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The appraisal of Harry +. Loveless is as follows:
August "a, 1928.
Pursuant TO request have carefully inspected the newly
completed apartment building known The New Amsterdam
located at the northeast of Fourteenth and Famon
Streets N W, Washington. d. c.
"The building freproo we'll eight
stories and basement and the lot frontage lao
Fourteenth Street and 1872 feet Fairmont Street
"Afer examination of physical property
architectural plans estimate the value building
with the land, to be $1,114,53s.
"The building has desirable with
frontages, ample light The
hood enjoys the convenience of facility having high
grade shopping district, excellent markets. motion
theatres churches and schools Two
service afford excellent transportation all of the
VERY truly yours
(Signed) HARRY r. LOVELESS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17
Rice.

LAKE CHARLES, Lathe new crop
Of rice got off to late start with re-
cuced acreage. Indications are for re-
duced crop and increased demand ow-
ting TO the fact that the manufacturers
If breakfast foods now are making free
use of rice.
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Commodity Notes
Fruit.

Epecial Dispatch to The star
PORTLAND, June 1.-THE last car
load of applies of the 1928 crop has been
sold and shipped out of the Pacific
Northwest The season ended with the
best prices. compared with the lowest
prices at the start. This indicates a
scramble and good prices for the early
1929 crop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17
COTTON PRICES GAIN.

NEW YORK, June II tSpeciaD. -
Cotton prices advanced 10 to is points
during the last hour today, after hold
ing a few points under Saturdays
prices during the greater part of the
day. Spots were advanced 10 points to
IA on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17
Steel.

CANTON, Ohio.-Production is run
ming above schedule at the Thinker
Roller Bearing and Central Alloys Steel
plants. Production was halted at the
Hoover suction sweeper plant at North
Canton recently by fire, which swept
the power house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17

idated profit OF s2s,ss1 for the first
quarter of 1929, compared to a net loss
Of S95.3I8 in the entire year of 1928.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17

Sales in 1923 totaled $2.656,000, COM
pared to S1,l90.000 in 1927. Sales for
1929 are estimated at S6.50O,00O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17

Cost of education for the i,378.T5l
children in Illinois Is set at $l04.02 a
gear for each child.
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A Satisfactory Investment

The New Amsterdam bonds example of the satisfactory
investments offered by The F. H. Smith holders
the bonds of the 100000 First Mortgage received their
eres regularly when and had their principal before
maturity with profit The property constitutes
for the bonds of the existing $4,000 issue which
completion of the refundng, closed first mortgage
operators report dated June r. 1929 states that apart
mens and stores this building 1876 apartments
four reserved and four stores rented with
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Valuation of Property
By Two Members of the Was

WARDMAN CONSTRU COMPANY
inotOnP Real Este Ro
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Completion of Refundin9-
Underlying Bonds Retired at a Premium

On March 1929 the outstanding bonds of the underlying
redeemed and accrued interest plus premium
The refunding operation this property completed
and refunding
through redemption the outstanding bonds the
and the deed securing said underlying
released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20
A New Fling for Youth.

Youth Will have its fling ii is said
A ordrd-neW type OF fling was inaugu-
rated in the Middle West yesterday,
when DR.. Robert Maynard Hutchins,
aged thirty years, was in&ucted into
the presidency of the University of
Chicago. There have doubtless been COL
lego presidents in the past as young as,
or even younger than, DR.. Hutchins.
But it is not recalled that one of his
years was ever called to the leadership
of an institution as important as the
university on the Midway, which owes
is original and muniiic,nt endowment
to the millions of John ID. Rockefeller.
HIS Inauguration constitutes record
and new triumph for youth.
One hundred and twelve heads OF
American colleges and universities at
tended the ceremonies incidental to
the boy presidents" accession to his
new post. They, and most OF the three
hundred Chicago professors, who COM
prise his faculty, seemed old enough to
be his father" the dispatches tell us
One of them, indeed, was-Dr William
James Hutchins, president Of Beres
College. Kentucky, who is "Bcb" Hutch
ms father and was present 10 partici-
rate in IN event DESTINED to take ar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20
Mussolini's One Fault.

