Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1935, Page 22

FB—6 *»» 100 PCT. BUILDING - RISE SEEN IN 133 Need for New Dwellings Is Revealed by Housing Council Head. The scope of activity that may be| ‘expected from private enterprise in housing for the months just ahead is described by Walter . Schmidt of ‘Cincinnati, president of the National ‘Association of Real Estate Boards, in the current issue of the Journal of Land and Public Utllity Economics, published by Northwestern University. Schmidt, who brings data from many sources, salted by experience, to give the answer, points out that it “must be predicated on removal of un- certainty about direct Federal building and entrance of the Federal Govern- iment as a landlord at uneconomic _rents to demoralize market supply and {demand. He declares that action of the Federal agencies may be so ad- ‘justed as to avoid this unnecessary fear. t Meantime, Russell G. Creviston, iChicago, chairman of the newly or- \ganized Manufacturers’ Housing Dis- play Council, in a recent address also {weighs current data, not only on ~housing, but on commercial and in- ‘dustrial building outlook. ? 100 Per Cent Increase Due in 1936. To give first Mr. Creviston's estl- pproximately 40,000 dwelling ‘units were built in 1934, about 70,000 are being built in 1935, and there fshould be about & 100 per cent in- fcrease in 1936, Even today, with our 80 per cent increase over last year, we {are not very much above the irreduci- ible minimum of residential building. i Commercial building is so far but 4 iper cent ahead of last year. Even i though industrial building now is some 120 per cent behind 1935 next year ighould see it rise at least to 20 per ,cent ahead of 1935. Total building, {residential and non-residential, in 1936 "Will be fully 54 per cent ahead of 19,3\5 to new home building he adds: “With an average family income of iunder $2.000 how can there be & REAL ESTATE. New home of Mr. and Mrs. Gail W. Crossen, at 3154 Tennyson street, which they purchased from the builder, Claude G. Johnson, through the offices of Edward H. Jones & Co, Inc. rooms, two baths, finished third floor, living and sleeping porches. Comfort, Beauty, Practicality Factors in Good Decorating The house contains six —Star Staff Photo. PROBE -SAVES $1,000 Careful Examination of Mortgage by F. H. A. Aids Builder. QUESTS FOR LOAN ATH.O.LG.FE Mortgage Relief Bids Since June 27 Show That Needs Are Béing Met. By the Associated Press. Chairman John P. Fahey said re- cently the Home Owners” Loan Corp. has received “practically no requests for ~home mortgage relief since June 27.” On that date the corporation stop- ped accepting new applications, It will cease lending in 11 States January 11, nd in the remainder of the Nation by next June 13, Unofficial listed the geaeral downward trend in private interest rates and a growing tendency by lend- ers to make long-time amortized loans as major factors in relieving pressure on H. O. L. C, which has advanced $2,870,798,390 to 949,805 borrowers. In a statement, Fahey said rumors that large numbers of home owners still are seeking H, O. L. C. assistance, had “no justification.” Few Apply in Extra Period. He said that when the H. O. L. C. ‘was authorized to accept new applica- tions for a 30-day period ending Ji 27, those filed fell far short of anticl- pated volume. During the preceding five months, when no applications were accepted, Fahey said, “It had been anticipated that 400,000 or 500,000” would be filed, but he asserted that “only 143,000 were actually filed.” Fahey said a “large proportion” of the 143,000, were_ineligible. for loans “because the applicants were not in actual distress and in danger of fore- clmur’e' under their original mort- About 90 per cent of the funds dis- bursed by H. O. L. C. have gone to building and loan associations, savings banks and similar institutions, which now are reported seeking investment chaanels for this ‘money. At the same time, private institu- tions are said to be becoming more attractive to prospective borrowers be- cause of competitively reduced interest rates and wider use of long-term loans, BALTIMORE STREET BILL OPPOSED BY REALTORS A ST § Real Estate Board Protests It ‘Would Tie Up Property for Years. LAND PURCHASES 0.K.'D 9 States Enact Laws Authorizing U. 8. Buy for National Forests. Nine States enacted laws author- izing Federal acquisijion of land for national forests, four extended the scope of previous laws, and in many other States, legislation was passed beneficial to conservation of forest re- sources, according to a review of State forestry legislation announced today by the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Rhode Island, Ohio, Indiana, Idaho, Montana, Utah, California, Oregon and Washington were the States en- acting laws to authorize and encour- age Federal land acquisition for na- tional forest purposes, bringing to 3¢ the total of those States which have passed such laws. In some cases legislation ' carried various forms of limitations, in