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Evening star., 1934-08-14
Better Homes Contest Spurred
By Loans for M0dernizatiOn
Washington Banks Prepared to accept
applications on Thursday; Co.,
ernment's Drive Starts Today.

! National Bark. The broadcast will
take place in local bank.
Formal Opening of Drive.
Regarded as a formal opening OF
the gigantic modernization campaign
of F.. H. A., the radio skit is aimed to
show the property owner how he may
obtain from 500 to 50, 900 to repair or
extend his home or commercial build
ing. Pertinent questions will be
answered
Modernization credits to property
owners for housing improvements are
being made today in many communi-
ties throughout the country. The ad-
miniStration announced that by the
end of the week it is expected credit
facilities would be available in almost
every community. Although details OF
the plan have not yet reached some
outlying sections, information was
available that banks, finance compa-
nies and building and loan associations
with resources of 81, 1897, ,849, 900 already
were prepared to extend credit in
towns and cities with a population OF
SO. $50 568
1t was announced that the names of
all institutions which have signifled
their intention to participate in the
plan and have been approved by 5
o'clock tomorrow afternoon will be
announced at that time. Thereafter
the names of participating institu-
tions, it was stated, would be an
nounced daily by the F. H A. and the
list forwarded to regional and State
directors throughout the country.
| Two Glasses of Prizes.
Many prospective entries in The
Stars $1,000 Better Homes Contest
have been prevented from participating
because of frozen credit conditions
that will now be alleviated by the
Governments guarantee Of 20 per
cent of the principal of the loans to
be made
Prizes in The Star competition are
valued at $4,000 or under and for
homes valued above this amount. In
each class first prize of $3.50, second,
$100, and third, $50, will be awarded,
besides four honorable mention prizes
Of $25 each. The Board of Trade Is
offering, in addition, an award Of $100
for outstanding landscaping improve
ments, an another 500 prize will be
given the citizens association whose
members show the greatest interest in
the contest-gauged by the number of
entries.
Entry blanks and information re-
garding the contest may be obtained
by a telephone call or note to the
Better Homes Contest editor of The
Star.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
FORMAL LAUNCHING
OFF. H. A. SET TODAY
Washington Bankers Will Take
Part in Brief Cere-
monies.

Washington bankers will cooperate
with officials of the Federal Housing
Administration here this afternoon in
three or four minute ceremony
which will formally mark the oficial
opening Of the Governments CAM
paign for better housing and home
modernization under the national
housing act.
The brief formality is sponsored
jointly by the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration, the American Bankers
Association and the District Of CO.
lumbia branch Of the American
Bankers Association. Newsreel cam
eramen have been invited to record
the proceedings to acquaint the coun-
try with the fact that the Govern
ment is making funds available and
Evening star., 1934-08-14
HOLT SPEAKS TONIGHT
TO YOUNG DEMOCRATS

Rush D. Holt, Democratic nominee
for the Senate from West Virginia,
will be the principal speaker at
meeting of the District division of
the Young Democratic Clubs of Amer
lea tonight at $50 o'clock at the
Willard Hotel.
Holt will give his views of the new
deal" Thomas SwetZ, Program chair
man. will preside at the meeting.
Holt will be guest Of honor to-
morrow night on boat trip Spon-
sored by the West Virginia State
Society.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
AID TO EMPIRE TRADE
URGED IN AUSTRAL IA
Leader of Country Party Proposes
Maximum Tariff Preferences
for Great Britain.

BY the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, Australia, August a.
The maximum possible tariff prefer
enceS for Great Britain and extension
Of the Ottawa agreements to further
increase empire trade. was advocated
today by DR. Earle Page, leader of the
Australian Country party.
DR.. Page was outlining the party
policy In starting his campaign look
ing to the Australian general elec-
tons, September IS.
The Country party nominally sup
ports the United Australian party OF
Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, the
two having the majority in the last
Evening star., 1934-08-14
Seeks Guardian for Children

OKLAHOMA CITY (P).-A deaf
mother, Mrs. Stella B. Farber, is
seeking a court order for the ap-
pointment of a guardian for her two
children. She charges her husband
with trying to influence the children
against her.
The mental anguish of being un-
able to understand what he says has
been worse than physical pain" the
petition read
Evening star., 1934-08-14
SUNDAY POLO GAMES
TO BE DISCONTINUED

