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ship will be increased greatly when
the problem of financing by second
mortgage have been solved the asso-
ciation offers for study these subjects
Factors that determine the discount
rate on second mortgages; loss on sec
ond mortgages.
With so many cities bending eVerT
energy to the attraction and deVe:np.
ment OF industrial plants the sllbjcct:'
relating to industrial property have q
widespread interest: Causes and rem
edies for decadent industrial com
munities: the economic principles gov
erning industrial plant location: rela-
tion cr raw materials and labor To
plant location. The last question In
wolves an analysis OF the industrial
field so as to determine which inuuS-
tries require location near raw mate
rials, which must be near their mar
ket, which require proximity to cheap
power; which are free to move where
ever reasonable quantities of common
labor and power are available ana
what industries are common 10 COM
munities Of various sizes. The asso-
citation is seeking also to learn the
effect upon industry OF state ana mu'
nicipsl restrictions; the advantages
and dangers Of city subsidies. living
conditions Of labor as a factor In Ia
Dor turnover.
Rent. the sub ject which is troubling
a large proportion of the population,
has correspondingly large share or
the topics suggested for research; the
place of house rent in the family
budget: the extent and effect OF rent
concessions: the technique OF rental
surveys: the normal vacancy ratio in
the family budget.
Airplanes, recently discussed in the
convention Of the Ohio Association o.
Reel Estate Boards as a possibly i'm
portant factor In the development Or
suburban areas in the future, are now
believed likely to be deeply signifi-
cant factor in other real estate values
and are included in these 40 topics.
Zonins, city planning. housing. bust
ness cycles and many other subjects
have been offered to thoughtful minds
in the business and in research insti-
tutions for solution.
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LICENSE LAW
BACKED BY MANY HERE;
SEEK HIGHER STANDARDS
Wonlinued from Seventeenth .. g

Continued from Seventeenth ".,el
that he was irresponsible o. would
be a menace in transactinS real es.
tate business with the public Hear.
lnss are provided by the proposed bill
Tor all those who are not granted Il
license. At these hearings the ap.
oi1cants rejected would he eivon a
fuil opportunity to explain their 10.
sition.
An applicant for license would
be required to fill ont prescribed
oiank, which would he accornrn MED
pN the recommendations OF two citi-
zshs VINO own real estate and who
are not related to the applicant. The
sponsors would be required 10 vouch
Tor the applicants honesty. truthful
ness and competency. The bill re-
CURES. besides a number of minor
regulations in regard TO the proceed
ure for application, that each alpli-
cant shall furnish Il bond Of $1,000
IL contains clause for educational
requirements. which. however. WAS
not recommended by Gen. MacChes.
neE on the grounds that at this time
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coming into his possession which be-
long to others, or
Being unworthy or incompetent to
act as a real estate broker or sales
man in such manner as TO safeguard
the interests OF the public. or
Paying a commission or valuable
consideration TO any person for acts or
services performed in violation Of this
act. or
Any other conduct, whether OF the
same or different character from
hat hereinbefore specified. which con
stitutes improper, fraudulent or dis
honest dealing.
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acter likely to influence. persuade or
induce, or
Pursuing a continued and fragrant
course OF Misrepresentation, or max
ing or false promises through agents
or statesmen or advertising or other
wise or
Acting for more than one party in a
transaction without the knowledge OF
all parties for whom he acts. or
Accepting a commission or valuable
consideration as real estate salesman
for the performance of any OF the
acts specified in this act from any per.
son. except his employer. who must be
licensed real estate broker. or
Representing or attempting to rep.
resent real estate broker other tha n
me employer. without the express
knowledge and consent OF the employ.
er. or
railing. within A reasonable time. to
account for or 70 remit any moneys
Evening star., 1925-11-21
The Record-Breaking Sales
tell the story of the decided
Preference for Petworth
and Cafritz Lifetime Homes

~ HE high and commanding elevation and
the wonderful betterments in "Lfetime'
Homes have made Petworth the pop
ular and populous residential section in
& the National Capital - and "Lifetme'
Homes the most appreciated by people of
refinement and discrimination.
No community has been planned the
scale Of Cafrtz Petworth-and every buyer of one
Of these Homes directly participates in the savings
resulting from the magnitude of our operations.