others there were no specified restrictions. Maine, New | Hampehire, Missouri and Arkansas modifieq existing laws. Leaves Rot Out Wood. Home Modernization Some Form of Home Improvement Urged as Appropriate Christmas Gift for The Entire Family. BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS, When you are trying to figure out whaat to give the family for Christmas this year why not include some form of home improvement that will benefit every one in the household? has become too delapidated to repair can easily be replaced by a sanitary metal one which will include a mirror, . | glass shelves, and possibly a con- Perhaps your present mirror is in bad shape—re. place it with a new, modernistic one. And how about the shower curtain? The new curtains are available in almost every color, some have marine scenes printed on them, others have smart mod en up the whole bath room. Acceptable House Gifts. Scales, towel bars, clothes hampers, glass and toothbrush holders are highly acceptable gifts “to the house. There are numerous presents that will add to the general comfort of the family throughout the entire Winter. | An electric heater for those cold | Winter mornings when the heating lern designs that will bright- | | where it is connected to ihe oll burner | 1tsel, or to the kitchen where & bright, | shiny new stove awaits the “chief | cook.” Rediator Enclosures Help. Radiator inclosures or shields will do much to improve the looks of un- | sightly radiators, and help to make useful a considerable portion of wasted | space by supplying shelf room on top. | Such gifts as humidifiers, attic ventilation fans, kitchen ventilators, | or air conditioners will be enthusiastic- | ally received. They may be bought on a time-payment basis under the terms of the Federal Housing Admin- | istration, and may be installed at any either during or after the OPENTODAY Lovely new homes, baths, modern ki doors . elaborate with big in garage . - hood. plant seems to take such a long time | to make the house even livable. possibly a new gas or electric hot- water heater which will supply an adequate quantity of that most neces- sary of household comforts. Or | This Christmas & number of home- | makers will be delighted with a novel gift that will save them innumerable | trips to the basement. When they come downstairs early Christmas morning and begin to unwrap their various presents they will be greeted with an envelope and gift card neatly tied with a piece of ribbon. The rib- bon then stretches across the floor to & newly installed thermostat mounted on the wall—controlling a buckwheat coal blower, a new gas burner, or the last world in oil burners, The ribbon might be extended to the basement Furnished Model Home 5006 3rd St. N.W. Furnishings by Hilda N. Miller Out 5th St. N.W. to Parr Gnad Tiont 10 3rd dnd homes: Tower i Dist. 3100 REALTOR Special Dispatch to The Star. same gingham in red and white, and | Special Dispatch to The Star. When the leaves fall. and blow | An Outstanding Value market of the tremendous possibili- | ties outlined? Average family m-i comes have never appeared to be glass curtains of red-dotted white| NEWARK, N. J., December 7.—The swiss. \ careful examination of a mortgage pro- Decorators are recommending | posal by the Federal Housing Admin- about they will bank up against fences | and at the base of trellises. - Clean | them away, as they will hold damp- | NEW YORK, November 30.—Archi- | tects and decorators recognize today | New Air Link. . Alr service is being inaugurated be- large, but it is surprising how much this average family can save when| it wants to. Our record as a people income averages do not stand in the way of improved home owning . . . The modern trend offers an entirely new interpretation of what a dwell- ing place should be. It offers a new conception of design, of use of space, iof necessary equipment and fits in with the spirit and mode of the Amer- | o ;i 016 that you must needs worry our better con-| dean people. With ception of the market and with our improvements in building and equip- iment we should be able to meet & “for a higher standard of living than ever before.” Important Elemenis Seen. Mr. Schmidt discusses the normal expectation for housing and the out- Uook for private enterprise, aided as it can be by completing the work of ‘mortgage stabilization, limiting gov- ernmental bullding to some definite experimental program in place of the present uncertainties as to Govern- ment entrance as a landlord. He sees the following as important elements of the whole question: 1. That there has come a definite swing back to the single family house. Since 1930 the major portion of con- “struction has been of the single-fam- ily type. (Whereas from 1900 to 1920 | spartment house construction was on the increase as compared to one and two family dwellings.) 2. The apartment building, as ordi- narily considered, houses but a neg- ligible portion of our families, prob- ably etween 8 and 10 per cent, he estimates. 