Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1936, Page 30

REAL ESTATE. REALTORS FAVOR TAXLIMIT BILL Higher Real Estate Levy on Ad Valorem Masis Hit in Michigan. Objective of Michigan’s notable pro- posed amendment to the State's con- stitution to prohibit further taxation of general property upon an ad valo- rem tax basis to pay the cost of op- eration of local government, petition for which is now being circulated by the Michigan Real Estate Association and other groups, was heartily com- mended in resolutions adopted by the Great Lakes Regional Convention of Realtors just closed at Indianapolis. The resolutions point out that the ad valorem tax upon general property is a capital tax and therefore unsound, and that it is unequally levied. The proposed Michigan amendment would open real and personal property to taxation on the basis of the income it produces, on a like basis with other productive sources. The convention affirmed its support of the six-point proposal for tax action suggested by the National Association of Real Estate Boards, emphasizing especially the principles of an over-all limitation of the tax rate on property, and of assessment of real estate taxa- tion on the basis of its productivity. It recommended that a conference be called of all national organizations especially interested in the problem of real estate taxation to discuss read- justment of the tax structure. Shortage of Craftsmen. Pointing out that a shortage of skilled craftsmen and laborers is com- mencing to be felt in the building in- dustry, realtors from the five Great Lakes States in formal resolutions rec- ommended to the Federal Government | that it encourage such of these crafts- men and laborers as are now engaged by W. P. A. and similar governmental agencies to return to private employ- ment whenever and wherever possible, and that it modify its regulations so as to remove all fear from the minds of these workmen in regard to such a change. The convention urged real estate boards having membership in the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Boards and State real estate associ- ations of the region to take action against unauthorized use of the term *“realtor” wherever an instance of such misuse may arise. Exclusive right of the National Association of Real Estate Boards and its constituent boards to the use of the coined term “realtor” as membership designation has been upheld by 15 court decisions. The term was adopted as the asso- ciation’s membership designation just 20 years ago. Woud End “Uniform Rule.” Michigan's proposed constitutional amendment would do away with the so-called “uniform rule,” which is recognized as obsolete, but which still exists in many State constitutions and which if enforced would mean taxing of all bank deposits, for ex- ample, at the same rate as is applied to real estate. The amendment, drawn after long study of the tax problem and after years of effort to modernize the tax system so as to do equity to real and personal property, would except levies for payment of debts and obligations already incurred. It leaves to the legislative body full and complete au- thority to write the new tax laws to substitute income for the operation of the several local subdivisions of State government. BACK YARD GARDENS BEAUTIFY LANDSCAPE | Internationally Known Architect Sees America Famous for Beautiful Cities. Brectal Dispatch to The Star ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 20.—Gar- dening, fast becoming foremost among American hobbies, is producing amaz- ing results in beautifying the Ameri- can landscape, according to Copeland Asmussen of Chicago, internationally- known architect. “If garden-consciousness increases at the rate it has in the last seven years, America will be famous for its beautiful cities, and the old-time, clut- tered-up backyard will have disap- peared entirely,” Mr. Asmussen said. Mr. Asmussen began his career in Denmark, was associated with the bo- tanical gardens in England, and has laid out extensive estates. He still has a soft spot in his heart for back yards, however. e PLANS AIR CONDITIONING Bhoreham Will Install System in Ball Room. A new air-conditioning system will be put in operation next week in the main ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel, 1t was announced today. Although the Shoreham Terrace supplants the main ball room