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Evening star., 1933-07-29
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FASHION IN HOMES
Wide Use of Fabricated
Houses Distant, Realty
Leader Believes.

The factory built home can have no
marked influence on existing home
building trends. in the opinion of VIII
liam c. Miller of this city, president
of the National Association Of Real Es-
tate Boards.
For several years the plans of many
thousands Of potential home buyers
have been held up by reports OF a
coming revolution In home construction
methods
Since the opening of the Century of
Progress Exposition more than 5000 900
privileged to inspect at f1rSt hand the
latest models in proposed systematized
housing. while others have been in
vited to investigate the merits of this
so-called new departure in construction
through pictorial reproductions of the
exhibits.
Speaking not as head of the ma
tional realtors, but as one whose pro-
fessional curiosity compelled q thorough
inspection Of the best standardized
homes shown at the exposition, it Is
my considered opinion that the regu-
larly organized home building industry
can safely continue to build. and that
the public can, with profit buy homes
built in the conventional styles o:
proved architecture which are offered
today on the open market"
As to construction costs, Mr.. Miller
says:
ANY Washington builder who is sup
ported by a competent organization
can, If he feels inclined to 60 in for
this modernistic chain store form Of
architecture, go out into the local mar
ket and buy materials and with the
help of local labor and local craftsmen
reproduce the buildings exhibited by
the fabrication interests at Chicago for
less"
As he sees it, says Mr.. Miller, the
matter of economy Is Of secondary i'm
portance. The trend is, and for the
next generation at least will continue
to be, toward home building expressive
Of the personality Of the individual
owner"
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family homes. but these former fnan-
cial disruptions were Of comparatively
brief duration-economic spasms of a
sort. The debacle from which the
country is emerging left a more last
ing impress on the minds Of many
thousands to whom the idea Of home
ownership previously had never ap-
pealed. There always had been. and
therefore. presumably always would be
means for renting comfortable homes
as needed. It is from such ranks that
most Of the home owners Of the future
will come
Few Of these can have failed to
note that home building came to a
virtual standstill few years ago The
Midsummer survey of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards dis
closes a shortage of onefamily homes
Moreover thousands of former city
dwellers have been alternating in the
country since the advent of difdcult
times and most of these will return
with the first definite signs that i'm
proved conditions this time may be
regarded as permanent.
Trend Well Advanced.
Nor can the general public have
neglected to observe that the trend
to higher prices in building materials
is now well advanced. The F. w.
Dodge Corporation reports that this
change is already reflected in higher
price levels for housing in 20 per cent
Of the Middle Atlantic cities. While
this report on increased costs Of mate
rial includes Washington, the price
levels of newly constructed and used
homes alike remain far below normal
with the clearing up Of some ap-
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ARLY AMERICAN FEATURES.

parent confusion IN the public mind
as to just what may be o-pected in
the way Of service from the Home
Owners Loan Corporation and the re-
turn Of outside private capital to the
local investment field the problem Of
financing future realty transactions
should in effect solve itself.
while there remains some question
concerning the workings Of the bond
exchange feature Of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation plan. the primary
purpose of the act was to take care
of those who had been unable to obtain
aid through ordinary lending channels,
and the office of District Manager
Charles A. Jones recently announced
that this part Of the program would
be expedited.
with adequate real estate financing
virtually assured in the near future a
speedy return Of confidence and the
restoration of normal conditions should
follow. The revival OF buying awaits
only the further easing Of credit"
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Silver Star Home,
On Display During
Last Week, Is Sold

