Evening star., 1934-09-18
HOUSING PROGRAM
HEADED BY POOLE
Former Head of Federal
American Bank to Direct
Work in Capital.
BY G.. T. KELLOGG.

John Poole, former president Of the
Federal-American National Bank, has
been named executive director of the
Washington Better Housing Program
under the Federal Housing Admins
tration, 1t was announced today by
Thomas P. Littlepage, chairman of
the Executive Committee in charge
Of the campaign.
Mr.. Poole will have charge Of the
campaign headquarters to be estab-
lished this week in the Shoreham
Building and will direct the house-to-
house canvass, the displays Cf build
ing materials and model modern
ization and improvement projects.
Announces Mass Meeting.
As preliminary plans 60 forward for
the campaign which is to sell" the
idea of home modernization to Wash
ington, Mr.. Poole's office, working
with G. K. Gilchrist of the Federal
Housing Administration, is preparing
letters which will be sent to heads of
every civic, business and trade organ
ization in the city, announcing mass
meeting to be held soon to launch the
actual program, which is designed to
reach every property owner in the city
with the moderniZation message.
The list of civic organization heads
which The Star used in conducting
its $1,000 Better Homes Contest, just
concluded, has been turned over to
Mr.. Gilchrist, so that no organizations
will be missed in the plans for the
campaign.
Entries Are Studied.
Meanwhile, entries in The Stars
contest are being gone over care
fully by the Judging Committee in
an effort to select the home improve
ments which are entitled to the cash
prizes.
The Federal Housing Administra-
ton, which is seeking to bring about
the same ends on national basis
that The Star sought in its Washing
ton contest, has been called upon to
aid in the judging, and its technical
section will work with the Silver Star
Model Home Committee members of
which are the official judges.
Asked to Study Entries.
The F. H. A. technical group has
been asked to go through all the
entries, selecting outstanding ones for
the Washington committee to inspect.
Tomorrow the Judging Committee
will meet a second time. 1t will select
the potential prize winners from the
photographs, entry blanks and letters,
and then make arrangements to visit
the homes from which they came so
as to inspect at first hand the I'M
provement projects.
The first meeting Of the judges was
held at The Star yesterday at which
time they made the first inspection OF
the entries and decided upon the
methods Of judging the contest, which
closed at midnight Saturday.
Hope to Stimulate Campaign.
1t is hoped that by drafting the F.
H A. group to aid in judging, the
stimulus given by The Stars contest
to home moderization in the Capital
may be passed on to the campaign
being arranged under F. H. A. spon-
sorship and designed to work for SINH
lar results-beautificat of homes
and communities in the Capital, relief
Of unemployment through stimulating
building trades and ultimate quicken
ing of all industry and business.
1t is also hoped that some Of the
ideas embodied in moderniZation pro-
jects entered in the contest may be
of aid to the Housing Administration
and to the Washington Campaign
Committee, under Thomas P. Little
page, in selling" the property i'm
provement plan of the F. H. A. here
and elsewhere.
Prize winners in The Stars contest
will be announced late this week or
early next week.