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Evening star., 1934-06-30
IMPROVED REALTY
CONDITIONS SEEN
Bright Prospects Are Held
Forth at National AsSoCia-
ton Sessions.
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Improbable trade practices. not only
among realtors but among 10000 real
estate dealers and brokers who are
not members of real estate boards or
the national association.
Discussing home building. H. VAN
dervoort Walsh. professor of architec-
ture at Columbia University, declared
the theory of waiting for manufacture
ers to develop some miracle in
pre-fabricated house is not sound.
Pre- fabrication is already here, he
said. and the miracle house Is some
distance away.
Protective Legislation.
Potter disclosed also that seven
States have enacted legislation to
protect real estate against carrying an
unfair burden Of taxation and that
there is growing interest in the prof.
ect over the entire country.
The new system of national mort
gage associations, which are author
ized under the national housing act,
should open up a discount system for
home mortgages for which the asso-
citation has been fighting several years,
the association president said.
Important strides have been made,
he said. in the department of real
estate management, and that work is
being carried on with the Federal
Trade Commission in the hope that
tlrst mortgages on ordinary homes Will
not have To be taken to Washington
10 annrntn1 hafnr. thaU h.. sold
In the Eastern States the real estate
outlook is the best of any year since
1929 said Joseph w. Catherine of
Brooklyn. Rental Of all kinds Of prop
critics is increasing, vacancies are
fewer, collections are better, construc-
ton of home and business buildings
is on the upgrade and the number of
outright sales is mounting steadily, he
said.
Maurice F. Riedy reporting for New
England States, said investment in
his district again is turning to real
estate and that many residential buy
ers are taking advantage of the low
market.
In the West Coast States virtually
all business barometers are moving
upward. building IN all lines is gain
ing volume steadily, the trend toward
larger construction projects is evident
and the number of sales in most
classes of property is gaining, r. D.
Robertson, Los Angeles, said.
Prospects are very encouraging In
the Southwest. Charles F. Ladd San
Antonio, revealed. pointing out that
activity in farm lands is especially
notable in Texas and neighboring
States
Others who reported upward trend
were Guy w. Ellis, Miami Beach. Fla.
for the Southeastern States; Arthur
Kruggel. Chicago. North Central
States. and Mark Hodo. Birmingham,
Southern and South Central States.
A standard practice for all rural
appraising in the country is expected
by D. Howard Doane. St. Louis. chair
man of the National Join Committee
on Rural Credits and president of the
American Society of Farm Managers.
Declaring prices today as very low.
Bernard L. johnson. editor of Amer
| ican Builder, said now is a bargain
| time to build or buy home.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
BUILDERS PROFIT
|NMODEL HOUSES
Public Wants Complete Job,
Declares Magazine
Article.

Model houses are making money
for wide-awake builders and develop
ers today E. L. Gilbert said in the
June American Builder magazine
Prom Maine to Florida and thence
westward good builders and develop
ers have found the public is again
looking for a complete. finished job
This despite the great amount of un-
favorable publicity which has been di-
rected against the speculative builder
during the last five years. The good
builder or developer, whether doing
his work on a contract basis or risk
ing his time and money on his iudg-
ment of what the public wants. is
baSically first-rate asset to any
community.
AT the present time more than 500
model houses are open to the public
in various parts OF the United States
and a majority Of these educational
exhibits were built and financed by
so-called speculative builders
Speculative Builders
Much has been said about bad
speculative builders and the great
amount OF harm they have done tc
the building industry in the past
Also, there has been considerable talk
about financing interests refusing tc
lend any money for houses con-
structed before being sold. There is
some justification for both of these
remarks; but the man or organiZa-
ton which produces good homes at
fair price should not be condemned
by general remarks against the
Jerry builders who infested this in
dustry during the boom years.
The difference between a bad
builder and a good operator is simply
matter of standards of quality,
said Gilbert. Builders and devel-
opers who DO good work are no more
to be censored for building homes
for sale than the manufacturers Of
automobiles who always produce theil
products before selling them.
Good Value Offered.
THE builder of cheap. unsound
houses is. generally speaking, out Of
the picture; good-let's keep him out
On the other hand. the successful
model houses now available for in
spection in many parts of the
country present prima facie evidence
that good builders and developers are
offering something the public wants
at good value. without any harmful
effect to the builders, the buyers. OF
the general public.
Model houses, own-your homt
shows and community campaigns Of
fer the three most effective methods
of educating the home owner ano
prospective home owner" Mr.. Gilbert
states. "and it is not surprising thai
the general public, after severa
years of revelations of dishonesty or
the part Of persons in high places
is again demanding visual proof ol
the value to be received for money ex-
pended. Perhaps it is another proof
OF the innate common sense OF the
American public-this strong reviva
of general interest in model houses.
Evening star., 1934-06-30

In the building industry and the high
cost Of transporting materials to sites
OF construction work. While there is
a possibility that wages in the build
ing trades might be reduced, there is
no prospect of an immediate reduction
in freight rates in view of the recent
agreement to restore railway wage
rates to the level prevailing prior to
the 10 per cent cut.
while the present discrepancy be-
tween rents and building costs is the
chief obstacle to revival OF building
at the present time. high taxation is
also a drawback. Even II building
costs were at a reasonable level. the
taxation to which the property would
be liable after building was con-
structed would tend to cause builders
to proceed cautiously"
Evening star., 1934-06-30
Arkansas Houses Unpainted.

