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Show Washington Notes i '! WASHINGTON, Ground ; H promises of spring and H J goose bone predictions of a rather ! torrid summer havo started a flood I of petitions to congress to repeal the ! wartime on the poor man's drink. H One day. back in when the H I tcmpernture was hitting It up around tho hundred mark, the house voted to remove the one cent tax on soda Water and lc cream, but nothing ever hap- j The measure to the senate and apparently H In H H. H. RAISE ORDERED i WASHINGTON Feb 9. State passenger pas-senger and I'ullman'-fares In Michi gan were ordered today by the Inter-commerce Inter-commerce commission to be H raised to the samo level as interstate commerce rates effective March 19. H The commission said that although IH the Michigan bd a H fare law, the director-general of rail- 1 under federal control had In- H creased the passenger rate to 3 cents and that It had since remained. H would discriminate against communl- ln H PORK BARREL CHARGES WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. Attempts In the senate to increase appropriations I of $18,600,000 voted for extension of hi pltal facilities for war veterans drew a charge from Senator Lenroot. Rspubllcarii Wisconsin, that efforts to j "make n hew congrc ssionai pork bar- were afoot. H An amendment to authorize taking over IbUlldlngfl In Memphis and St Louis for hospital purposes was di feated 45 to 19 and another to ad. I 350 officers to the public health ser- H was voted H SURPIaUS W Alt sBX'ks WASH I NGTOV, Feb. 9. BaI ol war department surplus of "even, - j thing from n. edb s i r. the Old Hickor lj plant," near Nashville, Tennessee. have yielded a return of 56 per cent H of cost, E. C Morse, former sales dl- H rector, toid the house investigating committee today He placed the value val-ue of the property sold at $1,175,000.-000, $1,175,000.-000, not Including material valued al $ 1 r.n.OOO 000 transferred to other departments, de-partments, and added that remaining surplus stocks probably aggregated H another billion In value HEALTH OF CHILDREN WASHINGTON, Feb -i Failure of children, us a result of physical unfitness un-fitness to advance In their school work with normal rapidity. Is costing the American public J 1 8 0,0 0 0 000 an-nually, an-nually, former Governor Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania declared last night at a hoarlng On the Fess-Capper physical phy-sical education bill before the house education committee. Fewer young- H sters would have to remain in the , same grade of school for more than one year for additional instruction-he instruction-he added, if more attention were paid In developing them physically. H Prof Raycroft, professor of hyglen at Princeton, declared that seven- IH tenths of the cost of training re- H crults in the American army during the war was for physical training. |