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The Washington herald., 1920-08-29
AUCTION Expected to Stimulate
ActiOity in Real Estate Market
By Arousing Interest of Public
Veteran Salesman Tells Secret of Success in
Handling Big Realty Deals in All Sec
tons of United States.

is accepted by some OF the largest
Industrial corporations in the United
States, such as the United States
Steel. Sinclair Oil. and Henry Ford
for whom he acts as purchasing
agent. He is kept in constant touch
with the financial pulses OF the
country because OF his intimate as
sOcistion with some Of the largest
enterprises Of the country, among
them the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company, OF which he is one
of the trustees. His opinion is con-
stantly sought by men OF large af-
fairs and his advice is strictly fol-
lowed, and for this reason Mr.. Days
sales methods are worthy OF very
serious consideration by the peo-
pie OF Washington.
A large number Of property own
crs have sought Mr.. Days advice
regarding the sale OF their property
in this city. After a very careful
study and analysis Of the situation
Mr.. Day has concluded that the auC-
ton method Of selling. as conducted
by himself aad his trained orEani-
zation, will produce the results de-
sired.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-29
District People Flood Offices
+ OfLocal Real Estate Dealers
s With Requests for Assistance
Apartment Shortage Predicted After Careful
Investigations as Prospect of Winter
Looms in the Lessening Distance.

Unprecedented demand for homes and the District
during coming forecasted by who
following during past weeks
The homes by those seeking establish the Of
their already felt strongly real circles Visitors
fearful lest will enough o go around
Inquiries for homes from people with sincere desire better
their living conditions showed noticeable during the
Realtors Busy hustlng around ngs of properties
for sale Of the fact that there has been little home
building during the due multitude OF
them inability obtain with which
and shortage and practical inability obtain
requisite building materials, homes will be
Practically all the building the District usually takes place dur
and months completing by fall
little possibility OF home building being large
scale this Certainly, with this confront home
seekers pointed will be many who will have
without quarters satisfactory to them or months
The Washington herald., 1920-08-29
Filipino Attorney
Buys Chevy Chase
Mansion for Home

More and more the Capital City
Of the United States is attracting
permanent residents within its
bounds. One of the latest to join
the list of owners Of palatial homes
here is Florentino Panintuan. a
Filipino lawyer.
Announcement has just been made
OF the purchase by him OF the
former home of Robert L. COrby at
Chevy Chase for a sum understood
to be in the neighborhood of S35.-
600. Weaver Brothers represented
Mr.. Corby in the sale, while Panin-
tuan was represented by the real
estate department of the Munsey
Trust Co.
Mr.. Corby has taken up his per-
manent residence in New York. now
being connected with the Fleisch-
mann Yeast Co.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-29

ton. In the meantime. they are go
ing ahead and making every plan
for taking care of the exceedingly
large fall demand which is expected
Not only is the demand for homes
and apartments expected to show
decided increase. but Washington S
place as commercial city on
large scale is fast climbing to the
top. At the present time there is
an unprecedented demand for retail
store space And. like home build
ing. the construction Of stores has
not been very noticeable during the
summer months just passing. 1t Will
b. almost impossible to meet the de-
mand
A number Of local realty firms
have been showcred with commits
sions from firms from the outside Of
the CITY to obtain retail store space
in the downtown district. 1t is with
difiCulty that these realtors are ahIe
TO locate ANYTHING satisfactory. and
Il is practically certain that unless
there Is a sudden jump In building
some Of the firms which want to
come here viii have to give uD the
idea until conditions are moro nearly
normal.
Part Of the increased demand for
homes here comes from people who
have been waiting all summer for
the rumored slump in real estate
hero. As predicted in these COL
Tmns. It did not come. and II has
not and will not even show a peep
in the vorv n"ar future. Many pros
ncCtive buyers. realizing that there
- more likely to be a rise than
fall. are now sCurrYinR To get per
lament roofs over their heads be
fore II costs them more. Many Of
them have waited too long already.
for prices continue to rise. and
those houses which have been pvt
nm r"rentlv are costing more both
IN labor and material. These in
"reases the ultimate consumer and
homo owner viii have to hear as a
penalty for waiting.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-29
Lumber Supply Decrease
Alarms Building Trades

The United States Agriculture
Department gives publicity 10 the
following facts and states that it
amounts to real tragedy. The
cure is to use lumber inside the
building only
/. The New England States are
no longer selG-suppertinE in mm.
Der way.
The Lake States. once our
greatest producers of lumber. are
now importing lumber to keep
alive the many wood using indus
tries In that section.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-29
FAILS
TO MEET NEEDS
Cleveland Realtor Declares
Business Conditions Hin
der Progress.