These Homes built broad lines. giving
rooms Of unusual size; and three porches that
a. big a.
The baths tiled almost head-hieh-and fitted
with luxurious built-in hxtures-showers and
Pembroke tubs
The kitchen equipment i. of the be.t-wth day
lighted pantry full Of shelves.
The heating plant is of the most efficient and
economic type-and with instantaneous heater for
hot water and big storage tank, insuring constant
supply of hot water day and night
The floors of the very best grade of clear oak.
The electric fixtures designed in exquisite taste.
Throughout, the decorations of ivory and ma
hogany represent the most skilled workmanship,
using the best of paint That's of every detail.
They built through and through-from founda-
ton to roof-of the VERY BEST MATERIALS and
by the BEST MECHANICS.
Evening star., 1925-08-30

What makes you think" asks the
wife, coldly, that green would
be so terrible on me? DID you
ever see me with a green dress?"
NO." I admits, but you're q
blonde this season. aren't your"
Have 1 been anything else any
other season." comes back the misses,
naughty.
NO." says 1, ''but it's this season
were discussing. and you know as
well as I do that green and yellow
don't mix. You'd look like parrot in
a green dress with that tow-headed
topnotch of yours
When" inquiries the wife, did you
get to be such an expert on color
schemes and styles? 1 thought you
didn't know nothing about colors ex-
cepting blue, red and white. Have
they got green chips In the poker
games now?"
'I just been kind Of studying up"
tells her. you got to remember.
Sweet Verbenia, there's nothing that
interests you that don't interest me. "
with the reverse English" shifts
Kate. IAN got to do Is to develop a
yen for white for you to go cuckoo
over black. What's in back Of this
fat and clothes talk of yours? Are
you really broke and trying to stall
me into last years clothes?"
Perish the thought / eXclainas.
"If you had one it perished long
ago" comes back the misses.
ITO tell the TRUTH say l. m not
so terribly flush, but I'm not much in
terested in the money end of 1t.
want my wife to be right UP to the
minute in dress and appearance, and
I'm just a little peevish over the
tough breaks those Paris style hounds
are making for you. I got half q
.'You and beth your brothers
Evening star., 1925-08-30
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

~ URING this Summer it has
been my privilege to do some
visiting in the clan of the
- super-rich. BY this / mean
the kind of people who have
huge estates at such fashionable places
as Nagahucket and Dogblastit, and
up near Lake Owatawetness. where
the country Is so beautifully wild that
1t costs a thousand dollars an acre.
Even people who had never had the
opportunity Of moving about away UP
in this clan know more or less the
sort OF establishment 1 mean. When
you visit one of these houses you al
ways pass a lodge" with bright bed
of flowers in front of 1t, which Is
sign that the house itself is now only
three miles away.
Later on the symptoms begin to
multiply. You see a log cabin Sum
mer house made to initiate a settlers
home and built out of cedar imported
from the Fiji Islands. Then presently
there is a dear little waterfall and a
dam of great slabs of rock, built for
only a hundred and fifty thousand
dollars and supplying electric light
worth forty cents an evening.
After that you pass Scotch garden
ers planting out little fir trees and go
through a zone Of woodsr-7 en- cutting
birch billets for open fires nd chauf-
feurs, resting, and there you are all
of a sudden In front of Dogblastit
House, standing beside it's own lake,
with its own mountains and 10000
acres of the finest natural woods ever
staged by landscape gardeners.
Now you would think that the Deo-
pie who live in these great places are
happy. They are not. They have
troubles of which you and l and the
1ir,a at-V
come out to the wilderness TO rough
1t, and to snatch a brief four months
vacation between the strain of the
Riviera and the pressure of New
York, and then right in the happieSt
season Of the Summer they come up
against desperate problems.
The particular ones that follow were
related to me at Dogblastit. But
gather that the same difficulties are
met in all establishments of the sort.
They are discussed in all the CONVEX
sat1ons among hosts and guests. just
as swe discussed them last month
around the birch fires in the lounge
at DogblaStit.
DROBLEM No. 1.-What to do TO
1t seems that he doesn't play bridge.
