Show mah our weekly washington letter prom fm our special correspondent J i 1 i 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 f lt 1 I 1 H H M 41 4 1 1 5 1 0 DONT SEND ANY MONEY TO EUROPEAN EimO IKAN I 1 CONe CONCERNS EnNS TOR lor THAT MAKE BOOZE washington aug 1st ast the eternal gullible still dominates a very large number of 0 american people as the alia fraud bureau of 0 the post office department can testify the latest evidence of this is the response of thousands sands of 0 american people to circular issued by german lAus tAus trian and other european concerns offering ott ering to sell powders which when dissolved according to instructions would produce wines beers tand land other alcoholic beverages according to the powder purchased these foreign concerns are trading upon the reputation of europe europa as being the home of wines beers and liquors the U S POst postoffice Office ment some time ago issued fraud orders against these adverts advertisements and worried warned the people not to send their money however thousands of 0 americans chave been gullible enough to believe in the advertisements rather than the statement of the fee department with the result of their losing their remittances A very significant requirement contained tail led in Is is that the money remitted must be american currency whenever the postoffice POst office department finds mall mail addressed to these concerns which have been declared frauds letters ate are stopped opened and the money returned to tile the sender where that is possible it should be clearly stated that under the united states laws if these powders contained any sort of alcohol even though it were in dehydrated form their importation would be prohibited in other words it if the advertisements advertis ments were not a fraud the articles avertis advertised ed could not be rought brought b into this country so that in any event it Is perfectly foolish tor for people to answer the advertisements it should be stated however that on analysis of the powders it has been bee shown that they do not contain any of the alcoholic possibilities that they are advertised to possess pos gess 0 FEDERAL ROAD WORK PROGRESS federal aid road projects tota totaling ling miles in length were completed and miles went under construction dur during I 1 ng may bringing the total under construction to nearly miles and the mileage in completed p projects to according to reports of the bureau of public roads united states department of agriculture these figures indicate that the federal aid system grew at a rate of more than 20 miles per da day Y on each working day of the month allotments of funds to definite projects amounted to during the month ab 40 40 MAIL WEIGHING SOON TO BEGIN the weighing of mail tor for the purpose of determining the total amount of each class carried will begin in all post offIces september 18 and continue for 30 days this is only one phase of the work of the Post ottice fire department in connection with 1 its ts compiling data tor for a report to congress as to the cost of carrying and handling the several classes of mail matter AVAR SAVED LAST YEAR OUT OP OF ITS ANNUAL ALLOWANCE the wat war department reports an unexpended balance of approximately tor for the fiscal year which ended june 30 1922 this is probably the first time in a history at least tt it is the first time tame for or a great many years that any such occurrence I 1 has been recorded in the war department part PaTt apartment ment the unexpended a amount m aunt was reverted to the treasury heretofore it has been the custom of the wax war department dp part ment as well as other departments part ments to spend every cent ot of money which congress made available fl ble in tact fact in the most cases not noi only wile wag all available money expended bua deficits were incurred which had to be made up by deficiency bills under the budget system this practice has been abandoned the object now Is not to spend as much money as possible but to save as much money as possible consistent with the proper administration of 0 the affairs of the government at the beginning of tile tha fiscal year in july 1921 under order of secretary of 0 war the khe wat war department placed in a reserve fund it was understood that this reserve fund inas not to ibe be touched except in ill cases of absolute emergency and then only upon order of the secretary of it war lar under the economy program aich is in effect in all or of tile the departments this r reserve fund which was set aside from the money appropriated by congress was not touched on the other hand from time to time it was increased by various economies in the department so that by the end of the year it amounted to 0 distribution OP 01 WEATHER NEWS the state slate system of distributing weather forecasts warnings and other information sent out by the weather bureau of the united states department of agriculture is being continually extended there axe are 91 state broadcasting stations which send out VV weather eather reports now in operation era tion ot of which 20 are operated by leading newspapers negotiations are in progress with 33 additional and most of these which include 11 newspapers are expected io 0 be in operation in a short time 0 t Q 01 b european wage levels have always been much lower than those in th united ill tates lates th that is why hundreds of thousands of europeans have emigrated em to this country they not only have been able to obtain tar far better wages than tham tha n they were paid in their home countries but they could buy more tor for a dollar in this country than they could tor for its equivalent in europe american wages have been maintained at th their air high level for the last 50 years solely because 0 of an american protective tariff system which prevented the In pouring of 0 goods made abroad by cheaply paid labor quits naturally had this country permitted such goods to come into unrestrained competition with american made goods there donld have been but two possible pos results either our manufactories manu factories would have been put out of business altogether or they would have been compelled to reduce their wage levels to the level of european wages |