Closely allied to the renting sit
uation is the housing problem.
Louis A. Moses, Cleveland realtor.
in discussing the housing situation
in the National Reat Estate jour
nal, said:
The housing situation in our
cities today, il anything, is more
acute than it was one year ago, de-
spite the fact that building has IN
part been resumed. Industrial eX-
pansion has continued with increas-
ing vigor even to the present date.
ever demanding more houses for
workers, with the supply OF houses
proving more and more Inadequate.
The competition of industrial and
commercial demand for building ma
terials and labor, has resulted in
increasing difficulties in the build
ing of homes. This has been furth-
er aggravated by the extreme de-
mands for industrial and CONNER
cial financing, with a consequent
lessening OF funds available for
home construction, coupled with a
stiff increase in the loaning rate.
These last factors have diminished
the attrsCtiveness of the building
Of small homes, or in fact. made 1t
impossible for the small builder to
operate. at all times the real back
bone of the small house building
industry.
THE railroad strike and general
shortage of labor has. OF course.
been a large disturbing factor ana
deterrent OF greatly increased build
ing activities during recent months.
while II was not felt that proper
financing alone in the present period
will secure adequate building con-
struction for the housing of work
ers in our cities. y"t II Is believed
that it is one OF the fundament"
steps in the line of progress which
our organization should pledge it
self to promote in every way.
Enactment Of fundamental lcris-
latiOn by our Congress. which shall
give proper recognition to real es-
tate securities is considered vital.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-29
REAL ESTATE FIRM SEES BOOST
IN NUMBER OF HOME PURCHASES

Mrs. Fuller will make use OF the
property as her own homo.
&olten Kennedy bought from
Charles J. Walker and Francis y.
kIuukicwtcz No. 290i Thirteenth
str ct. This property is two
stnIy soNcn-E"orn hrirk dwelling
" nil Mr.. Kennedy Will move into
at once.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

a NAT0LE FRANCE recently
a declared that Europe is dy-
K "a ing. Without necessarily ac-
cepting this pessimistic CON
ciuslon, 1t must be admitted that the
war mas put some very searching ques
tlons to modern civilization. Owe
great areas OF eastern Europe organize
life has practically broken down be
lore the triple assault of war, hunge
and disease. Even the victorious ns
tlons are heavily burdened with de-
and confronted with economic problem
which have yet to find satisfactory
solution.
An interesting philosophical cor sid
Grafton of various material and spirit
ual weaknesses in modern European
culture is contained in Gregory I'll
Sboorg's work, The Passing of the Old
Order in Europe (Seltzer). The author
was secret;., the Ministry of Labor
under the --ensky government in
Russia, and many of his reflections are
directly inspired by various episodes
State Worship Condemned
Mr.. Zilboorg believes that all the
European peoples have suffered from
exaggerated state worship during the
period which led up to the war The
modern state, democratic or monar-
chical, rests, in his opinion, upon q
r &c
upon the suppression Of the individual;
lpon tbs sitting of nonconformist
creative energies. And this soulless,
mechanical engine has come to demand
more and more of its subjects, until
the individual conscience has almost
disappeared. He interprets the Rus
sian Revolution in its first aspects as
revolt again the coercive powers Of
the state, against war, capital punish
ment, tyranny and restraint. By
curious train of circumstances this
movement, originally anarchic and
Nbertarian, has eliminated in the ere
alton Of the most rigidly disciplined
dictatorship of modern times-the Rus
sian Soviet government
Mr.. Zilboorg writes with fire, elo-
quence and scholarship. Sometimes
ne seems lured away from the hard
path Of strict scientific accuracy in his
eagerness to establish political and
literary analogies. His remedies for
the overpowering worship which
he regards as the characteristic dis
ease of our age are not always very
clearly formulated. Apparently he
hopes for some sort Of bloodless revo-
luton, a peaceful transformation Of
society through the increasing cour-
age and intelligence of individual
souls. He is thoroughgoing pacihst
and he insists that it is the duty of
future generations to protest against
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

