Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1924, Page 17

_setter Marketing Methods Are ~ West’s Big Need, Says Babson | Least Possible Borrowing Is Also Urged. l Industries Are Growing—Crops More ! Diversified—States Compared. BY ROGER W. BABSO! dustrial plants as yet are confined to milling_and slaughtering indus- Epacixl Disate o The Star. tries directly connected with agricul- BABSON, PARK, Fla, March 1.—| ture, Canning factori are being General business conditions for the | erected at a rapld rate, datries are in- p 4 Missour! | creasing, and the lumber industry nm—‘;:‘ \'llsilislpp:‘!sllale:;;mw\“snntum CISiine, and|ther Tumher) dutustyy thding with s galn of 18 parics checking up on these non-agricultural vrop value over last year, Nebraska | {nterests we find that Minnesota has mext with a gain of 11 per cent, Min- | large iron ore mines, and that the nesota third with a galn of 7 per cent | Northern sectlon of that state is and South Dakota and Jowa each with [ 3¢stined to become a great steel « galn of 3 per cent. Kansas shows & | Missourl has lead and zinc inter- loss of G per cent and North Dakota | este, Kansas covers large petroleum 5 P ; eposits, Nebraska is commercializing A ey . 1 her potash and clay, while gold and When in Minnesota recently silver are being mined in South Da- jade a statistical analysis of each of | kota. North Dakota has vast re- L western central states, compar- i‘fi?{”infi‘l lnw»zr?‘t;dy "{,:“‘:{22‘:';,‘::‘ a X S a some - ing sources of purchasing power and | mitoially proftable It 15 apparent | rvelative condition. It is generally | that these states are gradually’ Be- understood that crops provide the | coming more self-contained and are major portion of the income of this |Pullding up a group of little com- fon and that manufacturing plays | Merclal empires. « relatively small part. In general, Present Business Status. this is true, but the increase in man-| Turning to the current business ufacturing 'has been very rapid re- |situation I find lowa and Missouri cently, and our old conceptions must |leading this group with a gain of 2 » corrected if we are to think con- | per cent over last year. South Da- structively regarding this section. kota follows with 3 galn of 1 per In North Dakota I find that 95 per [cent over business as it existed twelve ut of its purchasing power comes | months ago. Minnesota, on the other griculture. At the other :xtrfen‘l‘e; hand. shows a loss of 2 per cent, ruri secul per cent o North Dakota a loss of 3 per cent, hasing power from this source. | Kansas a loss of 9 per cent and Ne- I'-lll‘\e):' ‘sm\;sler‘gnkmusvfagué\; braska a loss of 13 per cent, com- ¢+ #outh Dakota, 94 per cent; Nebraskd, | pared with a year ago. The difficulty ! 52 per cent; Towa, 79 per cent; Kan-|in North Dakota is in the financial o f:‘lv;rr i;“mr.“;fl;;l X;‘]“::;‘;icu‘m-urfl :_Iumtl‘nn. while Kansas ls‘ suffering ez C Como Fom. A8 - | from Inactive tendencies in the oil “These figures indicate that there is | flelds, refinertes. railroad shops and more diversification of income in this | certain curtailment in bullding. The section than was ordinarily supposed. mru}x‘errs in r:h!:( seulm‘n got about as ‘Wheat Is Secondary. muc] or their corn in 1923 as they Analyzing the situation a bit. fur- g\:d 1ln ,1922. The wheat growers got ther we uncover another mistaken | 2bout 20 per cent less for their crop, impression. I find that business men | but the dalry district fared better in other parts of the country, at least, | than last year. Bearing in mind that discuss his section as “the wheat !