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REAL ESTATE. END OF SUBSIDIES Home Building Should Have Chance to Revive ltself, Says Builder. Declaring against Government sub- sidies to increase residential con- struction, the September issue of the American Builder asks the adminis- tation to “give home building a fair chance to revive itself by terminating all unnecessary spending and other policies that increase building costs.” Summarizing the present situation, the prominent business journal states that the national housing act is a conservative measure because it 1is stimulating investment of private capital. “The administration deserves credit,” the magazine continues, “for having supported the N. H. A. and helped make it effective. Recent reports from Government circles are that the next ‘big push’ will be to increase residential construction. Subsidies are hinted at. “Should Oppose Push.” “The building industry should op- pose any ‘push’ that would involve increased use of the taxpayers’ money. That would be the best way to de- moralize the industry and hinder the revival of construction now under way. “Since May, 1933, almost every im- portant ‘recovery’ policy of the Gov- ernment, excepting the national hous- ing act, has retarded recovery. Its vast expenditures to ‘prime the pump’ of business have clogged, not ‘primed,’ the pump, and piled up billions of national debt, most of which readers of the American Builder and other members of the ‘middle class’ will have to pay in taxes. Until the Supreme Court killed it, N. R. A. hindered re- vival of all the durable goods indus- tries, including home building. “It would be to the interest of every {ndustry and every employed or un- employed person for the Government drastically to reduce its insane spend- ing and quit interfering in every- body’s business ostensibly to benefit some &t the expense of others—osten- sibly, because the plain principal pur- pose of almost every measure passed at the recent session of Congress was to influence votes. People Who Build. CHAPTER XXXV. IBBY broke in just as if Betsy hadn't spoken. “Don’t tell me I you've forgotten that night at the Lincoln Memorial!” she hissed. “Don’t tell me you've forgot- ten all those clandestine meetings with Marshall at the hospital! That he hasn't waited for you in front of your office every afternoon since we returned from Havana! That he didn't cable you and telephone you and write letters!” “Libby! Listen to me!” “I suppose he hasn’t trailed you every place you go! That you weren't in the garden of the terrace tonight, whispering sweet endearments into his ears, kissing him! Kissing my hus- oA Story of Washingtons Social Set THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1935. PUBLICATION ASKS LOVELY LITTLE FOOL i NEW HOME DESIEN =% s et the steering wheel with all her strength, but Libby’s car, a rushing black streak in the night, struck the truck head on. The car lunged backward ~with a crash of shattered glass from the ter- rific impact, rolled over twice and ca- reened downward into the carefully landscaped terrace flanking the Me- morial Bridge. Betsy lay motionless in the pain that engulfed her whole body, a pain that swept up from her heart like a consumihg fire, searing her breast, her arms, her head. There was a wander- ing away into unconsciousness, far, far away from where all the stars seemed to be within grasp of her fingertips . .. far, far away into a remote con- fused region that was no part of band, do you hear! You think this world is your oyster, don’t you? You think you're going to Reno with Mar- shall tomorrow, don’t you? That's why you drove around in circles to- night, while I followed you! Deciding | whether you wanted to run away with Marshall . . . whether you dared risk {it. Then you went to John’s. To tell | him that you were going to divorce him and marry Marshall. Oh, I know, | beneath the mangled wreck. Betsy Seymour! You aren't putting In one brief horrible convulsion of anything over on me! Not a thing!|consciousness Betsy heard the clarion Not one thing!” | shriek of an emergency siren in the | “Libby! Libby, please listen to me! | distance, John speaking very close to | Please!” Betsy began quietly, her her—“Betsy! Betsy! For God's sake, | voice trembling. In another moment | Betsy, speak to me! Speak to me!” she would be in tears. The street was |And mingling with his words a} blurred now by the unshed ones that | Strange, unfamiliar voice, “the dark- | clung to her lashes. haired girls’ all right, buddy. She “Listen to you? That is funny!” | &in't hurt none. I don’t think the | She tossed back her head with another | little blond’s so bad off, neither. Never | harsh laugh. “Listen to you! Listen | Can tell about these here accidents. to lies! Don't think you'd be the only | What do you suppose them two girls| woman in