The butler who was here last year
was always quite content If he could
be provided with a game Of bridge,
and except for run TO New York
now and then and a trip to see his
brother in Vancouver in the middle
of the Summer he stayed on the place
without a break and seemed quite
satisfied.
But the new man Jennings doesn't
care for cards. He says quite frank
ly that IL Is not a matter of con-
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science and that he doesn't mind
cards in the house, but that they
simply don't interest him. SO what
can one do?
Problem No. 2.-How to get the
pears that there have been very great
difficulties at Dogblastit about this. 1t
is very hard to get the right kind of
gloss that Ransome likes on his col
lars There is, of course, an electric
laundry in the basement of Dogblas-
tit itself, but unfortunately the laun-
dry maids who do the work in II will
not undertake any collars over IL
inches long. They say they simply
won't undertake them.
The experiment was made of bring
ing up a laundress from Boston, but
it was found that @le wouldn't under
take to starch anything at such a
high altitude. She can only do her
work at from 500 TO 500 feet above
the sea. Beyond that, she said, she
could do nothing.
They tried also sending Ransome' IS
collars by express to New York, but
this was quite unsatisfactory, because
the express people threw them about
so roughly. More than once they
were seen actually throwing the
packet of Ransomes collars right
from the platform of Dogblastit sta
ton into the express car. The only
feasible thing up to now has been to
have Ransome take one of the cars
and drive his collars either to New
York or to Philadelphia The obtec-
ton is that 1t takes up so much of his
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time, especially as he always likes to
drive his boots over to Burlington,
VT, once a week. where he can get
them properly treated.
X X y
pROBLEM NO. 3.-What to get for
the cook to read on Sunday? The
trouble is, she doesn't care for fiction.
She evidently is woman of literary
culture, somehow, because she said
one day that she had read the whole
of Shakespeare and thought it very
good. In the library of Dogblastit it
self, which is a really beautiful room
done in Japanese oak with loaded win
dows to represent the reading room of
a settlers cabin, there are practically
no books that suit the cook. In fact,
there are nothing but the Blue Book
lone needs that to look up people in)
and the Pink Book and the Red Book
and of course the Automobile Rude
Book and then some Guide Books
such as The Perfect Bartender and
the Gentleman's Collar and Cocktails
for All Occasions
Beyond that there are, of course,
all the new bookS-the new fic.
tion-because there is a standing or
der with the bookseller to send up so
pounds of new fiction by express once
a week. None of the guests of the
house ever care 10 read any book
more than three weeks old, as they
are quite worthless for conversation.
An order was sent to Boston for
the Harvard Classics, but the cook
says she doesn't care for the way they
are selected. The only compronlise
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up weight to fit your bank balance!
You remind me of Mrs. Gizzizzle and
the trouble she's been having with
chauffeurs.'
''How's that?" 1 asks
'.About every month or So" returns
the wife, "the chauffeur was leaving,
and every time she got a new one
she'd have to buy a new livery. Now
she's out looking for a chauffeur
that1l fit the livery of the last one.
That's the way you are; trying to
scale me up or down to fit your B. B.
Why don't you work it the other
Way?"
''How?" wants to know.
''By putting a little fat on the wal
iet," suggests the frau, 'and letting
me keep time to that. If you'd stop
putting weight on bookmakers and
bootleggers you wouldn't have no
trouble when'-
Talking about styles I cuts IN,
hasty, what do you think about this?
It says in the piece i been reading
that green is going to be the rage this
Fall"
"What kind Of green?" asks Kate.
''It don't say" 1 returns. but !
guess long green. It's always the
rage. but that's a tough break for
you."
what is?" inquiries the misses.
Green" I answers. You'd look
swell in green. wouldn't your
Whats the matter with me in
green?" snaps the frau.
You'd just look awful" assures
her. ANY other color makes you
look like a million dollars, but in
green you'd look like cross between
a whosit and a whatsit. You just
seem to be out Of luck this year-you
gotta. be fat. and you've gone and
thinned yourself out: you've got to
wear green and you en- t.,
Evening star., 1925-08-30
BY RING LARDNER,


"O the Editor: One point the
Bible and these scientists
seems to agree on is that the
L human race amt going to last
forever and sooner or later
they will be just one man or woman
or child left on the face of what has
been SO aptly turned Mother Earth.
