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Evening star., 1935-11-09
BOOKS AVAILABLE
TO HOME OWNERS
Numerous Pamphlets May
Be Obtained From
G. P. o.

Although not generally known by
the public, there are numerous book
lets and pamphlets published by the
United States Government with a
wealth of information to any one con-
templating modernization or new
building projects. These publications
may be obtained by writing to the
superintendent of documents, Gov
ernment Printing Office, Washington.
A list of these publications follows:
Farmstead Water Supply, cents GA
1.9:l448); Sewage and Sewerage, S
cents "a 1.9:l22O: Making Cellars
Dry, cents "a 1.9:1572; Chimneys
and FireplaceS, S cents "a 1.9:1649 !;
Beautifying the Farmstead, cents
GA l.9:lO8D; Farm Home Con-
veniences, S cents "a 1.9:92O: Plan
ming the Farmstead, cents "a 10:
1922; Fire Protective Construction
on Farm, 5 cents "a 1.9:l590); Floors
and Floor Covering, S cents CA. l9:
1219); City Home Garden, 5 cents "a
l.9:1044); Farm Garden, 10 cents "a
l.9:1673D; Saving Fuel in Heating a
House, 5 cents II 28.7:9O; Heating
the Farm Home, cents CA l9:1698) ;
Safety for the Household. Is cents &C
134:39O; Injury to Buildings BY
TermiteS, cents "a l.35:l0D: House
Insulation-Its Economies and Appli-
cation. 10 cents &C LAIN ~: Insula-
ton on the Farm, 10 cents; How tC
Judge House. 10 cents &C 1.l4:H 80
Light Frame House Construction, 4(
cents (VE l3145): Convenient Kitch.
ems, cents GA 19:15I3): Methods
and Equipment for Home Laundering
5 cents "a 19:1497 Protection OF
Buildings and Farm Property from
Lightning. 5 cents "a l.9:l5l2)
Painting on the Farm. S cents "a
19:l452): Farm Plumbing. 5 cents
"a 19:l426D Simple Plumbing Re.
pairs in the Home. cents "a 1.9
1850; Poultry Houses and Fixtures
cents "a l9:1554); Care and Re-
pair of the House, Is cents (BH 15)
How to Own Your Home. cents
tBH I'D; Recommended Minimum
Requirements for Plumbing, 35 cent:
iBH l3).
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ter, and to emphasize the tone Of in
formality which has endeared the
program to millions Of listeners.
The anniversary program will be
headed by Odette Myrtil, continental
diseuse, and the harmonizing Pickins
Sisters. Also featured in the broad
cast will be Helen Alexander, colora-
tura soprano; Nicholas Cosentino,
tenor; Edward Matthews, baritone;
Roy Campbell's Royalists, mixed
ensemble, and the Sizzlers' Male Trio
The orchestra will be under the d.
rection Of Waldo Mayo.
Maj. Bowes, In addition to his work
as guiding spirit of the capitol
Family" program, returns to the N
B. C. microphone on Sunday evenings
at 8 pm. to direct the activities OF
his celebrated Amateur Hour"
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Will Discuss Cathode Tube.

Some new and practical applica-
tions of the cold cathode tube will
be discussed by Philo T. FranSworth
at a meeting of the Washington sec
tion of the Institute of Radio Engi-
neers in the auditorium of the Po-
tomac Electric Power Co. Building
Monday at 8 pm. Some of the ap-
paratus discussed also will be DEM
onStrated.
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provided by Harriet Hilliard and
Victor Youngs Orchestra.
A new musical series called "The
Musical Toast" will be introduced by
WJSV at $50. Ray Blocks orches-
ira, Jerry Cooper and Sally Singer
will take part.
Works by two Russian modernistS
will comprise the program of the Bos-
ton Symphony Orchestra on WMAL
at 8:15. Richard Burgin will conduct
the orchestra.
Lily Pons will feature the doll
Song" from Offenbach's Tales Of
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WJSV will broadcast a special
American Red Cross program at 10.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak
and Kate Smith will sing. Workers
in the organization will dramatize
their experiences.
Two Men Meet at the Vesle," a
new war play. will be presented by
Wallace Beery during the Chateau
program on WRC at $50. Beery will
play the leading role. supported by
Chester Morris, film actor. The musi-
cal portion of the program will be
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FEED AND SEED PRICES
EXPECTED TO DECLINE
Farm Wage Rates, However, to
Be Higher, Says Bureau of
Agricultural Economics.

