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Evening star., 1934-03-31
ompan ion Organization
Has Advanced S105,066,-
537 to Financial Groups.
1875 APPLICATIONS
HAVE BEEN APPROVED
Repayments of $1o,3S4,391 Made
by Members of Home Loan
Bank System.

Home mortgage loans made by the
Home Owners Loan Corporation have
almost reached the total of s400, 600
900. according to the corporations lat
est report.
Its companion organization. the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank, has advanced
$l05, ,066 537.04 to home financing in
Stitutions. The corporations loans. in
either bonds or cash, went directly to
the relief of home owners without the
intermediate agency Of another insti-
tuition as is the case in the banks
operations.
Since the beginning Of its work last
Summer, the corporation has closed
loans on 138175 individual urban
homes in all parts of the country to an
aggregate of 1892 2,296,732.
During the week ending March %,
the rate Of activity continued to climb,
ll,777 loans being consummated 10 a
total of s34.6se. .oo5.
133,O74 Sign Acceptances.
The report shows that up TO March
%. the corporation had obtained 733.-
074 mortgages consents" or signed
agreements by lien holders to accept
bonds of the corporation in stated
amounts in exchange for their mort
cages. Detailed fee appraisals of 537.-
984 homes of applicants have been
completed.
Loans totaling s724.225 AZ we're ap-
proved by the Federal Home Loan
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-03-31
C.W.A. SURVEY BARES
AMERICANS HABITS
Housing Check Shows Cross
Section of Urban and
Country Life.

An interesting croSs-section Of
American urban and suburban life
will be revealed when the results Of
surveys now being made by Civil
Works Administration field workers in
more than go cities are summarized
and reported by the Department of
Commerce.
While the original aim of the sur
veys was to get representative infor-
nation concerning public housing
preferences and needs, the scope OF
the investigation is sufficiently broad
to give an accurate picture Of ma
tional living habits.
Among the facts sought are the
types, heights, ages and conditions of
buildings. whether occupied by owners
or tenants, and their value or rental
revenue. elevator equipment and
garage facilities. The survey is also
concerned with the type Of heating
equipment, the kind Of fuel used, re-
frigeration equipment and gas and
electric services available. also the
extent of automobile ownership by
landlords and tenants. The time re-
quired for residents to get to work
and the mode of transportation used
is also inquired into by the enumera-
tors The cultivation Of vegetable
gardens is also noted
The surveys are being made by TO-
900 workers, who are paid from q
Federal allotment of S2,500,000 under
the auspices of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce OF the De-
partment of Commerce. The results
are expected to be of value to Gov
ernment agencies in their studies Of
housing projects, to prospective build
ers, and possibly to merchants, de-
pending upon the extent to which the
detailed preferences discovered by the
enumerators are reflected in the Gov
ernment reports.
Evening star., 1934-03-31
PUBLIC IS WARNED
OF SALE SCHEMES
Better Business Bureau
Points Out Dangers of
Promotion "TriCks."

Real estate promotion schemes,
which. like flowers, bloom in the
Spring, are the subject of a seasonal
warning by Louis Rothschild, director
of the Washington Better Business
Bureou.
With the coming of warm weather.
promoters reach into their bag OF
tricks and bring out few old faith
fuls, which traditionally flourish in
the Spring. Real estate is the usual
Spring style in promotions, Mr.. Roths-
child points out. Every Spring he
issues his warning to the public
Free-lot schemes and selling on
promise, either actual or implied. of a
resale are the two usual classes of
these promotions, Mr.. Rothschild de-
clared. This year, however, he said
a new form has invaded Washington
This was said to be the selling OF
cemetery lots on promise that they
will be resold at profit within a
comparatively brief time
The Better Business Bureau of late
has received an increasing number
of inquiries, mostly from women
about free lots They say they have
been informed they have won or been
awarded a free lot and will they
please communicate with the pro-
moter and have the papers for the
deed executed
The bureau carefully explains to
them that often this is a trick-one
of the oldest in the game. The lot
may be so small another parcel OF
ground beside it must be purchased
to make it of any value. or the cost
of investigating the title and exc
cutting the papers may be so high that
in the long run the person who gets
the lot pays its full price.
Numerous inquiries also have start
ed to come in about promises to re-
sell real estate at a profit. Mr.
Rothschild said circumstances may be
such as to make this a criminal Of
fense, and indictments for failing to
make good on resale promises recently
have been returned here.
Evening star., 1934-03-31
HOME BUILDING LAGS
BEHIND PRESENT NEED
Shortages in Houses Reported in
All Sections of Country, Busi-
ness Service Says.

