district increased s1,155.31o, and on
securities S97.4 400. While the value of
real and personal property for taxa
ton purposes in Rockville district
Jumped $227.225 during the year: The
increase on securities owned In Rock
Vile district amounted to S6l,1le:
While the assessments on real and
nersonal propertv increased in all of
the other districts of the county dur
ing the year, in a number of the dis
tricts there was a falling off in the
value of securities owned.
Evening star., 1926-06-01
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

National-"The Song and Dance
Man" comedy. at $50 pm.
Keith's-Aileen Stanley, vaudeville
at 2:15 and SIS pm.
Earle - Browns Minstrels- Wesley
Barry, vaudeville, continuous from
130 to II pm.
Metropolitan-"Ran Folly. at
11:4o am, 1:35, $50. 7:35 and Gas pm
Rialto-"Outside the Law" At 11;4o
am, 1:4o, $40. $40, 7:4o and 9:4o pm
Palace-"That's My Baby" at 1856
am, 1875, o:25, 4:20, sos. l:5o and
$50 pm.
Columbia-'The Rainmaker." at
11:15 am, /, 2:40, 4:30. 6:l5, 7;55 and
$50 pm.
Tivoli-"The Girl From Montmar
tre," at go, 4:05, 5:55. 7;45 and 9:4o
pm.
Ambassador-"Ra Ranson's Folly" at
2:45, 4:30, 6:10. 1855 and 9:45 pm.
Centrah"Other Womens Hus
bands" at 1880, ., $50, 5, $50, and
$40 pm.
Strand-"Money Talks" at 1l:2o
am, 1880. 2:o0, $50, $50, $50, $40
and $50 pm.
Wardman Park-"The Two Or
phans," at and pm.
Belasco-"The Naked Truth at ]
8. and 9 pm.
Lincoln (colored- THE Girl From
Montmartre," continuous from tc
II pm.
Evening star., 1926-06-01
.FUREY REARRESTED
ON LEAVING PRISON
Notorious Confidence Man Was
Associate of "Nicky Arnstein.'
Accused of Extortion.
Rv the Associated Preee.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June ARRESTED as
he stepped from the State prison At
Trenton. y. j.. Edward Furey, known
to police as Big Ed. the confidence
man" and alleged former associate OF
"Nicky" Arnstein. was brought back
to New York yesterday in connection
with an old sentence for practicing
extortion on a defaulting Wall street
bank messenger.
Furey was set free In Trenton yes
terday after serving IA months Of an
1smonth to seven.year sentence for
CARRYING concealed weapons. In 1924
Furey was sentenced to one and a
half to two and A half years on the
extortion charge. but execution Of
sentence was stayed when he prom
Used the Judge that If liberated he
would confne his activities in the fu-
ture to raising chickens. He had
been convicted OF obtaining diamond
ring and an automobile from Joseph
Gluck. runaway messenger. by
posing as a detective and threatening
to expose him.
Evening star., 1926-06-01
STORE OWNER STABBED.
Cumberland Man May Die of
Wounds-Assailan Flees.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
CUMBERLAND. Md, June 1.-Au.
gust Gus" Caporale, Al. who con
ducts store and bakery, was prob.
ably fatally stabbed last night at his
place OF business. He accuses James
Monteleon, fellow conntryman, who
escaped In an automobile. Caporale is
stabbed above the heart in the
shoulder and back. He is at the West
ern Maryland Hospital. Caporale was
so infuriated that officers had to carry
him to the ambulance. It Is said that
Caporale, who Ia highly regarded in
the Italian colony, resented the DOS
session of a still by one of the Monte.
leon brothers. who has been in jail.
Evening star., 1926-06-01
IRRIGATION FIGHT
SETTLED IN WEST
Water Is Turned On in Time
to Insure Bumper Crop in
Nebraska Valley.

BY the Associated Press.
SCOTS BLUFF. Neb.. June t.
Water was turned into the canals and