The Silver Star Model Home
at Wilson and Ampden lanes,
Greenwich Forest, which con-
cluded its period Of public dis
play under sponsorship of The
to o. c. Dorian, president of the
Columbia Wholesalers, it was an
nounced this week by the Cafritz
Construction Co., builders and
designers of the home. Mr.. Do
rian will occupy it next week.
OF English design, the dwell
ing IS of brick and stone con-
struction and Is located on
large lot having a frontage of
nearly $50 feet on two streets.
The setting is enhanced by sew
eral large shade trees.
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; The success Of the whole program to
aid the distressed home owner hinges
on businesslike appraisals of properties
on which Federal aid is to be ad-
vanced. Political favoritism, If it
creeps into the picture and makes its
influence felt in the making Of loans,
will render the whole law ineffective
and cause 1t to fall short Of it's goal
the saving Of homes.
Assures Fair Appraisals.
In Washington the Home Owners
Loan Corporations local manager,
Charles A. Jones, has given assurance
that nothing like this can develop here
by delegating the appraisal work to es-
tablished appraisers and appraisal
firms long experienced in the business
and stating that no appraiser will be
named to the staff Of his Office.
State managers for the corporation
will act as chief appraisers, however,
clothed with authority to fix the final
Continued on Second Page)
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|RJJSINESSLIKE HOME LOAN
APPRAISALS ARE ASSURED
ZONES Promises Borrowers Political Favoritism
will Be Barred and Work Will Be Entrusted
i. to Established Firms.
BY VINCENT TUTCHING.

mortgage refnancing the method to
pursued appraisal Of properties which
sought
appraisal policy the Corporation
estate the
generally indicating coming developments in
financing
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How to Reach Model
Silver Star Dwelling
On Chatham Road

The Silver Star Model Home
at 7106 Chatham road, Meadow
brook. lies between Connecticut
avenue and Wisconsin avenue,
just south of the East-West
Highway, and Is readily ap-
preached from the city by the
following route:
Drive north on Connecticut
avenue to the traffic light at the
intersection of the East-West
Highway, turning left at this
point and proceeding three blocks
west to Chatham road, turning
left again at this point and south
one block to the house.
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BUILDING AID URGED
National Plan to Tear Down
Obsolete Dwellings Outlined.

NEW YORK, July 2e.-Details of a
new national plan to revive the build
ing industry by stimulating the tearing
down Of obsolete dwellings and tene-
ments were made public this week by
John T. Flynn, business expert Of
Golfers Weekly.
The plan, which has important ad-
ministration support, proposes the set
ting up Of government lending cor
poration, completely divorced from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, tc
assist in financing projects for housing
to accommodate workers and others in
the smaller income groups.
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FARM. LOAN PLANS TOLD
Land Brokers and Managers Hear
q. s. Policies Explained.

Policies which will govern the admin
istration Of the emergency farm
mortgage act of 1923 and procedure
possible in financing and refinancing the
farm owner under the new law were
outlined before the newly organized
Institute Of Farm Land Brokers and
Farm Managers Of the National Associa-
ton Of Real Estate Boards at its recent
annual convention by Gerard NJ Byrne,
st. Louis, attorney to the agent of
the Farm Loan Commission for the
sixth Federal Land Bank district, which
embraces Illinois, Missouri and Ar
kansas
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Owning and Building Washington and Suburbs
NEW SILVER STAR HOME
ON DISPLAY TOMORROW
Model Dwelling in Meadowbrook Is Built Along
Style of New Jersey Farm House
of Colonial Period.

FEATURING Of architecture reminiscent Jersey
house type built in Colonial days. a Silver Star
model home will be opened tomorrow for 3oday period
demonstration under the auspices of The Star
Built Meadowbrook, from by Harvey P
architects
hatham road, Meadowbrook in nearby Maryland
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16
"OZd as HIS Arteries"

In most cases, probably in 70
per cent of those involving people
past so, heart disease is preceded
by arteriosclerosis, or hardening
of the arteries. 1t is this fact
which leads to the adage that a
man is as old as his arteries"
AS people grow older, their ar
teries begin to harden. This is
a natural part of growing old.
Some peoples arteries harden
more quickly than others.
The question is whether the
nervous tension of modern life
promotes hardening of the ar
teries and whether modern life
throws burdens on old people
which the condition of their ar
teries makes them unable to cope
with successfully.
Many medical authorities feel
that this statement is undoubtedly
true in the case of public men and
particularly of our Presidents.
The Bible gave three score and
ten as the natural age of a man.
But only one Of the last five Presi-
dents Of the United States reached
it. He was William Howard Taft,
who died at 70.
Coolidge died at go, Harding at
IS, Wilson at CT, and Theodore
Roosevelt at 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16
THE BEER BILL
solution.

