Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 6

TITE _EVENTNG STAR. WASHINGTOX, D. €. MONDAY, FERRU ARY 27, 1928, exlzht oney. reduces the indl- Defective ev iy i which sight. CLAFLIN Optometrists 922 14th Street HOT DOG STANDS COMPETITION KEEN \Plans for Many Architectural Oddities Submitted In $10,000 Prize Contest. | - | By Consolidated Pross. NEW YORK. February 27.—Like the Smoking your first pack of Yorktown Cigarettes is like meeting a man that you “take to” right off. This cigarette has the spark of lifeinit. Personality, “kick.” Askany Yorktown smoker why he likes this cigarette. He may tell you it's the flavor, or the “zip” or the “tang.” But he can’t really de- scribe it. What he’s telling you is that it simply strikes his smoke-taste right. Try Yorktown and see if you don’t feel thesamewayaboutit. Twenty for 15¢. Larus, Richmond, Virginia Only one night out to both coasts of Florida— by daylight through Central Florida its best. are enjoying hing, fishing, ravel to Florl on Orange Blos es Union Station PN Daily for Fast Cosst 1 Daily for West Coast steel equipment convenience h-—maid superla- d ¥ car rieous train per Also Seaboard Florida Limited Leaves Unian Station, 12:20 AM. Daily (Sleeyers Open 1000 1M 1 ot Florida ek Vierbuchen Axent WO VDUV W S justly celebrated wildfire, the reforma- tion of the hot dog stand continucs to sweep not only our own g but also Canada and points ar border of our new friend, Mexico. tle did the Art Center of New wot. when four short woo opened that $10.000 competit: most artistic hot dog house, bewildering variety of art can pass the erstwhile humble wienie The competition committee, of which vs, John D. Rockefeller, jr. and the } Adolf Gobel estate are members, had no notion there was so much or so many kinds of art i all the world, to v nothing of just North | Gothie, ‘Tudor, and o on | about: the conventional art forms as familiar to them as gas at 15 ¢ | or whatever it is now, or the insi {the frankfurter in_which the Gobel estate specializes. But the committee | had never heard of the late Canadian M York s ago it jon for the what a ncom- nd small t these epochs sprang into being within | the current month. | When the hot dog strays among the wastes of Canad: when it along the banks of the Rio and. oh. boy. when it is wal- t once by the climate of Cali- | fornia” what a pup palace it turns out | to be going to live in! | Increased Popularity Scen. | 1t some of the architectural sugges- tions thus far received are adopted the frankfu will leap from hovel {to hotel, from lean-to to igloo, from ip tent to pagoda. from kennel to Kremlin and from obscurity to futurity |in one eestatic bound. Indeed. so many | suggestions and so many entreat! a look at these suggestions are in at the art centcr that the mittee isn't sure it can distribute the prize plans free on request: it mav be oblized instead to charge a smal the least possible fee which it can m age. But what's a small fee bety dog fanciers when the housing pr of the popular pet is so acute? It is evident right now that when the contest ends on March 15 the hot dog will embark tpon a new career amid surroundings befitting its The contest committee hopes to put into existence ten or a dozen new types of stands. Of course. no official | opinion has vet been pronounced upon the doggy design so far received. But our own heart will falter as well as the hearts of millions of hot dog con- noissuers if the winning designs do not include some of those flights of imag- ination which have already arrived to adden the Art Center. s might be expected the designs submitted for the sake of art and of the slices into which that $10,000 is to be divided, range as widely_as from Botticelli to Batik or from Boston 1o Bingville and how. There is the early English Ye Inne on the S| sh trail of a Middle West Scandinavian suburb Crier and Ye Anticke g Ye Architectural Dogge's de You haven't lived till you have gnawed a hot dog amid such Scenery. ‘There is an ark replete with little stuffed animals which nod their heads—no, they don't shake nd if you have a glint of beauty in your soul you'll purchase your hot dogs here or elsewhere. Other Architectural