Seventy per cent OF the frame
houses in the State of Arkansas are
unpainted, according TO a recent sur
vey by the Department of Agriculture
The statistics show also that painted
homes in Arkansas include IS per
cent farm houses, per cent log
houses and per cent earth, brick,
stone and concrete houses.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
D. c. ATTORNEY IS BUYER
OF COUNTRY ESTATE

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, June 30.-Greenway,
the country home of Elmon A. Miller,
near Leesburg. has been sold to
Charles D. Drayton. a Washington
attorney. it has been disclosed. Mr..
and Mrs. Miller, with their three
children. will make their home in
Washington. D. c.
Greenway contains about 200 acres
and at one time belonged to the
Virginia Meades. On the estate is a
colonial brick building and outbuild-
ings in keeping with the residence.
Mrs. Miller's father. the late John H.
Alexander. Leesburg lawyer, at one
time owned the place.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
Maryland Buys Forest Area

Maryland has just acquired title
to a 453-acre tract OF land in Wor-
cester County as an addition to the
Pocomoke State Forest in that coun-
ty. This addition brings the area Of
the Pocomoke State Forest To 1.1s3
acres. according to a statement in
the May issue of the News Letter of
the Maryland State Department of
Forestry.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
Old Paint Should Be Removed.

Underlying coats of paint should
be removed at intervals when founda-
tions are being prepared for new
finishes. The practice of piling a
number OF coats. one on top of the
other, it has been found. will in time
cause paint coats to become so heavy
they will break down of their own
weight.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
PLANS "SAWMILL FAIR"
Maryland Forester Will Demon
stratc Timber Operations.

Kenneth J. Seigworth, forester for
the University of Maryland extension
service, announces a "sawmill fair" +"
to be held probably at Priest Bridge,
for timber operators of the five South
ern Maryland counties.
Preliminary plans call for demon
strations Of different types Of sawmill
and logging equipment, how 10 saw
logs for quality lumber, efficient
utilization. care and use of saws. sew
eral contests and an explanation Of
the workings of the lumber code.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
Priming Coat Essential.

The printing coat, since it is the
foundation for all future paintings,
should be carefully applied with the
best quality materials. paint experts
declare. Use of old or leftover paint
for printing usually results in a poor
ly finished surface.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26
INVESTIGATING POWER RATES
(St, Paul Daily NeWS)

Investigation of electric power rates
throughout the nation by the Federal
Power Commission is provided by the
Rankin-Norris resolution signed Sat-
urday by President Roosevelt.
Il predict that the publicity it will
give and the determinations and eX-
cessive rates it will reveal will result
in a reduction in the costs of light
and power to the ultimate consumers
of this country of not less than $780,
100000 a year to begin with. 1t may
reach many times that amount"
Rep. Rankin, co-authOr, made this
prediction as the resolution became
binding. He may be too optimistic
but there is good reason to believe
that the forces of unrestrained private
initiative and lust for big profits to
insiders has permeated the electric
power industry.
1t has not been immune from the
evil effect of holding company domi-
nation whereby excessive profits went
to few insiders while operating COM
panies were loaded up with unreason-
able costs to support high rates.
A competent Investigation should
reveal the extent to which properly
managed plants have been the vic
Tins of this kind of financial racket
eering and pave the way for reorgani-
cations in the interests of the con-
sumers and the small investors in
power company stocks and bonds.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26
WITHOUT OPINION

