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Show WA. ING-TON, D. C , May C An officer In the Ordnance Department recently re-cently wanted to buy something for J the government and sent out invita-Hons invita-Hons for bids to 1800 firms. He received two replies, both impossible. He sat down and wrote a circular letter to the 1300 firms asking why they had not replied to his invitation for bids. The replies were practically Identical: "The government owes us too much money and won't pay iL We can't collect. We can't afford in these i times of high-priced money to do work t without getting the pay for it prompt- ly- To tell the truth, we can't afford j to take your government's contracts. j it is merely lending money to tho government, and we are not in the I money-lending business." New comes to Washington from official of-ficial sources that British government has recently released nearly ail-. Its political prisoners In India. This leaves the United States as the only govern- t ment where political prisoners have R not been amnestied Among those who " have been allowed to return "to Calcutta Cal-cutta are Barlndra Kumar Ghose and Hem Chandra Das. who were deDort- I 1 ed from India in 1909 as a result of ; the famous Maniktola conspiracy case. Beiow-the-knee stockings have been I adopted by some of the young women : in Washington's so-called smart set. u A tight skirt entering the limousine I reveals the fact. To what extent the I fashion Is practiced is not possible to I disclose. Topeka, Kan., had tho fad a j year ago. so Washington really is slow. ! |