war by every means IN their power.
he feels that the violence OF revolu
clon stands on a higher moral plane
nan the violence Of war. But he
everely criticizes the Bolsheviki for
asing their governmental power upon
orce long after the first energies OF
le revolution have been spent.
MARKHAM Theory Criticized
Mr.. Zilboorg's work is characterized
many keen observations on modern
,litical and cultural tendencies. His
ritique of the MARKHAM economic in
cerpretation of history is especially
!,oteworthy:
In order to be consistent, Marx had
20 deny the role of the individual in
history. Refusing to recognize the cul-
tural values OF nationality, he was
lorced to reduce it 20 a geological pref
udice. He compelled himself to DENY
the drive and motive force of ideas,
and he thus eliminated psychology as
an independent factor from his sys-
TEN. He had to maintain that psyche
logical elements only arose passivelv
from the interplay of economic forces
and that they had no determnativa
power in themselves.
But in the light of the recent war
a crude Marxism willis into absurdity.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Identity Of Doctor X Revealed
Harvey O'Higgins Tells Source of His Psyche
analytical Stories

q A postscript TO The Secret
q Springs (Harper's), Harvey OHig-
u gins reveals the identity Of the
mysterious "Doctor.X X who fig
ured prominently in his ychoanalysis
stories that first appeared serially in
. magazine.
Speaking Of his early installments,
Mr.. 0Higgins writes; They were
received by many readers with the sus-
picicn that Doctor X was an imagi-
nary physician and his cases fictitious.
Many others pleaded to be given his
name so that they nigh. consult him
1t became impossible to preserve his
anonymity AS the series continued
his identity was disclosed, for one
reason or another, to so large a num-
Der of persons that the secret has now
become a secret of polichinclle
"Oae might as we'll make an impair
tial end of it and confess that he is
Dr. Edward II, Reede. of Washington,
D. c."
Of all the books we have read this
year none has so carefully concealed
its climax from the reader 1t is the sur
prise Of surprises. We didn't even re
motely guess the possibility Of show
down. Having passed with Doctor X
through many entertaining pages Of his
professional anecdotes, it is something
Of a shock to discover that he is real
person with an address.
The surprise is all the more forceful
for the list Of reasons which Mr.
O'Higgins enumerates in his introduc
tory chapter for concealng the name
He tells us that it would be Z great
breach Of professional ethics.
"And furthermore" adds Mr.. O'Eig-
gins, "his whole philosophy of health
and happiness and the wise conduct
Of life could not be we'll supported
without detailing the cases from which
he had derived it, These cases were
private and confidential He was like
a priest who had acquired his knowl-
edge Of humanity in the confessional.
lie could not use that knowledge in his
confidential ministrations or in the
gcneralities Of pulpit exhorration, as
you might say"
Bes,des, Doctor K" did not propose
to be a medical martyr. He is quoted
as saying:
"If the physicians who send me cases
heard how had diagnosed and cured
some Of the most difficult they ~o.uld
srsnect me of having fallen away from
the true faith"
Having swallowed all Of this. hook
line and-as tho saying gces-sinker,
we were totally unprepared for the
final disclosure Of the doctors identity.
Through the account Of the cases Oh
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
IN THE SECRET SPRINGS Harvey OHiqqius erpEoius b,
pSychoanaysls the moves back Of eUerydoy actions

der the sway of and marries a scalawag
Of music teacher. The house, the
home, depends on Uncle Edward Nichol-
son, and he finally goes down in a finan-
cial crash, a crook, snuffed out in the
basement Of the Ninth Street house, a
suicide.
Two young men, direct opposites,
love Claire. One, Oville, rich, ma
terial and acquisitive, wins the girl.
But Mallette, an Englishman, who had
surrendered his claim to big bust
ness in England because Of his sym
pathies with the underdog, the laborer,
is the man whose image gradually
blurs that Of Orville in the mind Of
Claire. She grows to a realization
that beneath and behind the glitter
Of New York there is world Of suf-
fering. Even from her Ninth Street
windows she has watched, across a
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

