Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1932, Page 20

ARCHITECT SCORES STANDARD DESIGNS U.,S. Local Problems Differ Greatly, He Declares, Backing Green Bill. The standardized procedure of the Pederal Government threatens to de- stroy regional traditions in American architecture which should endure as & living record, Prederick L. Ackerman of New Yok, fellow of the American Insti- tute of Architects, declares. Mr. Ackerman urges the enactment by Congress of the bill introduced by Representative Green of Florida to en- list private architects in the design of Federal buildings, and to confine the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department to supervision. Greater competence and lower costs would result, according to Mr. Acker- man, designer of many buildings at ©ornell University, and former lecturer at Columbia and Cornell. A centralized bureau in Washington, he asserts, is hopelessly handicapped in its attempts to economize and to meet local needs. ‘Wants Distinctive Architecture. “The United States covers a large area and within its frontiers there are many well defined geographical regions with distinct historical backgrounds, traditions and cultural characteristics,” Mr. Ackerman writes. “The Federal enactment which would intrust to the architects of these widely separated and_distinctive regions the design of the Federal buildings within them aims directly toward preserving Jocal traditions in durable form and is therefore a matter of far greater im- rtance than the private interests volved, “The question will be raised as to| why the cultural qualities of Maine, | New Mexico, California, or Michigan | cannot be expressed in Federal struc-| tures designed in a central bureau in | Washington. The answer is to be found | in the nature of the aims and purposes which, of a necessity. must guide the actions of a central Federal bureau. “Local habits, practices and tradl tions constitute handicaps to standard- ization and the smooth operation of & central bureau and may be dealt with most effectively by ignoring them and their value. Local Conditions Differ Widely. “These geographical regions- differ widely in respect to natural resources and in materials available for build- ing. The presence of these different natural resources gives rise, by reason of their nature and the technical prob- lems involved in fabrication and use in combination, to distinctive processes of building. “So that we find, notwithstanding the driving force of the modern industrial system to impose uniformity of methods over these several regions, that local techniques of building differ radically. “The centralized Federal bureau may, under guidance of a competent execu- tive, take account of all these regional pectliarities and endeavor to recognize them. But the driving force in central- ized organization is unifermity of meth- od and standardization ‘of practice. “Regardless of the aims of a bureau executive, he cannot possibly surfound himself with the sense of necessity for economical methods and economical re- sults that constitute the atmosphere within which the individual architect must perforce do his werk.” GATTY T0 INSTRUCT FLYERS FOR ARMY World-Flight, Celebrity Appointed to Serve at Wright Field, Dayton. Harold Gatty of world-flight fame, who is not yet a full-fledged American citizen, will instruct Army aviators in the art of navigation. His appointment as senior aerial navigation engineer under the War De- ment, for duty at Wright Pield, yton, was authorized yesterday, with- out competitive examination, by the Civil Service Commission at the request ©of the War Department. The commission is empowered to waive this test in exceptional cases and when the needs of the Government will be best served by so doing. “The duties of the position to which Gatty will be appointed are such that the Civil Service Commission felt that open competition would not result in securing eligibles as well qualified as is Mr. Gatty,” the commission said. On the Globe-circling trip Gatty acted as navigator and Wiley Post as pilot, and in recalling this the War Department, asking that competitive examination be waived, described Gatty as “probably the best merial navigator n the world” Gatty was gradusted from the Au- stralian Royal Naval College, has had seven years' experience as a navigator of merchant ships and since coming to the United States in 1927 has devoted his time to serial navigation problems. He will become a citizen of the United States next December, when the legally | prescribed period following _entranc upon residence and application for citi penship will have expired UNION OF METHODIST CHURCHES APPROVED | Commissions Representing Protest- ant and Episcopal Groups to Meet Here Soon. By the Associated Press. | PITTSBURGH, January 16.