for regu- lar dinner dances through the Sum- mer, the latter room is used when it rains. In the case of sudden showers, dinner guests move to the inside room almost at once. ‘The main dining room of the Shore- ham also will be air-conditioned and the system will be in operation there within a week, according to present plans. e French Building Program. More than $100,000,000 will be spent for dwellings and schools in France. HAVE YOU SEEN New Detached Home 121 Oglethorpe Street N.W. Center hall, 6 large rooms, ideal living room with open fireplace, three full bed rooms. Complete bath with tub and shower. Elec. refr. Full size basement. Large lot facing Government park. - PRICED TO SELL Open Daily & Sunday Until 9 P.M. Harry B. Pitts Co. 1019 15th St. NW. Metro. 0100 New Residence in Nearby Maryland Ciouck Duwelling at 156 Custer road, Battery Park, Md., recently purchased by Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Corry from the firm of Phillips & Canby, builders. —Star Staff Photo, BY DOROTHY DUCAS AND ELIZA- is the right time to put some of the BETH GORDON. | new adjustable venting valves on your Did you know that you can take | Fadiators. 30 or 40 years off the looks of| Did you have a room that was hard your old-fashioned house by to heat last Winter? Was your house changing the porch? With the new | too hot in one place and not hot enough ready-to-attach porches that are on Ten to one the trouble IS YOUR house dated by its porch? | | in another? | set to encourage an easy flow of air | and heat. A set of these new radiator valves, | and a day or two spent setting them | properly for your system and your | house for every room. * ok x x OH HOW I wish I could cook my dinner right out here on the porch!” | We've all heard this apparently un- fulfillable wish expressed during the dog days of July and August, when housekeeping duties are most odious. But until now it was spoken with no hope whatsoever. Meals were cooked in hot kitchens, if they were cooked at all. | They can be cooked on an open porch, in a Summer house, or at the iargest open window now—providing there is an electric outlet. For a round black hard rubber outlet is the | only requirement for use of the new | - I will give you controlled heat | portable range we've just found, which offers space for roaster, broiler and two saucepans all at the same time. You stand it on a table on its rubber- shod legs, open it like a salesman’s grip, put your chicken and corn pud- ding in the oven, your saucepan full of string beans in one open stove, your coffee pot on the other, and before you knw it your dinner is ready. This electric cooking range is espe- cially good for Summer bungalows that are not completely equipped as to kitchens. If you rent such a Sum- mer home, it's perfect—for you can take it with you wherever you go next year. It's ideal for camps, roadstand, trailers, etc. ‘The upper part of the oven accom- modates a full-sized roaster capable of holding a large fowl or roast. The lower part, the broiling compartment, can take a large steak or eight chops. The rack can be used for toast for breakfast, too. The outside stoves, which close flush with the sides of the range for easy carrying are big enough for big pots, pans and kettles. The range costs under $30, which compares favorably with the price of 2 gas or oll stove—and with much less effort for operation. It also has a higher cooking speed than the average small model stove. For further information about any of these products, please write to De- signed for Living, care of The Star, Washington, and inclose a stamped envelope. Room Sizes Reduced. Walls painted in two-tones are helpful in reducing the size of barn- like rooms, as the pattern gives prom- inence to the background. An attrac- tive design can be produced by art- fully stippling on spots of color with THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936. TRADE GROUP CITES BENEFITS OF F. H. A. Business Boom in Seattle De- scribed by Retail Lumber Dealers’ Representative. How the building trades have bene- fited by the Federal Housing Adminis- tration’s program is told in a letter to W. D. Flanders, deputy sdminis- trator, from Carl Blackstock of Seat- tle, representing the National Retafl Lumber Dealers’ Association. Mr. Blackstock wrote in part: “I would like to give you s com- parison of the situation in the build- ing trades