Doctor X,' who has employed the
methods of psychoanalysis for many
years in the treatment of nervous dis
orders, Mr.. O'Higgins interprets, in
language intelligible to the layman, q
theory concerning the secret springs
Of health and the roots Of happiness.
When this theory is unfolded in all
of its foibles and cccentricities there
is an answer for a variety of every
day questions ranging from why there
are such peace and contcntment in
smoking tobacco or in chewing gum to
why daughters of the rich marry
chauFeurs.
Solemnly, Mr.. o'Higgins propounds
the question::
"Why do the daughters of the rich
SO often elope with chaufeurs and the
sons of the English aristocracy marry
chorus girls?7
And Immediately he has his answer
ready:
Because the children of the rich arc
SO often left to the sole care Of servants
at the time when the love image is be-
ing formed in the subconscious mind.
AS consequence, a chauffeur or
chorus girl, reproducing some charac-
teristic of this debased image, sets the
spark TO the whole train of instructive
love-
While this explanation has its un-
deniable moments OF logic, We think the
premises are somewhat overdrawn. As
a mere matter of fact not many daugh-
ters of the rich do elope with chauf-
feurs. At least, the story is generally
considered good for front-page copy.
And when they do the chances are bet
ter than even of finding some normal
reason for the elopement without delv-
ing into the mysteries of psychoan-
alysis.
The chauffeur may have black, bushy
eyebrows, or pink cheeks, or whistle
softly in the back os his throat in a
way that would charm any maiden. The
question that puzzles Us is why more
daughters Of the rich do not marry
chaufeurs.
As for the Engllshmar who marries
the chorus girl, We think any earnest
investigator might discover extenuat-
ing circumstances having nothing
whatsoever to do with sychoanalysis
We have it on good authority that the
chorus at the Gaiety Theater, London
is made IN annually Of as comely a set
of young ladies as ever pranced on any
stage.
But 1t is not our intention to dis
parage Doctor KS theories. We can
not trail with him in believing that
many men pick their wives according
to the color Of dresses they wear-it
sounds too much like lady shopper
matching silk-but we do hold heartily
with the idea that the subconscious
mind is dog Of follow to make be
have properly. We know men who
keep theirs under perfect control. who
can set their subconscious minds for
a. m call and wake IN with
start on the dot as though Big Ben
were on duty. Our own is different.
Only yesterday morning 1t reminded Us
IN the middle of the shower to call
up certain party and forgot all about
the darn thing when we got to the
desk. Probably Doctor K" could ex-
plain this.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

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New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
The Eyes of a Cat
Ancient Egypt Figures in
Mystery Story

= AK ROHMER'S series Of novels that
featured the mysterious DR.. Fu-
Manchu Won for him an enviable
reputation in the nook Of novelists that
contains the men of the story of grew
some mystery. A strain of unfamiliar
criminality, almost necromantc,. gave
the Manchu set quite a vogue, as it
was foreign in ancestry and compelling
" weird Sax Rohmer has tried his
hand on yarn very much after the
mode of his previous Efforts, The Green
Eyes of Bast (McBride}. 1t is book
that Will cause many hand to shake
under the light Of reading lamp in a
room that has dark shadows in corners.
At the start, in this peculiar story,
strange murders occur in and near
London, and a woman with green, cat
like eyes haunts the ground where they
have been committed. A John Addl-
SON, with new Scotland Yard man, Cat
ton, gets on the trail and runs through
a series of adventures that scale close
to death from poison gas administered
through telephone ynd other means.
The master mind of the novel, DR.. Da-
rlar Greefe, suspected by and eluding
TO the end his pursucrs, holds the key
to the secret of it all, the life story of
the feline Nahemah, who proves to be
a hybrid. cross between woman and
a being with all the attributes of a
ferocious cat. Rohmer has gone to an
cient Egypt for his cat idea. "Bast" is
derived from "Bubas.rs," the cat-head-
ed divinity. All in all, strange,
haunting tale.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
The Art of Shipping