—A plan | for union of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church has the approval of eommis- slons Tepresenting the churches, The groups will meet in Washington, probably in the first week of March, to cc up again the merger proposal. e qommissions agreed on a basic | for the union at a meeting last | The detafls were not disciosed eport will be submitted to the 1 conferences of the churches while another Methodist Epis- copal Commission discussed & proposal | to merge with the Presbyterian Church of America and the Protestant Epis copal Church. Final action will await | 8 decision on the Methodist union g Hello, Hollywood MARITZA NEWCOMER TO FILM COLONY. SARI MARITZA, ‘Twenty, blonde beauty from the con- tinent, shown as she arrived in Holly- wood to make her debut in American films. Incidentally she denied she was engaged to Charlie Chaplin, although they were seen together frequently in Europe. —A. P. Photo. “PROOF OF GOD" 1S SERMON TOPIC Dr. J. J. Rives Also Will Preach on “A Finished Product” Tomorrow. Dr. J. J. Rives, pastor of Francis As- bury M. E. Church South, Sixteenth between Irving and Lamont streets, will preach on “The Proof of God"” tomor- Tow morning and in the evening on “A Finished Product.” Epworth League is at 7 pm. Next Saturday the league will have charge of the meeting at Central Union Mission. ‘The Woman's Missionary Society will meet, until further notice, on the first Monday instead of the first Wednesday of each month. The circle meetings will be as follows: No. 1, Mrs. Rives at 1820 Monroe street, Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.; No. 2, Mrs. Jordan, 1703 Irving street, Mon- day, 2 pm.; No. 3, Mrs. Settle, 1820 Clydesdale place, Monday, 2 p.m, and No. 4, Mrs. Redmond, 3151 Mount Pleasant street, Wednesday, 8 p.m. ‘The pastor will have charge of the prayer meeting Thursday evening. Each Thursday evening from 9 to 9:30 o'clock a group will meet for informal discussion of the life of George Wash- ington and the great national issues of his day. This will not be a school and no assignments will be made. The pur- pose is to refresh our memories and to stir us to a greater appreciation of all that is involved in the Bicentennial this | year, REPEATS OPPOSITION T0 ELECTIVE BOARD Trade Board’s School Committee Stands by Its Position Taken on Proposal. ‘The Public Schools Committee of the Board of Trade Thursday stuck by its former position disapproving the pro- posal calling for election of members of the Washington Board of Education as provided under a measure again in- troduced in Congress. Both the com- mittee and the membership of the trade body are on record opposing the change. The matter was tabled by the com- mittee late yesterday on the recommen- dation of Charles H. Bates, chairman of a Legislative Subcommittee. 'The matter was discussed by John Lewis and Willlam McK. Llayton. On recommendation of Hubert New- som, the committee urged provision of a new playground in the northeast sec- tion of the city to take the place of he Capitol Plaza Grounds now con- verted to Federal use as a part of the Capitol Plaza. In this connection, Mr. Suter suggested the need of a study looking toward | amalgamation of playground activities under one head, pointing out that the District government, public school sys- tem and the office of public parks and playgrounds now divide such authority. A demonstration class in a system of character education, as a means of measuring the henefits of such a course of study here, was suggested. A con- ference will be held with school offi- clals on this proposal. PAY DATE MOVED UP Treasury Forces to Be Accommo- dated January 30. Employes of the Treasury, which is the largest department in Washington, will receive their next pay on January 30 instead of February 1. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has signed an order that although the last day of the month falls on Sunday, pay day 1s to be Saturday before - instead of Monday after In the past it has happened usually that Government workers were forced ' to wait the extra day New All-Brick Bungalows 7th & Tewkesbury Sts. N.\W. Price, $7.950 On Easy Terms One of the most modern. homes in the N.W. section. Real open firep! them. Frigidaire. aces with lighted fires in Kitchen in beautiful colors._ Modern gas range in color. You owe it to your- self to inspect these homes. To Inspect—Drive out 7th St. to Tewkes- bury, two squares morth of Rittenhouse Wm. S. Phillips 2032 Belmont Road . Decatur 5000 THE IDECORATORS FORM U.S. ORGANIZATION Nine Chapters Funotioning and Two More Under Way. 1,000 Members Enrolled. BY CHARLES MESSER STOW. Since the middle of July an organi- zation of interior decorators has been Guietly establishing itself throughout the United States. The American In- stitute of Interior Decorators has now nine chapters functioning and two mare are forming. No figures as to member- ship have been given out, but it is safe to assume that upward of a thousand active members are enrolled, all sub- scribing to the aims of the organiza- tion. The