3. As a people we accept as prima- facle that he who desires a new home must purchase it. There is prac- tically no building to rent in the single family field. 4 Thus has been sustained and stimulated the distinctive American ideal of home ownership. Not Confined to Wealthy. 5. The desire is not confined to the wealthier class. Department of Com- merce figures, taken in 52 cities, show $1,478 as the average income of the American home owner in 1933. On the other hand, he says: *Rentals of the lower-income group, who occupy usually the oldest of the residential structures of the com- munity, vary with the city and the Jocation in it from $2.50 to $5 per room, whereas the limited-dividend corporations in New York City, al- though granted concessions in taxes and other items, and although all are charging the allowed maximum of $12 per month per room, still are earning no falr return. They can hardly be sald to be serving the low-wage group when 500,000 fam- .ilies in that metropolis are paying $6 or less per room. Not today, nor for 35 years, has it been possible to build for the low-wage group at any rent that group can afford to pay, whether the improvement is con- atructed well or fll.” Mr, Schmidt sees the expected surge upward of the stable and saving mid- dle class into new homes, the release thus ‘of u#d housing of somewhat better class for the occupancy of those below and the elimination of the worst of the tenements now in use as the logical and practical goal for ‘which to strive, Preésenti 4208 Ingomar ngh NW, Chevy Chase, D. C. AN IDEAL LOCATION—Convenient to Conn. or Wisconsin Ave, bus and “f lines. In walkh dis- tance of three of the fine new schools in the District. including the new Woodrow Wilson High ARGE ROOMS_TWO BATHS X PORCH— E ATTI CREENED— L WEATHERSTRIPPED—OIL OPEN DAILY UNTIL 9 PM- CYRUS KEISER, JR. 5211 Wisconsin Ave, CL. 5371 | be three factors: Comfort, beauty and has demonstrated that seemingly 10W | o, oty Comfort—that blisstul | and divans—can be completely nulli- | spilled glass. But comfort, beauty tel portion of the real needs and practicality, skillfully interwoven, _greater proj ! | and homemakers are weaving them | those individuals who will spend their that behind the actual furniture, wall | colors and accessories that comprise | the modern living room there must sinking into deep-cushioned chairs fled by clashing, ill-chosenr colors in | the surroundings. And the comfort of having a table for ash tray, book and lamp right at your elbow can be rendered hollow if the table is so about marring the table top or ruin- ing its surface with an inadvertently prove the perfect formula. Taking these three factors as a starting point, thoughtful decorators into living-room designs that make thoroughly enjoyable backgrounds for time in the rooms. Some people enjoy building a room around a definite theme. There s, for instance, the apartment living room of the Paul Whitemans which overlooks Central Park. It has been designed to be a “Rhapsody in Blue” room gnd combines various iints and tones of blue with accents of contrasting colors. ‘The walls are powder blue and the | other tones of the room range from ivory to a shell color and then lemon yellow and coral. The carpet is a dusty powder blue, too. The grand piano has been painted ivory white and there’s always a crystal vase on it filled with long-stemmed cala lilies. The window wall is hung with ivory and lemon yellow, and another wall is nearly covered with book shelves that have a blue-mirrored background. Over the sofa is the picture that | gives the room its color theme—a painting of Paul Whiteman. conduct~ ing. Done by an Italian artist, it combines all the shades of blue that are introduced into the inviting living room. An entirely different type of living room is the quaint kitchen-sitting room designed by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and displayed at a prominent Manhattan stpre. The floor: Nearly covered with a rag rug in faint vari-colored stripes, with gray wool fringe. Painted furniture with elaborate designs of flowers and fruit, grouped comfortably. The win< dows: Curtained in blue and white checked gingham with a ruffie of the ness all Winter and rot out the wood painted walls particularly this year | istration staff in the local insuring of- because the velvety smoothness of | such a finish not only adds immeas- | urably to the beauty of the room, but | supplies the quality of practicality so much to be desired. They are also advocating mar-proof finishes for end table and ash-tray stands, so that the | third attribute—comfort—can be de- rived from these pieces of furniture | just as surely as it can be from deep- seated couches and chairs. Kyoto, Japan, has & serious “tax- evasion” scandal. | fice was directly responsible recently for saving & prospective home builder $1,000. - After appraisal it was discovered by housing administration experts that construction costs as estimated by the contractor were $1,000 too great. 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