-'}'"El'-’-ll business throughout the | CUUny and Talk: as though' they | United States, as reflected on the assumed that wheat was the niost | Babson chart, today stands at 3 per important crop if not the reatest | ¢ént below normal, this west central rource of income. From an agricul- [ Section does not show up as being tural standpoint the figures on the | Very far out of line. telative importance of this crop are Better Marketing Needed. ccidedly interesting, In North Da- kota and Kansas oniy do we find {¢| 1¢ 18 truesthat fundamentally these as the most important crop. In| Western states are better off today uth Dakota, Nebraska, Jowa and | tBan ever before, Their crops are | Oissouri corn provides a greater in- | More diversified; they are continuing come and is more important to the | {o manufacture a greater varioty of grosperity of o local community s g ey, S Scommulenng lyzing the situation in Minnesota, | 10 “aRitation. |f there 1s oner Hac T find that wheat represents but 17 e D, e R wer cent of farm products, while 23| i the fnability o pRsaCHan o 1 oF cont tn docroealt OB market its products on a satisfactory ent from. corn 13 per cent frem | basis. although this same criticism fote n:‘;"},.c’;g} cont ‘;‘;‘:m“?‘m TOM | may be applied to several ot:wr sec- . sl s o 0 @la- | tions of the country as well. The s products, E present systems are not operating devd Ot She basis of livestock | eftectively and I thoroughly believe rduction theso states of the west| that the difficulty can be remedied tial group aivide themselves into | vy working along the line suggested | o' 5 clearly defined groups. The in- | by tho four basic principles of mer- > we of Minnesota and the Dakotas | chandising, which may be outlined v 5, most wholly bound up with | brieflly as follows: airying interests, In Nebraska, i 3 Iowa and Missouri, however, IDSMBHR, Crowy Nmpextntn: ¢ principal livestock income | 1. An excessive supply of any prod- irived from cegs and chickens, It | uct, either manufactured or agricul- apparent that the agricultural in- | tural, tends to lower its price. Peo- < of all ‘of these states are al. | Ple I this section have flgured that y practicing diversified farming, | if 100 acres of land would yield a | it 1s high time that the rest | cortain income that 200 acres would ! yield twice as much. s may be e Lo conslder this | rue in Indlvidual instances but when | ey 2 every farmer \doubles his production or when all !:trémfl;s co‘nccn!'r:\le on ar when traveling u single crop and, therefore, increase 1 e ore mn T onEh | [t production materially, we find that being invested in manufac- | more has been raised than the mar wing, mining and other than agri- | ket can easily absorb and the ex ltural activities. The principal in (Continued on Twenty-first Page.) THE EVENING This stracture is to be erected by Harry Wardman on the south half of the square #ounded by H street, New York avenue, 11th and 12th streets. Razing of the buildings on the site is now going on. It In to be completed by Octol ERECTION OF LARGE APARTMENT STARTS Eleven - Story Structure, Downtown, Is Begun—To Cost Near $250,000. Erectlon of an eleven-story apart- ment hotel on the south half of the square bounded by H street, New York avenue, 11th and 12th streets northwest has been started, accord- ing to an announcement of Harry Wardman, owner and bullder. The north hal? of this square is occupled by the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Raflway terminal. The houses on the site mow are being razed, and the work of laying the foundation for the new building will be started within a short time. The building will be of Indiana limestone for the first three stories, and the remainder will be of tapestry brick with limestone trimmings. The structure will be known us the Annapolis building. It will contain on the first floor stores on the street level, and the remainder of the build- ing will be given over entirely to one and two room apartments. It will cost in the meighborhood of 250,000, ahd it is planned to have it completed by October 1 next. This building, Mr. Wardman said, s one of those which he spoke of erect- ing when he testitied before the House committee considering the Rent Commission legislation. 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1924 : 1w St Expert Outlines Means to Cut A_'_I}]flwl?