| Aside from the mans sublime con-
ceit-a virtue rather than a fault in
! those who must rule--the outstanding
! point of interest in Premier Mussolini's
| article for The Sunday Star lies in his
| naive satisfaction over the discovery
that government comes nearest perfec-
ton when it is vested in what he calls
"a benevolent central authority" Pre-
mier Mussolini lays proper stress on
the fact that this central authority
must be benevolent" and leaves no
shadow of doubt in the minds of his
readers that the central authority in
Italy has carried benevolence to the
correct extreme.
lone prime essential is benevolence,"
writes MuSSolini. THE man In power
cannot be other than rightwilled in
ruling, treating all with impartial fair
ness and administering all for the COM
mon good. He cannot be swerved by
family aspirations, by the acquisition
of wealth or by personal and particular
whims. He must govern keeping before
him the central motive of the greatest
good for the greatest number"
With these qualifications in mind,
Italy's premier proceeds to point out
| what has been done in Italy, In Tur-
key, Spain and Hungary by dictators
| who apparently I'LL the bill.
There is only one trouble with Pre-
mier Mussolini's argument. There is
only one weakness in what otherwise
is a perfect case for dictatorial govern
ment. He leaves us In doubt as to
what happens when, for che time be-
ing, there is no qualified dictator. He
cannot answer the question Of what
Italy will do without Mussolini. nor
what Turkey will do without Mustapha
Kcmal AS general proposition,
Mussolini's theory of the benefits OBJ
tanning under centralized and dynamic
leadership is sound. AS far as theory
goes, it undoubtedly has democracy
crowded of the map and beaten mile.
Mussolini is not the first man, here or
abroad, who has championed the glories
Of autocracy over democracy.
Although definite proof remains to
be written by future historians, it is
probable that, while a Mussolinian au-
tocracy may be best in the short run.
democracy is safer in the long run.
Some Waterloo lies in wait around the
corner for every dictator and after him
what? II Mussolini could add i'm
mortality to his list of requisites for
successful dictators, there would be
little doubt as to his having solved
the riddle Of good government. Until
then, future events are awaited with
interest.
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King Foot Ball.

Once again the foot ball season Is
winding to a close with amazing nu-
merical evidence of its stranglehold on
popularity. Last Saturday, the AsSo-
ciated Press has tabulated, more than
600 900 fans attended the thirteen lead
ing games of the day. including contests
in every jor section of the country.
Capacity" is now the rule Whenever
and wherever a gridiron classic Is
played. Into Soldier Field at Chicago,
on November Is, 123, 900 spectators were
packed for the annual clash between
Notre Dame and Southern California,
by far the largest crowd that ever
watched a foot ball game in the United
States. Yale Bowl on the same after
noon sheltered $4,000, as the Bulldog
took the Tiger into camp. At Pitts
bureh, the University of Pittsburgh and
Carnegie Tech drew q monster gate OF
60 900. Correspondingly impressive fig
ures were recorded at other games
Generally, attendance was limited only
/ by the seating and standing room of
the stadium in question.
Sometimes modern foot ball Is dsrided
as a craze. Well 1t is healthy craze
1t brings into the open for what is
usually an invigorating Autumn after
noon throngs of people who might
otherwise hug firesides or lace away the
wane of the day in some less inspiring
psstime.
Foot ball has It's value apart from
being this stimulus to an out-of-doorl
respite. 1t is a magnificent exhibition
Of physical and moral courage by Amer
lcan youth in the pink Of condition
The game long ceased to be merely I
struggle of Drawn Mad: highly "scien
tifc." it is nowadays essentially com
petition in brains, as well, with coach
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The Budget.

The Bureau of the Budget, having
completed its annual appraisal of the
Districts estimates. has wrapped them
In a thick shroud of secrecy and stored
them away until December, when they
will be sent to Congress and exposed
to the light of day. Until then moth
ing will be definitely known regarding
the nature and the amount of items
approved by the bureau. There are in
timations, however, that the approx
mate total of $4s,46O.s6 requested by
the Commissioners has been granted
by ti1e Budget Bureau.
If this be true 1t will mark a victory
for the District and those who have
commended that money raised by tcxa-
ton should be spent, instead of being
diverted into q surplus that is al aady
too large. 1t will mean that the E.. l.
mates from the department heads in
the municipal government have been
allowed to stand without a great deasl
of trimming and revising on the part
of the budget officials. And It evident
ly means that the Budget Bureau has
departed from the general policy of
holding next years estimated expendi-
lures below, or to figure closely ap-
proximating, the total of the previous
years appropriations. Such a policy,
applied to this growing municipality
was illogical and confusing. 1t has Gre
ated q situation where the city is pic
tured on the one hand as debt free and
possessing a comfortable surplus in the
Treasury, but on the other hand is lag
ging behind in meeting just obligations
TO tax-paying citizens by failure to pro-
vide them with essential improvements
for which they have already been as
sessed.
The annual budgets should be COM
puted on the basis of revenue availa-
bility. When revenue exceeds the needs
Of the city, the revenue should be re-
duced by reducing taxation. Allowing
it to accumulate as an unspent surplus
In the Treasury is unwise and unjust.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20
HOOver's Food Ship Idea
Meets Varied Criticism

