Evening star., 1932-03-27
EXPERTS TO PICK
SILVER STAR HOME:
Capital Leaders Accept Invi-
tation to Judge 1882
Contest.

A new series of Silver Star Homes,
selected and approved by a highly
qualified group of specialists, will be
placed on public exhibition this year
under auspices of The Star, in keeping
with plans for the 1882 better homes
demonstration which have just been
completed.
The program this year will be con-
Quoted along the lines of the 1881 Sill
yer Star Homes demonstration, which
attracted hundreds of interested visitors
to each of last years exhibit houses.
The program is an outgrowth of the
better homes exposition conducted
for number of years past by The
Star.
The purpose of the program is to en-
courage the creation of homes here Of
higher character in all phases of their
development, planning and equipment,
an objective which Is linked with the
current national movement to expand
the field Of home ownership.
Specialists i'm Charge.
The entire program itself will be un-
der the personal direction and super
vision of the Silver Star Homes Com
mittee, appointment of which is an
nounced today by The Star. This is an
Gus major activities associated with
home building and its membership in
cludes representatives of both Govern
ment and private endeavor.
The experience that came from the
better homes demonstration of last
year and earlier years will be carried
into the 1882 exposition by those men,
bers who again are serving on the COM
mittee and at the same time new
knowledge will be brought to the COM
mittee by acceptance of appointments
by new leaders.
Members of the 1892 committee are
James S. Taylor, chief of the division
of building and housing of the Depart
ment of Commerce; DR.. Louise Stanley,
chief of the Bureau of Home Econom-
les, Department of Agriculture; Gilbert
L. Rodier, past president, Washington
! Chapter, American Institute of Archi-
tects; Frederick c. Murphy, F. A. l. A.
head of the department of architecture
at Catholic University: John H. Smah
Sd, landscape architect; E. H. Rosen-
garten, general contractor and past
president of the Washington Building
Trades Employers Association, and J
F. M Bowie, vice president of H. l.
Rust Co, and president of the Wash
| ington Real Estate Board.
Organized for Work.
This committee organized and began
! its work in the last week and an an
nouncement is expected shortly con-
! cerning the selection of the first of the
/ number of homes which, it is ex-
| pected. will be placed on exhibition
! this year
! Under the Silver Star Homes pro-
gram. members of the committee make
personal inspection of houses under
consideration for inclusion in the pro-
gram and award the Silver Star Home
Medal to those found to pass a high
minimum standard and deemed worthy
! of having part in the public demon
stration.
+ Since hundreds of good houses are
> erected in Washington each year and
/ all cannot be the subject of public eX-
hibition, it is the aim of the committee
I to select a number in various classified
tionS which are found to be of excep-
tional merit in design, plan, construc-
tion, relation to community plan, land
scape treatment. equipment. finish and
other important phases of home devel-
/ opment.
! The program thus has an element OF
a better homes contest, in that the COM
mittee selects what it finds to be the
best out of the extensive list of attrac-
tive and meritorious new houses. The
small house is not placed in competition
with the mansion, however, since a
house is judged as one in its own clas-
sification.
Impartial Opinion Sought.
While it is recognized, Of course
that no agency could guarantee thai
| a modern home, no matter how care
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