This being the case the first question
that naturally springs to a persons
mind is will IL be me and il so wottle
I do (by Irving Beriin)?
To begin with of course 1t would
take quite vile to find out that you
was all alone (by Irving Berlinl. If
your telephone is anything like our
one you could not make sure that way
because sometimes we can set all day
with the receiver to our ear and not
get nothing but static. You would
half to write letters to a great many
people. even people you do not know,
and when the letters was all returned
marked no one here by that name,
then you would have some circum-
stantial evidence that the population
was about gone.
To make it conclusive all that would
be necessary would be to put up a
sign in front Of your house or place
or business saying no parking here
and If nobody parked you would know
for sure that the human race all but
you had perished.
What next? At first glance the
question of food would seem like the
most serious proposition a specially
II you had never learned to cook, but
on second thoughts you could live on
sardfneS or go down town and get
your meals at the automat as long as
your change lasted. AS for trans
portation the absence of motornen,
engineers and chauffeurs don't mean
that they wouldn't be no st. cars,
Evening star., 1925-08-30
World knowledge Increased By National Geographic Efforts

This ungainly creature sheds its
cuticle instead Of it's hair. 1t has a
snorelike trumpet call. made by blow.
ing the end of its trunk full of air,
like a toy balloon. then placing this
resonator in its wide-open mouth.
AS result of the society's explora-
tions at Carlsbad, n. Mex, a cav
ern of exquisite beauty and vast
proportions was added to the known
natural wonders of our continent, al j
upon receiving the society's repor..
President Coolidge promptly set aside
the cavern area as a national monu.
ment.
One of the most romantic adven-
turers Of our times, and one of the
most useful. Is the plant explorer. DR..
Joseph r. Rock, who earlier located
the chaulInoogra tree that yields a
leper-healing oil, led the society S
noteworthy expedition into Western
China.
The Chinese Tibet border is thickly
settled, seldom visited, and abounds In
plants readily adaptable to the United
States. DIR. Rocks major finds were
a blight-resisting chestnut tree. now
being cultivated experimentally by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture; many kinds of rhododendrons,
some of which already have been
planted in our national parks; and
the discovery of natives practicing the
rites of religion that thrived before
Buddhism came.
To do mis- work DIR. Rock braved
the aboriginal tribes of Yunnan.
China's wild West" and was In the
thick Of bandit raids and revolutions.
He traversed a hitherto unexplored
gorge of the Yangtze, deeper than the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
Once he wrote home despairingly,
God knows whether I ever will come
back alive"
One night he slept in dilapidated
village temple. full of collins. His
native guard deserted him. Outside
the town was thicket of poles, each
bearing the head of native victim.
captured in the daytime raids.
At another time he wrote:
There is no end to robbers. When
moving out of this place anywhere
one gets an escort of SO to 80 soldiers,
most of them ex-robbers. One Is al
a loss what to do, as they may turn
brigands on the read, or. u ont
Evening star., 1925-08-30

These are a few high lights OF the
notable exploration work the society
has carried on during the last quarter
of a century.
In addition, many of the society's
MEMBERS noted laymen as well as
scientists, have contributed special
articles for its publication. Among
these member-contributor have been
President Coolidge, Chief Justice Taft,
Ambassador JusSerand. Alexander
Graham Bell. George w. Goethals,
Theodore Roosevelt, Viscount James
Bryce, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sir
Ross Smith. Joseph Conrad and many
others.
To any one who has been the cor
responding secretary of even a small
club. 1t must Immediately occur that
the correspondence of society with
q million members must be enormous;
1t is. There are from 5000 to $4,000
pieces Of incoming first-class mail a
day!
The society's membership files form
a gazetteer of the United States,
since there Is not community of so
| or more persons in this country where
| there is not a member. Its foreign
| membership list includes every nation.
colony, dependency and mandatory
| which has a postal system.
Strange names and letters and
forms of currency come from members
In distant places. One member asked
permission to reprint some of the
Biographies material in a magazine
of Calcutta, because, 'in giving this
| permission you will not only do the
editor great favor, but also to the
purda (seclude0 ladies of India"
A Japanese member concludes 4
letter, Wishing our magazine all
| success and 'jeramon.' Native word
for good luck"
The ZR-3. now the Los Angeles,
brought on it's transatlantic flight
nominations for Geographic men,
bership in Giengen. Wurttemberg,
Germany.
