Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1931, Page 8

‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1931. e ——————————— trathmea From time immemorial, the encroachment of business and apartment structures on residential districts, the lack of proper restrictions against racial intrusion, inadequate street and traffic systems, lack of proper sanitation, unrestricted improvement of public and private property, and other entirely preventable causes, haye destroyed home districts and property values throughout the length and breadth of our country. Collective property development under a sound and modern community plan, which includes the things that experience has taught us are fundamental necessities of the modern American family is the only known means by which we can prevent needless waste and provide protection for the ideal environment once it is created. + + + + What’s the idea behind “Better Homes in America”? What’s the meaning of the White House Conference on Child Health and Welfare? Why have we a National Recreational Association, and what are these and other great national agencies, rep- resenting the best thought of our day, trying to bring about? To those who think the answer is an open book. Living conditions in this great country are undergoing a profound change for the better. After 70 years of crowding into our great cities, America is again returning to the country, where we may more fully enjoy an ideal environment and the better living conditions which we have long coveted for our- selves and our children. + + - + Strathmeade is sound because its comprehensive plan amply provides all of the things >that the leaders in the great national movement for the betterment of living condi- tions for the American family have demanded for the past thirty years, i. e., well built homes of correct architectural design; modern streets and sanitation systems; public utilities; generous home-sites; recreation and play lands; athletic fields, parks and other open spaces for public use; established transportation; the legal protection of property rights and values. These things have invariably brought permanent success to fine residential districts everywhere in the past. They are the outstanding features of Strathmeade’s sound basic plan. + + Strathmeade is sound because the men behind its development are sound. Without exception, they are able Washington business men of unquestioned integrity, who have always been found among the leaders of every forward movement Washingten has taken during the past two generations. With them are men of wide experience and national reputation in the planning and development of some of America’s out- standing residential communities. + + + + ® Strathmeade is sound because the community’s basic improvements have been care- fully designed by engineers of national reputation, and because these permanent im- provements, owing to the unusual adaptability of the Strathmeade site, can be in- stalled and maintained at comparatively low cost. The cost of these improvements is included in the original budget. There is only one cost to Strathmeade purchasers, and no further assessments for improvements can ever be levied. Strathmeade owners know in advance exactly what their property will cost them. + + + + Strathmeade is sound because Strathmeade is zoned and protectively restricted against encroachment and nuisance of every kind. Every property owner is assuréd the con- tinued use of his property for its original purpose, because every square foot of Strathmeade, sold or unsold, is restricted for the protection of every property owner, and the legal means to enforce these protective regulations are in the hands of the owners themselves. Ten, twenty or fifty years from now, this protection will con- tinue to bag from the community everything that would detract-from its beauty, or impair the property value of its inhabitants. 611 14ih Street N.W. Strathmeade De Luxe Arnold Operated Motor Bus Ready Every Sunday at 2:00 P.M., General Offices, 611 Fourtéeenth St. N.W. Leaves promptly at 3:00. Be Our Guest—Bring Your Friends—No Cost—No Obligation