now and three years ago. At that time carpenters and crafts- men of all kinds were standing ted deep in all our offices begging for employment, contractors were dis- gruntled and downhearted and home owners were despairing of ever being able to pay their way out. “Our own company had 26 houses on which the purchasers owed us upward of $50,000. Our taxes were going on. The people who were liv- ing in these houses were unemployed. They couldn't or wouldn't pay, wouldn’t get out and the judges and sheriffs. wouldn’t put them out. We sold our last house of this lot the day before yesterday. “Today there isn't an idle carpen- ter in Seattle and contiguous terri- tory. Contractors are so busy that it is difficult to secure their services. I haven't felt so cheerful about the building business in 15 years.” Ages Total 40,000 Years. Old people whose ages totaled 40,- 8 sponge over a light tint—rose on | 000 years ate more than half a ton gray, for instance, or jade green on cream. of food at a dinner in Weymouth, England. the market, the face-lifting operation | is easy. Most old houses have an essentially good shape, which is often spoiled by | an excess of carpentry decoraton. Then too, styles in porches have been | as “fady” as styles in women's hats. | You may be spoiling the lines of a really beautiful house with fretwork | and gingerbread balustrades. If your | house is marred by its sitting-out space, tear off the porch and put on a modern | one. These days porches, like wxndows} and doors, come prefabricated, ready | to attach to your house. There has| been a revival of the use of cast-iron | for verandas, railings, entrances and | even balconies. This type of porch, | which reached its greatest popularity in Europe in the early part of the| nineteenth century, has a strangely | modern look today. The reason, of | course, is that additions of delicately | patterned iron do little to change the solid mass of a house. | Two of the best demonstration houses opened recently boast porches made of this prefabricated cast-iron. | Silhouetted against a house, the floral | pattern of the ironwork acts as emis- | sary between garden and architec-| ture. Looking toward the garden from | the veranda, the floral design serves to frame the picture and makes the first glimpse of the garden more inviting. | It is pure decoration, susceptible of | any style. A varlety of patterns are offered | by this ornamental ironwork com- | pany, ranging from Greek frieze motifs to bunches of grapes, with leaves | and curling tendrils. New designs | submitted by an architect or an owner | can be reproduced, if one desires something original. Patterns other than stock ones are naturally more expensive, but the cost of this sort of porch or balcony is no greater, in spite of the use of du.able, weather- resistant metal, than the cost of many wooden porches and balconies. Portecocheres, terraces and one- window balconies are other ones for prefabricated cast-iron which will bear your investigation. * % %k x Wl HATE to keep harping on a subject, but we can’t seem to forget that now is the time for all good home-owners to think about their heating systems, since now is the only time of the year when their idleness permits working on them. And this Charming Detached Brick Between Conn. Ave. and Rock Creek Park, mear Albemarble St. was with the venting valves, which, || unless they were of recent vintage, ||| were not adjustable. | Venting is really very simple to con- | | trol—as well as to understand. Radi- | | ators heat up exactly as fast as the 4530 zgth N w heat can push the cold air out of the ||| . . radiators. Hard-to-heat radiators are, ||| 6 Rms., 2 Baths, Oil Burner, therefore, radiators that are hard to || Maid’s Room and Bath vent. With the new modern venting ‘ | valves, which can be individually ad- |[|| &rs iore the ety s justed for the needs of that radiator || & | v O and its distance from the boiler, every || dining room, Hibrary. pantrs on fhe first: floor: radiator and consequently every room floor has 3 full-sized_bedrooms can be properly heated. I The new adjustable venting valves || can be set individually to fit the needs || of your system. The easy-to-heat ||| rooms will have valves that are ad justed to those conditions, while the ereens, hardweod Open Sunday 2 to 6 L. T. Gravatte Nat. 0353 a'ths: oben fireplace, hard-to-heat rooms