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Evening star., 1923-02-24
F|REPR0OF ROOF |
COVERING URGED
Building Code Committee
Says TWo-FamiIy Homes !.
Should Be Protected. .
SPARKS FIRST DANGER
Wooden Shingle Has Many Merits.
Treating Improves !.
Resistance. :.
SPARKS FIRST DANGER

Incombustible roof coverings should
be used upon all two-family dweli-
ings, in the opinion of the building
code committee of~the Department OF
Commerce. The committee also rec
ommends such roofings upon all
buildings in congested areas on ac-
count of the well recognized confage
ration hazard of wooden shingles or
other combustible roofing materials.
As pointed out by the committee,
probably no type of roof covering
has caused moro comment and dis
cussion than the wooden Shingle. The
great danger of the wooden -shingie
roof is from chimney sparks and
flying brands from burning buildings
or bonfires. The danger from CHM
ney sparks is largely confined to
wood or soft-coal fuel and the sparks
resulting from the burning of Chin
ney SCOT.
Well Recognized Merits.
"The wooden shingle has various
well recognized merits. 1t is light
in weight, has excellent insulating
value. thus promoting comfort By
equaliZing attic temperature, can be
easily applied. furnishes attractive
architectural effects. and high-grade
shingles properly laid produce a roof
having excellent durability.
"The main objection to the use of
wooden-shing1e roofs is the fire
hazard. Sparks or flying embers are
moro likely to roll or blow off from
the smooth surface of newly
shingled roof than from an old roof
with weather-worn shingles having
curled and broken edges. For this
reason any treatment of shingles.
such as staining or creosoting the
shingles. which will tend to maintain
d smooth surface incidentally i'm
proves their fire resistance. Few if
any of the compounds used for treat
ing shingles directly increase the fire
resistance. If rain water for house
hold purposes is to be collected from
a roof. care must be taken to select
treated shingles which will not COM
taminate the water.
Best More Economical.
when wooden shingles are used.
the very best grades of shingles
available should be obtained, as they
are more economical to the houses
owner in the long run than cheaper
(Continued or Fourteenth Page.)
Evening star., 1923-02-24
BUILDING AND LOAN
BUSINESS TAUGHT
Institute lust Started in Kan
sas City, Mo-, for Train
ing Workers.

c. Clinton James, president of the
District Building and Loan. Associa-
tion Council, today called the atten-
tion of building and loan associations
of Washington to the formation in
Kansas City, Mo-, Of the American
Savings Building and Loan Institute,
constituting the first effort to CO.
ordinate all interests connected with
those institutions.
What Organization Plans.
The new organization, he points out,
plans to:
1. Train much-needed building and
loan workers.
2. Aid in building up existing asso-
Citations.
3. Aid in the establishment of local
associations where actually needed.
4. Advice as to the solution of in
dtvidual problems of affiliated asso-
Citations.
5. Foster the formation of local
chapters through which local work
erS may follow courses of study and
conduct regular discussions of I'm
portant building and loan matters.
The educational and general poll
cies or the institute are under the di-
rection of an executive committee
composed OF trustees and a repre-
sentative of each state building and
loan league affiliated with the insti-
tute.
Will Include State Leagues,
The organization aims to include as
many state leagues as possible with
the idea of making the institute real
ly national in scope. Local chapters
will be organized in all building and
loan centerS where as many Students
are available as will conform to. the
minimum requirement of thirty in
number and where local instruction
can be secured.
A correspondence course will be es-
tablished for persons who wish tc
qualify for efficiency in any way on
every phase of building and loan
work. For this purpose adequate
texts are now in preparation.
The work of the institute is to be
financed by membership fees. sale OF
literature, correspondence course tut
ton, and a portion of local chapter
fees, together with such donations as
may be offered by public-spirited per
sons, firms or organizations as may
desire to advance the work. 1t is
distinctly provided in the organiza-
tion that the institute can not be used
on a commercial basis.
Active sustaining members will in
clude building and loan associations
affiliated with a state league which is
an adherent of the United States
league of local building and loan as
SociatSonS.
Associate sustaining members will
comprise persons. firms, corporations
or organizations desiring to assist il
the work of the institute.
Evening star., 1923-02-24

builders to study building conStruc-
tion ideas from all the important
centerS
Realtors throughout the country are
being told by the National Associa
ton Of Real Estate Boards that the
coming convention will. in effect. be
a postgraduate course in real estate.
The advance notices relative to this
building exposition. Mr.. Petty stated.
make it apparent that this convention
will surpass all past conventions in
educational value.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
"TANGLEBANK" is SOLD.
Landmark Purchased by Capt. and
Mrs. Ridley Mclean.