Sunday polo games in Potomac
Park will be discontinued until after
September 26, officials of the National
Capital parks announced today.
One game week is being diScon-
tinued to keep the field in shape, they
explained, for the international meet
to be held here between an all-U. S.
Army team and one from the Mexican
Army.
Henceforth games will be on Tues
days and Thursdays at 4 pm. and on
Saturdays at pm. Last year the
Mexicans were hosts to the United
States Army polo team in Mexico
City.
Evening star., 1934-08-14

that the American Bankers ASso-
citation is supporting the plan.
There will be brief conversation
between a banker and q borrower,
neither Of whom have been identi-
fed. Participating also viii be Robert
v. Fleming. first vice president of the
American Bankers Association; F. p.
H. Siddons, president Of the District
Bankers Association: James A. Mof-
fett. Federal housing administrator,
and Albert l.. Deane, deputy Federal
housing administrator.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
"Coine Native" Girls i'm National Theater Workout

Gene Ford, top left. is put
ting his "Goi7lg Ndttue"
chorus through its PAGES.
And at right, Fred Win
stead serenades Virginia
Walters and Mary Hampton,
1oho are prominently cast
in the dll-locdl revue iUhich
1UiH be presented Friday,
at Locus For Theater.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
POLO DATE CHANGED

q. S. and Mexican Army Teams
to Play September %.
The second game of the interna-
tional polo series between the Mexican
Army team and the United States
Army four has been set for Sunday,
September %, instead of Saturday,
September %, according to an an
nouncement made today.
The schedule now calls for games on
Potomac Park Field on September
10, % and rs.
Evening star., 1934-08-14

Parliament, but there are several
Emergencies of view preventing COM
plete fusion. One Of these Is on
tariffs, the United Australia party
favoring extension of trade with
foreign nations as well as with the
empire.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
First Aid to BOOtle99erS
High Liquor Taxes

High Liquor Taxes
Booeggers selling much alcohol as they did
before repeal.
The bootleggng industry is highly organized
was and great corruption today as it
was when prohibition in force
Federal and State governments losing hundreds of
thousands of dollars in because of high taxes and
foolish restrictions the liquor traffic.
The Federal authorities cannot begin enforce the LIQUOR
laws with the limited number of agents who assigned
to the work.
These declarations made by less authority
Joseph Choae J director of the Federal Alcohol Con-
troll Administration at Washington.
Mr. Choate Americans plainly that regards liquor
control they living in FOOLS Paradse-and paying for
profits in the trade.
He also lists five remedies: "a
1.-Greatly increased appropriations for enforcement.
2Education of the public and their law and police
thorites to the tremendous losses from boot
Logging.
3-Cheaper legal liquor.
4Reduction and import duties so as to enable
legal dealers to compete with the bootleg industry
5Removal of such restrictions the sale of legal prod
ucts make harder for the buyer get them than
get illegal goods.
This program certainly deserves the attention of Congress
and of the State governments.
Repeal must remain good deal Of farce if booeggng
is flourish the old scale did when drinking
Illegal
The situation which Choate describes is merely another
example Of the unwsdom of taxing legal liquor heavily
that it carnot compete with illegal liquor.
The Hearst newspapers among Others pointed that out
many times during the campaign for repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment
The blindness of the Federal Government and of most
State governments such obvious is largely
sponbe for preserving the worst evils of prohibition long
after prohibition has been done away with.
These evils will continue until liquor taxes down.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

