Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

on Norris Dam exceeds the supply
Some $50 houses are already tenanted
and about as many more are under
construction. The post office and the
cooperative store are open for bust
ness. Schools, hospitals, churches,
movie theaters and similar appur-
owned-are in the making. Citizens
of Norris will not own their own
homes and gardens any more than
an Army officer owns his home at
an Army post. 1t is to be Govern
ment owned and operated community
from top to bottom. Two or three
million dollars is being invested by
the T. v. A. in the enterprise. House
rents are scaled from Sl2 to S42
monthly, and every house has a full
complement of electric gadgets.
One of the country's big financial
houses is currently publicizing letter
asserted to be bona fide communica-
ton received by them from a Gus
toner. 1t is worthy of Will Rogers. 1t
is as follows: Dear Sirs: Mr.. Blank
has a friend who received a Govern
ment check for $1,000 this year for
not raising hogs. So Blank now pro-
poses to get farm and go into the
business of not raising hogs; says, in
fact. not raising hogs appeals to him
very strongly. OF course, he will need
a hired man, and that is where come
in. I write you as to your opinion of
the best kind of farm not to raise
hogs on, the best strain of hogs not to
raise and how best to keep an IN
ventory of the hogs you are not rails
ing. Also, do you think capital could
be provided by issuance of a non-hog-
raising gold bond? His friend who
got the $1,000, got it for not raising
500 hogs. Now we figure we might
easily not raise 1900 or even 1000
hogs. so you can see the possible
profits are only limited by the num-
Der of hogs we do not raise. His friend
who received the $1,000 check has
been hog raising for so years and the
most he ever made was S400 a year
Kind of pathetic to think how he
wasted his life raising hogs, when not
raising them would have been so much
more profitable"
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A distinguished member of Wash
ingtons sedate, but world renowned
Cosmos Club, Chairman Robert L.
O'Brien of the United States Tariff
Commission, is circulating the pro-
posal that the club drop the prosaic
label. Assembly Hail." now attached
to one portion of its club house, and
restore the original name of Mark
Hanna's Stable" The sponsor of this
suggestion processes to believe that
meeting or lecture billed to be staged
in Mark Hanna's Stable" would
thereby attract more attention and
more audience by adding a romantic
flavor otherwise lacking. Such de-
scriptive title would be essentially ap-
propriate, for not only is the clubs
assembly hall in actual fact the struc-
ture built by Mark Hanna to house
his horses, but it still stands in vir-
tually its original state. The small
stable windows, the stairway to the
hayloft and other identifying features
remain intact. The stalls and the
floor of the loft have been removed
to give the interior b. eadth and
height. Otherwise it is the same.
Inquiries at the A. A. A. as to
just what processing taxes are now
in full force and effect elicit the
following information: Cotton, AZ
cents per pound: corn, cents per
bushel; wheat, 80 cents per bushel;
hogs. 2.25 cents per pound, and to-
bacco at varying scale, starting at
AZ cents per pound and moving down
to below cents. The only COM
pensatory" taxes now in effect are
applied at varying rates to various