Apparently, unscrambling the Wright bone-dry
law and creating system for the distribution of
such beer as congress may decide does not violate
the eighteenth amendment is not simple matter.
There seems to be no unanimity of opinion as to
what point a drug store a restaurant may be-
come a saloon. The matter Of whether beer is to
be sold from a bottle keg brings debate and
division.
There is an agreement among those who are
really trying to solve the matter on basis of COM
mon sense that any system Of huge fees or taxation
that will make the beer with per cent alcohol
costly as to be available only few will only con-
tinue the regime of bootlegging and home brewing
which began with Volsteadism.
One of the main detectives is to educate taste
on such part of the public now goes for bathtub
gin and corn liquor into finer realms of malt with
mildly stimulating effect.
But there is one part of the Wright law that was
so thoroughly vicious in principle that there should
be no difficulty in eliminating it.
That provision of the law which placed special
fee for prosecutors to obtain convictions for violation
of this law is thoroughly and completely ndefensble
Under that provision in counties which still have
prosecutors on fee basis, the possession of pint
of home brew became matter of more concern
than murder or robbery.
That system placed a special emphasis upon this
one law that bred disregard and disrespect for
the laws against older forms of law violation.
Even if congress hesitates about changing the
legal formula for beer, something will be done in
the way of progress if the legislature this
bride for prosecutors from our judicial system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16

expenditures-whch be made without cutting
adequate relief to any war invalid
Democrats just have brought in a war department
appropriations bill which makes only insignificant
reductions and which actually raises the national
guard outlay 100000 over the Hoover budget.
Now Democratic subcommittee has decided to
limit the cut in prohibition enforcement to only
per cent This direct prohibition appropriation for
100000 of course is only small part of the dry
cost for it does not include the absurd coast guard
outlay the increased expense for courts and prisons
and other items
But it is symbolic of the Democratic attitude
The country having elected the Democratic party
on an absolute repeal pledge with dry enforcement
obviously impossible, with any one who wants a
drink able to get it, the Democratic leaders seem
satisfied to face five billion dollar cumulative def
cit with prohibition cut of less than half of one
million.
That does not look much like new deal" We
shall be surprised if the President-eect is content
with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TTERR ADOLPH HITLER is not doing so well
these days. German women, tired of hearing
him thunder that females should stay at home and
have lots of babies, are deserving his party IN
thousands He never will get their votes again.
No doubt Herr Hitler is surprised and panied,
since, like all who have put out this advice,
he probably feels that he is right. I imagine he
is hurt in his deepest moral sensibilities.
But as this event proves, women want original
advice these days. The trite no longer appeals to
them. And, so far as we are able to judge. they
are justified in their rebellion in Germany.
Safe, comfortable, greedy men always have advo-
Gated more babies for unsafe, uncomfortable, and
unwilling women 1t is monstrous incongruty
that male leaders throughout all history should have
dared to order women to produce for them
to slaughter in their own advance to power.
THE worst thing about it has been that men
have set this up as a moral principle. They
have felt righteous and SNUG while they advocated
the theory. For it always is so easy to outline the
duties of others and so more than easy to make
the Divine plan coincide with our own desires.
The way in which men have used their God as
fail to scourge women is the most evil thing that
ever has been done upon earth. They have scared
women with their Joves and Jehovas
They have pretended to believe, or it may be
they have believed, that it the Divine wish that
boy babies be plentiful so that few kings might
sit upon thrones.
This as readily may be seen, not only contributed
to their individual pleasures but to their collective
glory. And so long as they were able to advance
the idea as heavens instead of their own. they
could have theil desire and at the same time bask
in the appDpctal of the .1nighty.
That women should submit longer to such men
tai tyrssany is unthinkable wenay be accountable
to god for our reluctance to ring more children
INTO an already over-p populated world, but We are
mot accountable to the Herr Ftlers OF the land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16
Heart Disease Toll Up
BY DAVID DIETz