organization includes s national body and chapters in central locations, these chapters to include only one State as far as is practicable. The national headquarters are in Chicago. It is still somewhat of a moot ques- tion whether interior decorating is & trade or a profession. That it is & business is obvious—a business with both professional and commercial as- pects and a business which in the last few &Efll‘! has grown faster than almost any other. But on both its professional and trade sides it has grown without proper foundations. It has lacked the background which would insure com- petence artistically and it has been without the solild commercial basis which, except in a few cases, would se- cure & loan at the bank. Must Know How to Buy. The business of decorating includes far more than merely settling on a color scheme and arranging furniture against that background. It requires a knowl- edge of architecture and its practice, of colors and their complements and con- trasts, of fabrics, of periods, of furni- tare, of prints and paintings, and be: sides all this, the decorator must be & good purchasing agent. Experience with all sorts of workmen, craftsmen and artisans is essential in the practice of decorating, and in addition to all this, there must be knowledge of salesman- ship. Form for Self-Protection. Since, therefore, the qualifications of a decorator are so stringent and so varied, it is not strange that there should be a_ great unevenness in the practice. The decorators themselves realize that many are calling themselves | by this name who have no right to it and as & measure of self-protection they have formed this national organization. Nobody is qualified for membership without at least five years of training, of which at least three must have been devoted to actual practice. Unless a decorator has a recognized place of business he cannot become a member. ‘The members pledge themselves to abide by certain principles of ethics governing their relations in three direc- tions—to competitors, to clients and to wholesale dealers. LECTURES bN INDIANS Dr. Robert H. Lowie of California to Address Anthropological Group. Dr. Robert H. Lowle, professor of anthropology, University of California, will give an illustrated lecture on “The Indians of the Northern Plains” at a meeting Tuesday night of the An- thropological Society of Washington, to be held in the auditorium of the National Museum. Dr. Lowie’s lecture is the third of a series of five relating to the tribes of Western North Ameri- ca. The annual meeting will be held following th> lecture. Paris Sets Wireless Imports. PARIS, January 16 (®).—The Official Journal yesterday published a notice from" the ministry of commerce fixing the monthly quota of wireless material to be imported from the United States from January 1 to March 31 at 3,748 pounds of wireless tubes and 177, fons of wireless, telegraphic and telephonic Smith, committee chairman; Jesse Suter | apparatus. Are you one who says, “I'll buy when I find & bargain.” Here is your opportunity. 1218 Oates St. N.E. It must be sold! Attractive, modern, brick house of six rooms, tiled bath and built- in garage. There are also sleep- ing and breakfast porches and large front porch. Both street and alley are paved. This is a near-in, rapidly developing new orth of 12th and priced extremely low, and s0ld on easy terms. Robefi W. Savage 717 Union Trust Bldg. Nat. 6799 Just Completed CENTER-HALL BRICK! 7 roms, 3 complete baths, I first foor, Celotex attic, bufit-in Carefully planned with latest up- features. BEAUTIFUL HIGH LOCATION! Worthy of Your Careful Inspection OPEN TO 9 P.M. 5610 New Hampshire Ave. (At New Hampshire Ave. and Long- ellow 8t.) arage. o-date Waple & James, Inc. 1226 14th St, N.W. North 0062 We have several very beautifully situated acre- ages fronting on the Mt. Vernon Blvd. and the Potomac River Suitable for country es- tates or high-class develop- completed _sect] Washington Memorial Parkway, w! | will ultimately exi M | Vernon to the G FPotomac. Thes next Spring. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR. Judith Denning, & girl _from & Eastern town, marries Stanley spoiled son of & wealthy Californja family, after & whirlwind courtship. From the wedding night, Judy is puzzled by some hinted sorrow fn Stan's life, She fs puzzied, a y s well, band’s family and frlends when they arrive to_make their home i the millionaire suburb of Lockwood. Her one confidant is “Nick,” disliked half-brother of Stan. Judy | meets beautiful Eunice Wilson, and learns. through spiteful gossip, that she had been engaged fo Stan but broke ihe engage- ment to marry & middle-aged millionaire. Recalling his dark hints, Judy tortures her- self with the thought that Stan has mar- ried her on the rebound—that she is a “spite” wife. Judy is making & gallant at- temp! fit into the complicated social life of Lockwood. CHAPTER XX. N a time to come Judy was to look back