"Tanglebank." one ot Washington's
landmarks, in a residential way. To-
Gated at the northwest corner of
connecticut avenue and Kalorama
road. has been purchased by Capt
and Mrs. Ridley McLeaU from Ross
by Thomas j. Fisher q Co, Inc the
firm negotiating the sale.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
PHENOMENAL BUILDING
HERE is RECOGNIZED
National Real Estate Journal De-
votes Five Pages to Dis
. =, trict, Projects.

I National recognition of Washing
toms, phenomenal building activity is
given in the current issue of the Ma
tional Real Estate Journal. official
organ of the National Association of
Real Estate Boards
The cover page and four inside
pages are devoted to several of the
large construction projects of the
Allan T.. Walker Investment Company
of this city, including the $4,000, 900
Walker Hotel. now under oonstruc-
ton at Connecticut avenue and De
Sales street
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15
EMPLOYERS POOR
WAGES CAUSE OF
HIGH DEATH RATE
by United States Public Health
Service.

The laboring classes in Porto Rico
suffer greatly from tuberculosis, says
DIR. j. G. Townsend, of the u. S. Pub
lie Health Service, who recently re-
turned to the United States after a
five months study of the tuberculosis
situation in he island. The tubercu-
1osis death rate is little more than
ZOO per hundred thousand. This is
greater than that of any state in the
union except Colorado, where the
tuberculosis death rate is of course
enormously increased by the constant
Immigration of tuberculous patients
Tor whom there is no longer any hope
In Porto Rico, moreover the tubercu-
losis death rate of the well dc
classes is very much lower than that
of the laboring classes. In the indus
trial cities on the practically level
coast belt it averages about per cent
of the total death rate; in the noun
famous central portion it is less
averaging about per cent, except in
certain industrial towns, especially
those dependent on the tobacco indus
try. The death rate for industrial
women is higher than that for men
This condition is the exact opposite
of that in the United States, and is
supposed to be due to the fact that
In Porto Rico industrial women are
also wives, mothers, and housekeep-
ers.
These high rates, are not due to the
climate, which is both delightful and
healthful, but to the conditions under
which the poorer classes live.
The usual diet of the people for the
most part is also ideal for the propa-
cation of the disease. Black coffee
rice and beans in great quantities, and
sometimes bananas, oranges, and
plantains complete the list.
Both the housing and the diet are
due chiefly to the prevailing economic
conditions. A wage of thirty cents
to one dollar per day generally fifty
cents makes it impossible for the
la0orer to support his family, ia
furnish habitable homes, and to pur-
chase adequate food Employers saw
that the average laborer does not do
enough work to entitle him to higher
wages; and this may be admitted
BUT the laborer cannot do better work,
because he suffers not only from
tuberculosis, but also from hookworm
ana malnutrition. He cannot afford
| 70 do what his doctors advise, and in
consequence he cannot give his EN-.
ployer better labor. This vicious cir.
Gle can be broken, but it has not vet
been.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15

Mayor Dever of Chicago, is a mem.
per oil the Leather Workers Unior
a 5ge- mas carried a paid up card since
1885, No wonder the "open shop'
gang went after him election dav
organized Labor and the conseryatiy.
citzens of Chicago elected Dever h,
the largest vote ever given a mavor
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15