Agricultural Economics.
The average price Of commodities
and services used in agricultural pro-
duction will be little less next year,
chiefly because of the declines in
prices of feed, seed and fertilizer. ac-
cording to the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, in its annual outlook re-
port.
Farm wage rates will continue to
rise, it is expected, but feed and seed
prices will be materially lower. Little
change is expected in prices Of other
commodities used in production. No
appreciable advance in prices paid by
farmers for building materials is in
prospect.
Farm machinery prices may ad-
vance slightly but not materially.
Prices of feed and seed have declined
sharply in response to the larger crop
output this year and feed prices may
decline further as the new corn crop
becomes available.
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SHOPS BRIGHTEN UP
F. H. A. Stimulates Work on
Commercial Buildings.

Stimulated by the Federal Housing
Administrators modernization credit
plan, there has been a trend lately
toward dressing up the floors in all
kinds of commercial and public build
ings, according to building supply
men.
Owners are showing growing reali-
zation that more customers will be
attracted to bright. clean-looking es-
tablishments. This is particularly
true of stores. shops, restaurants and
the like. 1t is not enough to deco
rate walls and ceilings nowadays;
dingy floors have no place in the mod
ern scheme. The mode. it is found,
Is reaching not only into commercial
buildings but also into schools. pub
lie libraries, hospitals and offices.
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Hoffman" and Noel Coward's "Ill
Follow My Secret Heart" and "Ill
See You Again" during her recital on
WJSV at 9.
The Chicago Board of Trade Amer
icaA Legion Band, national cham
pionstr winners, will Je special
guests on the National Barn Dance
on WMAL at $50.
Music from the Army ball in Pitts
burgh will be broadcast by WRC at
1890. The orchestras of Leo Refs
man. Tom Dorsey and Jack Logan will
| furnish the music.
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NEW JERSEY BUILDING
OF HOMES TO DOUBLE
1885 Far outstrips Last Year
With $12,5s1, 300 Expended
in Eight Months.

