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Evening star., 1934-12-15
BUILDING PERMITS
TOTAL S482,0D3.S.
Arlington Figure for Three
Months Interpreted as
Comeback.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE. Va, December 15.-Building
permits issued here during the past
three months show a total value of
s482 ,003.95 and, according to obServ-
ers, reflect the comeback" being
staged by Arlington County as a
suburban residential area.
Residential construction alone dur
ing the three months was valued at
S420,450, and includes building of
more than 100 new homes. October's
permits called for construction of so
homes at the cost of $2l2,950, the
records Of the Office of County Man.
ager Roy S. Braden show.
The largest single permit issued
during the three months period was
for construction of the airship hangar
at Washington Airport at a cost of
S25,950.
The complete figures for each
month follow:
September, dwellings, %, valued at
s97,400; business buildings, $4,000;
alterations and repairs, s5,361; acces-
sorry buildings. S4,375; total, $111,936.
October. dwellings, so, s212,950;
business, s33,500; alterations and re-
pairs, S1,750; accessory buildings,
$3.50; total, S25I,710.
November, dwellings, 30, $4,000;
business, $500; alterations and re-
pairs, $3,007.95; accessory buildings,
S4,850; total, $118,357.95.
Evening star., 1934-12-15
PRIVATE BUILDING
BLAMED BY |CKES
Says Government Forced to
Act With Enterprise
Tagging Behind.

Declaring that the Government has
had to assume the work of construct
ing and operating low-cost housing
because private enterprise could not
or would not operate the job, Secretary
of Interior Ickes, in an explanation
of the Federal housing program pub
lished in this weeks issue of the New
Republic, calls for a greatly expanded
appropriation for housing, to provide
every American family with home
fit for human being.
Our much-vaunted private initia-
tive, as so often happens when the
goal is a social good instead of a pri-
vate profit" Mr.. Ickes says in the
article, was unable or unwilling to
undertake much that was worthwhile
With the failure of private enterprise
to provide low-cost housing, even with
Government aid. the housing division
decided it would have to do its own
constructing and operating"
Look Far Into Future.
"The housing division of P. w. A.
is looking much farther into the fu-
ture than the expenditure on housing
projects of the mere 10000, 900 that
has been allocated to it to date for
that purpose. We hope, under the So
cially-minded leadership of President
Roosevelt, the housing program will be
greatly expanded next year. We ven-
ture to envisage future years when the
country will be so impressed with the
desirability of decent housing for all
of our citizens, and so convinced, on
the basis of past experience, that de-
sirable housing can be achieved at a
cost within the reach of all, that the
Nation, as well as the States and mu-
inequalities, will join in a movement
that will provide home, fit for hu-
man beings. for every American fam
ily."
Mr.. Ickes maintains in the article
that there is little argument about
the desirability of decent housing at
low rentals. "The sleazy and slovenly
American slum is potent testimonial
of ITSELF" he says. But there is ap-
parently strong diversity of opinion
as to how to 60 about getting such
housing"
Answering the critics, termed
theorists who would clear slums be-
tween courses at conference lunch
eons"-who have attacked the p. w.
A. for its slowness in getting its hous-
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Evening star., 1934-12-15
100000 is EXPENDED
ON HOMES IN MARYLAND
State Director in Housing Drive
Cites 100000 Loaned by Banks
as Basis of Estimate.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, December 15.-Be-
tween s2,5OO,Ooo and $4,000, 900 has
been spent in Maryland for the i'm
provement and modernization of
homes since the housing campaign
was started here by the Federal
Housing Administration, according to
Arthur E. Hungerford, State director.
Mr.. Hungerford said he made this
statement on the basis of $780, 900
which has been put out by banks in
the forms of loans under the terms of
the housing act.
We estimate-and it is really
more than an estimate, since we have
checked it carefully-that for every
dollar loaned by a bank from four
to five dollars are spent from other
sources-from private cash resources
or from building and loan associations
or from private bankers" he said.
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road terminals have done and are
likely to do again.
Tenants will do just exactly what
they have always done. They will
forsake old buildings for new, partly
because the character of the neighbor-
hood has changed, partly because they
want the latest conveniences, and
partly Just because every one takes a
new thing for an old if the price is
the same.
Every generation thinks that its
things are the last word but we may
be quite sure that what we have today
will be no more acceptable to our
grandchildren than the things of our
grandfathers are to US including
skyscrapers."
Evening star., 1934-12-15
Poor Approaches Hindrance.