and see something pathetic in the serfouness with which she tried to accommodate herself to Lockwood soclety. She was like an eager child trying to learn a new and difficult lesson. As intently as she had ever learned to work, in the days before her mar- riage, now Judy set herself to the task of learning to play. She hired the pro- fessional player at the Country Club— a rather dour young man with a soul which never rose above the falrway— to teach her golf. Under his curt instructions, urged by her dogged resolve to learn the game, Judy’s skill increased. Moreover, the mornings on the sunny links—practice amid the healing quiet of the greens soother her bruised heart. She made | some pleasantly casual friendships out | there at the club—Mary Lockerbee and her comfortable, stout, blond husband. Antoinette—"“Tony” Wentworth, a di- minutive, dark girl, whose pert gayety took the place of actual beauty. Tony ‘Wentworth cordially hated Eunice Wil- son—it is regretful to state that this was part of her charm for Judy. One other there was who noticed the girl who came out so faithfully to| practice. Dart Towers, the long and| lean young bachelor with the elegant mustache, was more enthusiastic about | feminine beauty than he was about golf. He was the off-shoot of a sturdy and slightly strait-laced English family, | who preferred to keep him half a world | away, on a monthly remittance, to| dealing with him at first hand close small Carter, | per him, Dart Towers was at the club | more often than any of the other men. | He had strolled over one morning to | this time it was Georgia who remained at_home. Dart Towers—drifting to the United | States, via British Columbia—had D. €., SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932. By S S| eAnnForesler found California a delightful place to loaf. Casual friendships had brought him to Lockwood. Family connections had caused him to be taken up by the smart set—put up at the country club hailed with delight by harried host- esses longing for an extra man to fill in at dinners and dances. Since he had no office hours to ham- watch Judy practicing teeing off. Made a few helpful suggestions. Out of such scanty soil an acquaintance had bloomed. Judy had her moment of triumph one Saturday afternoon when she drove out to the club with Stan. Eunice and Georgia were lounging in a corner of the wide veranda as they walked up the steps. Eunice—looking like a smart advertisement in a yellow flannel dress whose apparent simplicity had set Wilson back a check in three figures. But Judy was smart and tyim herself in creams and tans, and there was a warm beauty to her slim young figure which caused Dart Towers’ appralsing eyes to go over her approvingly. “Come and play with me, Stan!” Eunice ordered imperiously. “Here are Georgla, Dart and I, simply honeing for a game!” . Perhaps Dart Towers saw the quick pink in Judy's cheeks. Perhaps he simply wanted to devil Eunice—there was no great love lost between them. A feline streak in the man's makeup made Eunice transparent to him. He was perhaps the only man on whom Eunice did not lavish attention—secret- ly she was uncomfortable in his pres- ence, and this made her dislike him, but he was indispensable as an extra man for parties, so she did not quarrel with him. Dart Towers spoke up now: “Yes, let’s start a foursome. And, if I may, let me suggest that Mrs. Carter and I play two of you. I have an idea we can win today.”, It took Eunfce by surprise, and a triumphant little smile tugged at Judy's | lips as they started out—she and Dart| Towers playing Stan and Eunice. And | sullenly on the porch. Judy was too erratic to ever be an excellent partner, but on the whole she | played a fair game, and Dart Towers’ brilliant playing won them the match, to Stan's surprise and Eunice's obvious displeasure. to look at G O OD to live in i makes this the REAT ESTATE; Later, as they lounged in the wicker chairs waiting for the attendants to bring them the light supper they had ordered Eunice got in her barbed sting. “Rially, Judy, your perseverance has shown me up today. My game is get- ting rusty—I must get out and practice every day the T've seen you dol” “T'll have w’?{t Judy take me in Stan’s dark eyes as he looke(? over at the slim figure of his wife. Judy's heart sang and & little flame of happi- ness was kindled within her. Ob, it would be all right. . . . Eunice was furious, Mary Lockerbee and her husband had joined the grou and Eunice saw the knowing I which passed between them. This duel Was not so secret now . . . and Eunice could not bear to lose. Nor was Eunice’s temper improved to meet Tony Wentworth at the Patty ‘Warren shop the next day. Tony was surveying her small figure in one of Patty’s long mirrors, trying the effect of a green sweater versus a yellow one when Eunice came in along with her faithful satelite, Georgia. “Mary told me your game is falling off, Buice darling,” came Tony's soft