Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1935, Page 19

REAL ESTATE, NATION'S BUILDING BOOM CONTINUES Work Far Ahead of Volume in 1934, Analysis by Craig Shows. There has been no let down in the Nation-wide improvement of building activities which began last year, ac-| cording to an analysis of the industry | Just completed by E. M. Craig, exec- | utive secretary of the National Asso- ciation of Building Trades Employers. Craig’s observations are based on a study of all sections. Private con-| struction, including the building of | new homes. industfial expansion and reconditioning projects, is far ahead | of the 1934 volume, though 1935 pub- lic construction is slightly behind. $700,000.000 East of Rockies. In the States east of the Rockies, the | 1935 first half’s approximate construc- | tion total was $700.000.000. All Rocky | Mountain States show a 95 per cent | improvement in 1935 over 1934, the totals being $61,860,189 for the first half of 1935, compared to $32,657,043 for the corresponding 1934 period. It 1= interesting to note that New York City’s first six months of 1935 total was $60,948,094, which practically equals the Western States’' 1935 first balf total of $61.860,189. Predictions based on the first half of 1035 indicate estimated yearly con- struction increases from practically all cities, ranging from 16 to 300 per cent over 1934 totals. Akron says 16 per cent: Louisville, 21 per cent; New York City, 50 per cent; Cleveland, 55 per cent; Los Angeles, 100 per eent; Detroit, 100 per cent: Kansas City, 200 per cent. and San Diego, 300 per cent. Despite a firming of wage rates within the last year, nearly all report- ing cities continue to complain of “chiseling practices” between contrac- tors and workmen on collective bar- gaining rates. Mr. Craig estimates the amount of needed private construction delayed during this economic breakdown to be about $20.000,000,000. Release of this private capital would dwarf the $4.000.000.000 set aside by Congress recently for work relief projects. Mechanic Shortage Feared. Assuming that the building industry is restored to normalcy heights within the next two or three years, Mr. Craig warns of a looming shortage of building mechanics. A Nation-wide normal building year would mean the absorption of approximately 1,500,000 mechanics. It is doubtfyl, however. whether 600,000 could be mustered into active service. Five years of rock- bottom construction activities have compelled numerous workmen to ac- quire other wage-earning jobs. Any number of these workmen are con- vinced that steady yearly employment at less wages guarantees them a better | standard of living than seasonal em- ployment at higher rates. Also in- cluded in this huge decline of building workers are those passing on and thdse outliving their physical useful- | ness. The contractors’ and unions’ | Problem is that of creating more ap- prentices. As an inducement to youth, the vocational training period could be curtailed from four to two years. This would insure a larger quota of building mechanics for the inevitable building comeback which is surely ! materializing. In concluding Mr. Craig states that even the most severe restraint cannot indefinitely impede the already visible forces of supply and demand and that *the most ruthless depression of world | history” is obviously disappearing. NEW KITCHEN CUTLERY | DESIGNED BY DREYFUS Handles Tapered to Fit Hand in Line Being Displayed at | New York Show. An inclusive line of kitchen cutlery has been designed with keen atten- tion to function, by Henry Dreyfus. | noted modern designer. It is shown | at the current New York house-fur- | nishings show. * The handles are iaperea to fit the | hand firmly. On utensils such as the | potato masher and ice pick, a knob | at the end makes for agile handling. | The ice pick also nas on one side | of the knob a round piace of metal for | cracking ice. Certain spatulas and | turners have perforations to permit grease drainage. This cutlery is of- | fered either with handl=s of wood or | ©f the more modern material—plastic | composition. Strainers, paring knives, pie serv- ers and cake turners are but a few of the 41 items shown, which include