Business buildings, apartments and
rooming houses with unattractive ap-
proaches labor under heavy handi-
cap in their bid for patronage. In
most cases comparatively simple al
terations would remedy matters. The
increase in custom would speedily re-
pay the loan needed for this renova-
ton
Evening star., 1934-12-15
Trees Aid Property Value.

Have you cherished tree that is
dying? Intelligent surgery may yet
save it. Look over all of the trees
on your property for broken limbs,
dry rot and boring parasites. Re
member that fine. healthy trees add
to the value of your property.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-13
JOBHOLDERS ALL ALIKE

THOSE who feel that the payments to
- World war veterans constitute an undue
drain on the American treasury which no
government can reduce without running
great political risks should cast their eyes
for moment at the difficulties the French
government is having with it's bureaucracy.
The French government has some 80O,-
900 employees. They are well organized and
militant. For years they resisted efforts to
reduce either their numbers or their pay. Sue
ceSsive parliaments SHE'D away from the job
of cutting the federal pay roll.
Now the government is moving A tenth
OF the 100000 have been ordered discharged.
and 10 per cent of the pay of those who re-
main is to be slashed. Otherwise, the French
budget can not be balanced.
And the workers are up in arms. New
riots are feared as a result of the move. All
in all, the French face a problem so knotty
it makes our difficulties over veterans bureau
expenses seem rather mild.
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that Is reared on the wholesale plan can't be
trained in certain fine points Of living.
There isn't enough money, either. for the
necessary education and doctors and dentists
bills. as a rule. However if it is only to bear
guns that sons are wanted, it isn't necessary
to trouble with the niceties Of living Nobody
ever will know which boy read Shakespeare
and which one never got beyond che street
corner where Tom started his shoe blacking.
Ever since the first tribes grew angry with
each other, made weapons and tried to de-
crease one another's populations certain per
cent of the worlds energy has gone into pro-
tective agencies which spell death for enemies.
AS long as one country likes to sing its ma
tional anthem while the soldiers parade the
rest will have to have reviews and drums and
naval academies, too.
To have children and rear them for army
life is brutal thing to do. If we must have
war why not make millions Of nine-pins and
give the gold cup or the ten square miles of
somebody's little lost kingdom to the country
with the best shooting average? We could
parade and sing and hold balls when the boys
come home. There wouldn't be any ghosts
watching from the corners.
There wouldn't be any green beds in
strange and alien lands where homesick men
sleep ftfully in unwelcome graves There
wouldn't be any women, weary from too
much childbearing, who wonder, broken
heartedly, why life has no rhythm but the
beat of challenging drums.
To have children because one loves to have
them pleasing incident. If the ice lady
wants ten more, may she have them, and
we'll wish her twins and triplets gladly too!
But to have them because an order has gone
through the land
Wouldn't Hitler love ruling Alaska?
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10holly disdpprove of a0hat you sag and 10iu
defend to the death gour right to sag it-VOtaire.
Act NOU!

been several white, sturdy posts
erected. These would block the
speed of any automobile.
Why hadn't this been done on
the Eugene street side?
The fact is that the street
should be blocked before an au-
tomobile could reach the railroad
tracks. These tracks are danger
Gus, not only from a train traffic
standpoint but from the injury
that might occur to auto paSsen-
gers if the front wheels struck
the steel rails with sufficient force.
The HoOsier Motor Club, I see,
is willing again to erect a warning
at the spot. 1t seems to me that
the Hoosier Motor Club has done
its bit. Although the clubs sign
was old and the paint had Jared
badly in the weather, at least the
organization was humanitarian
enough to take precautionary
measures.
If the Indianapolis Water Com
pany is responsible for the protec-
ton of citizens on the canal banks,
it should act at once. This COM
pany should put barrier on the
bank, but the city should have
warning light or barrier twenty
feet east of canal bank.
There is no time for squabbling.
Let's have action.
And while this is being done,
there are many other similar
places in the city and county
which should be fixed so such
tragedies do not occur again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-13
THESE SMART CATS