&filhmg%fl Cost of Erecting Small Home : Tells Builder How to Cut Features Not Work of Razing F Street| Absolutely Vital and How Materials Building, to Make Room, | of Less Costly Grade Can Be Used. Begins at Once. [ Nobodymnnrln out to build a small others. In the northwest we do not home without first wondering how |use porches much because our ev. s s cause our eve- Construction of an addition to lh'x much he s golng to pay for it, says | nings are cool, and there is not much New Willard Hotel has been planned, { Robert Taylor Jones, technical direc- purpose in sitting on a porch at any and the work of razing the old bank i tor, Northwestern Division of Archi- |other time than the evening. For bullding on F street to make Way |tects' Small House Service Bureau. |simflar reasons they do not use for the new structure will be started i “Out of the thousands upon thou- | porches to any great extent in Call. immediately, it was annotunced by | sands of letters that come to my desk | [2T11a. Down south the omission of « Frank S. Hight, managing director of { every month from™ people IIving In | Hono-tar e dnporian o onee the hotel. It is proposed to have It every section of the United States |ing the appendix cut offe—but st 1 completed by fall. who are thinking about bulldlng'\“".a}’;‘“t"'} done. ;l"h(s is an example of The new addition, which will have | certainly more. than half start out |} luosw 1hor ;;J;jd‘:'r‘jh; Quantitics a frontage of about fifty feet, will | with the questfon, ‘How much is my |of readers, who are saying right now be of steel and brick construction, and | home going to coast?” says Mr. ;l Jlugu would not have a house with- Will be modern throughout. It will[Jones. “After I tell them something | of* [ DONCh( And they are the kind bg nine stories high and will contain | about what to expect in this line, |homes they might have The poect sixty-one rooms, which will give the | there is almost always disappoint- |MIEt be added later on when Thor. Now Willard a total of 450 rooms. | ment, and then I get the second ques- | '* JONCY €RONER 1o pay for it I 2 PR & S L by eaving off Each room will have a bath and|ton It runs like this: ‘What can I|the ‘hor h. Thers are 400 $hp o shower and will have the latest and | 20 10 Feduce costs? This is e o) potycan put in vour pocket. It o mportant general question that he, ou_ ha mi was to most up-to-date appointments. thinlk yow may be interested I my | IAvG Deen Eiazed. thire are reveral To Observe General Scheme. answer to it so that is what this Story | had a sleeping poreh in wiod is 1on ‘The same general scheme of archi- | I8 about=how to reduce home bulld- {off your sun pofch, cut that off e tecture as used in the present hotel| ““There fs just one way to reduce. | Gr 500 aal jonk Afcount with §200 bullding will be followed, and en-|and that is to reduce. But perhaps | ensily acopunt ror sr gy, VOrches can trance to the mew addition will be| there are two methods of doing th “Ofher ibhiee ot They both entail some sacrifices. One | bo mentioned fop esnn 1o kind ear galned through the present F street | of these is to take-less of the things | bar very well not se oeon o, fEmem entrance. There will also be two|you want. That means reducing |aio how 1 lived i a house St hn quantities, e other way is not 1o | no bas ) 0a at had large and commodious rooms on the { {i{s (hings quite 5o fine as they | hoononomeiit (here was just space street level which will be used for | might be. That means reducing qual- | for the Faenner e ooss, @ Smail area. business purpose. itics. I think I can show you reduc Ad man who built that house did not have Gecy Toun, tions along these two lines which are | tion wails topia 41 deep founda- This is the second addition to the | not such decperate matters after all, | ) He did not hav 3.000 CARPENTERS New Willard since its crection in|Perhups you will be interested when | Avolqed tre s arens (CTPFO0fNE. Ho y 1901, and has been necessitated owing | [ tell you that you can save at least | and mottin nse Lof excavatior | to the growth of the city and the of building by | pi e long resulting increase in business. Plans | n that will not spoil d G : ns. We TAKE