remembers the good old days,
and she has tusselled with the
bad new days. And she believes
that the way to lick poverty,
and the discouragement, de-
spair, and general messy
muddle which go with poverty,
is to-
PUT YOUTH TO WORK!
She wouldn't let Billy "just
grow like a young turnip and
then go to work if, when, how
and where he pleased. She'd
make Billy's job a matter of
national concern. First, she'd
see that Billy had a REAL
EDUCATION UNTIL HE WAS
18. PRACTICAL TRAINING
IN SOME DEFINITE LINE
WHICH NEEDED WORKERS.
AND INTO WHICH BILLY,
WITH HIS PARTICULAR
TALENTS, COULD FIT.
THEN, AT 18, SHE'D HAVE
BILL CONSCRIPTED!
Yes-actually conscripted by
the Government. AS soldiers in
Europe are conscripted. AND
MADE TO SERVE A TERM
AT SOME JOB UNTIL HE
WAS 26-J UST AS EURO
PEAN SOLDIERS ARE MADE
TO SERVE A TERM IN THE
ARMY.
All this to be considered as
part of their education, as well
as COMPULSORY service to the
nation.
No hit or miss work, mind
you. INDUSTRIAL ORGANI-
ZATION, UNDER SCIENTIFIC
DIRECTION, TO SUPPLY A
SUFFICIENcy OF THE MEG
ESSARY GOODS AND SER
VICES, WITHOUT BUYING
OR SELLING THEM, TO THE
ENTIRE POPULACE."
Big wordS-meaning what?
Meaning simply that the, young
people would do the nations
work-WITHOUT PAY-WITH-
OUT MARRIAGE-and wise
heads would so direct labor and
production that there would be
no poverty.
Then, after 26? Why, after 26,
they could marry; have homes
and careers of their own. Go on
adventures. Raise their families.
Study. Run their nation. BUT
ALWAYS THE ROUGH WORK
WOULD BE DONE BY THE
YOUNGSTERS.
Do you think THAT would
abolish poverty? Regulate our
present crazy nightmare of un-
planned production and de"
mand?
What's even more essential
WOULD 1T BRING BACK THE
OLD AMERICAN SPIRIT. >.
THE OLD AMERICAN PRICE
THE OLD AMERICAN IN
DEPENDENCE?
WOULD 1T TURN US FROM
A NATION OF DRONES,
DRUDGES AND DESPERATE
DERELICTS INTO A NATION
OF TRAINED, PROUD, SELF
RELIANT CITIZENS?
Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt thinks it
would. Do YOU?
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
The Human Side of the News
Kntterino's Philosophv-Saarland Faces Crisis
Blu Edwin C.. Hill

search is not mans despair, but
his greatest hope"
Lying along the Franco Ger.
man border almost due east OF
the city of Metz, the maps show
the Saarland, an area Of 1873
mileS-about three-quarters the
size of the state of Rhode Island.
The Saar is small, but its
commercial Importance is great,
the district being a rich coal
and manufacturing one with a
population of more than 800,'
900.
The verdict of Wilson, Glenn
enceau and Lloyd George Was'
that from 1920 on, France was
to control the Saar, with the
government under a commits
sion of the League of Nations.
At the end of the 15-year
period, which is 1885, a pleb-
iscite is to be held and the
Saarbruckers have one Of three
choices-to unite with Ger
many, to unite with France
or to continue under the rule
of the League of Nations.
The Nazis of Germany openly
and violently are at work to
swing the election their way.
Whatever work, if any, France
is doing, is under cover. The
French hardly want a union
with the Saar which would
mean the unnatural absorption
of nearly a million Germans.
But they are doing $100,0O0,0OO
in trade each year with the
Saar.
international Test
The Leagues com missi o n
which rules the district, is COM
posed of an Englishman, Geof-
frey Knox, as chairman, a ma
tive Saarbrucker, a Frenchman,
Dutchman and a Jugo-Slav.
A year ago, there was no ques-
ton but that the Saar would
vote overwhelmingly for reunion
with Germany. But the entry
of Hitler has changed the pic
ture. One third of the 100000
eligible voters are Socialists or
Communists. A great many
more are Catholics. and the
Jews are considerable in mum.
ber.
So serious has the situation
become, that the commission, re.
fused a delay of five years in
holding the plebiscite, wants the
League to send a force of neu-
tral troops to supervise the elec-
tions. An international test Is
very much in the making. The
Nazis know full we'll that unless
they win decisively, they will
lose in the council of the League
of Nations, a majority of which
will decide finally what shall be
done, taking into consideration
the result of the plebiscite.
(Copyrig 1884. King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1934-05-02

anything he can get:
Outside of Billy's personal
desire-or the ebb and flow OF
local opportunity-there is no
particular plan about Billy's
work. Once in a blue moon,
Billy starts to work at some
thing notwithstanding for
which there is a growing de-
mand.
Nine times out of ten, he
falls into an overcrowded rut;
begins to produce something
with which the market is al
ready glutted. so price OF the
commodity cheapens. The value
of Billy's work lessons. Pres
emily, inevitably, there is a
slump in Billy's particular mar
ket. No one wants what Billy
can produce. Billy's out OF a
job.
slumps-when there are enough
Billies out of jobs-there's a
depression. When the depres-
sion spreads too far, lasts too
long. there's a heap of trouble
a nation going to the dogs.
THAT'S THE RESULT OF
UNPLANNED LIFE. .UN-
PLANNED WORK. .UN-
PLANNED PRODUCTION AND
DEMAND.
For the last five years a
bothered and bewildered ma.
ton has been wondering II
there's any way to escape that
Russia thinks she knows the
answer. But we don't like Rus
sia's answer. Italy thinks SHE
knows the answer. But we
don't like Italys answer any
better than we like Russia'S.
We still have a hunch that we
want to go on being America
"a democracy-an nd giving
real American answers. A n d
now a smart old lady down in
Florida thinks that she has
discovered what a real Amer
lean answer should be.
Her name is Prestonia Mann
Martin. She should know
American answers, for she's
been circulating around these
parts for over 70 years. She
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
Government By Rage
The Senate's Opportunity

