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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
Sagacious Mr.. Coghill
Sees Home Owners
on Increase
BY ARGYLE N. FTNNEY.

In the oracuar style of William D. COg sage Of me- real
estate and well being foundation Of mans hapines
WasngtOn destined attain physical grandeur that anes
Rome would and city of citizens combined civic pride
each home and therefore, the promoter Of greater Capital
achievements"
Thus Mr. Coghi tells future Of city We believe his
forecast Mr. COgh tiny Washington He recently
purchased here thousands Of others who home
owners hold future for Westminster They Of
homes This their What Washington achieved
beauty educational and sserd to
things with sense Of for they are home
Today find realtors of the city displaying their and
Neutrality-suspicious.
home day. 1t carries with special appeal 20 tenants The
Of today would inspect modern dwellings,
consider the advantage of ownership compared the
dwarfed pleasures of and to accept the purchase M
home as the most stable investment could make We hold today
as the most vital day during thrift week
revealed promoting
Washington realty
rental prices viii continue period Of ten Authentic
statistics prove how Washington tenant buy home by paying
his rentals IN useful direction Reports from Roger BabSOn
statistical business authority indicate little likelihood Of reduc
tOn of building costs during the next few From them
gather that the lowering Of home costs hardly possible And
The facts convincing
There's an old Persian poet named Omar khsyysm whose
prOcrasnaton fatal blow We would ask tenants to
this line Justly advsabty
and then, would 20 Id. .1 as ss8
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
81 Tf REQUIRES
ADDITIONAL
HOTELS
Housing Accommodation Here
Termed Inadequate
for Visitors.

That Washington will be greatly
handicapped In providing hotel ac-
Communications for the great influx
Of convention visitors during the
next months is the fear expressed
In Board Of Trade and hotel circles
Existing hotel accommodations have
been found, upon careful investiga-
ton, to be entirely inadequate for
housing not alone the army of con-
ventlon visitors but also the newly
elected contingent OF Congressional
ana Senatorial Representatives and
their families who will arrive next
month. Board OF Trade officials
and the Shriners headquarters In
the Capital have been canvassins
various districts Of the city In q
search for boarding houses rs wei
as private home accommodation to
to care for the overflow visitors
during the height OF the convention
season.
In connection with the hotel
shortage, officials OF the Hanford
Hotel Company, builders Of the new
Hotel President, have compiled sta
tistfcs giving the hotel figures for
the principal cities OF the United
States. Washington has bean found
to run Tar below most smaller West
eru cities in the number Of hotels.
The principal source Of these fig
ureS Is the Hotel Association. Ac-
cording TO these figures, New York
leads al other cities In the United
States in the number OF, hotels with
In it's civic limits The second
largest city In the matter OF hotel
accommodations, curiously enough,
is San Fra cisco, which has no less
than q mil on population. and ID not
only smaller than Chicago and
Philadelphia, but also smaller than
Detroit, Los Angeles. Boston, Cleve-
land and some other cities. San
Francisco has one hundred and
6orty-nfne hostelries, as against two
hundred and eIght-four IN New York.
Chicago comes In third with one
hundred and twelve, and Los Ange-
les a. fourth with eighty-nine. Kan
aas City takes NTH place with
eiGhty-six and Seattle comes next
with seventy-four. Seventh position
goes to Denver, with seventy-two.
Western cities, then, are far
ahead Of those OF the East IN the
matter Of hotel accommodation.
Such large Eastern cities as Phila-
delphia and Boston rank below ell
these Western cities and also be-
low Detroit and st. Louis. Wash-
ington ig shown in these figures as
having sixty-two hotels, Boston as
fifty.nine and Philadelphia fifty
three. In the matter OF modern
vast caravanseries which have more
than four hundred and flfty rooms,
New York leads with eighteen and
Chicago with eleven, Los Angeles
has tive such hotels. San Francisco
four. and Minneapolis, New Orleans,
Pittsburgh. Boston, Cleveland and
Detroit three each.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
A View From All Angles