Oddities. vell, and there’s an ice cream cone: uve no idea! And an ice crea freczer, two storfes high with a } to art and electricit | revoive unto perpetuity. Th juicy appeal all its own in the s shaped like an orange or lemon: | cift dwelling so reall ic that y {rozen owls Signe nd or a look ace to repel any Indian The single motif lacking to date s the Egyptian, which is strange when you r | flect that Egype is the artistic mother the hot has the sa of 2. th which the uently repeated on the countena | the hot dog consumer; as a dog Tut-ankh-Amen amid dog ¢ ankh-Amen 1s believed of an obscure digestive martyr King, b furniture. Tu e died ve also mple But our hot enpurpl t ornate d Center, d as a hot dog future we g simplicity or contest ha and sat whethe) amid the | paints the lil hand that d | MELLON MAY ADDRESS CONSTRUCTION SOCIETY Builders of Federal Will Hold Three-Day Con- ference Here, “Treasury M Structures | Becretary of th expected to addre ference of the fir pended A World War s g construction L meetis Fed b nt Secretary Carl ‘I e Arcnivect 1 and Acting Supe A. Welmnore are uled 1 Wil Instruct the mem- tails of the great buld- hich appropriations d by Congress dur- s W be glven 1o a banguet b arday ¢ leighi' Hote! iperasing | | mrenitect’s president of the so- md Brady, construction gineer, also of Washington, 1s secre- H. G Jtshney of New Orleans s general commitiee on | 1 kesler s i charge of U bisnguet DRY BUREAU PLACES SPIES OVER AGENTS Admit Watch Huspected Men A 1] Officiuls Existence of Bys tew 1o been formed i e Lo check on the ary wyent 2 b rank i Federal prohibition offich | Juetant b dlseuss e esgilo | 5y Uiy sdmited e cxlslen | & of amen whose duties lay | trasiing ary wgents suspected of afmia o prevent eon 1085 ngesstble ander e system,” rald Gue o Tor wn mgent Lo prac e er withuut dif ! funlty thil Hungarian Author Held DAPEST, Felmumy 29 (A B, b notel Mongaian rested a0 Miskoluz, on of ( 1 i bt aistiict, An Jiws beens w1 po bina with con it aninere ot aireeton Chiped i owgiation s THE TIMID SOUL. WA = HERE'S YOOR i | RECEVT, 51R STER. NAVYPROGRAN T Public Hails Revision of| American Building Plans. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, February 27.—Public com- ment here on the revised naval building United States generally | 1t s regarded a triumph for public opinion over | the professional advocates of a big navy | and as an mpor contribution to the Cr You DROPYC recar T | | | | HoS e ss OF AEARING UP | £26CCVPT PARPOM MC, BUT ot 9 (an, 5019 2 /fii/ THAMIC Y0U -2 N ) ' problem of disar en '0 P Bublic ‘opinion since the failure of | the Geneva conference has moved | gly in the direction of ruling out | as a potentlal antagonist’ and arkable fact was that so little was aroused by the orl Vast crulser program put forward by the American Navy Department. This disposition in_the public to eliminate the United States British calculations and estima! wd to future naval building d in the speeches of membe the government and still more p: y in the decision of the admiralt; nder pressure of the cabinet to n heavy cuts in the British crulser pro- gram. concern Public Dissatisfied These cuts were wids ! as indicating public dissat the Geneva failure and the he ment that some gestu nec- eract the effect of that regretted ane 1g episode. hile the who re is inere idea of competitive ica, the or ton, tagether l-advised prophecies of inevitab| r by Amer- ican naval experts, seemed calculated to create possible difficultics in the fu- ture and an atmosphere unsympathetic to disarmament. For this reason the moderate scheme now put forward is welcomed as restoring a more favor- able outlook and as indicating that the t Al SURREPTITIOUSLY DORCPS GCRAPS I WALTC CArM Particular expressed at the discretio r provided in the bill enabling the Presidc 'nd in whole or part any 1 d by the ac desire to reopen struction authori; is n to ind n of agreed disarma | desire which s shared her | sponsible quarters. Submarines an Issue. OF TROPICAL FRUITS MAY YIELD U. S. DELICACIES, Department “c>)f -Agriculéuire .Experimcnts; With Plants Brought Here by Dr. David Fairchild. 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