From the New York Sun.
Europea reaction to President
flowers suggestion that food ships be
inyiolate in war is as varied as might
be expected Few critics dismiss it as
abruptly as Lord Sydenham, with his
comment of absurd and sentimental"
The London Daily Telegraph, while
pointing out that the idea is opposed to
the philosophy of war. adds that it de-
serves careful consideration. England
made Germany tighten its belt in the
Great War but was itself often hungry.
From Germany comes chorus of APP
proval. The VosSische Zeitung goes so
completely overheard as to attribute to
Mr.. Hoover'S words on this subject the
weight and value of a promise" al
though the President was careful to
label his suggestion as an idea" put
forward for "the consideration of the
world" and not as "a governmental
proposition to any nation"
There was. and is no promise about
it. 1t would be absurd to think that
the only great power, except Russia,
completely capable of feeding itself in
war time for an indefinite period would
throw away that advantage until such
a sacrifice was amply compensated by
concessions in other respects from
powers less fortunate and more militia
ristic.
from Paris the suggestion comes that
IL food ships had been immune in the
late war Germany would have won it,
not only because German civilians and
soldiers alike would have been fed, but
because Germany. able to buy food in
America and have 1t safely transported,
would never have provoked the United
States into declaring war.
This and other complications natu-
rally rise to confront President Hoover's
idealistic proposal. Europe has a new
subject for debate.
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epochal place in American academic
| annals.
Was not some uncommonly sane and
sagacious psychology exhibited by the
trustees Of the University Of Chicago
when they reached out and drafted
from the Yale campus an intellectual
representative of flaming youth?
President Hutchins was born on the
threshold of the twentieth century. He
had not seen the light of day even in
the gay nineties." He is a product,
man and boy. of our own allegedly ir-
responsible age Of money, motors ana
movies. of collegiate "jazz," and all that
goes with it. He knows the problems OF
present-hour college life not as
pedantic and puritanical observer, but
as an actual participant in 1t. Those
problems are not Of yesteryear, but OF
the vivid days and months in which
undergraduates of this Ammo Domlnl
have their hectic being.
Is it not possible that Robert May
nard Hutchins, the ink on whose A. b.
and LII. B. degrees at Yale Is hardly
dry, will bring to modern university
administration a point OF view born
from q closeup contact with Its OPP
portunities as well rs its vicissitudes,
which may be destined to give college
life" a new trend? To judge by cur
rent presentations on the movie screen,
our so-called higher institutions of
learning are degenerating into glorified
communities for the perpetuation OF
pranks and petting, with the COED
note strongly stressed in syncopation.
President Hutchins, tall, boyish and
good looking, is still young enough to
star in one of those exaggerated films
of campus existence himself. Holly
wood is not likely to tempt him from
the Midway, but his first-hand ac-
qusintance with the sort of thing that
has come to be regarded as typical of
college life" should at least stand him
in splendid stead in the place he now
adorns. Somewhere between the mid
Victorian grind standards and the
"jazz" habits of 1929 lies the happy
medium. If the boy president of the
University of Chicago discovers it, he
should make for himself, even on widely
different lines, a name as famous as
Dwight of Yale or Eliot OF Harvard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20

captain and signal-ealler vying with
one another from seasons opening to
seasons last whistle in what profess
sional base ball knows as master
minding." AS a character builder and
teacher of the virtues Of teamwork, foot
ball is without peer. Few academic
faculties compare with it In that respect.
To date college foot ball has con-
spicuously held its own against the once
threatened menace of professionalism.
Red" Oranges venture into the arena
OF high-salaried gridiron warriors has
been far from the brilliant financial
success predicted for 1t. That is we'll.
Foot ball is king of amateur sports in
America. 1t will only be dethroned
when it becomes a subsidized monarch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20

