Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 4

4 COOLIDGE PRAISE ORGAS HEMORIAL Institute Plans Intensive War on National Loss From Pre- ventable Diseases. | from President Coolidge | Memorial In 1id Preventive to alleviate d tor eliminate b was the director Pan-Amer- pra it opleal its losses at ward of institute held at the Unio mes read 1 to know of the en- of the Gorgas Human misery mous economic 1 sventable illness are matters of jous moment to every individual he Gorzas Memorial's plan to conserve, this needless waste of human resources is commendatory nd desesving of the support of all thinking people.’ Dr. Franklin Martin of Chicago was alected president of the institute and the following were eclected to fill va ies on the -board of directors rles R. Thorne of Chicago, Wil liam Green of Washington, succeeding late Samuel Gompers as repre. ntative of the American Federation Labor; Dr. A. S. Lobingier of Lo ze Dr. 1. W. Ryerson of Chi- . J8 Brown of Louisville, .'and Stewart Roberts of Atlanta, am very xla iging prog Memorial pro and- the eno caused by am Board Is Enlarged. A resolution was passed authorizing the enlirgement of the board to in- clude the president, chairman of the hoard of trustees and speaker of the house delegates of the American Medlcal Associat the chairman ind two other n f the tional Health Council, United States Chamber of Commerce, 1 American College of ns, president of the American o of Surgeon: nt of the American Public Health Association, communder of the American Leglon, president of the General Federation of Women's « surgeons general of the Army. N nd Public Health Service. The tors are to serve during their tenure of office with their respective organizations. In his report activities for the past year Dr. Martin stated th: near- Iy 2,000 representative doctors and lay men_are now organized throughout the United States in State governing committees developing the “personal’ health campalgn launched t Janu- i ch has for its object a redu on In the amount of preventable ill- which is now costing the United States one and a half billlon dollar: ter of a i ves. 000,000 count Gorgas memorial the development c0-0pers - tween the public and s cine, to conserve this enormou ! of human resources. th FOREIGN SERVICE TESTS | TO BE HELD IN 12 CITIES | Oral Examinations, However, Will | Continue to Be Conducted Only | in Washingtor | Written in State Depart sions shington uninatio while the ue to be | wiil take h writ vere con . New York and tle on. Designa xaminations wber 24 on New Pastor Coming. Dro J. 3 M ork with ir will close his the Highlands arch, Fourteenth and ree tomorrow. He will hreac o sermons, in the morning, A Commissioned People” and_at nighg, “Among the Verities.” Rev w. Si s of M husetts, the vecently elected pastor, is expected 10 begin his n next Sunday. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturing. Assets Over $10,500,000 Surplus $950,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY Rev upply Baptist Jeff istr [ YouTh quitkhy trade for | Studehaker i FEE"_T,' pur_ul':ifi!q F‘Fys}’l» | shady several | men {of | the same predictios | tie THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FLORIDA TAKES STEPS TO KEEP REALTY DEALS Warnings Sou; (Continued from First Page.) his hands that the complaints of llle- gitimate sales must pass. He is the directing force for the investigations which determine whether charges of transactions are true. He de ares that the percentage of com plaints is very small, compared with the number of real estate transfers taking place daily. And of the num- ber of complaints received the Registration Board, he st half of them are unjustified, or present such petty grievances that they are negligible. I was_impressed with the fact that the majority of old Florida real estate men with whom 1 talked— and by these I mean those who have been In the business in the State before the present development dmitted, on being asked the ques. tion, that a great many people will lose money in the transactions they have made down here. But they al v countered with the assertion t & great many more would make money. Mr. Rose’s objection to state- ments of this sort is that they are ususally made on the spot, that they are generalities not backed up by in- vestigation, and that if pinned down to the actual number of losses or cases of fraud the men who make such statements will find themselves without proof. Furthermore, he con- tends that if Florida real estate men are aware of any cases of misrepre- sentation or fraud, it is their duty to report them to the cons thorities. Such action on their past, he states, will result in a careful in- vestigation of the facts. If the real estate dealer accused is found guilty, he will be run out of the State. I those who muke such charges are unable to prove their statcments, he advises them to keep quiet. Stories Spread Fast. Mr. Rose mentioned & situation which I found to be generally true; that s, that a tale told once down here is im- mediately