Inc OendLe opportunity
SHALL THE NATIONAL CAPITAL BE GOVERNED BY
RAGE OR BY COMMON SENSE?
THAT Is THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION WHICH THE
SENATE MUST ANSWER IN PASSING ON THE DISTRICT
APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE COMING FISCAL YEAR.
The bill passed the House perfect example of how
far wrong legislation co. does not to the smallest
degree represent the considered judgment Of the majority
members of the House to the manner in which the Districts
revenues should be raised and expended.
It is shining example of the imposition of the will of
preudiced man upon Representatives and upon
the half million poweres citizens who make up the city of
Washington.
The bill is faulty in detail and unsound a whole.
IT COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE WITH THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, ADVOCATING ITS PREROGATIVEs
TO A SINGLE MEMBER WHOSE RECORD SPEAKS FOR
ITSELF.
In right great wrong which would be perpetrated
not only upon residents of the District but upon
zens United States who have pride their National
Capital through the enactment of the bill passed the
House. the faces the task of entirely rewriting the pro-
visions of the
The Senate judging by its record in the pasfor this not
the first the outraged good
will do its utmost to remedy the situation.
The Senate will have deal realistically with the problem
of fiscal relations between the local the national govern
ments.
IT SHOULD CONSIDER THAT PROBLEM WITH DUE
REGARD FOR THE RIGHTS WITHIN THE CITY OF THE
ENTIRE COUNTRY. THOSE RIGHTS HERE ARE SUPREME
AND ALL-EMBRAC1NG. THOSE RIGHTS IMPLY A RE-
SPoNsIBILITY AND DUTY WHICH SHOULD NOT AND
CANNOT BE AVOIDED.
That responsibility would be shirked if the bill with
its rdculousy low Federal share the expenses of local
establishment were enacted.
But the matter of fiscal relations only of many
faults in the House bill which will have to be remedied
The House bill slashes vciously ctys most worth
while services.
would completely ruin the services which the city has
right to expect of its Public Utilities Commission.
It would the schools and wreck the hospitals
IN DEALING WITH THESE MATTERS WE ASK THE
SENATE TO WIPE OUT GOVERNMENT BY RAGE AND
SUBSTITUTE RULE OF REASON
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
patronage Troubles" HarasS
Members of Congress
Bu James T. Williams, Jr.

sive Of postmasterships, which
could be covered into the com.
petitive service, and thereby
protected against political ex-
ploitation by executive order of
the President.
During the last year, many
new positions have been created
which have been filled not by the
merit system. but by the spoils
system. Only the other day,
Congress overwhelmingly re.
jected a proposal to give to the
Home Loan owners Loan Cor
poration Civil Service protec-
ton against pork-barrel poll
ticianS.
Most of the Federal offices
at present excepted from COM
petitive examinations have
been excepted by special acts
of Congress. This means that
both the President and the
Congress must act if the Fed
eral service as whole is to
be taken off the political pie
counter and put under the
merit system.
Demoralizing Raids
If the President, however,
would lead in this movement
by going to the limit of his
authority in extending the
merit system by executive or.
der, public sentiment would
not only accept his leader
ship but would also help to
turn Congress in the same
direction.
The wrecking of the Federal
air mail by politicians, the dis
ruption of the Aeronautics
Branch of the Department of
Commerce by politicians, the
contamination of many Fed
eral relief agencies by politi-
clans, the exploitation of the
Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton by politicians, the filling
of many Federal offices under
the Department of Justice by
politicians, reveal the rapidity
with which the spoils system is
defeating the merit system to
the decentralization of the Fed
eral Service.
Because of his tremendous
popularity and the resultant
strength of his leadership,
President Roosevelt's opportu-
nifty to call halt upon these
raids of the Spoilsmen was
never greater than it is today.
And until the legislative
branch of the Federal Gov
ernment is liberated by eXecu-
tive action and legislative en-
actment from the curse of dis
tributing patronage, many a
Senator and Representative in
Congress will find himself so
sWamped with patronage
troubles that he will have far
less time than he requires to de-
vote to his legitimate duties as a
legislator for the Nation.
Copyright, 1884, by The
Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1934-05-02

