Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1935, Page 8

FARM HOME BILL T0BE CONSIDERED Bankhead Measure Would Eliminate the “Gypsy” Methods. By the Associated Press. The Senate expects to consider this week a bill described by its backers as an effort to eliminate “gypsy farming” and transform thousands of farm tenants into small farm owners. The measure, introduced by Sen- ator Bankhead, Democrat, of Ala- bama, and approved by the Agricul- ture Committee, would create a farm- ers’ home corporation with an initial capital of $50,000,600 subscribed with funds from the 1935 relief act, which authorizes long-term loans to finance the purchase of small farms and equipment. Billion Bond Issue. The corporation would be author- ized to issue $1,000,000,000 of bonds, the proceeds to be used for loans in establishing small farms and farm homes, including equipment and live stock. Preference would be given appli- cants who are married or who have dependent families, have good moral character, are experienced at farm- ing and “who are or recently were farmers, farm tenants, share croppers or farm laborers.” The loans could be for as long as 60 years, with interest as low as that for which the Government can secure the money, plus a reasonable charge, not exceeding 1 per cent, for admin- istration expense. Nation-wide Problem. “Farm tenancy in the United States has increased in an alarming way,” said the committee in its report made public over the week end. “The prob- lem is not entirely a sectional one, but exists in agricultural areas throughout the United States.” The report cited the 1930 census showing 424 per cent of all farms were operated by tenants in that year, and said it was believed this per- centage had now increased to 50 per cent. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1935 Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SCHOOLMARM WORRIES. TEACHER in a nearby Mary- land public school was feeling rather crestfallen the other day. Her chum, auother teacher, asked the ‘The first explained: “I must be a failure at teaching. | Yesterday afternoon I had a nature lesson with my first-grade pupils, telling them about planting bulbs in the Fall and drawing illustrations on the blackboard to show how they blossomed into flowers in the Spring. “‘Now if any of you have bulbs at home bring them to school tomorrow and we'll plant them in our window boxes,” I concluded. “Several brought bulbs the next day, and one little boy handed me a bag. *‘Here's some to plant,’ he said very earnestly. “I thanked him and opened the bag. reason. Inside were three burned-out electric bulbs. He wasn't joking, either.” * ok ok ok PROFIT FROM PIGEONS. TAXICAB driver went into the business of furnishing feed to the pigeon feeders of the parks. On his first day out he made more money than he did in the last three days of taxi driving, which shows how much feed the pigeon feeders feed to the pigeons. EE PUZZLE. HERE am I? I should know. I drove from - Washington to Rockville, Md. I distinctly remember entering this dining room. But my knife and fork puzzle me. On the handle of each is the name of a Washington night club. And they have brought me my check. The name of the establishment printed at the top is that of a road house I know is halfway between Washington and Rockville, at least it used to be. Just where am I? * x x MAP ODDITIES. “A NSWERING questions for the more curious among philatelists has resulted in the slow growth of an unusual map in the office of Capt. A. S. Page, chief topographer of the Post Office Department. ‘When a Jetter of inquiry is received, the information dug up for the cor- respondent is typed out on a small blue slip of paper and pasted on a huge basic map of the United States. These blue slips reveal some geo- graphical oddities not generally known. The location of the highest post office in the United States, for ex- ample, is at Climax, Colo., where the postmaster daily functions at an ele- vation of 11,320 feet. At the other end of the scale—the lowest post office is situated at Mecca, Calif, in the Death Valley area, at 188 feet below sea level. The post office situated farthest west is at Tatoosh, Wash.; the farthest south is on an island, at Key West, Fla, and the farthest east is at Lubec, Me. The farthest north is at Penasee, Minn.,, on an island, . Incidentally, Penasee is about 150 miles farther north than the.northern- most point in the boundary of Maine! The farthest north, east, south and west post offices of Alaska, respec- tively, are at Barrow, Hyder, Un- alaska and Saroonga—the latter on St. Lawrence Island. * ok X X ‘WHO0O0-0-0-0-0-000. AWRENCE M. PROCTOR, Dis- trict investment banker and a resident of Falls Church, Va. recently bought a new automobile equipped de luxe, even down to a radio. The next day he started for Norfolk to get Mrs. Proctor, who was visiting relatives. As he drove he pondered many things. There was the N. R. A. code for bankers to consider, and also the badminton court he has had under construction in his backyard for lo, these many months. Suddenly he heard the whoo-0-0-0-0- 000 of & siren. Restored thus abruptly to his environment he noted he was in a city and pulled over to the side of the street for the anticipated fire truck to pass. For a minute he waited. Nothing happened. Then he realized. The radio was turned on to the Dick Tracy program which had opened with the customary siren’s whoo- 0-0-0-0-000, * ok ¥ ¥ TO EVEN A SENATOR. strong wind blew the other day, a street car came veering around the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and North Capi- tol street. Contemporaneously came one of Washington's breeziest Sena- tors, noted for his hat of far-Western suggestion. He, too, rounded the corner, on foot. A fude gust spun the Senator's hat off his head, careened it crazly down the street, and laid it—plop— between the tracks directly in front of the on-coming street car. The Senator rushed to retrieve his five-quart Stetson. The street car motorman jangled his bell. The Senator won the race by a gasp, as the street car drew up with a screech not a foot from the big black hat. 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