picked up and passed about on a thousand tongues until, heard once again by the man who started it, it is unrecognizable. This is certainly true of the stories of enormous real estate values. Careful investigation generally shows them to be grossly exaggerated. The same thing may be true of fraud. A story will go the rounds that thousands of people are buying land under the water or in the swamps as a result of misinformation and fraud. But it is probable that investigation would reveal few of the stories to be true. Mr. Rose charges that many of the fraudulent land deals—in fact, the majority of them-—have been perpe- trated by men outside of Florida about whom the real estate men in the State know nothing. Men will come into the State and buy property and go away i sell it in Washington, Chicago, ew York and other cities without any knowledge of their transactions coming to the attention of the Florida real estate men. This, Mr. Rose con- tends, puts the matter squarely in the hands of those outside the State. He has small sympathy for the man who s himself in the hands of the land He compures it to the man 10 avalks into the bank and hands thousand dollars to the first uniformed attendant—on the theory t. being in the bank, the attendant | is the bank Believes Values Sound. T asked Mr. Rose about the me n and mall means who are buying These saies are made in the representa- lots will increase and alue within 4 few months * he a > practice of guar tain profit in r no firm ever 1 itself on such a bas he does it the values in Florida are Eound. He mentions statistics of the State’s resources to prove this - stati s which I have given in previous icles. He mentioned the fact that like Henry Ford, the Ringlin Roger Babson and many oth had eno in Florida’s futur development to invest large sums of money down here. alues may be too high, tose does not believe this is true the majority. He says he heard s crash and deflation in California during its rapid development that are being heard to- day about Florida, and that they did not come true. He has seen three di hat the in estab tinct periods of unusual activity in | lorida, and ha: bubble will burst them, shown heard men say the during each one of nd the bubble has not vet signs of weakening. He be- Florida's development, though ccedented in any other State, is sed on the fact that Florida has all o resources to make it the richest State In the Union. He attributes the rapid rise in values in some communities to the fact that they were undervalued before. Flor- a's weather, its agricultural and in- dustrial resources and its nearness to the country's center of population ke the present development sound in his oplnion. On the other hand, there are men in Florida who want the news to go out that many of the investors down here un nded to Buyers to Investigate Before Purchasing—General Inflation Denied by Offi- cials and Dealers of Long, Reputable Standing. s have | ON ETHiCAL BASIS are getting land not worth what they are paying for it. Mr. Rose is not willing to make such statements with- out absolute proof. H. H. Richardson of Jacksonville, wha s a realtor and a dealer In Florida real estate for 40 vears, declares in the first place that it must be made plain that those who | get bamboozled are stung by out- siders, not Florida real estate men. { But he believes in broadcasting the news that there are misrepresenta- tiéns in order that those contemplating investing down here will take pains to make them through proper channels As a delegate to the last meeting of the National Asgoclation of Real Estate Boards, he endeavored to spread the gospel there of “before you invest— investigate.” He preached this doc- trine with particular reference to :Flv\rlda real estate, and in doing this incurred the opposition of some Flor- ida realtors who felt that to do it would | be to give the State a black eye, and to do it without definite proof of cases where people have bought on misrepre- sentation would be unfair. Mr. Rich- | ardeon’s contention is that losses in Florida real estate are many, but they are largely the fault of carelessness on the part of the investor. He is care. ful to differentiate between real estate men who have either come to Florida {and jofned the mad selling rush here those who operate in other cities with out any Florida connections, and the established Florida real estate firms Of the latter he has only praise. Was Victim in 1884, Mr. Richardson’s case is interesting, because he was made the victim of o Florida deal back in 1884, In that year he organized a colony of English- men in London to come to Florida. They bought land for $25 an acre, and when they got here found it had been bought for them at $1 an acre. Some of the members of the colony fmme. diately turned around, and went back to Bngland, cursing Florida with each beat of the propeller. Mr. Richardson stayed here. He still has his original property, and ft is worth many more times what he paid for it. Mr. Richardson showed me the ad- vertisement