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Show ASJIT ! THE. tWSPCbR WASHINGTON, Oct ".Sam Rog-I ers. census director, thought he would' make a pen stroke on behalf of education edu-cation So he made a. ruling that no one who had formerly been a teacher i ould worl. foi the census bureau after Sept. 15. Several hundred girls were forced out of their posltns Many of tin m applied to other bureaus and got Jobs Some returned to their schools but quite a few declared the would starve before thCy would teach again al the old pay. The story is told here of two men who wen) to churoh and each agreed to put 11 rn the contribution box But when the till approached one of them i got cold feet. The one who carried out the agreement received a telegram thej next morning that he had Inherited $10,000 from an uncle who had died! whom he had never seen The other j man received n telegram to the effect that his mother-in-law was coming toj spend the winter at his home. This storv was told by Dr. Clov is G. Chappell, pastor of Mount Vernon M K church, South, the night of Sept. j 2i". Just before the collection was taken up. Mount Verizon church is a palatial edifice, the gift of the South to the National Capital. Dr. Chappell also the gift of the south, being from Texas the state from which most Washlng-tonlans Washlng-tonlans have come the last eight years. |