The rise in residential building dur
ing the past year has not kept pace
with the growing needs of the people,
says the United Business Service. Re-
ports from all sections of the country
to the National Association of Real
Estate Boards reveal that a shortage
of this type of property is existing in
an increasing number of cities. In
single family dwellings, 81 per cent
of the reporting cities have shortages,
compared with only per cent year
ago. With employment and marriages
increasing, and with the prospects for
improving, a higher level OF residential
building is expected during the pres
ent year.
Evening star., 1934-03-31
STAY IS GRANTED
Home Building Industry Awaits
Consideration of Code.

A stay from the provisions of the
construction code was granted to the
land development and home building
industries at the request of the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards in an order signed by Gen
Hugh johnson.
The stay from terms of the con-
struction code was asked BY the asso-
citation pending consideration of the
separate code for the land develop
ment and home building industry filed
with N. r. A. by the association.
Evening star., 1934-03-31
No Cables in Elevator.

Overhead cables and machinery are
eliminated in a new residence eleva-
tor. The car is supported by a
threaded steel column housed. with
electric operating mechanism, in the
basement. An under-counter dumb
waiter of similar construction also is
offered,
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BONDS ON EXCHANGE
Federal Farm Mortgage Issues
Admitted to Trading.

Effective last Wednesday, the bonds
of the Federal Farm Mortgage Corpo-
ration. 81, per cent Of March Is. 1864,
were admitted to unlisted trading on
the New York Real Estate Securities
Exchange, Inc. The bonds of this is
sue, guaranteed by the United States
Government. are dated March Is,
1894, and are callable upon notice 10
years after the date of issue.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
The Price of Carelessness.

n every living soul in Pennsylvania
ee Ohio or Texas were to be injured
n some great catastrophe. the SYM
pethy Of the world would 60 out to
HE afflicted Yet when $500 600 per-
sons receive disabling injuries at work
q play in the course of a single year
Nv wax excited about the circum-
shance. The National Safety Council
ssports that during 1893 approximate
y one person in each fifteen in the
6nlted States was seriously hurt, but
IL public takes the fact for granted,
1sthargically accepts it as lone OF
those things for the correction OF
WaaSch little, If anything, can be done.
The council flnds the economic loss
inwoavsd totaled $4,000, 100000 or,
suughly. sls per capita; but that, too,
aty neither pity nor Indignation. 1t
would appear that the average man or
woman b Realistically inclined.
Family. friends, neighbors and
Straneers are viewed Is helpless pup
Evening star., 1934-02-02
The American WOmen's
Shrine at the Capitol

To the Editor Of The Star:
A short time ago visited the mar
BILE group of pioneers OF the woman
movement located in the Capitol. AS
I stood there, guide approached with
a number of sightseers. He paused
scarcely a moment or two. said some
thing about "sufiragists." which is
altogether too narrow q term for
these far-visioned women: mentioned
their names, referred to Elisabeth
Cady Stanton's permanent wave,
right up to date" and was gone.
The incident saddened me as pom
dered on the significance OF the me-
mortal before me. Three Mothers
in Israel" immortalized in stone by
Adelaide johnson, chucked into a cor
ner in the basement" of the CAPITOL
with an ugly board partition nearby
adding to the disgrace OF the scene.
Oh, women, the indignity Of It!
How Is it that such condition is per-
mitted to exist? Next to our coun-
try's nag, We should revere this SYM
Dol beyond all others in national life,
for it stands alone-the only express
sion Of its kind in existence OF the long
Sll u6klC ok lllCSC plOllCCIS W lay lllC
foundation for whatever measure of
justice women have today in this and
other lands The birthdays OF The
Invincible Three come and 60 with
seldom . wreath or a flower to show
that they are remembered. I have
never seen more than one wreath
there. Let us learn a lesson from
men, who so loyalty honor their heroes.
February IS is the 114th anniver-
sary Of the birth Of Susan B. Anthony
Will the womens clubs Of the coun-
try recognize the day and honor at
their February meetings the great
leader of the woman movement who.
for more than half Q century, kept
the woes of women close to her
heart? Will they do something about
the "Woman's Shrine? When will the
children Of the Nation be As familiar
with the name Of Americas greatest
woman as they are with the names of
Washington and Lincoln? Let US
march on In the path marked out by
the pioneers and finish the work they
so nobly advanced.
ROSE ARNOLD POWELL.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Three Principles of
Taxation Proposed

