assed by the number of Pede The Government has been
have written to the Post Office Department to point out that the great floor map, executed in coloured stone and bronze, which lies at the main entrance to the Post Office has been rendered hopelessly obsolete by
axis, the conquests of the Rome-Berlin The map, completed a' few years ago, shows Ethiopia as an independent state—not to mention Czechoslovakia, Austria and Albania, The various countries are accurately depicted in stone of various colours and $20,000, e whole work is valu about
The Post Office does not want to go to the expense of ripping up the. floor and making the necessary alterations. And, in any event, the authorities are disposed to wait awhile and see whether further conquests do not make the map still more in need of repairs. The tendency is to wait a few years and hope that the world will quiet down sufficiently to make the re-drawing of the whole floor-map worthwhile. Attendants in the building are daily pestered by visitors who point out the mistakes—Reuter, President Roosevelt Back At His Desk ' a N Washington, June 3.
President Roosevelt today apparently had made a complete recovery from a sinus irritation which troubled. him this. week. Back at his desk in his study, Mr. Roosevelt worked on an accumulation of mail and government documents, He had no official callers scheduled for the day.
Among his other official acts was the signing of a bill authorizing fees. for government employees who sub=; mit to blood transfusion for Pia United Prem, gency operations veterans"
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