of a large company which has opened operations around Jack sonville. The advertisement—half x page, in a New York newspaper—maude statements which he said were ridicu- lous on their face. He sald he had investigated them and succeeded in having Jacksonville papers decline to accept the company's advertisements Mr. Rose's contention will be that such a case should be reported to the license board and nothing said about it until the truth or falsity of the charges are proved. Whether ft has been I do not know. The Florida State Development Board plans to spend some $45,000 within the next few months in adver. tising designed purely at warning the prospective purchaser of real estate in the State. Cities themselves in Flor- | ida are doing the same thing, allott |a certain percentage of their boo: advertising to warning the inve: { look before he leg Better business bureaus are being organized through- { out the Prospective purchasers of Florida real estate are being urged | to consult their chambers of commerce or their better business bureaus before buving. As far as Florida and Florida real estate men are concerned, they | seem to be doing everything in their | power to prevent fraud and misrepre- | sentation. | All Sorts of Salesmen. { But one of the diffieulties fz | { d down here is that real estate men have come from every part of the cot Their smen from othe; ry and gone into | are either « busine: salesmen ates | or else men who never sold real estate { before in their 1 One man who argued with me for an hour to get me to purchase a lot was a former fore- nan in a machine shop. He told mo mself. Another had been selling | hardware until he came down here 1 went into the real estate business | himself. The latter was the man who | told me over a cup of coffee in a res- taurant that he had bought a plece of property on Lake Okeechobee and on investigation found it s under water. “So he promptly sold it to some- body else at a profit. Mr. Rose contends that such stories should not be published until they have been veritied. Very probably, he d, the man was lying. I don’t know whether he was or not. It was one of scores of stories, and as the man re- lated it with such earnestness 1 pass it along without vouching for i truth. With 40,000 real estate men here, there are bound to be many who are failures in other cities or who have climbed on board the band wagon to get what they can and while they can. The man who buys from them, of course, takes his chances. Some of them know nothing about the first principles of real estate. They make the most absurd arguments as “selling talk.” One man wanted to sell me a building lot as a home on the strength of the fact that it would be right by a rallroad. A hospital or sanitarium seems to be a choice selling argu- ment. It would not surprise me to $500 Opposite School and Garage in Electric Lights Wide Front Parking Paved Alley in Rear Large Front Porches Screened Dining and Sleeping Porches Stationary Wash Tubs $17.30 Weekly Payments N.W. Cor. 18th and Newton Sts. N.E. Drive out R. I. Ave. N.E. to 18th St. and then north, or use R. I. Ave. cars OPEN SUNDAYS AND EVENINGS H. J{ow 131 H STREET NORTHWEST CASH Government Grounds Each Cellar ) Tiled Bath and Shower § Hardwood Trim Oak Floors Entire House Built-in Refrigerator Cabinet Ironing Board Hot-Water Heat (@ ENSTEIN INCORPORATED ICHURCH EDUCATION SUGIETY ASKS CASH $165,000 Congregational Budget Too Small, Body in Session Here Is Told. The Congregational Education clety, with the mission of building the foundations of moral and relizious character, is holding its 108th annual meeting at the Washington Audi torium today in conjunction with the meeting of the National Council of Congregational Churches. It was reported at the outset of the meeting that the budget of the I cation Society calls for §165,000 a year, a sum entirely i dequate to the de- mands for service which the organiza- tion confronts. “There is urgent report continued, “for a full-time secretary of leadership training, additional funds for the student and young people’s work, and the employment of special ists in arious lines who shalil be able Lo assist State and local leaders in the planning and carrying out of their work." The report of the directors of the soclety told of a varied service ren dered to the churches of the country. Working in close partnership with the publishing soclety and under the same boand of directors, the soclety discovers and gathers the best mothods and materials of work and makes these available to church lead- ers, moy than 10,000 of whom are on its ‘mailing lists. In addition to the literature, bulletins or information need,” the secretaries pr of which it distributes, its carry on an extensive eadership through conferences and institutes, personal interviews correspondence. This la item of correspondence, the report states, has increased more than fivefold in the .ast few vears. The officers of the society are Dean Charles R. Brown of Yale Day of Bridgeport, dent; Dr. Frank M