To the Editor Of The Star:
Fully appreciating his plight, more
than passing interest In B. B. Vim
cents letter In Tuesdays issue Of The
Star prompts me to pencu-scratching,
also.
In this day Of new deals at least
three should begin at the top, and
respectfully maintain that, should
that be the case, the Government
would be amply able to pay B. B.
Vincent and thousands like him for
services rendered" rather than on
the basis Of mere living expenses"
First: The income tax law should
be made strictly non-dodgeable. and
scrupulously enforced.
Second: Not one single bond, secur-
ity, stock, or what have you, should
be tax exempt.
Third: All church property. both
real and personal, should be taxed on
an equal plane with other taxable
property. 3. p. THOMAS.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Establish a Park on Site
OF the Old Patent Office

70 the Editor Of The Star:
Recently The Star has carried Z
news item relative to the considera-
ton which the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission and other
bodies are giving to the advisability Of
remodelins the old Patent once
Building by rufhng away part Of the
approach on the north side of r street,
from Seventh to Ninth streets, thereby
widening r street and making 1t q
two-way street at that particular
point. May invite attention to the
following pertinent facts:
The present Federal building pro-
gram for Washington contemplates q
most comprehensive development Of
Pennsylvania avenue, on and around
which avenue al Government build
ings are to be grouped In the near
future. This Is as 1t should be and
as 1t was originally planned
When this building program shall
have been completed, Of what prac-
tical need and benefit will the old
Patent once Building be to the Fed
eral Government? Instead Of remodel
ing or otherwise changing 1t. there
fore. plans should be perfected for
razing the old Patent Once Building
Attention is invited to the fact that
Los Angeles has It's downtown parking
square, while San Francisco has its
Union Square. not to mention various
other famous parks of well-known
sites. Washington does not have q
strictly downtown square and, in my
opinion, the city and Federal authori-
ties should take such action as may be
necessary to establish . public park
on the site of the old Patent once
Building, thereby not only permitting
a two-way thoroughfare of both r and
G streets, but affording the city q
downtown park that has long been
needed.
As fitting memorial to our great
President, who has developed into the
noblest Roman of them all, I suggest
that the park In question be named
Roosevelt Square. with. in due time.
an appropriate likeness Of the present
occupant Of the White House, in
>ronze and granite. to adorn its
confines.
Yours for a more beautiful city.
THOS. L. EGGLESTON.
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Hitting the Heads.

Every time q Republican of prom
inence delivers an address criticising
the Roosevelt administration from
now until 1886 he will be dubbed q
candidate for the G. o. P. nomina-
ton. That may not be a pain to the
Republican speakers; indeed, some Of
them will be particularly pleased at
the Characterization. But it appar-
emily is to be one method Of defense
on the part of the administration
Democrats. In their opinion it Is
good strategy to label q critic as
personally ambitious to succeed Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in the White House.
For example. when Senator Joseph
T. Robinson Of Arkansas. Democratic
leader Of the Senate, on Tuesday issued
. vitriolic attack upon Mr.. Ogden L
Evening star., 1934-02-02

