| Show ff ia 4 Z e 4 e 4 I 1 our washington e I 1 01 10 weekly chat chal e MMA 1 2 4 1444 1 4 4 4 4 1 by robert E edson will there be a recurrence of the influenza epidemic this coming tall fall and winter like that which Is still so fresh in the minds of the country the public health bureau is ia inclined to the belief that as soon as cold and wint wintry y weather arrives that the flu will return with st it Al thought experiments have been going on tor for months in an endeavor to find aspeci fie fic to combat the in malady alady the bureau announces an ounces now that little or no headway has been made and that the funds in hand for investigating have been exhausted congress has been asked to come to the rescue and in all probability it will do so promptly an appropriation 0 of has been asked in a bill introduced in the house a sli similar fillar bill has also been introduced in the senate Sena tei further research will proceed immediately the money is available as the bills state that it is the belief of the medical profession that the second and third years of the disease will show frightful after effects unless specific remedies can be found the appalling loss ot of lives five times our loss in the war Is cited as the urgent need that the work of the public health bureau be continuously maintained S president wilson Is an early riser these summer days he ha must needs be in order to attend to all the business that thai cornea comes before him also to s secure a few hours of 0 daylight recreation rea tion tiou since recovering rec overine from his recent illness he has been devoting considerable time to playing golf his favorite diversion the start tor for the golf links at the country club across the potomac river in the virginia hills Is often made before 8 in the morning long ahead of the time that many other government officials have had their breakfast since his return from france the tha presidents automobile does not attract so much attention when he travels the city streets or country roads he has haa dispensed with the secret service men who rode alongside of 0 his car on motorcycles there were usually four of them and the noise front from their machines annoyed the president as well as made his car conspicuous from all other cars his sole protection now are the secret service men who occupy a largo large touring automobile which follows di behind the limousine of the president W washington ashington is last fast becoming a city of pedestrians the revenues of I 1 the street railway companies attesting to the tact fact and the crowded sidewalks morning and evening making the truth more evident the pocketbook of the public tor for transportation from point to point in the city Is being touched as never before not so long ago one co could uld purchase six street car tickets for or 25 cents then tile the tare fare was made straight 6 5 cents cash still the railway kicked and were allowed to charge 2 cents for each transfer and now the cost of a ride is going up further a 7 cent cash fare and 2 cents for a transfer 9 cents in all all that will figure up 2817 in a year tor for the persua person going to and from home to otrice so there here you have the reason tor for many folks using shanks mare are more than five thousand dollars has been raised within a few days daya by y popular subscription in tho capital city cily tor for tile the families of the police men who Aho were killed during the race riots the sum is being increased daily this is being done as a testimonial to the bravery of the men who endeavored to protect the public and because their families aro are in actual need of the necessities of life there will be a considerable improvement pro in the work of 0 government departments in washington when the rett bill for aged and infirm clerks becomes a law in the near faure hundreds of clerks now physically incapable of performing clerical duties yet who wco bobble back and forth from homes to offices every ay y or who employ public vehicles to transport them there them their actual presence at the office being necessary for them to drawl their monthly pay will be retired on about three foults pay and their places will be taken ty by younger clerks many of 0 ti these ese faithful servants of uncle sam have been in his employ for or more than fifty years 0 0 0 I 1 it was a surprise to congress when informed by the war risk bureau that the wives and famales of the officers and men lost on the collier cyclops could not share in the insurance provided by the government tor for soldiers sailors and marines the cyclops mysteriously disappeared from the face of the ocean in march 1918 months elapsed before the vessel was waa officially declared lost now it requires an act ot of cong congress s to clear the records of all who were 0 on the ship so that the required sums for their beneficiaries may be paid out of money already appropriated tor for the war risk bureau it is expected that both house sad and senate will take appropriate action at an early date |