A LBERT PAYSON TERHUNE the novel;
n list who has written so eloquently of his
fondness for dogs, broke down the other day
and admitted that cats really are smarter
than dogs
They're smarter, that is in that they're
always looking out for number one. A dog
will give you his loyalty and stick to you
when there isn't anything in it for him. But
not cat.
"You, maybe, have had a cat for years
and have treated it like king" says Mr..
Terhune. Il come along. I have a warmer
kitchen and more milk and liver Your cat
gladly will come to my kitchen and desert
you. To find a cat with loyalty would be like
finding one with five ears"
Few people who have owned cats will be
inclined to quarrel much with this asser-
ton; indeed, the odd thing about it is that
it is precisely this unruff1ed selfshness which
makes the cat nice pet.
For if the dog fiatters the ego by plung-
ing headlong into the most uncritical and
selfless loyalty, the cat does it in more subtle
way by means of a naughty condescension.
A dog goes about the house humbly, look
ing gratefully at you for permitting him to
stay there. A cat goes proudly, regally, look
ing through you or past you and quietly letting
you understand that it is a rare privilege to
provide the daily ration of milk and chopped
liver.
Even when 1t submits to being petted
or, for that matter, even when it comes over
and demands petting-it does so with an air
that let's you know that it is strictly an imper-
sonal matter, and that it is not committing
itself in any way by accepting such a favor
from you.
And all this, for some reason, is rather
agreeable The unmitigated snootiress of the
cat actually is f1attering. In world where
most people, in one way or another, have to
put up with good deal to keep the daily bread
in the pantry, it is somehow cheering to find
one pensioner who neither scrapes nor cajoles
If" says Mr.. Terhune, "I could sponge
like cat please God. I'd do it. The only
thing cat will ever do is something for her
self"
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HITLER AND ALASKA

ATOW at last we know the place where
there dwells woman after Herr Hitler's
own heart. If the dictator doesn't mind cold
weather he will find the lady living in Alaska.
He will find, also, that she is the mother of
about twenty children. You see, she lost the
count few years ago and never regained it.
She can't think OF anything that is more fun
than having babies SO she has them.
The German ruler has done his best to
make members of the feminine contingent of
his realm understand that it is their duty to
multiply that their descendants may inhabit
the earth.
Mussolini has also tried to make the Italian
tribe increase.
But it took woman from the land Of the
midnight sun to agree voluntarily that giving
birth to children is to be expected. The snow
lady doesn't think that babies are a bit Of
trouble. either. Yes, Hitler and MuSsolini
would exhibit her proudly.
No one has any fight at all to make with
woman who of her own volition wants and
has children, yea up to the number of thirty
fyel But for man to suggest that she
should is an utterly different matter.
Besides, the Eskimo lady wanted babies.
She had her own way about it. Few German
OF italian women honestly take the roll call
every year hoping to increase it within the
next nine months. They want families, Of
course.
But when family partakes of the nature
OF a children's home. we might as well have
state institutions for child care. A family
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-13
OTHER .REYOLUTIONISTS"