Charles F. Kettering has al
ways struck me as the Abra-
ham Lincoln of the scientific
field, physically if not facially,
in his beginnings in the SOIL
of the middle west, and more
than anything else IN MS
homespun philosophy which,
of late, has made him a much
sought-after public speaker.
He is fifty-eight now, has his
fortune and his yacht, and IS
chief of the research branch OF
General Motors. He is the man
who invented the self-Starter
for automobiles and yet, he
never saw even street car
until he was twenty-one. From
an Ohio farm, the blacksmith
shop and the country school
house, he advanced to the uni
versity, and from it to first
rank with the inventors OF his
time. Here is a typical ket-
tering thought: "Just the min
ute you get satisfied with what
you've got the concrete has
begun to set in your head"
Unexplored Continent
And it is on this theme that
he expands in an interview
with Malcolm w. Bingay.
which is published in the
Rotarian Magazine. Mr.. ket-
tering, answering those who
advocate putting the brakes on
scientific development so that
civilization may catch up, says
that he deploreS the fact that
there has not been a single IN
vention of any Importance in
the past ten years. Scouting the
suggestion for a moratorium
on mankind'S inv e n tive
genius" Mr.. Kettering says:
1--WE are not at the end, but at
the beginning. We have but
reached the shores of a great un"
explored continent. We cannot
however, turn back, for there IS
no other direction to go but for
ward. It is mans destiny TO
ponder on the riddle of exist
ence and as a by-product Of that
wonderment, he is creating a
new life on this earth.
1T is easy for the economists
and the politician to blame the
inventor and the research en-
gineer. The research men ere
ated the new wealth Of the
world and its prosperity. 1t is
not their fault that it was
abused. Those who did abuse
these new found riches have by
now-it is hoped-learned their
lesson. The joy ride is over.
We are back to earth. And 1t
is up to the researcher to bring
us out of the wreckage. There
fore, do not hamstring him. AS
sist him, do not blame him. Re.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02

from a compliment to an in
sult-according to the time, the
place, and the mans knowledge
of the art of love-making.
One man can kiss a girl in a
way to make her feel that she
has won a beauty prize; and an
other man can kiss her in a way
to make her feel as though she
had been robbed Of her pocket
book. Yet the psychological
condition" in both cases may
have been the same-pure love
or pure audacity.
All rough-houSe kissing, rum
ble-seat mushing and taxicab
mauling, should be deleted,
pronto. They are the marx Of
the amateur and the immature,
and should be claSsed as mis-
demeanors punishable by fine
or imprisonment, or both" Ten
dollars or 80 days!
To kiss a Woman-even your
own without first remov.
ing your hat should be a
felony in the eyes of the law.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02

Soon after President Roose-
welt entered the White House.
the public was encouraged to
believe that the merit system OF
Federal appointments would be
greatly extended under his
Administration. In fact, the
promise was volunteered spe-
officially that the President
would urge upon the Congress
the merit system of appoint
ments throughout the postal
service.
This has not been done. There
appears to be little chance of
its being done before Congress
adjourns. The failure to make
this extension months ago has
lowered the standard of Fed
eral administration. And the
dissatisfaction in congressional
districts over the distribution Of
patronage will probably cost
many a Democratic Congress
man his denomination in the
coming primaries of his party.
Four of the eight members Of
the Oklahoma delegation, for
example. face hard fights for
denomination. Their most for
midable opposition comes from
the dissatisfaction of their con.
stituents over the exploitation
Of the Federal service by the
appointment of incompetentS to
fill vacancies in the postal serv-
ice and other Federal agencies.
The Oklahoma situation does
not differ in this respect from
that in many other States.
Mistaken Theory
The theory that patronage is
a political asset to a Senator or
Representative in Congress is
not well founded. For example,
every time a Congressman re-
Commends a constituent for
appointment as postmaster, he
is apt to make more opponents
than supporters. This inevi-
tably follows when a member Of
Congress utilizes his Federal
patronage to pay his political
debts at the expense Of the
public interest.
More than half the letters
received and replied to by many
Representatives in Congress,
affiliated with the party in
power, have reference to the
distribution of the patronage
actually or supposed to be at
the disposal of the Congress.
Much of the time of members
of Congress, which ought to be
devoted to the study of public
questions, the scrutinizing OF
Federal administration and the
consideration of Federal legiS-
lation, is now Squandered upon
the search for or distribution
of Federal jobs for needy or
greedy constituents.
When the Roosevelt admins
tration entered power, 1t was
estimated that there were over
5000 excepted positions, inclu'