The real greedy, the reactionaries,
those who want huge profits and
money out on high rates of interest,
don't seem to know what to do to
down" the Farmer-Labor party and
its progressive platform and program
that stands for something
An article signed "Unaffiliated'
which appeared recently in The Min
neapolis Journal contained the fol-
lowing paragraph:
MY suggestion would be to as
certain the whereabouts of a good
Democrat or Republican who
hasn't expressed his opinions
since before the World war and
run him for governor
A man without opinions or one who
at least has not expressed any opin-
ions, which means about the same
as dish rag, If that isn't good!
Sure. that is just the kind of a
fellow who could serve those that put
him into office. No platform, no cam
paign promises or declarations, good
handshaker. a smiler and a baby kis-
ser-a good vote getter. The trouble
with politics and governmental at
fairs is that such fellows have been
getting the votes too generally in the
past.
Able men in office is essential.
afraid to express them, is not an indi-
cation of ability and character. Rath-
er timidnesS and that of being luke
warm. But the platform, program
and the issues are more important
than the Individual. The individual
morrow while the principles live on.
What does the individual stand for,
is the bigger question.
A person may be quite OpiniOnated
and too anxious to always have his
say, but deliver us from the fellow
who tries to gain votes by keeping
his mouth shut. He is much more
dangerous, for only the insiders
know what he will do. All that the
masses know about him is that the
INSIDERS" will attend to the affair.
A newspaper cannot be blamed for
expressions of others in the column,
What Other People Think" and SO
the reason for mentioning the name
of The Minneapolis Journal in this
connection is because the article re-
ferred to was unsigned. Any article
casting reflections on political
party and individuals as this did in
several paragraphs should be an edi-
torial of the paper or signed by the
one doing the writing The anony-
nous ''Unaffiliated' can come from
tOrial staff.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26
ROAD MEN GET SOME
HEADACHES IN SPRING

To some persons, spring means bliss
full love, ira la, ira la; to others it
means tender, rhapsodic poetry Tor
near-poetry). 1t spells new hats for
the ladies, if they're lucky, and plant
ing time for the farmer. To the main
tenance engineers of the state high
way department., however, spring
means that season when a certain
type of truck driver insists he can
haul ten tons over a highway which
has been restricted to three-ton
limit.
Furthermore, this same type of
truck or bus man, says highway de-
partment bulletin, is firmly convinced
that if his particular load isn't per-
mitted to go through without inter
ference, goodly share of the states
population will starve or otherwise
perish within twelve hours.
AT this season numerous stretches
of roads are restricted as to the load
limits which they can carry" says
the bulletin. "The Highway depart
ment places these restrictions I'm
oiCC OcSduoc IlcdNlcI lOduS Will pOuIlU
the soft roads to pieces and cost the
taxpayers thousands of dollars in I'M
necessary expense. A good gravel
road or light .bituminous surface can
be ruined for whole season by too
heavy loads during the spring break
up.
THE department is besieged with
pleas to make special exceptions for
loads of groceries, loads of cattle feed,
school buses, timber loads and almost
every other commodity. The depart
ment cannot make exceptions. Either
the roads must be restricted to all,
or they must be left open to all, and
in the latter case this would mean
that they would shortly become i'm
passable to even light traffic. Two
or three small trucks can be used in
stead of one overweight truck to get
loads through, and passenger cars can
replace school buses temporarily when
necessary to preserve the roads at
this season
MANY drivers are anxious to CO.
operate in this, and they are serving
the best interests of the public and
themselves"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26

Labor Councilmen elected They even
seem to think that he is safe and not
a menace, in the following words:
1.-The new members of the council
should add to its strength. Both Mr..
Warren and Mr.. Peterson have fine
business records.
1.-The latter's election, in the op1n-
ion of The Daily News, adds no men,
ace of socialism or communism to the
city's problems. Despite the some
what blatant wording of his party's
state platform. the fact remains that
he is substantial business man of
liberal views"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26
DIR. WRIT AND OTHERS

1t would be amusing indeed, if not
at times a tragedy through which
some folks suffer. to note the man
ner in which reactionary forces in
American life carry ON.
Only recently DR.. VIM. A. Writ,
Indiana school man, was telling a
congressional committee that Mrs.
Franklin d. Roosevelt was engaged
in a Communistic plot to overthrow
the U. S. government. Speaker
Rainey, Illinois Democrat. was an
other he named in the plot. In addi-
tion to that, the Indiana school
marin" said that he had been told by
somebody who was told at dinner
party by somebody else that dicta-
tor for America was just around the
corner.
Last Friday in Washington, Repub-
lican Congressman Britten declared
that advisors of President Roosevelt
meet to foster Red legislation. and
he warned Congress and the country.
The same evening Silas M. Bryan
of Minneapolis, over the radio, made
an attack upon Governor Olson and
the Farmer-Labor platform. The Mill
City Bryan is a nephew of the late
and great commoner, VIM. Jennings
Bryan, who was the subject OF the
same sort of attacks by the special
privilege forces in his day.
1t would be we'll if there were more
great fighters for principles in the
second generation, like the LaFOl-
cites in Wisconsin, two true sons OF
a great progressive.
Wonder what would be the reac-
ton today of Teddy Roosevelt of anti
trust fame with his big stick" could
he see some of his sons carrying on
in Teapot Dome affairs? And think
of William Jennings Bryan in the
days of his idealism with his great
speeches sweeping the Democratic
conventions. What would he think of
his nephew attacking another great
leader who is championing the rights
of the common man?
We nave great progressive leauerS
amongst the Democrats who are try
ing to improve conditions of the
masses, such as President Roosevelt
and his good wife, Senator Costigan
of Colorado, Senator Wheeler of Mon
tana, and others. But some OF the
Democratic leadership in Minnesota
is as reactionary as the Hoover Re-
publicans- outs who wish to be in.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26
sen. SCHALL Banks AGAIN
(St. Paul Daily News)