The Farm Bureau throughout the
nation has not helped the farmers
financial situation one whit, except
perhaps to slightly Influence credit.
1t has educated him in better meth
DDS of farming, but this probably
would have been accomplished through
the multitude of credtable farm
journals and, in this particular coun-
ty, through the aid of the university.
The whole trouble lies in the view
point of the organization. 1t has been
along lines of combine and capital, in
stead of along lines of the American
Federation of Labor policy that the
farmer has organized. Whether he
can do any better or not is question,
but it is obvious that he could, if he
would, learn great deal from Samuel
Gompers and few other Federation
of Labor leaders.
Whether the farmer knows it or not
it is evident that he should promote
spirit of cooperation with Union
Labor and their methods, instead OF
permitting himself to be crushed be-
tween low prices on the one side and
despoiling capitalists and middlemen
on the other, which is only another
expression for the "devil and the deep
sea-"
The difference between the Farm
Bureau and other farm organizations
and the American Federation of La
Dor may be seen in the benefits OBJ
tanned for the members of each. The
farmer is all but bankrupted. He
can scarcely afford to operate his
farm. He is burdened for the essen
tials. He is taxed to the point of
oppression. He is disguised and dis
eouraged. On the other hand Union
Labor is forging ahead, getting by
degrees the wages it demands, and
setting pace that puts the CAPT
talist on his toe to keep up.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15
Tabloid of Interna-
tiOnal Labor News
Observation-Disclosures,
Paper Makers Wages.


Canadian reports announce that an
agreement has been made between
Canadian and American unionized
paper companies and the trade union
for an increase of pener makers
wages by five cents an hour for all
classes Of skilled labor, and fixing 40
cents an hour as a minimum for COM
mon labor.
Strikes.
A series Of strikes by the dock
carpenters, refinery mechanics and
shark fin and sandalwood workers,
together with a serious wage dispute
between the carpenters and contrac-
tors. have recently taken place at var
ious points in China.
Pottery Lockout Ayerted.
After two months negotiations, the
British Pottery Manufacturers Fed
Grafton and the National Society of
Pottery Workers signed an agreement
affirming lower wage scale and
thereby ayerting a threatened lockout
in the pottery industry.
Strike of Farm Hands.
As a protest against proposed wage
reductions and an increase of hours,
$4,000 farm hands in the Norfolk dis
trict declared a strike, which was
closely followed by the anticipation
that Suffolk and Cambridgeshire
farmers would do likewise.
Proposed Trade Guild.
In order to preserve existing
standards of craftsmanship and to
provide a regular sunnly of skilled
craftsmen and artisans in the trades
in which Provence and the lower
Rhone valley are particularly inter
ested, the Chamber of Commerce of
Marseille has completed articles of
organization for regional trades
guild.
Street Railway Personnel Reduced.
Following a resolution Of the Berlin
Municipal Council, reductions in per-
sonnet of the street railway of Berlin.
amounting to several thousands, have
been made and a total Of l,240 Of the
remaining employees are now facing
future dismissals.
Indian Labor.
Much Of the apprehension which
was felt in Malaga year ago when
the Indian Legislature prohibited the
emigration of unskilled laborers to
Malaga, excepting under special rules,
has been removed by suspension OF
the rules. This is especially bene-
fetal to Malaya's rubber industry,
which has been largely built up on an
adequate supply of Indian labor.
Strikers Resume Work.
After a week of agitation, $4,000
coal miners in the Rhondda Valley
mines, who struck in order to force
1000 new unionist workers to join the
Miners Federation, returned to their
jobs without any change in the status
of the workers.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15

Just who Mr.. 0athout's successor
will be is yet a matter of conjecture,
even in the Board, though it is report
ed that they have several names un-
der consideration.
Just what the attitude Of Mr.. Oath
outs successor win be toward Union
Labor is also a question. While from
a surface viewpoint it may be a mat
ter OF little concern to Union Labor
as to what his attitude will be, a more
careful contemplation of the question
reveals the fact that the Farm Bureau
can do more than any other farm or
ganization to promote spirit of CO.
operation with Union Labor and
thereby engender a disposition OF
each to profit by the others organ
ization.
At present that cooperation i.
wanting. If Union Labor wants an,
iaVors or support it cannot obtai,
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15
BOARD OF CRNsoRs