The architecture is early Eng
lish-carried out in the subdued
but warm-toned old English
burned brick, with wide win
dows, arched entrances, and
sloping, gabled roof. Scattering
oaks provide a setting truly in
keeping with the traditional site
Of an English hall. And the lots
are consistently expansive: $50
feet deep, extending to a paved
alley.
Inside is a fine reception hall
leading to a spacious living room
with open fireplace, thence to the
dining room-and all these rooms
have gracefully paneled walls.
There is large, light, completely
equipped, composition-f | IT e d
kitchen and pantry and below
stairs is a cement-fIoored, plas-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
The Renter

It's pretty tough, at flfty-one,
TO figure that your race ID run;
It's pretty tough to FEEL that you
Have done the best that ycu could do;
TO lind your face III lined with care.
And silver strealing through your
hair:
TO go your star oe Hope Grow aim
Along ths nth that Might Have
Been,
Just at the time 4 HOME should Be
Your haven from Lies Stormy Sea;
Just when, In youth. you'd hoped
and prayed
Your feet would strike the Easy
Grade.
Ana Now-,vith courage On the
with not . soul but you 70 blame
You struggle on, and on and on.
And In your heart there II no song
To cheer you, as yosI start TO climb
The Last Hin II the Path Of Tina.
You have no HolGE save what you
hire
Your rent GOES up and then Junpa
higher
And III your span Ct life you've spent
The price oe TEN homes paying rent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
HOW TO. CHOOSE
FURNISHINGS
FOR HOME
Dwelling Owning Requires
Proper Planning by
Occupants.

Homemakers, men and women, al
most invariably are harassed by O.
sense of their own limitations In the
matter of selecting and arranging
household furnishings. They usually
are confused by q medley Of sugges-
tons from friends and acquaintance,
and appalled, by various proclana-
tons relating to so-called infallible
standards in household decoration.
Under circumstances such as these
it is always well to begin with the
question Of requirements. There is
no escape from this question where
a human habitation comes under dis
cussion. It enters into consideration
whether the house il to be used by
a single family, whether it is d tene-
ment, a studio building, hut in the
wilderness or a cottage in city, town
or country
It. is apparent that to make the
home successful it is essential to
know the needs OF those who ore to
dwell in 1t, their circumstances and
the relation they bear to the ccm-
munity in which they live. There il
more than a little truth in the state
ment that q mans duties to himself
must guide him on one and his OBJ
legations to his neighbor on the
other. These he must balance.
There appears little room for ques-
ton but that the responsibility Of
comprehending and respecting the
domestic and social requirements
rest, for the most part upon the
women. To be successful as their in
terpreter the housewife must make
them a particular study.
It would seem that the decoration
Of a house implies, primarily, making
provision for social needs. The de-
gree Of felicity with which these pro-
visions are made marks the excel
lence OF one decorator over another.
In all instances there must be a
thorough knowledge and observance
of proprfety and proportion.
Man, whether it be his individual
desire or not, is social being. He
cannot live by himself alone. It
stands to reason, therefore, that he
should not build or decorate his
home without consideration OF his
pfellow-beings. BY making his own
life full he eQuips himself for enrich
ing that OF others. The true spirit
OF decoration leaves none of these
questions neglected. The eternal
quest of the home-Iover should be for
the best means by which these va
riotIs requirements can be met.
The one thought to be constantly
borne in mind is that it il the bust.
ness of all who are interested in the
decoration Of homes, whether simple
or elaborate, to arrange and rear
range until desired results be OBJ
tanned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
CHILD ROOM IS
VITAL To
OWNER
Personality Of Riddle Gains
Real Development in
Play Chamber.