Marshall's life! He'd leave | Was doing with a pistol?” | you for some one else, just as he left| Betsy lapsed away again, sinking | you for me last Fall! Don't think he | deep, deep, far from pain, into a dark | has been wasting away because of you | void in which voices came and came | this Winter! There have been other again, voices beginning faintly and women! A Spanish dancer in Cali- | gaining in volume until they seemed | enti, a waitress in Havana. He isn't|to shatter her ears. And through this always discriminating in his tastes, as | confusion of disjointed words one voice | you should know! He tried to make | went deep into her wavering conscious- | Barbara Stone, too. His incurable | ness—John's strong, anguished voice vanity would have kept him at it until again. John's voice. But no. no, it he had if Anthony Kane hadn't couldn't be John. John was with An- | threatened to kill him. Marshall gelica in a dim amber-lit room, hold-i | wouldn't draw the line at a girl who | ing her in his arms. And she, Betsy, | earth. And then pain plunging back | through her, bringing with it a con- | sclousness of -soft grass under her | head, the rippling murmur of water | nearby, a consciousness of voices— | John's voice—Terry’s voice—Jennie's | frantic scream—all there, around her, beating against her oblivion. She | called for John, far beyond any knowl- edge of it, when hands lifted her from TREND ANALYZED F. H. A. Technical Division Head Gives Report on Findings. ‘Taking coguizance of a new stylistic trend in home designing, the Federal Housing Administration today through Miles L. Colean, director of the Technical Division, issued a report on the division's findings for the guidance of field officers. Mr. Colean finds the “modern de- sign” to be more than a new method of exterior treatment. He finds this exterior treatment to be simply the final expression of fundamentally related developments in plan and structure. Designed primarily to aid valuators in rating modern structures, Mr. Colean has produced a report that includes a detailed analysis of the movement. He believes it to be of great present vitality whose sound elements are those arising from the desire to produce dwellings better fitted to present day living than those to which we have become accustomed. Short Life Seen for Designs. Coincident with the-appearance of the modern dwelling so designed is the home which pretends to be mod- ern but whose new fashioned dressing is divorced from planning or struc- tural trend. For the latter Mr. Colean sees but a short life, believing new designs can prevail only when | developed as a result of modern needs and a new mode of living. Mr. Colean says in part: “Modern planning tends to ignore | the principles of balanced elements | and symmetrical shapes which, for instance, charaterize the Georgian or 5o vividly in her mind that she had believed them near her, had even thought that she had heard them talk- ing. “Oh, John, John!” she sobbed, burying her golden curls deep into the | pillow. [ “Yes, Betsy, I'm ... I'm here, dear.” Through her long lashes Betsy saw | nothing but the brilliant sunshine. A | terrifying voice in her brain cried out at her, “Betsy Seymour! Are you going crazy? Stop! Stop! Stop hearing John's voice when you know | | | “Building and buying of homes are | was in Havana on her honeymoon' done by the intelligent, thrifty, tax- | Oh, no, not Marshall! Not even if La paying part of the people. They can | Stone was trying to keep her marriage be ‘sold’ only by making the cost of a secret! I could have stood that, building or buying a good investment. | though . . . all those fly-by-night af- In every instance that the Govern- | fairs...but not you! Marshall would ment has interfered in any indus-|always come back to you! Feeling try—excepting with the national hous- | faithless to you instead of to me! As ing act—it has increased the cost of |long as you live you'll be between production. This has been done, us! And you love him, too! Your cstensibly in the interest of labor, by | own husband left you because you love increasing hourly wages. It has in- | him!” e jured every class, and especially 1abor, | Betsy said, so shaken now that her by preventing the large increase of ' voice came weak and strained through was driving in a car with Libby beside | you'll never hear it again! Never!" her .. .a mad woman! . . . green| “Betsy!...It wasg close, insistent eyes blazing at her, mocking, laughing, | voice now, hushed with a gentleness piercing through her body as sharp that reached her only remotely. and fine as saber points. | She turned quickly in the bed. the When the first sunlight lay over room whirling with her, cold sweat Washington like a golden dust, Betsy | breaking out all over her. I felt returning consciousness pressing ‘Betsy—don't be startled, dear. upon