\ The sudden death of EXPIRES
ident Calvin Coolidge from heart
disease emphasizes again the
seriousness of this problem in
modern life. Practically all
authorities agree that heart dis
ease is on the increase.
This increase, in the view of
some authorities, is due to the
fact that medical science has
succeeded in conquering most of
the diseases of childhood with
the result that more people live
to an old age when they are likely
to succumb to heart disease.
Other authorities, however, be-
lieve the modern tempo of life in
big cities, with its rush and noise
and consequent wear Oh nerves, is
causing a real increase in the in
cidence in heart disease.
Among those who hold this view
is DR.. R. w. Scott, physician-in-
chief of the Cleveland City hos
pital and professor of clinical
medicine at Western Reserve uni
versity.
DR.. Scott believes that while med
ical science is making a longer
span of life possible by controlling
contagious diseases and success
fully treating many ailments,
there is grave danger that the
conditions of modern life, by in
creasing the incidence of heart
disease, actually may lead to a
shortening of the span of life to
what it was in less civilized
centuries when epidemics and
plaques were common.
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Seven Days

to inject under the skin the Spe-
cific antitoxin against tetanus,
and perhaps to give another in
lection one week later.
IF the disease develops in spite
4 of preventive treatment, the
patient should be placed in a quiet
room, preferably in hospital,
and spared all noises or vibra-
tons because they may serve to
stimulate Spasms.
To feed the patient it some
times is necessary to pass a mar
row tube through the nose and
down into the stomach.
Some one must be constantly
with the patient to prevent injury
from commissions and to guard
against sudden death from para
lysis Of the breathing.
In no condition is the constant
and immediate attention Of a
competent physician and good
nursing so important.
This frequently makes the diff
ference between life and death.
The antitoxin which opposes the
poison must be given early in the
disease, and in large doses.
Under the best of treatment, it
is possible to save the lives
of from one-half to two-thirds of
the persons who are infected.
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This is the second of two articles by
DR.. Fisbein on the nature and treat
ment of lockiaw.
TETANUS usually begins about
l. seven days after the wound
which permits the germs to get
into the tissues, although it may
come on somewhat later or, rarely,
earlier.
The first signs are a sense of
drawing pain in wound, with
the twitching Of muscles nearby;
also the usual signs of infection
such as irritability, headache, chill
illness and fever.
Then comes the stiffness Of the
muscles of the jaw and neck,
which gives the disease its name.
1t becomes more and more diff
cult 10 open the mouth and finally
the jaws may be clamped shut and
the neck rigid. Attempts to open
the mouth intensity the spasm.
Eventually, of course, other mus
Giles and nerves are involved, so
that there are serious spasms and
commissions. In fact, there may
be from three to forty spaSms in
an hour.
The whole body may be involved,
Yacluding even the muscles of the
bowels and of the bladder. OF
course, when the heart and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16