Planning Commission, the body charged
by the Federal Government witch the
duty OF creating the WASHINGTON Beau
tiful." The commission meets every
other month. Nichols is an untailing
attendant. He brings to bear upon It's
problems the talents of the artist,
dreamer and city planner, along with
the common sense and practical judg-
ment of the ''realtor." Nichols for years
has been Kansas City's most constructive
developer" His famous country club
district, on the outskirts of town, is as
tine an example of scientific and sys-
tematic city creation and city beauti-
flcation as the United States affords.
Washington is fortunate to command
Nichols interest and enthusiasm. He
Is Kansan by birth, Harvard by edu-
, cation phi Beta Kappa and author of
standard works on city building.
~ x Z *
Nevada is once again on the Boulder
Dam firing line in Washington, de-
manding It's place in the sun of that
monumental project. At the recent
first conference in the Department of
the Interior Secretary Wilbur an
nounced that his final decision regard
ing the division of Boulder Dam power
would be given at a second conference
In December Seventy-five per cent of
the hydroelectric energy of this 6OO,-
OO0-horSepower enterprise was allocated
to Los Angeles and South California
cities and IS per cent to private power
companies in that area. Arizona and
Nevada wherein the project is located)
were allowed withdrawal" provision
for ID per cent each under restricted
conditions. Nevada protested this allo-
cation. Its grounds are that the Boul-
der Dam site represents her greatest
natural resource and that it is the
States only chance to develop power at
price that can be utilized in the de-
velopment of Nevada's mineral re-
sources. For all those reasons she Of
fered higher price for the power than
was bid from any other quarter. The
two-fisted Governor of Nevada, Fred
Balzar, is in Washington to lead the
States fight for square deal on
Boulder Dam.
What's the toughest interviewing
proposition in Washington Undoubt-
edly its name is Alice Longworth. The
Speakers wife is also unquestionably
the most inaccessible person in the
Capital for newspaper and magazine
purposes. Her friends in the writing
craft are innumerable, but they only
see her on publication occasions.
Recent the representative OF ma
tional magazine came to town with in
structionS to offer Princess Alice" her
own terms for an interview article on
any subject under the sun. He soon
discovered he was on bootleSs mission.
The only interview Mrs. Longworth
gives is four words long. 1t runs, Il
never give interviews"
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20
Biggest Submarine
Held Parley Threat
From the Pittsburah Post Gazette.

From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
The launching of the great French
submarine, LIE Surcouf. as the world
otherwise is preparing for the London
conference on naval limitations, may be
expected to center attention on the
reasons France and italy desire under
surface boats to remain legal when the
principal maritime powers are seeking
to abolish them. The submarine, OF
course, is the great threat against conf
merce in war time. A few submersibles,
effectively manned and daringly led, will
make small navy the equal OF huge
one
LIE Surcouf, bristling with torpedo
tubes and guns, with hydroplane con-
cealed within it, capable of diving 100
feet deeper than any boat now in COM
mission, and able to carry enough fuel
to go half around the world, is a pow
erful argument in itself. Now that it
approaches completion, the French nat
urally will be against giving up any adj
vantage which it gives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Have we had the pleasure Of serving
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@. Are there any male SiameSe
twins now nving?-H. N.
A. The only male twin1 bound to-
gether of whose existence we know are
Lucio and Simplicio Godino, Filipinos,
FL years Of age, now in the United
States.
@. How large is the Junkers mono
plane, G-38?-G. o. s.
A. The wings Of this giant new 1900
horsepower land plane measure $50 feet
from tip to tip. The height Of the plane
is more than 16 feet and 1t Is about IS
feet in length. It Is equipped with two
central Junkers motors Of TOO horse
power each and two outer ones OF 400
horsepower each.
u.
driVer?-E. T,
A. Taxi drivers are usually tipped 10
cents for a 50-cent drive, Is cents for
| a drive costing between so cents and a
| dollar, 20 or IS cents up to 50 and 10
per cent of the total bill for long waits
| or long distances.
@. How many miles of shore line has
| Florida?-P. S.
A. Florida has more than 1000 miles
| of coast line.
@. What is meant when it is said
that text is lad usum delphini"?-
| w. A.
A. 1t means for the use of the
| dauphin" Louis XIV of France had
editions of the ancient classics prepared
! for the use Of the dauphin, which were
strictly expurgated. Hence the phrase
| has come to be used in that sense.
@. Have the GOLFERS been sold which
| have been moored in Gatun Lake?-
| L. r.
A. The Panama Railroad collier
| Ulysses which, with the Achilles, a
sister ship, has been moored in Gatun
Lake for several years, has been sold
| to the American Tankers Corporation
of Boston. The other, and two barges,
are still available in case of need to
protect the supply of coal to the Canal
| plants.
| @. What is the origin of the name of
the town of Albert Lea, Mimi
| r. H. r.
A. 1t derived its name from Col. Lea,
| whose first name was Albert.
@. Do chipmunks climb to the tops
of trees?-N. D.
A. The Biological Survey says that
chipmunks do not climb to the tops of
trees as do squirrels, but they do climb
up 10 or IS feet.
@. What is the smallest change in
electric current which can be recorded?
"A. J. p.
A. A change in current as small as
10000. O00, 000th Of an ampere has been
| indicated on a micronometer.
@. What Is the difference between q
continent and large island?-F. A.
| A. The distinction between a con-
| tinent and an island Is primarily size.
| A continent, however, also differs from
an island In its structure, which is that
of large basin bordered by Q noun
| tain chain