her, beating in her temples, her | And then she saw him. She saw Witsts, the deepest recesses of her body, | John with faint blue shadows beneath sweeping her back from the dark | his troubled gray eyes, his yellow hair depths of oblivion. She struggled tumbled about his face and lines against it for a long while until it etched beside his mouth which she crashed into her head and flung her |had never before remembered there. of a house strictly from the poiat of view of the use to which the rooms are to be put and to the functional relationships between rooms. Rooms combining several of the functions of | living and the elimination of rooms devoted to special functims amp frequent. “The elimination of housework due to carefully studied functional rela- tionships and the increase in comfort arising from the determination ol spaces by their intended uses obviously increase the amenities of living. “More novelty, whether in plan, structure or exterior appearance, which is unrelated to underlying eco- nomic, social or climatic factors is not likely to have a long duration. Similarly, novelty in exterior appear- ance which is unrelated to logical developments in plan or structure is likely to earn the same fate. Burden on Imagination. “The congept of the modern house as a perforated box or an assemblage of grotesque shapes no longer pre- valls, Although it is true that sim-| plicity of the forms to be dealt with | and the abandonment of decorative features puts a heavy burden upon the imagination of the designer, it is| nevertheless possible to produce a | house which is pleasing to the eye, readily adaptable to topographical features and otherwise harmonious with its environment.” Modern architecture, Mr. Colear OPEN TODAY! Colonial Detached Home Only $7,950 Terms 4905 Chevy squares below Bradley Lane. ‘the State was one located near Vinton a rationalized elevation and may pro- ceed further and produce a structural system and a vocabulary of materials peculiarly suited to it. “If it can make this third step,” he says, “its justification in breaking away from the traditional handling of forms and materials will be strengthened and its chances of per- manence a3 & truz style will be greatly augmented.” . DOGWOOD TREE HUGE Cecil County is believed to have the largest dogwood tree in the State of Maryland at the present time, ac- cording to Walter J. Quick, jr., assist~ ant forester for the Maryland State | Department of Forestry. This tree is 35 feet in height and has a crown of 41 feet. The tree is located at the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church near Atken. Prior to the discovery of the tree at Alken, the largest dogwoed tree in in Somerset County. This tree has a spread of 43 feet and a height of 28 feet. While this tree. has a greater spread than the Aiken tree the unit rating is considerably less, o Pineapple Plantations Begun. Japanese are developing pineapple | plantations in Formosa. Chase Blvd. Drive out Wisconsin Are. to Chevy Chase Boulevard three Turn left to exhibit home. ONE OF THE FINEST HOME VALUES ever offered in a detached Early American brick residence for $7,950. Lot of 50 feet frontage by 125 ft. deep on a high elevation close to schools. REAL ESTATE, B3 A New Brick Bungalow ALL MODERN 5 Rooms—2 Bed Rooms Tiled Bath and Shower, Hot-Water Heat *5.450 Sample House 2414 Girard Place N.E. OPEN DAILY, 10 to 9 Drive out Rhode Island Avenue N.E. to Mills Avenue (2000 biock R. 1. Ave.), turn right 2 blocks, then left 33 block to house Harry Wardman, Inc. 1512 K St. N.W. District 3830 WOODWARD & LOTHROP 10™IMF axp G Smaeers Proxe Dlstricr 5300 - } body into & rigid wakefulness. Her She didn't understand why he had dark lashes fluttered and she opened COme to see her. She was too smoth- her eyes. But the white room was too €red with faintness and inertia to ask. bright now with sunshine, and she She weakly gave him her hand. He closed her eyes quickly and turned | 00k it and pressed it tenderly to his over, hiding her face in the pillow. mouth, kissing her helpless fingers. And now that she was conscious, | That touch of his lips flamed down scrambled, troubled thoughts stalked through her body. stirring her to life, her mind. She went over in detail iVing her strength. She knew then what had happened—Libby, insane that everything was all right. That | production and employment in the | her lips: *durable goods’ industries that other- | «“Libby . ., . wise would have occurred. But Ior’ggmg to do?” this retarding influence the depres-| Once more the dark head was sion would be virtually over in the |thrown back in hysterical laughter United States—as it is in England | laughter that pierced the glass and many other countries.” ndows of the car and shrieked out The outlook for an immediate | into the cool aquamarine translucence healthy and substantial home build-|of the