Have you q child's room in your
home?
If you have not and yet have the
kiddie, you are doing both yourself
and the youngster an injury. The
kiddie needs a room or corner all
his very own to help him develop
traits Of real personality. The child
with q room is the child whose
sense Of responsibility is fostered
by the room. He is the one whose
imagination has q quiet place
wherein to thrive, and most of all,
If the room Is right. the child has
a chance to sleep in the principles
Of real beauty and fitness.
The mother needs the room in
order to spare the other rooms.
She IL freed from that sense OF
nagging her youngster. Her feel.
ing of the untidiness Of playthinRs
about the room is often balanced
by feeling Of tenderness for the
child. She knows that he must
have play and yet what will callers
say about those blocks all over the
house3
Many mothers feel that they can
not GUY = COHnpl6Le Cn1IQ 3 set IOE
the room. and yet why should not
the child set be as essential as
the guest room set? In time II will.
Meanwhile, Il economy 10 neces-
sary, adult furnishings can be given
q certain juvenile knack with color
and design. Nursery paper IS q
small but essential item. The room
or corner itself is the big thing.
However, IL you can begin at the
very bottom you VIII find the stores
bountifully supplied with juvenile
furnishings which the kiddie viii
love and which are Ideally suited
to him.
The furnishings should be as sim
pie as q baby's dress. Remember
that your child's character will be
formed by the things and people
about him In his earliest days. Give
him plenty Of sunlight with simple
light curtains, light walls with q.
touch of color In the border, big
cretonne-covered window box, where
he can keep his playthings, and
simple little chairs, table, bed and
desk. II the child is very small
rubber domes upon the furniture
which will keep it from sliding and
tipping are very good.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
Distinguished Residences With City
Location and Suburban Atmosphere
141O-12-14-16 Ingraham Street
Between Fourteenth and Sixteenth SIS.

IT is often, IN large experience with the better
kind of real estate that able TO present homes
distinctive and attractive and altogether unique these
caption describes them distinguished residences with
city location and suburban atmosphere Of surroundings
/ and these truly and pleasing attributes
fitting description lies within the province q
architect and artist and only hope that picture
or, better still, your personal inspection win supply the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20

three years, Earl e. Goss. James
Med. Shea; directors for two years,
A. Paterson, +. G. willis; directors
for one year, r. s. Freer. 3. Il
Brady.
President McKeever appointed
Arthur A. Rtemer chairman Of the
membership committee. Those at,
tending were Earl e. GOss, r. l.
McKeever, -. S. PogtOn, Edward l.
Brady, Allan Walker, James Med
Shea, Thomas Bradley, Mr.. Axley
James M. Carter, Capt. Charles l.
Ruth, r. 81 Freer. q. G. Willis, and
Arthur A.. Riemer. The association
will meet next Friday at luncheon a
the City Club. and win have as spe-
cial guest an expert on building
management.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
Why You Should Own
Your Own Home
Is Told

Gown Your Own Home Day"
will be observed by every realtor
in the city today. Here are a
few reasons why you should own
your own homes:
It helps you to save.
It's q good investment.
Gives you a better standing in
the community.
Increases your interest in
your community and nation.
Increases your self respect.
Improves your credit.
Makes your family happier.
Improves your home life.
Gives you greater interest in
your home.
Relieves you from the yoke of
the rent profiteer.
Every new home for sale will
be open for inspection. Hun
dreds Of prospective buyers are
expected to investigate these
homes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20

tered, basement with hot-water
heating plant, large instan-
taneous hot-water heater and
built-in garage. having both heat
and light.
Upstairs are four handsome bed
rooms, and two beautifully ap-
pointed bathrooms, sleeping
porch and airy attic
Other unusual equipment IN
cludes an electric refrigeratfng
system and buflt-fn. double
doored linen cabinet
Three Of these houses are
priced at $23, 500 and number
1416, being somewhat larger, ct
$25, 900. Sample house is now
open for inspection and you will
find a representative on tho
premises every day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
COLOR SCHEME
IN DRAPERI
At TRACTS
HomelIke Atmosphere Created
Through Correct Home
Furnishing.

Homemal1ers ana decorators have
come 10 realize that the curtain cr
window drape permits the very
amount and place of locor that %
many rooms demand. They began
to work with curtains, draperies
ana portieree - the dominant con-
trast NOT Of . room. Just O. for
90 many years cushions ana PIC
lures had been pressed into this
service.
Each season brings bolt n8tef
bolt Of new curtain materials to the
house decorator.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
Sectional Bookcase
Big Library Adjunct

No other room in the house offers
greater opportunities for the quiet
expression OF individuality than the
library.
It has been said that "a house
without books 10 like q room without
windows" Therefore the bookcase,
the real substances OF the library, de-
ponds for selection partly upon taste,
partly circumstance. and partly on
the number OF books to be housed.
Sectional bookcases enable one to
buy from time to time and add as
more books are obtained.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20


deficiency pen However
practical pertains calling realtors
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
'CONELY HOMES
ACHIEVED BY
LAMPS
Styles Range From Large
coIored Variety TO
Small Ones.