ATOW that the public has had its laugh at
DR.. Writ whose revolutionary plot bomb
turned out to be only firecracker, a more
serious question arises. Why is DR.. Writ and
his group of the committee for the nation so
anxious to destroy public confidence in the
Roosevelt administration and the new deal?
And why do they stoop to such methods?
Governmental red bugaboos of this kind
are not new; every two or three years they
are manufactured. But they usually are not
taken seriously by any one but the illiterate
and ignorant
Mr.. Rand, the big industrialist and active
head of the committee for the nation, is an
exceedingly intelligent and reputable citizen.
1t was he who first peddled the Writ stuff to
congress and forced national publicity. Mr..
Rand must have known then, as the world
knows now, its puny and contradictory nature.
The country is accustomed to irresponsible
old ladies of both sexes shadow-firting with
such COLLINS. The country is also aware that
INSCRIPTIONS men sometimes use these red
fakes to mask their own selfish business, as
described some years ago by r. P NcGregor,
head of the National Electric Light Associa-
TONS Illinois branch: MY idea would be not
to try logic or reason but to try to pin the
Bolshevik idea on my opponent"
Unwilling to class the reputable leaders Of
the committee for the nation IN either of
those two irresponsible classes, we wonder how
and why such men as Mr.. Rand got involved
in this performance. If they were fooled and
were not trying to mislead the public by smear
ing the new deal, is it not about time that
they say so?
After all they are propaganda organiza-
ton working for what is described as "revo-
1utionary' monetary change. Is it not fair
that the full purposes and operations of such
an organization be as open as the Tugwen and
Wallace public speeches out of which the Writ
hoax was spun?
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by u
I noticed in The Times last
night an editorial calling atten-
ton to the laXity of some one in
not fixing such traffic hazards as
the one at Eugene street and the
canal, where a Lebanon woman
lost her life Tuesday night.
Persons living in the vicinity, I
know, have long been perturbed
over the dangers of this location.
The fact that the railroad tracks
and spur are slightly higher than
the street surface is no protec-
ton to the motorist. Any auto
mobile travelling between thirty
and forty miles an hour can leap
the curb-high tracks and plunge
into the canal. This probably is
what happened to those women.
A poor set of headlights on a
car would make this site even
more dangerous at night. Four
women, coming from a lodge
meeting, naturally would be dis
cusSing the events of the evening.
Although the woman who was
driving was watching the road
closely, she would not have had
much of a chance at this traffic
hazard.
And if she were in discussion
with other members of the party,
her chances of avoiding a crash
were reduced materially.
The queer turn of fate in the
case is that less than half block
north of this site and on the
other side of the canal, there have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-13
FRIDAY. APRIL 10. 1894.
POOR JUDGMENT

THIS editorial is addressed to the parents
Of indianapolis school children
Police Chief Mike Morrissey has ordered
forty-three policemen from their regular duty
of guarding school crossings and assigned
them to an emergency" in connection with
the Real Silk strike.
This transfer was made suddenly and Sc
cretly six days ago without previous warning
to parents, and department officials even felt
it necessary to lie when The Times asked them
If such a move had been made.
AS a result hundreds of children, many
scarcely out of babyhood, have failed for a
week to receive the protection they need in
making their way through traffic
Why were the police so secretive? Why
did they fail to notify the parents so that they
might accompany their children yesterday?
Are the police a private force subject to
whimsical orders from the Real Silk manage
ment? Or are they maintained by ALL tax
payers for the benefit Of ALL the citizens?
1t is well to remember that Swear old
child confused ana endangered at a street
crossing, is a citizen as much entitled to pro-
lection as the great and powerful Real Silk
factory.
Some one has made a serious error in iudg
ment here. There has been no disorder at the
mill since the strike was called. Certainly
there is no reason for the presence of forty
three policemen there.
An official explanation should be immedi
ately forthcoming from the city authorities
setting forth fully why those forty three
policemen were transferred from school cross
ing duty. If the safety of children is to be en-
dangered by an emergency" at Real Silk the
public has a right to know in detail what it is
The only emergency" We know Of at the
hosiery plant is that a group of its employees
have demanded the right of collective bargain
ing by representatives Of their own choosing
in accordance with the labor policies of the
Roosevelt administration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-13
HERE'S A CHANCE TO
OPERATE A STREET CAR
A Street Car MotorElan

A Street Car MotOrnan
Please print this letter in your
Message Center in reply to E. E
Taylor's letter asking why street car
motormen are not brought into
court and fined for not stopping at
preferential streets.
I am street car motorman and
I would like to have Mr.. Taylor put
in my place one day and for him
to see the grief that We have to put
up with.
If all the automobile drivers were
as careful as street car operators,
then the city would not have to
spend money in erecting stop signs.
I guess Mr.. Taylor has the idea
we are making a lot Of money and
are, therefore, not classed as poor
persons. We make a little more than
the average working man, but I am
sure we earn it in a days time. Ask
any street car man about our work
ing conditions and I think you will
change your mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-13
RARE OCCURRENCE