southern drawl. “Youw'll have to smart yo'self up, honey, Yo' work is getting Tusty!” ‘Tony giggled wickedly and Eunice flushed with anger. “I play better golf than you, Tony!"” Eunice had to struggle to keep the temper out of her voice. Tony opened her dark eyes in exag- gerated surprise. “Oh, I wasn't speakin’ about yo' Golf, dahling!” And she giggled even more wickedly as Eunice swept by her into the back room. Up hill. Hard work. Sometimes Judy wondered if it were worth it. If it hadn’t been so trivial! After one had worked it was hard to take play so seriously. ‘There were times when it seemed the better part to stay in the old-fashioned library curled up with a book. Better to draw into herself and leave this petty feminine warfare alone. But she would be alone. . . . She would be shutting Stan out. This was the life he wanted. She couldn’t change him. She could only change herself. After all, what was there left for her to do? Judy asked herself with a sort of inner panic. Her old life was gone. Even had the old house still stood in Summerfield, every if Judy could still return to the old tranquil life with Aunt Hetty . . . long quiet, busy days at the library—evenings of visiting with Maudie Watson or Rosamond Curley or drives in Ken Baker's jumpy little filvver, she knew that she would never choose it. She wanted Stan, spoiled, moody, handsome Stan. She wanted him even if it meant accepting this futile, restless, Insincere life. meant all of that to her. In other moods the injustice of it struck her. There were clashes in the glrlvncy of their own quarters. Stan’s lack eyes flashing: “Otxl"good Lord, are we to have that Fear stabbing Judy. “Oh, honey, let's not. 1, we were both wrong—" “Tll be hanged if I was! touchy- “Oh, all right. All right, dear. Please —let’s kiss and make upl” Judy dreaded to see the sullen cloud come on his brow. Dreaded to see his teeth set and the angry little muscle twitch In his cheek. She fhrust back her own impatience. A little while . . wait. When they had their own place everything would be all rlgh‘ If only one fought with big deeds! She told herself despairingly. But in- sincere smiles . . . honeyed words which carried a sting—the sting Eunice could | put in them . .. such petty weapons as| golf and bridge and affecting » gay fiippancy at parties. . . . But that was life. Life was played with a light touch these days. Judy | scolded Herself for being too serious | minded. Men didn't Mke it. If she| really showed Stan how deeply she| loved him, it would bore him. Crowding, rushing days filled with | emptiness. She had her own intimates | now—Mary Lockerbee and Tony Went- | worth. Tony was the petted and| spolled only child of a wealthy retlredj Army colonel. She had had a girlish | crush on Stan since her high school | days. She was quite resigned to accept Judy as his wife, but she cordially hated Eunice as his ex-sweetheart. Tony was not entirely single-minded in" her | friendship for Judy. Now and then would come a day| when Judy felt that she could not| stand the chitter-chatter of the bridge | tables. Another day golf lingo—an aft- | ernoon hanging about the Patty War- ren shop, listening to Patty's smart sophistries, to the idle gossip of Eunice and Amy and Georgia—of watching Eunice’s eyes glisten like . narrowed | jewels through the haze of cigarette smoke, would drive her mad. She dipped back into her old solace | —books. Curled up in the library at| 3 o'clock of the late Summer after- | noon. How still the house was! Mrs. Car- ter and Amy gone to a bridge tea.| Vera up in the city. Madame Carter | taking her siesta upstairs in her own quarters on the third floor. The ser-| vants silent in the back of the house. | The clocks ticking . . . a sleepy sound | here in these great shadowy rooms.| Plastered walls, frowning down on her | in aged dignity . . . brown leather chairs . . . sombre and restful. . . . Judy’s| eyes closed, the book slipped unheeded | to the floor. | Stan It's you're us_that alone. Nick Carter stood before #he ehbair, watching her. (Tomorrow—Breath of Prestom.) CHAIN STORES REPORT IS SENT TO SENATE Tradée Commission Porwasls Bifth in Series Without Necom- mendations, The fifth report of s series sovering the Federal Trade Commission nves- tigation of chain stores has besn sent to the Senate. ‘The commission's report eontained no_conclusions or recommendal It dealt with leaders and loss leaders —nationally advertised goods sold at reduced prices to attract b not only for the leaders, but also for other merchandise. The commission said the statement was frequently made that the common use of loss leaders and extensive ad- vertising have been large factors in the development ‘of the chain store busi. ness. Complaints have been made by independent retailers and others that chain stores sell leaders at times at prices below those which the inde- pendents must pay. 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