Lamps have trayeIed far ana
fast since the day cf the old coal.Uil
lamp with its ugly glass chimney.
The lamp OF today frankly de-
cIares that 1t ii thing OF beauty
and q Joy forever. Many OF them
even go further and are not IN the
least offended Il they are branded
as good for nothing but ornamen-
|tafion.
One OF the latest novelties Of
lampdom Cd the perfumed boudOlr
elective lamps In uualityStafned
glass.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
VALUE POINTS.

Into tire general groups or divi.
Mons can the value Of furniture be
divided. FIRST, - cost and carr1aes;
second, utility or service: third. the
elements Of beauty or attractive
ness.
The first two groups are tangible
things and can be figured out BY
rule and formula, but the elements
or beauty which comprise the third
division, are things complex and
often Intangible.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
REAL TORS FORM
BUILDING
BODY
Choose r. L. McKeever Head
of Newly Organized
Association.

Organization OF q local Building
Owners and Managers Association
was formed by several prominent
real estate dealers this week at the
City Club.
Those elected officers are as
follows: President. Robert l.. Me-
Keever; first vice president, Thomas
Bradley; second vice president, e. 8.
Poston; secretary and treasurer,
Capt. Charles III. Ruth, directors for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
LINING DRESSER DRAWERS

When lining dresser. drawers with
paper, one win find that small strips
Of adhesive tape will hold the paper
In place and can be easily removed
when a new lining is desired.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-20
BINDING CARPET.

In binding carpet, If a strip Of
oilcloth is sewed along the edge
Of the binding 1t win make a
heater finish and wear longer.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
Whv Congress and Country Get Rest

TT Is nm open secret that when
L President Harding decided not to
call an extra session Of congress
official Washington breathed sigh
Of relief.
To be sure, when he came to his
decision, everything pointed to the
failure of the pending ship subsidy
bill. through the inability of Its spon-
sors to bring 1t to vote in the senate.
The President, however, concluded
that 1t would be waste OF time 10
have the bill taken up again by the
new congress In an extra session.
There were other reasons 1or the
Presidents decision. He Thought the
country needed a long rest from con-
rressional agitation. The rest Is espe-
clally desired by business interests
,h,ch baye been uneasy over certain
tendencies of considerable portion o,
,he membership of the senate anu
house regarded by the business inter-
ests as radical.
or special interest in this conhec''ol,
:. ,h. presidents decision to take no
rurtber steps toward an invest'ga',on
=, the railroad situation during '"e
congressional recess. a.. ,sso
'' 40 nroposed originally by the Asso-
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
Progress of the Birth Control Bill Seen

bills, have received only one adverse
letter each up to the present.
The protest to Senator Cummins
came from John Sumner, successor to
Anthony Comstock as head of the
New York Society for Suppression of
Vice. Comstock initiated the old stat
ute which the Cummins- Kissel bill
would amend by taking out the words
that prohibit circulation of scientific
knowledge as to the control Of con-
ceptiOn.
Although the birth control advocates
finally have succeeded in getting the
bill before congress, there is dem
onstration Of official timidity there in
dealing with this veXatious social Is
sue in which multitudes of people are
deeply interested. Members of both
houses realize that the practice Of
birth control has been growing in this
country, particularly among what are
called the upper classes" They
know that books, magazine articles
and studies have appeared in the last
few years dealing with this subject.
There is n Washington office In
charge Of energetic and jealous advo-
Gates. There is campaign paper
called the Birth Control Herald, which
Is described as the off'.ial organ of
the league.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
G1d AFFAIRS an 5iiT
bf1ton Says Japan Fooled Conference

anu every shape or form. The result
Is mat today, barely twelve months
ai'er the acceptance of the Limitation
treaty revival of ship building com
petition seems Inevitable If the hal.
ulce OF power as regulated by that
treaty Is to be maintained. To state
me case IN sentence: japan. by
diVerting to the construction of cruis-
erS anu submarines no small mart of
the energy she formerly expended on
capital ships, will soon be in posses
sion OF a fleet of auxiliary combatant
vessels superior in some respects tn
that of any other power"
Mr. Bywater says that as soon as
Japan learned that the Washington
government was contemplating a
naval armament conference 1t set to
work feverishly to complete the for
tification of the Bonin Islands under
the stricteSt secrecy. By December,
1871, the work was finished.
Meanwhile" says Mr.. Bywater,
the Washington conference had
assembled and Admiral Baron Kato
of the Japanese delegation had taken
the first opportunity to inform his
American colleagues that Japan re-
garded the abandonment of the Phil
ippine and Guam fortitications as the
precedent to negotiations
for the reduction of her shipbuildng
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23