homa City, recording Arthur J. Crockett of urer. Through its department of mission ary education, social service, youns ple’s and student wr it was rought out today, the is de- veloping broad n sourse of religlc inderifes fullest other Hnes of church wor sionary endeavor. Two items which special emphasis ac the me were the ident pastor mov nt and the vice presi on of Okla secretary, and Boston, k and mis- received nd them offering home sites facing a newly-laid-out_cemet These, mind you estate men who h: for years and who hase. They m can get ou lished reputation switch from town to town tor developm: they do’ noth the law. It w, however s them. Their found everywh after all ent strikes g wh are to in after s vour shed de: is worth take it Aspirin Gargle in Sore Throat or Tonsilitis Prepare a harmless and effective gargle by “Baver Tublets of "Aspiri in""four ~tablespoonfuls of water. Gargle throat thoroughly. Repeat in two hours if necesary. e Rure rou use onls the zenuine Baver Aspirin. marked with the Bayer (ros. which can be had in tin hoves of twelve tablets for few cents. Dayer-Tablets @ Aspirin The"Bsyer Gross on Genuine Tablets E ! fi dissolving two | Thirty-two such assemblies were held | pia avenus | young and other helps on religious education | and | ., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1925. young people’s work. These presented by Rev. Robert J. of Chumpaign, 111, and Rev. Vaughan were Locke | ’nr Christianity” at th | byterian Church ev | The topic COLLEGE TO EXPAND. for n Dabney of Second Church, Dorches-| Pomona Will Follow Flan of Ox-|day will be “Our Beller in God ter, Mass. The rapld growth of State universi ties and other tax-supported school it was brought out at the meeting today, has ndded to the importance of the unive v movement More than 20,000 £tud f Congre gational afliations are ¢ plled in these schools. at which all religious work must be conducted by the local church For the conservation and development of this u endous asset for future leadership th ciety helps to maintaln 33 stus pasto at different points through out th This it was de clared nation: ser for in h of th dents from all over the are enrolled Not only do these tors help the student to think his way through to an intelligent Chris tian fuith in midst of the per plexities of modern science, but also help him to keep in touch with the church and to learn more of its re sponsibilities and servic Another important feature work is the development of fr relations hetwee students of ent nationalitie i the creation of attitudes that make for world friend ship. The council del tes were that the voung people’s Summer con are now recognized as one of t factors in meeting the prob vou people in the church. this ndly lem of with more than 4400 people in attendance. Each conference s a week or 10 days, during which time the voung people not only meet with leading personali- ties In the life of the church, but gain valuable experience in the working out of their own programs. More than one church has sent delezates to one of these gatherings as satd, to have them return with new ideas and fresh enthusiasm. While recrea tlon and fellowship are prominent features, all of these conferences hi made great progress in the qu leadership training th av's meeting Luther ity School, wl work of the education this Summer is done was ¢ o of Y m the combined and publishing | societies in religious education Divinity | School, president; Dr. William Horace | treas. | of Union Chu he Fund k of a Christian Church of officers, dire members will Rowell Wilfird A take late this af! on W ill Speak. Dr. Re merl man at terfan The Rev A Bart w Fi Il prech the Pr Church mornin v eph tomorrow Dr. e ed will * speak their hecome of the promi MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H ST. N. W. MEDIUM 00003 i co. One room, Dressing-room, with Murphy Wall Bed; Kitchen and Bath......... Two rooms—with Kitchen and Bath.. Three rooms—with Kitchen and Bath.. 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Definite announcement of the adop- tion of the group-college plan by Po- mona College, located in Claremont, Calif., the incorporation under | the laws of the State of Californa | of the central Institution to promote | the development of the group of col- | was made last night by I tmes A. Blaisdell, president of Po-| mona College, who is attending th National Council of the Congreg: tional Churches. The announcement | wasx mide at a banquet at the Lee Hotel, which included Pomona ol lege wlumni_and friends and mem hers of the National Council of Con gregational Churches. It s proposed to develop stitution into a_group of around a central organization introducing into the United St plan which constitutes the b Oxford 1 Cambridge, the English universities Miss Ellen Seripps La Alif., recently gave 1o 00,000, in addition to $250,000 g1 last year, to be used toward foundation of a new institution Revival to Close Tomorrow. The week Emory M. 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