Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1936, Page 28

EXPERTS DISGUSS ECONOMIC TREND Briton Infers U. S. Strays Into Gay Flower Beds, in Talk to Scientists. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 8. ~The United States, by inference, | was described today as a country | straying into strange and gaily col- ored economic flowerbeds. The description came from Dennis Holme Robertson, University of Camb- ridge economist. who was one of three | economists who spoke in the second symposium on man, entitled “Author- | ity, and the Individual” held at the Harvard Tercentenary. Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, Columbia University, proposed a “deliberate and systematic study of social problems” 10 be directed by a small and perpetual planning board. Douglas Berry Copland of Aus- tralia’s University of Melbourne, said | that if the United States was to allow *native genius for rapid development under individual enterprise to flourish” it must build a bridge between the entrepreneur and some system of au- thority over him. | In a sectica of biology, Bernardo | Albert Houssay, M. D.. professor of physiology, University of Buenos Aires, | named the measurement of relative| glandular influences on diabetes as| necessary to progress toward a cure for the disease. He identified the| glands concerned as the pencreatic, | pituitary and suprarenals and., to a| lesser degree, the sex and thryoids. | Calling himself “the thinker of dangerous thoughts,” Robertson said: | “Some foreign governments Wwhich made souand finance their prime ob- jective find themselves ever further and further from their aim, like Alice | in the garden of live flowers, when she | tried so obstinately to reach the red queen by walking toward her. He spoke specifically of “a govern- ment which the laws of hospitality | forbid me to name, lengthening its own journey perhaps by straying into strange and gayly colored flower beds | but destined * * * through turning its back so firmly on the red queen, in time once more to meet her face to face.” He mentioned that dictatorships have used some “weapons of recovery” un- used by other nations “with apparent | effect but at a cost in freedom which | seems * * * too high to pay.” Robertson said it seems clear that after recession of trade has degen- erated into an “orgy of destruction, it is right and reasonable to use the | manifold powers of the state to * * * restore a normal level of activity.” Dr. Mitchell said a survey of West- ern world economics since 1776 “sug- Is $47,000,000 The Federal housing program’s | progress and its social sgnificance are discussed in a series of 19 articles,of which this is the eighth, by a veteran newspaper man who traveled several thousand miles to inspect the housing projects in ‘many parts of the United States. BY WILLIAM C. McCLOY. Rural resettlements differ in many respects from the other housing proj- ects in which Uncle Sam has put his money. Sometimes they are called “subsistence homestead towns.” Be- tween 1,200 and 1,500 projects of this type were suggested to the Resettle- ment Administration by Govgrnors, municipalities and individual citizens. Sixty-six are under construction and 25 are completed or nearing com- pletion. The cost is estimated at $47,- 000,000 the total acreage at 466,000, and they are expected to provide for 8,500 families. As self-contained towns, rural re- settlements hope to attract manu- facturers who will build factories there so that the inhabitants can combine industrial work with small-scale farming—a plan that originated some years ago with Henry Ford. Some of the settlers are industrial workers— garment workers or jobless miners. Some are farmers whose farms have been ruined by drought, erosion or | unscientific farming. Two Towns in Active Order. The two subsistence towns most | talked about, with varying and con- tradictory degrees of fervor, are| Hightstown, N. J, and Reedsville, W. Va. Both are in active working order, with families living in them. In Hightstown, a little girl, daughter of Samuel Cohen, formerly of Brook- lyn and now a potato farmer, is the first child to be born in the colony. Cohen has lived there two years. His potatoes are said to be the best in | Monmouth County. Eight families are now living in Hightstown, or | “Jersey Homesteads,” as it is known | officially. Twenty-seven more are | moving there into houses just finished. When completed, the settlement is ex- pected to house 200 families. |~ Of the 1200 acres, originally com- | prising eight farms, and bought by | Uncle Sam early in 1934 for about $100,000, only one-third will be cov- ered by buildings. It took a year to build