UP WAGE PACT for enlarging the New Willard have | your house or eut down Its comfort e g mifortab) thas 2 house—quite a' Targe - been in contemplation for some years, any essential or permanent way. | = sarge. family of us— —_— but the war and the subsequent rise | I am koing to tell you how to Aol e e L ore warm e yeatha g s n building costs delayed their exe- things, not because I think it is | cosf ) absc cutting dowr Negotiations Between Union and | y y | cution. rable for anybody to do without | eoyneve e 4bsolute limit you woula SRS 2 not have to have any baseme 1 = The New Willard is operated by the | What we know what is fine, but be- | T, b ment at all. Employers to Be Discussed Gapitol Totel e it A cause I think vou really want a home o&fi.,{“;fif&?fi ,,’;"‘p'},’; Sueoud or an- "Boomer of New York | and are ready to make sacrifices if | Sould he put on the first floo ew York is the head. | SO0 100y Wil tell you how to make | JLCLe are modern heating plants de at Baltimore Meeting. Homes and Apartments Are! Once “Temporary White Houser | fomelfy, Will tell vou | vised for this particular purpose, | “In the home I have told p When President and Mrs. Coolidge Porch Can Be Eliminated. | about we excavated n‘\’lt‘:l p:;'c‘uc'vyflv e took up their residence temporarily | ., o = s “SALETHORE, march 1.—A mass| GFeater Part of Proposed e Srier'ine st or Bresiont |, ‘e o152 thinge gocag leaye of | S igomept after sever e b 2 e= arding, for nearly a month it served 3 easy £one by. _expense 10t great meeting of 3,000 carpenters of the * Construction a5 the Temmorars White TuceThed | thing to do in certaln climates as in | (Continued on Twen(F-fret Pra) city will be called within the next L {fore becoming President and while few days to pass on the results of {serxing Vico sident of ~the i United States, Mr. Coolidge d th: the negotiations by union officials and | i mes and apartment lLouses prac- | members of his family made their the master bullders over wages and | tjcally fill the list of permits to build |IOMme at the New Willard, as did Massachusetts former Vice Pres P condltions for the coming season. | issped by the District government|Thomas ll»“j\lflrsllf:lqlm\\e':ll]e e 1’:‘1“2; The union committee and the|during the week. This authorized | i, Washington yealvc builders' committee have been meet- | CONSUruction aggregates in estimated | " The present structure was erected Park ing once a week for the last month, | “5°F White, to build 6615 24 street; | St site of the original Willard ars and cach side has worked out a propo- | $6,000. in LolBEEY A Kite, to bulld apartment, = g 1105 6th street southeast; $62,000. Ta, POBEIol: oo 6 : 1l “séc . ., g | et southenst; § o11, pair, 915 18th An_exclusively residential section of detached homes niti The union committeemen will lay e S A U strest] ore; DR CIL & $3,000. ing ‘seven million fect of forest-covered land o oM fes ot i before the membership the statement | northwest; 81,000 & ' 0o 1 A ORI 10 biina, 248 11en || oroved strects. Inoludes what remains of from the master bullders and leave | quanes Strore, 5do.gpo tl% 242 stréet northeast; 5,000 it to the members to accept or refect. | ~ J. B. Higdon, to build, 2614 Rhode) [F; A. Smith, to repair, 1316 Lstrect | The Triangle of Increasing Values i e northwest; $12,000. 1 P ¥ Refection would mean a strike to be- | Isiand avenue northeast; $7,500. ; $12,000. setween Connecticut Ave. Massachusetts Ave. and W - R | ‘1 o | E. H. Bond, to buil 05 Hamil- |, L. é(»f"d'lt" build ten houses, | (Cathedral Ave.). Over five million feet of land soh‘;‘a mffid‘“ Rosd sin | s 4 June 1wy | OB, Stréet; $25,000. : j2i5 o84 Channing street northeasti'f from $15000 to $200,000 built and under constructio X Work between now and June 1 w Max Levitan, to build, apartment, | $42.000. y 1] provements and home values exceed $5450.000. Iooded St sbll continue without interruption. A | 1370 Randolph street northwesti| W. F. Jackson to bulld, 5040 Kiin- || ot Una central and side meg occd $3430.000. Woodad villa sites, $7000,000 building program has been | §50.000. | Ble street and 5042 Hawthorne street; || rrone 2 Park Office, 32a and. Cathedral’ Ave (W oaiio™ atbfireey projected, and much of it will be well | * § V. Hale, to build apartment, 660 | $3.000. ; T e (Weodley RS under way before June. Irving street; $16,000. E. A. Smith, to repalr, 1316 Listreet . The fleld agents of the unfon who | Gude Brothers to build green- [northwest; $12,000. cover the east find the same uncef-| house, Bladensburg und Mount Ollvet | Tavlor & Hedges, to build, 2804- l aug annDn nc talnty as to wages in Washington | roads. $2,000. 