headed for the last roundup Re-
turns from the New Orleans election
tend to substantiate the prediction of
the forthcoming dethronement of the
States political car. The ticket. head
eo by John klorer and backed by
Longs once all-powerful machine,
went down to defeat in the three-cor.
nered fight. marking another decisive
chapter in the downward plunge of
the 'Kingfish' and bringing nearer to
an end his dominance of the States
Federal. State, parish and municipal
elective Offices"
The Oakland Tribune comments on
the fact that a congressional commit
tee IN report on conditions in Louisi-
ana returned some scathing denunci-
atlons OF methods, but no recommen-
datlons against individuals" The
Tribune continues: 1T Is said that
gross frauds occurred in the election
OF Senator Overton. but that there is
no reason to believe the Senator or
his friend. Senator Huey Long, were
aware of the circumstances. There
have been other cases in which Sen
ate committees have been less disposed
to adhere to generalities, as witness
those of Lorimer and Smith of Illinois.
Newberry of Michigan and Ware Of
Pennsylvania
Taking a different position In rela-
ton to the position Of Senator Long,
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram de-
clares: The circumstances indicate.
that whatever defeat Long has suf-
fered has not greatly hastened the
day when political machines will be
out of the Louisiana political picture
With New Orleans help the Senator's
enemies may be able to crush his State
machine. but the result can hardly be
other than to replace 1t with another
machine. dominated by the New Or
leans crowd. The popular uprising
which has been predicted in Louisiana
seems slow in materializing, and the
atmosphere of the States politics
grows little purer."
I'VE fail to enthuse." the Houston
Chronicle adds. lover the defeat Of a
so-called Huey Long candidate in New
Orleans. Since the defeat obviously
has been brought about by a munich
pal machine dominating many thou
sands of city employees. not to mention
other thousands on the relief rolls,
there seems small reason to hope for
an improvement in the moral tone of
New Orleans government. or in honest
and efficient service to the public.
Huey Long has done so many things
obviously in the interest of the peo-
pie. he has shown a courage in their
behalf little understood or appreciated.
that many persons find 1t hard to be-
lieve that he has been in other mat
ters as he has been painted"
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Mills because Of Mr.. Mills Kansas d.,

Mulo VcCAube Ul MI. MILE G3LAA8B O4y
speech In Topeka, Mr.. Robinson's
opening sentence pictured Mr.. Mills
as an aspirant for the Republican
presidential nomination. That, II
appears, is enough to place . stigma
on any man. OF course, Senator
Robinson did not let 1t 60 at that.
He charged Mr.. Mills with being q
tool of the wealthy. with having given
bad advice to former President
Hoover, whose Secretary Of the Treas
ury he was. and with other faults.
The Roosevelt Democrats are i'm
patient Of any kind Of criticism.
They intend. 1t appears, to hit every
head that raises itself. Mr.. Mills is
only the first. Because he Is q New
Yorker and because he was so closely
allied with the Hoover administration
the ef1rontery Of his attack on Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his administration
was resented particularly by the
Democrats. But no matter whether
Republican critic halls from the
East. the Middle West or the Far
West, once he gets into action the
Democratic guns will be trained on
him. Minority Leader Smell Of the
House. who yesterday attacked the
Democrats, probably will be next.
The Republicans, under the leader
ship of Senator McNary of Oregon in
the Senate, have been Inclined to
keep silent or speak rather pleasantly
Of the Roosevelt administration. Here
and there a sporadic attack has been
made on the President and his pol
icies. But generally speaking the
latitude of the G. o. p. has been
peaceful enough and even apolosetic.
So the Democrats have gone their
way. praising Roosevelt and the new
DEAL without finding it necessary to
speak harshly Of the Republicans.
This era of good feeling, however, is
about to come to an end. An elec-
ton is in the offlng. The Republi-
cans have considered it good politics
during the past eleven months to
keep pretty quiet and give the Roose-
velt administration an opportunity.
They have not sought in any way to
obstruct the legislation desired by the
President and his party. The time
has come, however, when they and
their followers are getting bit
restive.
Mr.. Mills, in his Kansas day speech.
touched some of the Democrats on
the raw. They, too, fear that the
present policy of having the Govern
ment assume all the burdens of all
the people who have burdens is likely
to give these people the idea that the
Government Is to be permanent
nurse and means Of livelihood for
them. Mr.. Mills demanded that these
emergency measures of relief So
called be really emergency measures
and that they be not made perma-
nent. 1t seems a reasonable demand
But because the demand was made
by Republican, and particularly by
Hoover Republican, Mr.. Mills was
considered \ fit target for bitter at
tack by the Democrats. Every other
Republican who raises his voice will
be attended to by the Democratic
shock troops
Evening star., 1934-02-02
Division of Machine Forces
Seen Behind Long Disaster

