Evening star., 1931-12-01
1000 WEI ATTEND
HOME CONFERENCE.
Delegates From All Parts OF
Country viii Hear Hoover's
Address.

More than 1000 men and women will
@ather here tomorrow to attend as
accredited delegates President Hoovers
Conference on Home Building and
Home ownership. which opens with an
address by Mr.. Hoover In Constitution
Hall during the evening.
The gathering also will have the
honor Of dedicating informally the new
3l7. 900 home Of the Commerce De-
rartment. Registration OF the oeiegates
will start tomorrow morning In the new
building Its large auditorium VIII De
used for committee sessions, and IN
rooms adjoining this hall will be located
the executive staff
The conference has q twofold pur-
pose of finding and assimilRting meth
ods for giving more order ana olrectIon
to the development Of the American
home and assisting to revive an indus-
trv which is now running at 80 per
cent of its normal s., 900 900, 900 annual
output.
Admission by Ticket Only.
The opening session will start at $50
o'clock and admission into Constitution
Hall will be by ticket only which may
be obtained at the registration omces In
the new building.
secretary Lamont will welcome the
delegates after the invocation by Or.
Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor OF the rev
Hoovers address is expected to start at
o'clock and will be broadcast over
the national networks OF both the Ma
tional and Columbia systems. Bene-
diction will be said by President Cole
man NevilS, 8. j., Of Georgetown UNI
versity. A.
On Friday afternoon at S o'clock Mr.
hold n rACAntlOn
a. the Write House for the delegates.
That night at $50 o'clock the confer
ence viii be addressed by Secretary
wilbur at Constitution Hall.
Hoover Launched Move.
President Hoover organized this move
nent last year, selecting secretaries
lamont and Wilbur as joint chairmen.
Or John M Cries, former chief OF the
building and Housing Division OF the
Commerce Department, Is the executive
secretary.
ers. builders, housing experts, buliolng
loan executives, real estate men, city
planners. manufacturers, SocioioglSts'
engineers architects, home economiSts,
decorators and artisans, representing
every state Besides these. S53 men
and women of national stanoing Ia
practically every branch Of ACTIVITY tnat
concerns home building and ownership
have been working voluntarily 1or
months assembling facts on angles OF
One achievement already has been
accomplished by the conference, lts
Financing Committee having played an
important part In developing sne pan
for the Home Loan Discount bank,
proposed by President Hoover during
October.
5S3 Experts Made SurveyA
The $50 experts have made surveys OF
what has been done and have adoeo re-
searches to these to determine future
courses. Their findings and recon-
mendations will be submitted through
After hearing the Presidens,s Gddress
tomorrow night the delegates will settle
down Thursday to COMMITTEES work Ii
various meeting places; There Wall. ne
ing. I. types OF dwelling, fundamental
equipment, design. housing and the
community, subdixtSiouE layout, kitchen
and other work centens, 1arge-scale op-
erations, construction, eolored housing.
blighted areas and slums, household
management, taxation, reconditioning
remodeling and moderrizatfo1, rela-
tionship Of income to the home, utili.
ties for houses, home furnishing and
decorations. industrial decentralization
and housing, landscape planning and
planting, finance, farm and village
housing, business and housing, home
making, home ownership and leasing
home information service, and SIX com
mittees on correlation Of the informa-
tion submitted to the conference.
viii Consider Finances.
The FIRST step taken by the central
organization will be the tackling OF
4SAl 4f fha Inn
while backing the President to the
limit on his home loan discount plan,
conference leaders believe the addi-
tional credit made available by this
plan will not suffice to enable family
living on $4,000 q year to undertake
the purchase OF home needing certain
essential requirements OF light, space
ventilation and plumbing.
Advice on fighting depreciation viii
be formulated by still another commit
tee, and a Committee on City Planning
and Zoning. headed by Frederic A..
Delano. chairman of the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission and
chairman Of the Regional Plan Of New
York and Its Environment, Will recom&
mend steps to insure the stability Of
value Of American homes.
Taxation will be taken up by COM
n1ittee headed by Prof. Thomas s..
Adams of Yale University. who has
been adviser on taxation to the Treas
ury Department since 1917.
Mass Production Essential.
It was the thought of President
Hoover when he constituted the con-
ference that some new principle of
construction might have to be involved
TO meet the financial ability of the
people whose incomes are $1,000 to
$1,000 a year. He has maintained that
people with such incomes should have
homes of their own as a step toward a
more substantial citizenship.
Consequently, the Planning Commit
tee constituted a Committee on Large
Scale Operations. which has come to
the conclusion that mass production
must be applied more widely II the
ideal of better homes for the small
salaried and wage-earning classes Is to
be realized
The Correlating Committee will pre-
sent all material for formulation of a
definite policy and program that, II
adopted, might end the era Of hit-or
miss growth Of American homes and
home neighborhoods.