night. Once more she bent ing revival under private initiative close to 3 is revealed at the conclusion of this Beley's face, green eyes stores, churches and transportation. Spacious living room and dining room; lovely kitchen equipped with Oxford Cabinets. Electrie Range and Electric Refrigerator. Two unusually large bedrooms. Screened and weatherstripped throughout. All of the construction features found in homes much higher priced. Beautifully landscaped, detached garage. You must see what . ., what are you Open Until 9 P.M. CAFRITZ 1404 K DI. 9080 miraculously, gloriously, everything | Amtrican Builder editorial: “Contracts blazing. “I'm going to kill you and then my- | with jealousy, then the truck with only one faint light swinging from around | was all right! John wgs here with her, 1l home to appreciate it Drive out today. More Than 3,000 Lifetime Homes Built and Sold Custom-Made for residential construction in the first | half of 1935 were 70 per cent larger than in 1934, and 100 per cent ln.rgerl than in 1933. In July they were 120 the Naval Hospital, the horrible shat- | holding her hand, looking down at tering impact of steel and glass, At | her, loving her, | the memory of the black abyss Into| ¢ro be concluded tomorrow.) self. Marshall has left me! I don't want to live without him. And I won't | die leaving him free to go to you!” | per cent larger than in 1934, and 150 per cent larger than in 1933. | When the home building industry is | making such progress it may well| regard with suspicion and apprehen- sion any proposal for a ‘big push’ emanating from Washington, whose ‘experiments,’ ‘reforms’ and gigantic spending already have needlessly pro- longed the depression two years.” $60,192 MARTINSBURG BUILDING JOBS LISTED August Permits Represent Larg- est Month Expenditure in More Than Year. &pecial Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., Septem- | ber 6.—Applications for building per- | mits in Martinsburg for August total- ing $60.192 have been made to Fire Chief Roland Snyder. This is the Jargest total expenditure for building | in the city for any one month for over a year. The largest item in the application | is the permit which has been granted to Inland Service Corp. for the con- | struction of a new cold storage plant in the northwestern part of the city. BANK BUILDING SOLD Hagerstown Property Purchase Price of $100,000 Is Revealed. | HAGERSTOWN, Md, September % (®).—The receiver for the Hagers- town Bank and Trust Co. today an- nounced the sale of the Hagerstown Bank Building on the main business block of Washington street for $100,- 000. The purchaser is said to be Charles J. Hoover of Chicago, repre- senting a large Chicago firm. A mod- ern store building will be erected on the site, it is understood. The bank building is one of the oldest struc- tures in Hagerstown. Just Completed Open for Inspection 5704-08 32nd St. N.W. Chevy Chase D. C. It was just as Betsy turned into the which she had been flung every nerve | Speedway that a truck, with only one |in her body screamed -in shuddering faint pulsing light, swerved drunkenly | protest. 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Please send free booklet, “Concrete Floors for SRR AG SRR S S 4 Window Shades Will Add to the Attractiveness of Your Home This Winter How often have you noticed unsightly window shades that keep an otherwise at- tractive room from looking neat and clean. It is so inexpensive to have new shades made to fit your individual windows—fine shades that keep their new freshness grati- fvingly long. The Manufacturing Division will make your new shades or recover your old rollers with the finest of window shade material. Telephone Dlstrict 5300 for an estimate or for an appointment to have your windows r measured and fitted. MANUFACTURING DIvisioN OFricE, SEVENTH FLOOR. Get Your Home Ready for Winter In getting your home ready for Winter, let experienced decorators from the Home Im- provement Division assist you in your paint- ing and decorating problems. Exterior woodwork should be adequately protected from the destructive Winter ele- ments. Snow and ice can easily crack and rot wood unprotected by good paint. And you will want the rooms of your home fresh, clean and cheery for the coming indoors season. Freshly painted woodwork and at- tractive, new wall paper will do wonders to make living more enjoyable, and entertain- ing more pleasant. Telephone DIstrict 5300 for an estimate or assist- ance in solving your home decorating problems. ‘Homz TMPROVEMENT DIVISTON OFFICE, SEVENTH FLOOR. Tomorrow—Visit the MODEL HOME At 1430 Locust Road N.W. Built by L. E. Breuninger & Sons Furnished by Woodward & Lothrop The furnishings of this model home are typi- cal of the attractive interiors created by the Woodward & Lothrop Home Decoration Service. Experienc?dAdvertisers PreferTheStar ’r