practically everything in kitchen cut- lery except an assortmen: of knives. PR S SHOP TO MODERNIZE Entire Front of Hahn Store to Be Torn Away, Improved. Work will be started next week on the modernization of the Women's &hop of Willlam Hahn & Co., local shoe merchants, located at 1207 F street. The entire front of the store is to be torn away and rebuilt. The new | design will be French modern, con- structed of Indiana limestone, trim- med with bronze and black carrara. | When completed the store will be one | of the most attractive in the city. Work will be carried on without in- terference with business. NEW HOMES 1°9,450 - 3805-3817 Calvert St. Homes contain 6 large rooms, 2 baths. Unusually large Li Room. Spacious, cool Recrea- tion Room finished in knotty pine and asphalt tile. Kitchen has Oxford cabinets, one-piece sink, modern range, etc. Homes hot-water heated—modern Bry- ant unit. g center and schools in jate weighborhood. Ele- commands view of Alex- andria and Potomac. SEE FURNISHED EXHIBIT HOME Open Daily and Sunday Drive out Massachusetts Ave., turn left on Wisconsin -Ave. four blocks and right at Calvert. Calvert Realty Co. A Mokee koS N W | viewed at close range. | and Paul Home on Mr. and Mrs. Byron S. William H. Saunders Co., builders. THE EVENING Underwood Roudabush recently bought this residence, at 1516 Underwood street, from the Street STAR, WASHINGTON, Sold s0.” | —Star Stafl Photo. JAZZ BAND & An Exciting, Ultra-Modern Love Story. By Wyatt Rundell. INSTALLMENT XXIIL AY again, Kansas City in the Spring. Lengthening days, leafy heights against cloud- less, blue skies. dashes of color against greening lawns; ado- lescent shouts from busy playgrounds: base ball placards on street cars: young people in roadsters, scudding around corners, drinking in the sun- shine. Downtown, crowded side-| walks between gay shep windows, rattling rivet hammers from tower- ing steel framework, lumbering trucks pushing their way through the traffic; life, renewed, expanding to the sun. On a Prospect car, jammed to the doors with homeward-bound news- paper engrossed workers, Paul Mach- anello hung from a strap and kept & speculative eye out for probable seat- ing space after each stop. His other arm supported a chubby mite of a boy. whose eyes were strangely like those of the man whose neck he clutched. He squirmed back and forth in Paul's arm, his mop of light brown hair twisting energetically as he endeavored to inspect each of their fellow passengers and, at the same time, keep in touch with passing ve- hicles through the car windows. Finally he raised himself with a hand on Paul's shoulder and reached for the strap above him. “Let me hang onto it. Paul.” he suggested, in his 5-year-oid treble. The request was denied. Paul pulled him down by the waistband of his short trousers and settled him firmly in his former position. “No, Ray,” he said. “You're too little. yet. Besides, I'm doing very | well for both of us, don’t you think?” The child accepted defeat grace- fully. After one wistful glance at the tempting strap overhead, he subsided against Paul's shoulder and resumed his study of the traveling public, | Suddenly ‘he turned toward Paul with an air of extreme confidence. “Paul,” he said. “I don’t want to go to that Kkindergarten any more. Mis' Hostetter drilled hell outa us | today.” 1 The arm that held him tightened looked at him sharply. “Ray,” he returned sternly. “Who did you hear say that?” “Say what?” Paul regarded him steadily. know what,” he answered. “Puny says it—and Bud—an'—you | “You The rebuker retreated a trifie. But he persisted in his crusade against | profanity in the younger xenentlm4: “Listen, Ray,” he exclaimed. “Even | if we do say things like that, it's | wrong. And that'’s why it's wrong | for you to say it. It's wrong for any- | body to talk like that.” | “Why is it wrong?" Paul, sensing A barrage of ques- | tions, and conscious of the amused | glances around them, hastened to close the incident “Because it's not good English.” he revealed. “That's why vou have to the kindergarten; to cried the boy, eveing him eagerly. “If—if 1 won't say it any more, can I—ean I not go to that dam’ kindergarten—" Thirty-seventh street