the colony as it stands todav. The delay was due chiefly to the dl(-] flculty of finding a $2,000 house that | would stand up as long as the mort- | gage held—that is, for 25 years. They | finally had to raise the first cost of | the houses to $5,000 each. Each homesteader contributes in- itially $500. Prom the revolving fund gests that we are in for more rather than for less government planning in the calculable future. “It will not be surprising.” he com- mented, “if investors in great indus- | tries that are threatened with loss by | technological progress organize cam- | paigns for Government purchase and operation.” A new fact in the mystery of cos- | mic rays was emphasized by Dr. Ar- | thur H. Compton, University of Chi- | cago Nobel Prize winner. Traffic Convictions RECKLESS DRIVING. Charles C. Evans, 726 Twentieth street northeast, $25 or 30 days. COLLIDING. John A. Davies, no address, $15. FIRST OFFENSE SPEEDING. | Kirby D. Tucker, 1621 E street Rortheast, $15. | Roy Wells, 1914 Bennett place northeast, $15. | Raymond L. Hubbard, jr., 5403 Car- | olina place, $15. Woodrow W. Moore, Delaware, $15. Arnold Silverman, New York, $25. Harry T. Kelly, Maryland, $35 (two eases). thus amassed they will buy raw ma- | terials, provide rental for a New York City show room for the garments they make in the factory that is part of U Tony Rich, Maryland, $20. Theodore W. Merritt, 4202 Thirty- | seventh street, $10. Frank E. Diggs, 800 Ingraham street, $10. James T. Kubrock, Maryland, $10. John J. Thomas, 3512 Rittenhouse street, $10. | Eleanore H. Sanders, Maryland, $20. | ‘Walter H. Jacobs, 2422 Pennsyl- vania avenue, $20. ’ Thomas E. Norris, Maryland, $15. | John W. Doldt, Maryland, $15. Roosevelt Richardson, 1219 Sixth | street, $25. | Harold L. Linden, 1221 Linden street | wortheast, $10. Edwin Isard, 4314 Georgia avenue, $10. Julian Suydam, 1504 Thirteenth | street, $1 | REDUCED! OUT-OF-TOWN TELEPHONE RATES Yo points 240 or more miles away, and over- time person-to-person charges. % Ask Long Distance for the low rate to anywhere. His Best Friend Told Him % was his wife and she told him the truth. But she didn’t say he had “bad breath.” Instead, she said, “My dear, you need E-Z Tablets.” A hint to the wise was sufficient. Don't wait for some one to tell you. If you feel alug- gish, headachy, dissy, or billous, due 80 eonstipation, you may be quite sure' your breath is telling others. Get & package of E-Z Tablets today. Allll‘ Gud G saies, 0 36 SR Covered Is 466,000. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. and Acreage the community and.pay the Govern- ment a factory rental of $1,000 a year for the first Ave years, plus a per- centage of profits not yet determined. They will also pay themselves union wages, out of which they will buy their homes in monthly installments of not more than $24. The factory building, 100 by 220 feet and 20 feet high, is largely windows—the most modern factory on the Eastern seaboard. Ten garment workers are now employed there. Equipment Ultra-Modern. ‘The Hightstown dwelling houses are of cinder concrete blocks, one story high, with flat roofs. Though small, they are light, airy and convenient. All equipment is ultra-modern. The flat roofs are insulated against heat and cold. Air-conditioning makes these houses 14 degrees cooler than the outside temperature in hot weather. Five miles of main, two artesian wells, and a 75.000-gallon reserve tank make up the water sup- ply system. The sewage system in- cludes five miles of tile sewer ducts and a disposal plant. The only other one in New Jersey up to the same standard is at Princeton. The Jersey homesteads’ harvest this | season was 1300000 pounds of po- | tatoes from 100 acres, 400 tons of to- | matoes from 50 acres, 400 bushels of | apples from 40 acres, 70 tons of hay from 74 acres, 1,080 bushels of wheat from 50 acres. The 800 men employed daily on construction come mostly from Jersey relief rolls. Rabbi Wise and Dr. Albert Einstein are members of Jersey Homesteads' Sponsoring Committee. The rural resettlement at Reeds- ville, W. Va, known officially as| “Arthurdale Community,” stands | amoag gently rolling hills that be- | longed to Col. John Fairfax in Revo- | lutionary times. age of 1137 and is just outside the town of Reedsville, Preston County, It has a total acre- | with a population of 345 in 1930, The settlers here are coal mirers and their families—men formerly employed in the nearby Scotts Run area. In the golden 20s, when most parts of the county were enjoy- ing a glittering boom, this mining section already knew depression. La- bor-saving machinery and the com- petition of other fuels created a sur- plus of partially employed labor long 1004 F St. N.W. ™ - ¢l - W For Travel, Town and Country. 