Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1926, Page 29

REAL REALTORS COMBAT FREE LOT SCHEMES ! | Federa Couneil ot Chur Boards in Many Cities Re-‘ port Success in Stamping Out Misleading Plan. Jail sentences for manipulators of “free-lot” schemes is the plan being followed in a round-up of promoters of such schemes now being carried or by the office of the district attorney of New Yo With victory already secured in a number of cases, there is noticed an atement in real estate trading of this character, according to the Real | Estate Board of Ni hich, in | of Real I ber boards of the throughout the c tive in expos “something. In Califor: lot” scheme made by the missioner w voluntarily a real of bu hns been ac lac lo-( of the r-nothing™ an operator of a “free- \\l‘nm charges ne Estate nge has recently cited 2 mem- ng a free-lot plan of advertis- ing to appear before its committee on ethics and practice. The member | withdrew from membership. | The Indianapolis Real Estate Board, | the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Real ate Board and the Orlando (Fla.) “Realty Board have joined the ranks of mem- ber boards of the ni ass that have pas voicing their dis plans as tending to mi The Minneapolis Real L reports that it has succeeded i . tically stamping out the practice of | free-lot lotteries in that city. OPEN SHAFTS CALLED | REAL FIRE HAZARDS| | of the parents for the pl Records Reveal That These Condiq tions. Easily Remedied, Cause Many Blazes. Fire records reveal, according Robert Beck, president of a promi- ment construction firm that op stalrs and shafts—ocasily remedied conditions—are responsible for pi tically all serious blazes that des life and property. oy of this kind,” | do elevator nd from and other perpendicular passages one floor to another, all tried true friends of the firs demon. Most |r cellars, sleeping ten- been xiated before a chance to leave the ants have they had rooms. “When air grees F. 'ythin, touches. only a few fect and invisibla he 100 feet and partitions. T destruction shafts with Iy fitting m: to 1,000 de- it will set fire to 1stible wi h it flame may extend but the hot smoke waves dart 50 or ~ weoden doors or % avoid such | elevator ¢ have close- doors at each floor Janding to prevent escape of smoke and heat in pper sections of a building. In flats and apartments ironclad doors of dumbwaiter shafts are habitus propped open in the cellar, the most dang part of the structure, pvite disaster Inclosing such \fety of life and to obtain lower Architects and builders ‘lmuul bear this in mind.” | SUMMERTIME BY D. heated . PEATTIE. Locust. The locust, mest unjustly common locust, is in flower. be widespread may be abundant, | | called It may | in its distributlon: it | but theré is noth- | ing common about the tree. ‘All the wames of locust are unfortunate. Lo- cust suggests a pestiferous insect. and | to the botanical name, Robinia | i, it is as bad cia means f: but there is no n wh beautiful as this should anything A be but the genu after one Rc ‘who was among the first naturalists to visit Lou and he went about vriting books : telling _stor Louisfana that might have sed the green envy of a Baron Munch n. He described all manner of trecs and flowers that have not bee; to exis A woman what she sho place of shaded he Tocusts E liciously fr: beautiful, the fern's, the Yes, th the woman wanted to v te take their place what abundant beau- > Dlessed with. Americ :\nd noble? that, but still v know, and t the fowers into fritters and eat them. Clues to Character The Home Lover. Love of home higher and more one of the most solid and enduring traits and serves (o ennonle and purity the race or nation in which it is para- mount. It is what holds society, the state and the nation together. Show us a man who is deficient in his love of home and country and we will show you one who cannot be trusted. An urge to in in one place or residence, love of the spot where one was born or reared and the desire to live and die in the these are the ch: “stay-at-home.” sickne: of melancholia, re- sults ve love for one's home while compelled to be absent from it. Some people are entirely destitute of affection, such as the Bedouin, whose home is wherever he pitches his tent; and there are Many Dersons among . civilized races where love of home Is on a level with the Bedouin's charac- teristic. The faculty of love of home is shown by a fullness of the lower lip just under the red membrane seetion, near the center of the lip. When love of home is large, this section fills out and broadens. (Copyright. 1926.) and_country ics of the a or home- | his | earner: | dren may in its | refined aspects is | ESTATE EVERYDAY DR. S. Answered by Questions from readers are answered daily D arkes president of the os of Christ in hat appear to be re e "tends of "thought in the. many lettess whichi he receives CINCINNATL Ohio. Can the wicked man rationally hope for peace and freedom while he re- mains impenitent, either in this world or the nex g Answer—No. Why would he desire to do s0? It a man is really fmpenl- tent, is not this proof enough that he is quite indiferent to the qu “peace and freedom He mizht, of cours; agnztion for peace, he is due for a rude awake the other hand, the fact that he is really interested in his spiritual con- dition shows that a religious leaven {is working in him. v sinner who asks your ques- ady has taken a step in the ection. NEW YORK CITY. Can you tell me anything about the h origin, and one which I un- casts some light upon the D.Mahan (s the com- lmm Sritie ook question. Its full title is Archko Volume or the Arche- ological Writings of the Sanhedrin and Talmuds of the Jews.” These are the official documents of the court named in the title, and \\;‘Rlen it is alleged, in the time of Christ, They were translated by Dr. Intosh and Dr. Twyman from manu- scripts found in Constantinople and the records of the senatorial docket in the Vatican at Rome. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. It marriage is a righteous and oly union, and the bringing of chil- dren into the world and thereby sub- jecting them to all of its tragedi jand sorrows is a duty and an obli- | gation resting upon healthy and nor- mal marrled couples, why did Jesus not marry and become the head of a | family? Is not the bringing of children into the world purely selfish on the part ure the | can obtain from the children when they are here and for the value which children have as potential wage- and sup s — Christians believe that as set apart by the nature of His being to a mission which could be shared by no other person because it belonged to all nankind. From H birth onward He was married to God and humanity He dedicated Hims®If to that mis- sion and showed that the dearest earthly st not interfere with s it not enough that His mother should have to face the horrors of His cross? Conceive what pain those horrors would have inflicted upon a wid ic circle. The theory wol by my corre- spondent in his agraph is de- ived from somewhat belated al- c tracts. It applies in the United i 1ll, to a steadily decreas- ing number of parent: In certain backward section be a source of pecur profit to their parents through wage: or labor extracted from them. Put for ents they are 13 this sugges e world after coldly parental consideration: elfishnes The inquirer is adv! ditional and more recent ed to read ad- works in S BARGAINS In the Most Desirable The Stores Are and Offices May Be Heat, Light and Elezator Apply to floors and tastily decorated. east, on H Street car line. 468 Louisiana Ave. N.W. Pretoria, South Africa, will build a town hall which will house an audi- torfum with a capacity of 7,000 and will have a pipe organ. 4424 Hunt Place N.E. Me- | ters of the family? | chil- | QUESTIONS PARKES CADMAN nd economic psyehology, sociology litera- than the threadbare socialisiic ture cropping out in his letter. " BOUND BROOK, Is a person of sound mind when he takes his own life? Iam deeply interested in your reply to this question, for the reason that the master of the house where 1 live a man of 70 vears, whose husiness ha been of the losing kind for over year, and_who, being unable to meet unsympathetic demands in his home, killed himself. Those in his home con- tend that it an act of a co and have no pity. I defend him of normal mind at the time that he committed the act, and that a_sound man is not brave enough to kill him- self, Am T right? SV 1 know no sufficient reason ving violent hands on one's an 1 conceive a normal person litating o desperate a measure, I incline to your view, therefore, that uicide is the act of a diseased or un- balanced mind. In not a few instances its occurrence is heightened by the cool and deliber- ate preparations preceding the deed. We cannot be too uncompromising against _incipient tendencles to destruction. Apart from its bet of one's own possibilities, it infli peculiarly bitter 1 upon the cide's family and relatives. . 1 submit, a matter in which involved so much as seil reverence and self-control. (Copyright, 1926.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. misused: they Don't s Omit Words often “Where have o, Often mispronounced nounce the o as in “of,” o Often mispelled: Restaur : Anxfety, conc wre, vigilance, watchfulness. d study: “Use a and It is_your crease our vocabulary one word each day v's word Fernal: belonging to Spring. The ver have given way to Summer. gation system of river. fed can h brought prosperit to the Tigrs and B is to be restored. gone to? Docile, Pr in “no.” nt. n, attention, solic three us in- tering word times Let When men are brave or strong or od I feel 2 pride in what they do— And when I hear of wicked deeds I Feel I'm somehow guilty toot (‘ ) RMecann Business and Res tion of Columbia Heights at Remarkably Low Rentals. 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Owing to countless centuries of re- producing, the banana, by taking slips or cuttings, and thus omitting the[ normal fertilization of the flowers and | setting of good seed, apparently h lost the power of producing good seed In a banana center you may see small, brown, soft spec hese are | the rudiments of seeds. Owing to lack of the normal reproduction h\’ crossing of the sexes the banana has begun to lose its vegetative vigor and is becoming increasingly a prey to diseases, making banana raising a business, and putting up the What Do You Know Abom In? Daily Se iones 1. What is the difference be- tween a cherry and a plum? 2. In what sort of s cranberries grown? 3. 13 the grapefruit a hybrid? 4. Where did the navel orange originally come from? 5. What is a jujube 6. What is a wineberr Answer to these questions in Monday's Star. ittempts have bene made to; h banana b . 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