came none | too soon for the perspiring mentor. In the half block to the apartment the child ran ahead, bare legs twin- kling above his sport half hose. The old roadster, dingier than ever, stood at the curb and the boy squealed with delight. “Hurry up. Paul!” “The guys are here!” They climbed the stairs and in the rooms above found .n indiscriminate quartet draped about the living room. Bud, Puny. Whitey and Tom Jencks—completely at ease in chair and divan, feet elevated to the nearest eminence. Conveniently at hand | were tumblers, recently drained. The entrants were boisterously greeted and the child was immedi- ately the center of a loud and plainly indulgent circle. They seized upon him, tossed him from one to another; propelled him with heels fiying, in a series of midair somersaults which he encored vigorously, at the top of his lungs, upon being finally rigntened and restored to the fioor. From the melee emerged, the bulky figure of Puny, who took up & position behind a diminutive end table and rapped sharply for order. A square-cut lamp shade on his head failed utterly to add judicial dignity. “Order!” he importuned frowning- Jv. “Order in the court! The bailiffs will close the doors and open the windows so the evidence may be properly aired. Any one wishing to challenge the jury will handle it by mail through his manager.” He transfixed the small figure be- fore him with a stern glance. “Officer Muldoon"—to Bud—"with what is the prisoner charged?” “Cutting classes in kindergarten, y'r honor,” supplied the grinning Muldoon. The rotund judicial form quivered in indignation. He grimaced fear- fully. “Hanging is too good for him,” he growled. A fat forefinger he shrilled. | accused the tiny figure brought to justice, who uneoncernedly scuffed his feet and grinned with the aplomb of 5 years playing a familiar game. “What is your name. prisoner? You—I'm speakin’ to—" | “Raymond. Paul Mach'nello—!" shouted—with a lunge at the bench | that almost succeeded. | “The bailiffs will restrain the pris- oner. Shoot to kill if necessary. | Age?” “Lemme Bud! go! go, Lemme | Watch me knock that thing off Puny's head—" “How old are you!” thunderously. | 7315 15th Place (Corner of 15th and Fioral) ‘m five an' two months. An’ how is your Aunt Letissha”"” Loud guffaws. Even the grim fea- tures of the court relaxed a trifle. The child looked around trium- phantly. “Guilty—or not guilty?” Here the small defendant held whis- pered consultation with a self-ap- pointed counsel, Tom Jencks. who picked him up and administered low- | toned instruction with many winks and a simultaneous nodding of heads when agreement was reached. | “¥'r honor.” revealed the defense, stepping to the bar, his tiny client dangling head downward from his arm, “the defendant wishes to plead guilty and requests life imprison- ment. stating that prison i preferable to the kindergarten and that the teacher is a pain in the neck.” The child wiggled violently and clawed upright. “That four-eyed ol sister!” he declaimed, shrilly. “She— she—!" He stopped and eved his attorney uncertainly, his lines pat- ently forgotten. Jencks whispered in his ear. “She gets—in my hair!" he pro- claimed, with a final burst of fervor. The room again rocked. The ut- terance was treated as genuine, tribute was paid in paroxysms of mirth, the youthful denunciator of kindergarten teachers hailed as a prodigy. He basked in the spotlight and exhibited small white teeth in 8 pleased acceptance of the showered laurels. The judge pronounced the maxi- mum sentence. The prisoner was fined 5 cents. He dug in a trousers pocket and produced a silver dime—and a pair_of dice. “That's the ticket, Ray.” approved Jencks. “Shoot the works. Double or nothing.” The court concurred, after due de- liberation, and the spectators erowded around. The boy rolled—and lost. He grasped his dime and fled from the room. Puny shook his head dolefully in the outburst that followed. 