1009, Camel's Hair Coats 6 Get a lift with a camel! They’re the young- est, smartest coats going this Fall. Specially in swinging swagger styles in black or grey or brown or natural! stars in a group of grand Young Washing- tonian coats—in fleeces, striped, monotone and herringbone wools. They’re what you want for campus, business or general knock- Sizes 11 to 17. (Third Ploor. Young Washingtonian Shop.) about wear. 95 e feature ,them as ‘mental project and mistakes were B—10 Q*'*' Subsistence Homestead Towns Under Construction Total 66 25 Completed or Nearly Finished—Cost before the mines. Disease Followed Poverty, The miners’ homes were typical of rural slums—unpainted, unrepaired shacks. Poverty and enforced idle- ness were followed by disease and broken morale. At last, when the whole country began to suffer from depression, the Government turned to aid these stranded families and an effort was made to rehabilitate them, socially and economically. ‘That effort is the Reedsville proj- ect—the butt of 50 many well-fed and well-housed wits. It was an experi- depression closed the made at first, such as the purchase of ready-built, “cut” houses for the first 50 structures erected. The foun- dations prepared for them proved in- adequate and basements had to be built. ‘The Government contends that the practical experience gained in build- ing low-cost houses at Reedsville will make possible similar projects else- where at a vastly reduced cost. The total cost is estimated at $1,600,000 by friends of the project, and at $3,500,000 by its critics. It is diffi- cult to estimate exactly, because so many agencies have contributed labor and materials. C. W. A, F.E R. A, C. C. C.and W. P. A. all played their part. The Government's figure for the highest priced homestead on the Reedsville project is $5,570.86: the lowest priced, $4,396.34. At present 122 homes are finished, with 99 fami- lies installed and 40 more are in| process of construction. Nine miles | of newly built roads run through the colony. Each homestead includes a four to six room house with bath room, a well with an electric pump, a septic tank to meet sanitation re- | quirements, a combination barn and poultry house and an average of 3.89 | acres of land for gardening. The University of Virginia has established | an experimental farm on the project | and an agricultural adviser is there to teach the ex-miners the practical | Factory Completed. A factory was completed last Oc- tober and stands near a freight spur close to the project. This factory is owned by the co-operative “Arthur- dale Association,” of which each| homesteader is & member. It has | leased the factory to the Electric Vacuum Cleaner Co. of Cleveland, which has been in business since technique of gardening. ‘ Round | D. C, 1919. Under this lease the company agrees to equip and maintain the fac- tory, to pay taxes and insurance charges on it and to employ such homesteaders as are available at wages set forth in the code for fair competition in that industry. The company will also maintain an eight- hour day and workmen's insurance and compensation. Homesteaders can also work in the Mountaineer Craftsmen’s Co- operative Association, which produces metal and wood work. Later other homesteaters expect to work in the dairy farm, the stock farm, the poul- try farm and the community services. At present wages range from 45 to 80 cents an hour. The Arthurdale Association will buy the settlement from the Govern- ment by installments over a 40-year period, with interest at 3 per cent. In the same way individual residents will make an agreement with the as- sociation to buy or rent their homes over a 40-year period. Once the prop- erty is taken over from the Federal Government the Arthurdale Associ- ation will take title to it and the comgmunity probably will be organized 2s an unincorported unit of Preston County, paying taxes and receiving the services usual to normal com- munity operation. (Copyright 1036, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Ine.) Calling All Cows. BEND, Oreg. (#).—Treed by a bull, Charles W. Silvis noticed & number of cows, and with many a loud “Sook, Bossy,” attracted them near enough to change the bull's anger to a desire for company. He lost an hour. Round trip rates most parts U8, aslowas 1-3/104 amile! Chicago New York ___- Pittsburgh 9.45 Phone District 5600 REAT EASTERN <=» bus system Complement your mew fall clothes with Vinbeatte Silk Stockings MYTH CHIFFONS in 3 new shades 15 3 for 3.30 Happitone—a bronzy tan to wear with brown. 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