A member who lives at Nsawam,
Gold Coast. Africa, when asked to
, state his business or profession,
| wrote, II was a king and am distool-
ed. But now I am a man of easy
| circumstances"
Inquiries from members seeking
geographic information often re.
Evening star., 1925-08-30

self, for tNo whole entire hours.
pretty near died when my sweet
heart got captured by the pirates and
beaten up. And when they took me
and put me up for sale as a slave
L pretty near perished for shame and
by instinct, see, caught a good hold
onto Geo. in the dark. to protect me-
When them big old style ships
with the gallus-SlaveS sailed out on
the ocean / felt like j was taking
the very wind out of their sails, If
you get the idea 1t was a whole
lot better then reading a book. on
account a person didn't haf to dig
through the descriptions by the hour
you seen the descriptions, by the
minute.
But it had class, the same as a book
that is written careful, by Shake
spere, or Elinor Glyn, or somebody.
And I'm here to tell the world that
picture wasn't no more like the old
style dramas l had seen before. then
a one-piece dress is like a leg-o'-mut
ton sleeyed costume. or a boyiSh-bob
Is like pompadour.
Well, l kinda woke up outa a
trance when the feature finished and
the orchestra commenced to play
but Hot Bozo, l still dreaded the
comedy. Yet when it come on /
stayed on account leo. wanted TO,
and that comedy was as empty of
pies as a bakery on Saturday night.
1t was laid up in Alaska, but not
laid up in the sense of being sick.
And while the scenery and etc. was
undoubtedly a. take off on Eskimos,
North Polish explorers, and etc. still
by the parody a person got a pretty
good idea of what 1t was like up
there. with laugh thrown in l
dunno when I have laughed so much
at anything since my mother-in-law
sat on the fiy-paper. 1 always did
like refined jokes.
Well anyways. as I set there look
ing at them pictures, commenced
to realize where this evening was the
first time 1 had completely forgot
myself in long while. And I
could see by Geo.'s face that Geo.
was having a good time, too. After
so many yrs. of married life why
naturally I can tell even in the dark
pretty much what he is thinking.
IT didn't take much detective work
= to see where every time the hero
socked the villain, Geo. was taking
one out of that mean office mana ager
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should meet active brigands, he fears
his soldiers will join them.
Yesterday there was a complete
eclipse of the moon. You should have
heard the yelling and screaming of
the people. The whole village ran
about like mad, beating gongs and
drums. and bowling.
The people said a huge frog was
eating the moon up, and they had
to make all the noise they could to
keep the frog away
y u r +
IT was another National Geographic
expedition that. led by Frederick
r. Wulsin along the China-Mongolia
frontier, discovered the blond blue.
eyed tribes of China,
These were one Of a number Of
aboriginal non-Chinese peoples - lost
tribes of early Asiatic migrations -
that Mr.. Wulsin found in the un-
mapped Kansu province.
Mr.. Wulsin's party made part of
its trip by camel caravans, and an
other party aboard raft of 72 yak
skins on the Yellow River.
Most interesting of all the alien
groups. perhaps, were the ITO Runs"
literally 'earth men," which is taken
to mean aborigines or natives. These
people flee from camera as they
would from a rife. They seem to
keep no trace Of their ages. The
women frequently wear woodcutters'
hatchets thrust in their girdles. Un-
married girls have a peculiar head.
dress of 20 to 30 braids, which hang
loose all around; while married WON.
an wears her hair in 9. knot on the
back of her head, covered with a
little brass cap, which is held in place
by a harness Of red or black cloth.
Another Kansu people Mr.. Wulsin
studied seems to show that woman's
invasion of industry. easy divorce and
free love" are primitive, rather than
civilized manifestations.
The expedition also studied the
botany and zoology of this least known
Chinese province. One tree, locally
called red BIRCH" is boon to
traders. 1t has a shiny, brown,
papery bark which peels off in large,
thin sheets, which are used by Tibet
ans and Chinese for wrapping butter
and ether articles.