2808 34th place; $15,000. » . and Philadelphia. - | Hawkins & Penn, to build, 2116-| Wardman Construction Company; Established 1899 The outcome of the carpenters’ ne- | 2130 2d street northwest: $60,000. to build three dwellin; 3300-06-05 | Dupont Circle Teleph gotiations is expected to have an| J. C. Zirkle, to build houses 712-716 | Cathedral avenue; $37,500, st elephone Pctomac 2200 effect upon other lines in the building | Hobart street and 711-715 Harvard| W. Preston, to build nine dwell- MBMBEI WAEHISGTON REAL ESTATE BOARD. ) Lomes . tion i try. Pr and Construction Features In construction these excellent Homes represent the height of the builder’s art, combining high quality material with the best workmanship and offering the fastidious homeseeker the last word in permanency. The Designs vary from Early English to Colonial and Dutch Colonial, breaking the monotony which is typical of so many row houses in Washington. Spa- cious concrete porches on the Colonial Homes face the east, assuring cool summer afternoons and eve- nings, while on the English porchless style there is larger lawn space, Which can be nicely utilized during the hot weather. ‘Windows are abundant and large, permitting un- usual ventilation and sunlight. The rear porches on both floors are well screened, providing maximum comfort for both eating and sleeping. There is a serv- ice porch leading from the kitchen and also accessible from the breakfast porch, making it possible to pass from one to the other without entering the-dining room. E:}ceptionally well planned wall space is adapiabit to almost any mode of furnishing. | Sensational Home Values in Fashionable Washington THROWN " One Short Block East of Connecticut Avenue and Wardman Park Hotel on Woodley Place Facing Beautiful Rock Creek Park and Surrounded by Homes of Unusual Splendor Just a few blocks from 18th and Columbia Road—“The Northwest Shopping Center”’ . —So that you may better realize the possibilities of these coxy homes, owe of them has beew . completely furnished by The Hecht Co., 7th at F Sts. och;mn hlmcl’imduu,l(uuinzmorqevehndl’ark&rmdgetofiat Woodley Road and Connnecticut Avenue ‘' beautiful new Connecticut Avenue Bridge to Woodley Road. B - 13OSEDL SHADIRO C Sran troct: $20.000. ings, 3541-3537 16th street; $110,000. OPEN FOR INSPECTION SUNDAY Interior Refinements Nothing has been spared to make the interiors attractive as well as convenient. Each detail lends itself toward the promotion of comfort. The Kitchen will appeal to every housewife who 1s seeking to simplify culinary duties. Each is pro- vided with a large sanitary porcelain sink and drain board, a modern white-enameled gas range and a kitchen cabinet. The ceilings on the Living Room and Dining Room are of the French drop board type and present a pleasing effect. The interior finish is white enamel with mahogany trim. \ Double French doors lead from the Living Room: to the Dining Room and to the Breakfast Room from the latter, and also from the large rear bed chamber S = to the sleeping porch. The lighting fixtures are par- Sample House, 2712 Woodley Place. Open from 9 AM. to 9 PM. ticularly ar‘iistic.p ERREE £ Among other modern features are the following : They Won’t Last Long At Instantaneous Hot Water, Stationary Wash Tubs, Basement Shower and Toilet ; High White-Tiled Bath, $ l 2 9 5 O ks k with built-in fixtures and shower. 4 Sold Before Completion and Occupied Q13 15" licet NW Chaklin 1140