THE riots in Minneapolis, following dis
continuance of the CWA work there, were
Singularly tragic, and the accounts Of them
make very depressing reading
And yet their occurrence merely serves to
emphasize the fact that we have come through
four very difficult years with an amazingly
small number of such disorders.
The endurance Of many citizens has been
strained almost to the breaking point. Yet the
country, on the whole, has been extremely or
derly and long suffering.
Riots like this one in Minneapolis have
been the exception, not the rule.
This being the case. it is the duty of the
authorities to lean over backward in handling
such outbreaks. Americas unemployed have
earned the right to lenient treatment when
they do kick over the traces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-13
TABERNACLE BOOSTS CITY
ON NATIONAL SCALE

BY Reader
From time to time we hear peo-
pie in this city knocking the work
of the Cadle tabernacle, but have
yet to find one of these knockers
who has any foundation for the
knocking.
I think it would be we'll for them
to start boosting, for that is what
E. Howard Cadle is doing for Indi-
annapolis. From the altar of this
institution go converts who, in many
cases, become the best workers in
the churches.
Recently equipment was installed
in the tabernacle to hook up with
the WLW radio station. Now the
programs from the tabernacle are
reaching the nation and other
countries.
1t is time that Indianapolis peo-,
pie, and especially the Chamber Of
Commerce, awakened. 1t is a COM
pliment to our city for it to lead
the nation back to the family altar
that our fathers and mothers knew.
More than one thousand letters
are pouring into the tabernacle daily
thanking indianapolis for gospel
messages in song and word. In fact,
so heavy is the mail that extra ste
nographers are working from morn
ing to night to answer these letters.
The good will which Cadle taber-
nacle is building for Indianapolis
is priceless. While Cadle tabernacle
is now a national institution, the
same policy, that Of bringing to In
dianapolis the leading evangelists,
is prevailing. 1 belive that DR.. A. P.
Gouthey excels any man who has
been in this city in the last fifteen
years.
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READER GIVES HIS
VIEW ON BEAUTY

BY r. X. T.
I would like to answer Fridays
editorial, mo Dreams Walking" in
which as a reply to DR.. Louis E.
BiSch'S claim that men are the
more beautiful, you say ito think We
ever dared offend them by thinking
them strong, vigorous, muscular"
Don't you know that strong"
vigorous" and muscular" are adj
jectiveS defining beauty?
You wonder why there are no
mems beauty contests. All through
history up until comparatively re-
cent times, men have been the more
important sex. Girls never were
welcomed to a family. Boys, how
ever, were trained and educated
and they inherited Naturally, men
were the sex to be entertained. The
use of girls on the stage and in
beauty contests is a holdover from
ancient times-masculine entertain
ment. A woman goes to beauty
contests, too, because the beauty and
styles exhibited there are well worth
her own imitation. A woman never
could enjoy mems chorus as much
as man enjoys a girls chorus.
Man still is the more aggressive;
he does the counting. In a girls
chorus, he is having beauty lined
up before him for his approval No
woman could hope that an attrac-
tive man in mems chorus would
single her out of a vast audience
to court her. A woman must make
herself attractive to the opposite
Sex-thats all she can do. A man
can be particular. He takes 'em
or leaves EN-. He does the court
ing. Therefore, girl choruses are
more popular.
In all animals, birds and NAM
mails, especially, we find that the
male is the more beautiful. Who
would dare say that the little green
female cardinal is as beautiful as
the full-throated, -chested,
fiery-red male of the same species?
Who would dare say the male lion
in all the golden beauty of his
fierce, brute strength, was less
beautiful than his smaller, drab-
colored unnamed mate?
Isn't it reasonable to suspect that
there are just as many ugly women
as ugly men? Ziegfeld and Earl Car
roll have said that they knew only
a few really beautiful women. Your
editorial writer seems to imagine all
women are beautiful. Are witches
ever depicted as men? Haven't you
seen women with knock knees, bow
legs, flabby chests, and feet broken
from high heels?