C. II. 0athout, county farm advisor
in Champaign county for the last ten
years, has announced his intention to
retire from that office. His resigna-
ton will take effect September /.
During his incumbency of the office
the Bureau throughout the country
has grown to mammoth proportions.
Prior to 1913 when he assumed the
management Of Farm Bureau actiyi-
ties in this county the organization
had made little or no progress except
in a few states.
The Bureau, in that period, has be-
come national influence. Farmers
of the progressive type pretend to
have gained much advantage through
the organization and for this reason
the Champaign county Bureau has
made phenomenal growth.
But whatever be their claims it is
an evident fact that the one thing the
farmer wants has not been realized
through the organization, or for that
matter in any other way. The prices
of his products are still insignificantly
low and his profits are corresponding
ly diminished until he is unable to pay
wage that will enable him to hire
efficient help and thereby produce a
living for himself. If it had not been
for the tolerance of the banks, who
realize that tie farmer must produce
if people live and banks prosper, he
would have been unanimously bank
rupted. Bank credit has sustained
him, but whatever the banks have
done can be credited only to good
business" and not to any spirit OF
philanthropy or charity. Ii has been
purely matter of expediency that
the farmer has been allowed to live
and move and have his being, and not
through any bankers benevolence.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15

Senator La Follettee has let it be
known that the question of taxes will
be thoroughly aired in the senate al
he next session of congress. TAXA
tion," he said. will be quite as inn
portant a question before the next
congress as transportation"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15

such from tie farmer. That is the
browning error of the farmer, and
results disastrously to him, and La
Dor gets no benefit from a class who
should be its friends.
If anything can be done to promote
d harmony Of purpose between the
Federation Of Labor and the farmers
organizations it should be done, and
may be done when the farmer learns
to battle for a square deal instead of
eoaXing capital for charity.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15
Government by Gun.

= tFrom the Australian Worker)
= How the Tory loves the con-
}. stitution--when the public Is
y listeningl How dearly he reyer-
!. ences the principles of demo-
- cracy-when there is an audi
= ence to be deludedl
!. But get him by himself, and
e Halter him into sense of secur-
! ity, so that ne yields TO the
i temptation of speaking the
= truth, and how differently he
= talks then.
+ The Tory babbling mis- true
! thoughts soon lets you know
! that what he really believes in
i. is government by the gun.
/ If he could safely do it he
/ would wipe out parliamentary
! institutions tomorrow, and
7 smash all the ballot boxes in the
!. country.
|. The rule of the majority is an
! idea detestful to him, for the
|. Tory belongs to a class numeri-
i cally few, and he is firmly con-
i WINGED that Ii is the traditional
]. right of that few to hold the
]. many in subsection.
l. And what is there so reliable
! for repressive purposes as the
]. gun?
]. He comedies the vote because
! he is compelled to do so. The
|. pressure of the ages has forced
]. il from him. But all the time
! he is longing for an excuse to
+ abolish the franchise and, level
!. ling a lethal weapon at your
+ head, cry out: Hands upw
= Let US be under no misappre-
T hension in Australia. There are
|. Mussolinis in our midst. This
Z country contains men who would .
|. break the power of labor with .
|. the gun if they dared. /.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15
TyDo Convention

Atlanta, Ca, June lahore than
4,OU0 delegates and visitors are ex.
peeted In Atlanta when the conven.
ton Of the international Typographi.
eau Union assemblies here August 3
according to officers of the local
printers union. Reports ON the pro
greSs of the strike for the 44-houl
week IN the commercial printing shops
OF the United States and Canada viii
be heard by the delegates. The strike
mas been concluded in all except a few
important Jurisdictions.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15

ut would be well if all persons
would adapt this advice to their own
circumstances and would plan yaca-
tons for the coming summer that
differ radically from their daily occu-
pations. Such vacations probably
would not turn out quite as was ex-
pected;! but that would be half their
charm. Some persons might even
wish they hadn't tried the plan for
week or so after they got home
but the chances are that the next
summer they would try the same or
some other contrary plan once
more.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-17
A. l.. |. Announces
Big Schedule