will have valves || $750 CASH v Ghor wn ome BALANCE ON TERMS EASIER THAN RENT N\ g SPRING STREET East of Connecticut Avenue Between Raymond and Shepherd Streets COMPLETELY RENOVATED AND REDECORATED A B-room bungalow with big front porch. large landscaped lot with 70-foot frontage. New tiled bath and new kitchen equipment. full attic and base- ment. detached garage. OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY TO 9 P.M. HENRY K. JAWISH Investment Building District 5014 bath and atti This Home Must Be Sold —All Offers Considered 729 Fifteenth St. N.W. rcle and Chevy Ch: Country Club 1st Square West of Conn. Ave., Facing Public Reservation .3 West Lennox Street 3 Lot 85x125—Six Bedrooms—Two Baths—Garage Aristrocratic neighborhood, admired for its beauty, refined and exclusive, in beautiful sylvan setting, imposing and outstanding. First floor has reception room, living room with open fireplace, dining room, kitchen newly equipped with G. E. tefrigerator, new cabinets, linoleum and gas range; large front and side porches; second floor has four delightful bedrooms and bath; third floor has two bedrooms, has h.-w.h., elec., screens and weatherstrips. OPEN TODAY AND SUNDAY National 0753 L. T. Gravatte Realtor P 7 Rooms~2 Baths $12,500 2-Car Garage, An Unusually Large Lot, 160 ft. Deep. We Will Consider Your House in Trade. Our Sample House 1329 Hamilton St. N.W. Between 2 Car Lines. Open Daily 9 to 9 Harry Wardman, Inc. “Life's Worth Living in s Wardman Home" FIRST OFFERING OF TWO OUTSTANDING VALUES In One of Washington’s Most Rapidly Growing Sections. TAKOMA PARK, MD. 1701 Flower Avenue 7 Rooms—2 Baths—Bedroom and Bath on First Floor 1711 Flower Avenue 5 Large Rooms and Bath and Studio Living Room $8,950 Both homes have furred walls, fully insulated. Oil heat, copper screens, slate roof and copper flashings, and many other attrac- tive features. On unusually large lots. Open Daily and Sunday to 9 P.M. Out Silver Spring to trafic light, turn right past Mrs. Kay's Toll B it on Franiin ve. %o Fiower Ave. Brn HipNt 1o houses. L. F. ROBERTSON, Owner & Builder 825 Tuckerman St. N.W. Phone Ge. 4551 REAL ESTATE. You've Never Seen Homes Like These Exhibit Home, 3149 Adams Mill Rd. N.W. This Is the Second and Last Group of These Homes Facing ROCK CREEK PARK No more ground avail- able in this location Only 10 minutes From Downtown 6 Large Rooms —2 Tile Baths MN_133H15 w9l WYSY Aied yee ooy Extra Large Recreation Room. Rock Creek Park Is Your Front Yard 13 Sold—2 Left g 7A:nr Inndrivid‘ual New Home WOODSIDE PARK, MD. $10,950 OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY TO 9 P.M » 623 Wodside Parkway Located on large 70-foot lot in one of Washington’s most exclusive suburbs. Convenient to schools, churches, trans- portation and public parks. Price, 10,950 Center-hall plan, containing six rooms and two baths with floored, insulated attic. Brick construction, copper gutter- ing, furred walls, weather-stripped and caulked. Vermont variegated slate room, semi-tubular boiler with oil burner and built-in garage. To reach rroperty. drive ou throuoh Silver S Road. to Woodside e WOODSIDE CONSTRUCTION CO. Silver Spring, Md. Phone Silver Spring 109 g Parkioa t o A BEAUTIFUL HOME IN BATTERY PARK, MD. Spacious Lawns—Tree Lined Streets and Fine Homes Make This an Exclusive Neighborhood. 503 MAPLE RIDGE ROAD BATTERY PARK, BETHESDA, MD. This is one of the prettiest homes in this delightful section. Bix spacious rooms and concrete screened porch with an attached garage. The floor plan is particularly attractive. Large living room with open fireplace and adjoining screened porch, spacious dining room and mod« ern kitchen, modern gas range and electric refrigerator. Upstairs are three bed rooms (one 2 master bed room) with adjoining tiled bath and there is an extra lavatory. Full basement with oil heat and automatic hot-water heater. Front yard and rear garden beautifully landscaped, including art stone benches, bird bath, etc. The entire house is copper screened, metal weather-stripped and equipped with standard plumbing fixtures.e Heart of Congressional Club District TO REACH: Drive out Old Gegrgetown Road ast Bank of Bethesda, turn left on Gl pie: Rlabe o brook Road to Maple Ridge Road. Appointment by calling the occupant at Wis- § consin 4275-J or Mr. Bowers at National 3328. E. C. BOWERS 410 HILL BLDG., 839 17TH ST. N.W. NA. 3328-29-30 |