them, the clot forming on a rough
spot.
Such clot may form in any
part of the body. It is most dan
gerous, however, if it forms either
in the brain or in the large arte-
ries, the coronary arteries, which
feed the walls or muscles of the
heart.
When such a clot forms in the
coronary arteries, the condition is
known as coronary thrombosis. 1t
is not always fatal, but frequent
ly the resulting shock on the
heart causes it to stop.
The death of Mr.. Coolidge is
believed to have ''een due to coro-
nary thrombosis. It is also be-
lieved that it contributed to the
death of President Harding.
When blood clot forms in the
brain, it leads often to bursting
of a small artery. This is known
as cerebral hemorrhage. 1t is
not always fatal, but frequently is.
Cerebral hemorrhage caused the
death of President Theodore
Roosevelt and President Wilson.
1t also caused the death Of Sena-
tor Dwight Morrow, who died at
the age of So.
But while medical men are
studying the problem, it is proba-
bly, wise for the average person,
other than doing his best to lead
a normal life free from too great
nervous tension, not to worry
about heart disease.
Medical men point out that it
is possible for people suffering
from hardening of the arteries
often to continue a normal, hap
nv life fo1. T1anV Veorc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16
Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor TimeS-In your Jan. 2
editorial, Local Economy" ap-
peared The following statement:
"On the other hand, the men who
support the federal government,
income tax payers, have plenty of
money with which to carry on the
fight for cuts in their tax
budgets
According to your statement,
the federal budget must be met
by income tax payments, and it
is the income tax payers who fur
nish the money used to pay dis.
abled war veterans pensions. 1t
then must follow that these big
income tax payers are backing the
National Economy League, one of
those devices through which "the
attention of the country is fixed
on the task of reducing the fed
eral budget until even owners of
heavily taxed farms and homes
begin to feel that the far-off gov
eminent in Washington is more to
blame for their troubles than the
nearby government, to which no
one is paying much attention.
I wonder how much of the
above mentioned plenty of
money" The Times receives for
being one of those countless de-
vices of the income tax payers to
promote the scheme Of the Ma
tional Economy League in robbing
the disabled veterans Of their
pittance so the tax budget of the
rich can DC reduced.
If the owners of heavily taxed
farms and homes could afford to
give high priced advertising con-
tracts to me big newspapers, per-
haps the subsidized press would
give their cause some publicity
also.
The Times must share the guilt
of having misled the common
people in believing that they are
the ones who pay the taxes which
furnish the money to pay soldiers
pensions. This was done to arouse
public sentiment against the war
veterans Of America.
ROBERT A HOFFMAN.
Greencastle, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16
Questions and
Answers

Q-DoeS a watch always stop
when its wearer dies?
A-No.
GLOW many cases did the
United States supreme court clear
in it's last session, and how many
cases remained on the docket?
A-The supreme court at its
last session cleared one original
case, 282 appellate cases on merits
and COL petitions for Writs of Ger
tiorari denied. There remained
on the docket sixty appellate
cases, sixty petitions certiorari and
nineteen other cases on which
some work had been done.
GLOW many postmasters of
all classes has the United States
and its possessions?
A-Forty- eight thousand one
hundred fifty-nine.
Q-Give the amount Of the
private loans made by Americans
in foreign countries?
AIT the end of 1881, the pri-
vate loans amounted to $685.
100000.
Q-What is buntal?
At is the Philippine name for
a fbrous material much used for
clothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-16
MONDAY. JAN. IS. 1888.
RAISING REVENUES

Governor Paul McNutt in declaring himself OPP
posed in principle to the sales tax as means of
raising revenues, echoed the better Judgment of a
majority Of citizens
Yet the demand from certain groups of the state
for such tax prevails, heralded as an emergency
measure necessary to raise enough funds to take the
state out of the red ink column in which it was
placed by the special session and the former
Governor.
Before any such tax is contemplated some con-
sderaion should be given to the practicaeility of
the system. Some methods of taxation are so costly
as to be stupid. little research will probable dis
close that the machinery for the collection of such
tax would place unnecessary burden upon the
consumer and the taxpayer.
There can be no quarrel with the general state
ment that the property tax upon which government
has relied in the past is longer the proper basis
of raising funds.
The farmer and the home owner have discovered
that real property can no longer bear the cost of
government The high rate necessary in a day of
falling values means confscation. There will be
general agreement that no tax policy will meet the
emergency which leaves the burden upon real state.
But sales tax offers equally Objectionable
result. 1t means Gripping business at time when
business should be stimulated. 1t would probably
mean fewer purchases and higher cost of living
In solving the tax prsolem, the main objective
must be not only fair distribution of burdens, but
indirect aid to industry and business which will
put more men back to work Until the general level
of incomes is raised the prospect of bankruptcy for
large groups will always be imminent.
Intangibes and income may furnish the better
solution.