The Alexandria Light Infan-
try will play the Veteran of For
eign Wars five on the Armory
Hall floor tonight. OPP
ponents of the local five have
quite a reputation as basketeers
and the A. l.. I. bunch is just
primed to avenge themselves for
the defeat handed them in Ricn-
mond Saturday.
The schedule announced by the
management of the local team for
the coming two months follows:
January II, Veterans Foreign
Wars,
January 20, American Legion.
January "a Dominican Lyceum
January 81, Yankees
January 81, CollegiAr
FEBRUARY 8, Boiling Field.
February 10, AloysiuS.
February II, Takola.
February u, Wyman A. c., of
Baltimore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-17
TAKOMA WINS

The Holy Name team III l"S'
and hard fought battle was defeat ,
ed last night by the Takoma team
of Washington. ~ ;..us
The local team kept the visitors
n, their toes in the first half and
succeeded in gaining a seven point
lead over them.
But a rally by the Washington
lads in the last five minutes OF
nlav enabled them to pile up foui
teen points and consequently VIII
tbe game. The final score beng
II. \. s.. %, Takoma, p.
The Holy Name team Will hoio
. meeting tonight in the Lyceum
Hall at which ali members VII
be present.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-17

Hermann may get another = Ma
tional League pennant, and give
Pittsburgh another swallow OF
disappointment.
The st. Paul club, as we'll as
Benton, suffers by the under
ground campaign which is used
SO much in big league baseball.
st. Paul bought Benton in good
faith, and used him in winning
pennant last season. Benton
became marketable at a good
price, and then the dmt-throwing
started. The club owners who
couldn't get him were like the
well known dog in the feed box.
Unless Benton is cleared st.
Paul will have to dispose of him
or work 4 pitcher under cloud.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-17
Earle Neale
To Coach Va.
Fcrmcr Cincinnati Red Will be
Year ROund Coach at
University

Charlottesville, Va, jan. II
Earle Neale, former football
coach of Washington and Jeffer-
son and for eight years an out
fielder on the Cincinnati Reds, is
to come to the University of
Virginia next September to take
up his duties as year round
coach not only of football and
of baseball but Of some of the
minor mid-winter sports also.
Announcement that Greasy"
Neale is to coach next season has
been received at the University
with much enthusiasm.
Since the return to the pro
fessional coaching system was
m; de by Virginia's athletic au-
thorities there has been an effort
made to have the athletic drill
master for football and baseball
on the ground for the entire ses-
sion. Just as Pop" Lannigan
spends his full time coaching
track and basketball. In Mr..
Neale, the athletic council OF
Virginia is sure the man for
the position has been found.
Although Mr.. Neale is to come
for only one year the terms OF
mis- agreement are sucn that Nir-
ginia will have an option on his
tin,r in case, 'the arrangement is
satisfactory on both sides.
at Muskingum College in 1919
Nh. Neale began his career as
coach after he had finished his
Playing days on West Virginia
Wesleyan. Later at Wesleyan
and at Marietta College he be-
gan to show up as football d.
rector of unusual skill and when
he Guided the Washington and
jefferson eleven through l92l
without defeat, his reputation
was established.
Next spring Mr.. Neale Will
come 20 the University for a few
weeks of practice with the foot
bali candidates and on Septem-
Der 10. when practice beginns UNI
der s. |. c. rules, he will take
charge of the, team. During the
winter it is expected that Mr.
Neale will work to bring out men
in college who are not working
for teams and to get them IN
terested in athletics. -.
Reports come from Cincinnati
that MIR. Neale will be sold OF
released during the coming sea-
SON in order that he may devote
his full time to coaching. Eppae
Rixey, pitcher On the Reds VINO
i TO be assistant coach of base
hall ct Virginia this spring IS
one Of the many friends OF Mr.
Teale who recommended him TO
the athletic council.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-17
DOLLAR DAY SALE
SET FOR FEB. Ia

The Semi-amual dollar day
sale will be held in this city by
the merchants, FEBRUARY ii. TINS
date was fixed upon at a meet
ing Of the Retail Merchants Bur
eau of the Chamber of Commerce
held yesterday afternoon.
It is the purpose of the par
ticipatiug merchants to make tins
the biggest and best sale ever
held. Already plans are being
mapped out along this line. Here
after the merchants will only hold
two dollar day sales year, one
in February and the other IN
| August.