TINE type Of trench warfare devel-
1 opened on the Western front
called for a revival of the old
frontiersman's skill in picking off an
enemy at lone range. Major H. Hes
keith -Prichard, of the British army.
who was in charge OF the frst army
school of scouting, observing and snip
ing, which trained officers, sets down
his "reminiscences and impressions in
Sniping in France (Dutton). The
work includes many striking illustra-
tions taken at the front. It contains
4 foreword by General Lord Horne, of
Stirkoke. Soldiers should profit by the
authors technical knowledge, while the
general reader who enjoys adventure
stories will find many "thrillers" in
the book.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
New York the Restless
Searching Study of the Greater CITY as Riot Of
Selfshness
SelfShness

and the radu are the remaining eight
or ten personalities who convey her re-
actions to life to circumference and
unite them in sympathetic whole. They
set upon her. and her expressions Of
self, evoked by their stimuli, 20 forth
as constructive elements of the novels
unity.
Two Brothers
The home of the Nicholsons is on
Ninth Street, between Fifth and Sixth
avenue. Time, the present Claire has
q brother Jamie, a passionate lover of
music, inclined to find soace in strong
drink when rebufed by the hostile mem
bers OF the family. The boy conhdes al
his troubles to Claire. There is also a
brother George, a cool-headed, success
fll business man, who sees only non
sense in Jamie's aspirations. There are
two aunts, one Caroline, upright, pre-
else, and the other Kate who falls un-
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
How to Succeed

~ RISON SWEET MARDEN is we'll
known as one OF the leading
exponents Of the cult of opti-
mism, cheerfulness and business sue
cess In Success Fundamentals
CCrowell) he discusses such subjects
as health and success, efficiency, conf
dence, salesmsnship and the law Of
opulence. Among many formulas for
getting ahead quickly he gives the fol
lowing: Exactly in proportion to the
degree in which you increase your
seif-conhdence by the affirmation o.
what you are determined to be and to
do. your ability will Increase"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
ry Hudson I'd Comes aSaing Into Spendthrif Tovr

The universal proletariat were not ra-
tlonai enough to sA economic men in
either the Benthamire or the MARKHAM
sense Purely psychological forces.
the drive Of instinct to rally with the
nerd, the spur Of sentiment, the regu
lation Of habit, caused the proletariat
10 leopard!ze their class interests for
the sake OF plans against which they
rad long been in obstinate intellectual
opposition. ~iividual ambition. zoo.
swept away economic alignments
and played il fatal part in the march
OF events. The war magnihed the
brute forces OF personality. The most
economic man, the proletarian, was first
of all a mani"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

little space, the squalid habits of the
degraded poor. Orville fouts, derides
even the suggestion of uplifting the
toller for living wage Mallette is
ready to cooperate with the man in
the traces, help him pull his load The
high point of the novel comes when
Claire, learning that Orvile is un-
faithful, cOnfesses to Mallette that
she loves him.
And so. in swift scenario, we have
given but hint of the big idea Of
this novel. 1t is remarkably well
written, moves in a restless, inquisi-
tive mood toward the solution Of its
many problems. Spendthrift Town is,
IN fact, if not the best picturing in
fiction Of a cross-section Of the New
York of 1920, surely well up among
the notable two or three leaders in
It's class
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

YEW YORK. as set forth in the
| fiction Of 1920, finds an ulti-
mate revelation in a novel by
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

oxFOHD BOOK sHOP--Most1y good books
rra, sditiona; books by Walt Whitman.
80 Lexington Ave.---9ixn of the sparrow.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Herbert Hoover
THE Making Of Herbert Hoover,
by Rose Wilder Lane Century.

TINE Making OF Herbert Hoover,
by Rose Wilder Lane Century,
lays special emphasis upon the
hoyhood and youth of the great di-
rector Of food relief. Mrs. Lane has
had access TO letters, diaries and other
original sources OF information, and
her picture OF the young Hoover and
his experiences is vivid and convincing.
An agreeable feature of the biography
Is its avoidance of mere dry and for
nal details. Many interesting anec-
dotes also add to the value and in
terest of the work. Mrs. Lane has con
tributed an excellent pen portrait OF
the man whose name was household
word in American and European fami-
hes during the war and afterward.