Evening star., 1934-08-21
MEETING TO HEAR
HOUSING PROGRAM
Session Thursday Night to
Tie Up Star Contest With
Federal Plan.
BY G.. T. KELLOGG.

One of the initial steps definitely
to tie up the Federal Housing Admin
istration's insurance for home i'm
provement loans in the District and
nearby communities with The Stars
81 600 Better Homes Contest will be
taken at a meeting Thursday night
in the Board of Trade rooms in The
Star Building, at which heads of citi-
zens associations and chairmen of
Better Homes Committees from these
groups and other civic bodies will
hear the administration program
discussed from both national and
local angles.
Ward Canaday, director of public
relations for the Housing AdminiStra-
tion, will speak before the 100 or more
civic leaders on the why" of the
Housing Administration, what it plans
to accomplish, and will outline plans
made so far to carry out the program
nationally.
Addison to Speak Also.
Francis G.. Addison, chairman of
the District Bankers Association S
Committee on Home Modernization
and Improvement and District liaison
officer between the association and
the Housing Administration, will ex-
plain just how Mr.. Home Owner may
go about getting the loan to make
improvements to his home.
With this information, the civic
leaders may tell members of their or
carnations how to get the loans, and
the home owners may then make ap-
plication through the easy methods
brought about by the Housing Ad-
ministration.
Then there is but one step between
this and entering the contest, and the
possibility of winning one of the
cash prizes offered by this newspaper
for home improvement.
All that is required is that before"
pictures be taken when work is started
that the final entry booklet be filled
out, that after" pictures be taken
on completion Of the improvements,
and that a letter describing the i'm
provements be written. All these,
then, are to be sent to The Better
Homes Contest Editor of The Star,
and the sender is not only eligible,
but is entered in the competition for
the cash prizes.
Citizens associations already are
cooperating in The Stars competi-
ton.
All Have Equal Chance.
So that owners of lower cost homes
will have the same opportunity to win
the prizes as those who have high
priced residences, the prizes are di-
vided into two claSseS-one for homes
costing $4,000 or less and one for
those costing above this figure.
In each class a first prize of $3.50 is
offered, along with second OF $1OO
and a third of $50. In addition, four
honorable mention prizes of $25 each
will be awarded in each class, and the
Washington Board OF Trade has o.
fered another $l00 for outstanding
landscaping improvement. Still an
other $100 will go to the citizens as
sociation whose members show the
most interest in the competition,
measured in terms of entries from
members of the group.
Judges of the contest will be mem
bers of The Silver Star Model homes
Committee for 1884, who are. , u
James S. Taylor, formerly Of the
building and housing division Of the
Bureau of Standards and now with
the Federal Housing Administration;
Dr. Louise Stanley, Bureau of Home
Economics, Department of Agricul-
ture; Charles H. Tompkins, builder;
John C. Nolen, jr., of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion; A. C. Houghton, realtor; Irwin
S. Porter and Oliver Owen Kuhn,
managing editor of The Star.
A letter or telephone call to the
Better Homes Contest Editor of The
Star will bring complete information
and entry blanks 10 those wishing to
enter the contest.