Evening star., 1934-09-07
COMMITTEES PUSH
D. .C.HOUS|NG DRIVE.
Field Workers viii! Be Sc.
lected at Meeting Next
Tuesday.

tee in charge of the Federal Housing
Administration moderniZation drive
here held their first meeting yesterday
and made plans for immediate organ
ization of the campaign designed to
"sell" to Washingtonians the idea of
r. H. A. guaranteed loans for property
improvement.
They will meet again Tuesday
afternoon. at which time the two
committees named yesterday will re-
port, and subcommittee to carry on
the actual drive will be named.
The committees named yesterday
were one on committees, and the
other on a budget.
The Committe on Committees will
submit its choice of workers on the
various groups under the set-up, to
include Finance, Publicity. Loans.
Building Industry, General Industry.
Women's. Consultation and Planning
Committees. 1t also is expected a
field campaign manager will be
selected.
1t was announced that j. K. Gill
christ of the Federal Housing Admin
istration had been designated to han
die the Federal agency's end of the
Washington campaign. He will CO.
operate with the committee in charge
of the drive here, and act as liaison
officer between 1t and the housing
agency.
After the organization meeting next
Tuesday, it was said by Robert J.
Cottrell, secretary of the Board Of
Trade. who yesterday was made sec
retary of the Campaign Committee,
a general mass meeting will be held,
at which representatives of rs or more
organizations throughout the city will
be present and will be asked to lend
their cooperation. The mass meet
ing probably will be held late next
week or early in the week following
Speakers at yesterdays meeting in
cluded Thomas P. Lttlepage, general
chairman Of the campaign, who pre-
sided; Robert v. Fleming, president
of the Riggs National Bank and a
member of the General Committee;
Mr.. Gilchrist, Mr.. Cottrell. Melvin C..
HAGEN, president Of the Board of Dis
trict Commissioners; F. P. H. Siddons,
president Of the District Bankers As
sociation, and others.
Model Campaign.
They agreed the campaign to be
staged here, which it is hoped will
serve as a model for other communi-
ties, Is the most responsible and most
necessary part of the entire F. H. A.
program, which in itself, they said,
Is one Of the most prominent parts
of President Roosevelts entire re-
covery program.
The soundness Of the Government
guaranteed loans for modernization
financing was stressed by the speakers,
and all members OF the General Com
mittee were given a bulging envelope
Of literature on the housing act, in
cluding the act itself, to familiari1e
them with the program.
Mr.. Siddons was named to head the
Committee on Committees and Mr..
Fleming to head the Budget Com
mittee.
Several new names were added to
the Executive Committee, in addition
to the Is persons named early this
week. They include Carl j. Bergman,
haison officer between District build
ing and loan associations and the
r. H. A.; John Locher, executive secre-
tary of the Building Trades Council;
George Beasley, president of the Fed
Grafton Of Civic Associations; Mrs.
John S. Bennett, president Of the
Women's City Club, and Mrs. L. B.
Castell, president of the District Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers.
Star Contest Ends Soon.
The intensive campaign Of the local
committee is scheduled to open just
as The Evening Stars $1,000 Better
Homes Contest, which was started
April Is and has kept alive in the
Capital area interest in home improve
ments. is drawing to close.
September Is is the final date for
entries in The Stars competition,
open TO all home owners in Wash
inSton and nearby suburban areas.
Entries will be judged in the contest
Immediately after the closing date,
and the more than $1,000 in prizes
will be awarded soon after.
Letters have gone out to heads Of
citizens groups in the metropolitan
area, urging them to see that their
membership gets all home improve
ments made during the Summer en-
tered in The Stars contest. A spe-
cial pri7s &. 500 is being offered the
Citizens Association whose members
show the greatest interest In the con-
test-measured in the number of en-
tries.
In addition, cash prizes of $3.50 for
first, 500 for second and $50 for
third place are being offered for home
improvements In two classes-one to
homes valued at $12, 900 and less, and
the other to homes valued above this
amount.
The Board Of Trade also Is offering
d prize of 500 for outstanding land
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