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OPEN SUNDAY, 10 te 9.. . WEEK DAYS, 3 to 9. Drive out 16th St. te Floral (first streei beyon@ Alaska Ave. intersection) turn right to proverts. REALTY ASSOCIATES, INC. 1508 K St. N.W. Realtors NAtional 1438 D. C,” SATURDAY. » somewhat unenthusiastic witness of the scene of justice thwarted. “And if he's around you guys much longer he'll be a whole deck of cards. He can't count to 10, but he can read the spots on the dice quick enough. He gets his ABC's ‘all mixed up, but he can swear like a traffic cop with & carbuncle. He plays ring-around- rosy all afternoon at -the kindergar- ten—then comes home and wants to get the guys and go out on a party. When they pat him on the head and | say what a fine little man he is he yelis out, ‘Wanna buy a duck?” A.d tomorrow, I s’'pose, he’ll go down and tell the teacher she ‘gets in his hair. And where does he learn all that—2" “Not from me,” said Bud promptly. | “Kids pick up meanness quick enough | for themselves.” “Oh—no? Who give him a quarter | to get Gub Davidson's fat lady friend | two chairs to sit on?” “Huh——?" Memoriex reddened Bud's ears. “That was Dana's idea. All T done was—" “Put up the two bits. I thought The indicter nodded his head with | the satisfied air of one who confirms | & long-felt suspicion. His eyes . held | a glint of triumph. | “And that ain't all,” he continued. “I know who put him up to makin’ s horse-laugh just after Babe got through talkin’ the other night. How | did I find out—you ask? Well, I did one, just as an experiment, and he told me I wasn't half as good at it as—Tom Jencks ‘The newly accused started guiltily, mouth half opening. He made a feeble gesture of denial. The plea of a father for the threat- ened morals of his only son continued. “You guys don't seem to realize what | I'm up against,” he argued. “Here I | am—tryin' to bring the kid up in a | Christian manner and how can I do it. when you spend hours teachin’ him all the tricks you know and some you don’t. When he first came, Little Lord Fauntleroy had nothin’ on him. Now, look at him. Calls everybody ‘Pal'—even complete strangers. Whis- tles at all the girls, big or little. when we're drivin’ down the street in the car, and most of ‘em think it's me— takes himself serious—even walks with a strut—he’ll make a musician all right. An' three times now, I've caught him lightin' a cigarette.” He paused and eyed them rebuk- ingly. But the lines between his eye- brows bespoke earnestness. The lis- tening grins faded. Puny, alone, re- JOLY 27, 1935 mained indifferent, fleshily urdmlc! of e. “All done, grandpa?” he mqulmd.’ amusedly, “Now—I'll tell one. It about s little boy who said bad words | about his kindergarten teacher. He called Iner a ‘four-eyed old sister.’ His papa wondered where he learned that | and all the other bad, naughty words heknew. Well, one day he came home | and told his papa he hroke a window | ir. the kindergarten room. Um.-lzi Puny was there and Uncle Puny dis- tinetly heard his papa say, ‘Well. the | old, four-eyed sister”i give you heil for | that!"” . | The biter was bitten. The effect upon Pawl -was interesting to watch. | He stared.. he sought to speak, his eyes plainly rewealing the frantic backward | racing of} his mind to the acene just | described| vainly seeking & foothold for its refutation. Bud, Jencks and the | unfeelingl Mr. Gormley laughed, far from sympathetically. Whitey in- spected all concerned, decided to cast his lot with the majority and smiled wanly. | “Tsk tgk, tsk,” murmurred Tom | Jencks. “What an environment for a growing child. Some one should speak to the mipister about it.” Paul turned, hot-faced at the trap in which he had thrust himself. He faced kitchenward. He muttered gut- turally, He departed kitchenward, the back of his neck bristling. To be continued.) PLAN 'HOUSING STUDY Special Dispsch to The Btar. ELIZABFITH, N. J, July 27—A course of study of housing conditions | and needed remedies will be projected | in the local school system at the opening of the Pall term, it was an- nounced recently following a confer- | ence between local Better Housing Committee pfficials and Edwin M. | Barton, supervisor of social studies. Both the mwdernization credit plan and the mudual mortgage insurance plan will be studied. Pederal housing literature willl be provided students to assist them i the course. CONTRACTO BUILDER Prompt—Efficient N. 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