Countrywide interest was aroused
by the local New Orleans election in
which Senator Huey Long backed a
candidate who Is now seen to have
failed In . triangular contest. Ma
tional comment indicates belief that
the "Kinsfish" Is on the downsrade
although some observers see only rift
between two political machines and
no trend toward . cleaning up of
Louisiana politics.
''Huey Long has scarcely taken his
seat in the Senate" according to the
Charlotte Observer. when petitions
came along from Louisiana people
the women being actively represent
ed-calling for an investigation of the
right to his seat, claiming that it had
been gained by fraudulent practices.
The petition was put to soak by SEN
sational gesture. Later complaints
were made. but were ignored. Possi-
bly, 1t might have been better for
Longs tenure II the matter had been
taken in hand at that time. for sub
sequent events have in no way helped
the cause Of the Kingfish. Perhaps
the result Of the recent New Orleans
election. In which Longs machine was
wrecked. may have inspired action in
the Senate on the petition so long
neglected, for the beginning of the
probe Is at hand"
80 decisive was the victory of the
anti-Long forces" comments the Tex
arkana Gazette, that the Long can
didate has announced he would not
continue to force the issue and would
refrain from being . candidate in a
rNn-on primary. The results of the
Tuesday primary records the first de-
feat OF . Long-indorsed candidate In
any Louisiana election In six years.
The victory was won by the old
regulars. Together, the old regulars
ana the Long political machine in the
past have scored many victories. Re-
Gently there came split between the
Long forces and the regulars. The
New Orleans primary afforded the
nrst opportunity to show which fac
ton is the stronger The fact that
the old regulars achieved such a
smashing victory over the Long forces
Is regarded as very significant by
Louisiana political observers. The
anti-Long victory Is regarded as
marking the beginning Of the end for
Long. In view of the fact that the
old regulars and the Long machine
worked in complete harmony for such
. long period, 1t is doubtful whether
the victory Of the old regulars will
mean much to the people of Louisiana
in the way Of cleaner politics, both
factions having trod the same path
and employed the same political
methods in the past"
Beginning Of the end" is observed
BY the Columbia Record, the Roanoke
World-News and Providence Bulletin.
while the Akron Beacon journal sees
the collapse Of the Kingfish empire"
and the Cincinnati Times Star, while
conceding that ut is perhaps unwise
to predict complete eclipse" contends
that "at least the tires Of the Long
machine are nat and the motor has
broken down." The Savannah Morn
ing News comments: 1T has long been
predicted that Senator Long was
Evening star., 1934-02-02
pets Of q hostile destiny, doomed to

pets Of Q hostile destiny, doomed to
suffer and to pay. The common psy-
chology has expression in the bromide
superstition: "You will live until your
time comes and then you will die. I"
The feasibility of prolonging existence
by cautious behavior is automatically
rejected as useless. During the World
War soldiers made fetish Of the
notion that: IF your numbers up,
you'll get it, and the crowd still pays
homage to the doctrine. Thousands
daily take chances in an irrational
confidence that they will escape or be
punished in line with an arbitrary
law" of life over which humanity has
no effective control. Such notions are
wicked nonsense, but vast amount
of education will be necessary to break
them down
The accident death list for 1888.
the council says, reached 8s,5OO. Had
the tragedy of such destruction been
concentrated in a single town and on
a single day, the reaction would have
been stirring. As it was, the equivalent
of the population of centers like
Rockford, H.. Portland, Me; Lansing
Mich: st. Joseph, Mo-; Charlotte.
N. c., and Harrisburg, Pa. was wiped
of the earth: and their epitaph is the
lazy theory. 1T can't be helped"
But such a philosophy of COM
placency is a treason against mankind.
1t is false to its roots. The American
people could save themselves at least
half the price of their present care
lessness If they really tried to ardently
enough.