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Show mu' I WASHINGTON, Sept- 4. Ts Wash-legton Wash-legton worried over the possibility of J chance in administrations? Not so J on i ouhl notice It. W ashington busi-liess busi-liess men rather like the idea of a Why? L'.t one of them elu- H "A riew crowd." he explained, 'brings a bunch of new money into the town. Men getting Into government jobs spend more freely the first few jH months thnn after they've ben here a few years The old-timers have to sell what real estate they hold; new- comers are buying. That means more H commissions for real estate firms. More business for decorators, movers, "Business perks up right srrart Just H after an army of new government of-ficlals of-ficlals begin coming to town." Wachlngtonlans who live on the V'lr- the wheels of chance all they please. This Is according to law, Virginia law. H They Just learned about It. H At Dayton, Va., a carnival centered H iaicund wheels of fortune. Cltlzons H Ij.rotested. Attorney generals looked H I up the law on the subject; found the H last legislature had enacted a law, per- H mlttlng gambling at carnivals- H The old battleship Indiana la to be sacrificed to the causa of naval effl-Ciency. effl-Ciency. Squadron of naval seaplanes will drop bombs on the once terror H of the seas. Each bomb will carry H lOfii) pounds of TNT. If that leaves any remnants of the warship the At-lantlc At-lantlc fleet will use the hulk as a H floating target. H Bbbb! One-tenth of the. new "plebc" class H at West Point will come from the jri-nks of the army. Sixty former pri-:ites pri-:ites have been appointed, the largest number ever taken into the academy from the ranks'cf the army. H War department announces that any H high school graduate will be eliglblo lesion to West Point, after one I year of service or. 11 |