Sen. Thomas D. Schall has just con-
tributed another classic example OF
his own variety of nasty, purely de-
structive criticism.
This time the yelping politician has
attacked President Roosevelt for writ
ing his book, ION Our Way" The
first slur is to be found in the follow
ing quotation from the senator's dia-
tribe:
"President Roosevelt has very Oblig-
ingly contributed to our further dis
may a new book entitled, On Our
Way Just where-he fails to say:
but all this is beside the interest Of
the public in the matter"
The senator then proceeds to ex-
anime into royalties to be obtained by
the President from his writing. These
he puts at a possible $1,OOO,OOO. Then
he follows up with some cheap sneers
about royalties received by steel trust
barons and salaries of movie stars
and attempts to put the President in
the same class.
The senator forgets that President
Roosevelt is comparatively poor
man. He has given a large part of
his personal fortune toward establish
ing and maintaining the Georgia re-
sort for curing the victims of that
dread disease which made a cripple
of him.
But even if he didn't contribute a
cent toward the common welfare. he
certainly is not in the class with
Charles Schwab or movie star.
Neither has done anything especially
for the common welfare. Mr.. Roose-
welt has already done more for this
nation than it can ever repay and any
royalties he may receive for telling
the story to persons who want to buy
it are we'll earned.
Sen. Schall, whose yelps cost the
taxpayers plenty of money to put into
print to be franked free to his con-
stituents, has not thought enough of
his own duties to be present at i'm
pOrtant roll calls. In the early days
of the Roosevelt recovery program
when the crisis was at it's height, he
was conspicuous by his absence. Now
that he concludes the time is ripe to
turn on the President, he is among
the leaders of the political hound
dogs.
When is Minnesota going to be rid
of this political clown?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26
GARDENERS BEWARE
OF LOCKJAW MENACE

New studies in the effectiveness of
the anti-tetanus serum in the treat
ment of acute tetanus-the dreaded
"lockjaw''-have shown conclusively
that it is very much easier to prevent
the disease than it is to cure it.
Today's bulletin from physicians of
the Minnesota State Medical Associa-
ton calls the attention to gardeners
in particular who will soon be Dig
ging around in freshly fertiliZed soil
in which the tetanus germ is con-
stantly present, of the Importance OF
looking after puncture wounds imme-
diately, especially when dirt and for
eign bodies may be thrust deep into
the tissues.
These are the wounds that make
ideal soil for the development of te-
tanus poison, according to the bulle-
tin. The tetanus germ is an "anae-
robe" that is, it grows only in the
absence of oxygen and thrives in deep
airless wounds made up of necrotic
or unhealthy tissue. Thus it requires
damaged tissue of a deep wound
caused by a foreign body in which to
manufacture it's poisons.
Every puncture wound should be re-
ported to a doctor so that anti-tetanus
serum can be given before any symp-
toms of tetanus poisoning have de-
veloped.
Lockjaw may appear in less than
five days or after ten days or longer.
To be safe, the serum should be adj
ministered Immediately.
GAS a preventive measure, anti
tetanus serum is not surpassed in eff
fectiveness by any preventive serum
known to medical treatment" says
the bulletin. For proof, it's effective
ness in preventing lockjaw among SOL
diers in the World war is cited. AS
treatment after symptoms set in, it is
far less effective and the mortality
from tetanus is still very high.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-26

bus crashed into a truck just outside
of Elyria. Ohio. Sunday.
This news item tells of another
needless tragedy which would not
have happened but for the criminal
carelessness of a truck driver.
The passenger bus proceeding at a
good rate of speed suddenly came to
a truck parked on the highway with
out lights. 1t swerved to the left and
crashed into an on-coming truck and
trailer.
So terrific was the impact that the
bus was torn to pieces, passengers
hurled yards away, some were de-
capitated houses in the vicinity shak-
en- from the collision.
Save for the unusually Large num-
Der of persons involved this accident
would hardly be worth comment ex-
Cept that it illustrates so terribly
what happens sometimes from a COM
mon bit of carelessness. How often
in this city and state have lightless
vehicles been parked on streets and
highways at night. How often have
cars been driven with no headlights
or only one. How often have indi-
viduals with sublime disregard of the
consequences violated the simple rules
of careful driving. But for good for
tune each would have resulted in
tragedy like that at Elyria.
The public today has a right to de-
mand the strictest enforcement of
traffic regulations for its own prOtec-
ton.