Boulder.-The Daughters of the
American Revolution closed their two
day state conference here. Mrs. Ger
aid Schuyler of Denver was elected
candidate for vice president general of
the national organization which will
hold its continental congress in Wash
ington. Other officers elected are:
Mrs. J. c. Bushinger, Monte Vista
chapter, regent; Mrs. a. B. Trot, Dem
yer chapter, vice regent; Mrs. John
Hall, Zebulon Pike chapter, Colorado
Springs, recording secretary.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
Development of Water TRANSPORTATION

THERE are numerous Indications
that tremendous development of
water transportation in this country
3 at hand. High freight rates and
the inability OF the railroads TO fl
nance extensions and the additional
equipment required by increased agrl-
cultural and industrial production are
Hccelerating the development of other
means of transportation, notably
niotcrtrucks and vessels.
Rerivlng prosperity indicates that
the day Is not far distant when every
carrier resource of the country will
be taxed to the limit The demand
for adequate and cheap transporta-
tlon then Will be so great, II Is cal
cuiated, as to carry the st. Lawrence
SeaWay and the lakes to the gulf
waterway projects to swift consum-
nation, making the Great Lakes sys-
TEN the greatest waterway in the
world In volume of commerce.
Already Washington is being bonn
barded by the shipping interests with
appeals to remove alleged rate dis
ordinations that have grown UP in
favor of all rail transportation and
against water or rail and water car
rlage. Such determinations, it is as
serted, are hampering the develop
ment of waterways to meet transpor-
tation needs
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
s4s6, 900 for Colorado Forests.

Denver.-The government will spend
S436,0O0 on the national forests in
Colorado during the coming fiscal year,
including $236, 746 for the improvement
of national forest highways, according
to dispatch from Washington. The
total appropriation for all the national
forests of the country will be S3,00O,-
600. OF this $171,54S will be spent on
forest development alone. A part of
construction of recreation houses and
Improvement Of grounds. Trails will
be improved and beautified also. Colo
RADIO has more than 100000 acres Of
national forest lands.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23

Julius Barnes president of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, has called conference of
transportation and shipping interests
to study the rate structure and other
problems with view to removing oh
stacles to the expansion of transit
facilities.
One of the most comprehensive
presentations Of the complaint of rate
discrimination against Great Lakes
traffic has been made to the federal
coal commission by II. f. Smith, pres
idert Of the Northwestern Coal Dock
Operators association, and Fred G.
Hartwell of Chicago. They told the
commission that except in the case of
strikes, shortages and high prices of
coal are due exclusively to lack Of
transportation.
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23

WAsHlNGTON.-Somethlng Of n
Juror has been stirred IN in
naval, political and diplomatic circles
mere by the publication in the Allan.
tlc Monthly of nn article written bv
hector Bywater, celebrated British
naval authority, calling the Washing
Ton armament conference "patent
failure in Its main purpose and de.
scribing in rather frank manner how
the japanese outwitted the American
delegates.
Senator Robinson (Dem., Ark) laid
the article before the senate and hod
IL published in the Congressional
Record.
The initial fact that emerges from
survey of the situation today" Mr.
Bywater wrote, as the patent failure
OF the conference to achieve Its main
purpose namely, to check the further
expansion Of sea armaments In any
The Dolores star., 1923-03-23
New Anesthetie Discovered.

Chicago.-Discovery of an anesthetic
pronounced by some experts to be su-
perior to anything previously known to
science, was revealed here by associ-
ates of DIR. A. b. Lockhart, associate
professor of physiology at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, who, with ]. p. Carter,
conducted the experiments leading to
the discovery. The anesthetic utilizes
the properties of ethylene gas, which
in its purified form, is said to possess
,any advantages over nitrous acid,
better known as laughing gas"