New Jerseys home building activity
this year wilIS be more than double
such construction in 1884. the Fed
eral Housing Administration In that
State predicted. For the first eight
months of this year the new-home
total is put at s12,581 300. compared
to $6.l27 300 for the same period in
1894.
The eight-month figures compare
with yearly building and alteration
totals as follows: 1894, S9,772, 400;
1884, $l0.860,9oo. and 1882, s15,75s,-
800.
According to Thomas E. Colleton,
State F. H. A. director, 1,139 one or
two family homes were built with the
$6,127,900 listed for the first eight
months Of 1884. This year, with the
F. H. A. josured-mortgage plan oper-
ating, the sl2.581 300 total covers
1882 buildings.
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to mention child, feel like q railroad
magnate.
p ABROAD transportation In Toy
land is far advanced over that in
the real world. It Is completely
streamlined. 1t simply has to be so,
Santa'S spokesmen say, for the modern
child is nothing If not two leagues
ahead. Something in him, the H. G..
Wells perhaps, has made him turn his
back on last years patterns in the big
black locomotives and boxcars which
look like boxes. The writer's guide
through Toyland made this particu-
larly clear when he pointed to huge
and altogether admirable electric train
marked down from $3.50 to $22.50.
"They want streamlines," the guide
said tersely.
One finds Just how pasionately they
must want them when he gets over
into the wheel-vehicle section. Even
those kiddie cars designed to carry
Junior across that arid waste between
toddling and walking are streamlined! !!
And they have lights and horns as
standard equipment. Loud horns ana
bright lights!
Those pedal-powered automobiles
naturally are streamlined. One Of the
newest models In this line Is the G.
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technically, Is the electric eye" which
has been in the limenght quite a bit
recently. 1t is sciences contribution
to counting human beings and check
ing on their activities in a dozen and
one ways.
Now, the electric eye is scattered all
over Toyland. 1t is used to stop and
start electric trains, to do tricks to the
family radio-in fact. to give the house
certain aspects which may yet justify
the word haunted" The tricks that
can be done with the thing! All Of
them, of course, in the name of SCI
ence, and so far as this adult is con-
cerned, all Of them fascinating.
At the risk of treading on bromide
ground, it looks as If junior were going
to have harder time than ever ac-
tually getting to play with the electric
train he gets this Christmas. 1t is
more complete and complicated, and
consequently interesting, than ever
before. They have added even cross
ing watchman who snaps out OF his
tower and waves a red light in front
of what seems to be approaching au-
tomobile traffic. There are, of course,
the usual tunnels, cuts, crossings,
switches and the dozen and one varie-
ties of cars, locomotives and the like.
Ownership should make any adult, not
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man car, with a machine gun mounted
on the cowl. The latter has q men
acing rat-tat-tat and spurts sparks
generated by q flint located near the
tip of the barrel. Deadly realistic, or
realistically deadlyl
Sleds not only are streamlined, but
are modernistic as well. A molding
around the front which looks like the
bumper of an automobile and radical
departure in coloring give the modern
istic flavor. If junior should leave the
sled on the living room floor, there is
enough of the Grand Rapids in its de-
sign to make 1t more slightly than its
old-fashioned forerunner.
Tricycles are streamlined, too. And
speed bikes, Of course. Even doll
carriages are designed to offer a mini
mum Of wind resistance to the progress
Of the modern youngster.
About the only thing left unstream-
lined in the child's world Is the child
himself.
The worlds boys and girls may not
know it-and they might not care
even II they did-but they are going
to learn as they play with what they
get this Christmas Santa has had
q lot Of assistance from the child
psychologist again, more than ever
before. The two Of them have put
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their heads together to evolve educa-
tional toys designed to improve the
I-Q Of every one from the baby to
grandma.
MO LONGER does the infant get
Just plain blocks with letters on
one side and COWS on the other. He
Is given colored pegs and colored rings,
pegs and rings of varying dimensions,
odd shaped and intricate looking
sticks, and out of them he is supposed
to make trees Gin spite of Joyce Kill
mer) and other flora and fauna of
the natural world about him. 1t is
no less fun and lot more instructive,
Santa insists. He should know.
One Of the largest of the educational
toy makers has invoked the assistance
Of the psychologist in the creation Of
q Toyland Hall of Science" 1t Is
one Of the most impressive evidences
conceivable as to just how educational
and scientific Santa has become.
There Is the chemistry wing, for
instance. 1t overhows with instru-
ments and materials which reproduce
with perfect fidelity the grown-up's
laboratory. It all is kept on perfectly
safe and sane basis, so mystified moth
ers need have no fear Of the posi-
bilaties,
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the principle Of the magic lantern,
projecting the image of film upon a
piece of paper on which the child is
supposed to draw it. While he Is be-
ing amused, he also Is learning some
thing Of perspective, proportion and
color. 1t differs from tracing, although
the latter has not disappeared. as a
dozen variants on the theme quickly
prove.
A visit to Toyland discloSes that
parents this year have gone pacifiSt
on their offspring. War may be in the
air, but it won't intrude upon the at
mosphere around the Christmas tree
so much as in the past. In other
words, the wooden soldier, and his tin
brother, have been relegated to inferior
positions in the plaything array. They
started in the front line, so to speak,
but they did not move" fast enough
to justify holding such an advanced
position, Santa's agents say.
The tin soldier, for all his retreat, is
a very modern warrior. He comes this
year, not always on parade as once he
did, but lying on his armored stomach
behind a cked-looking machine gun.
It Is trench warfare that he is pre-
pared to teach; very twentieth century
in every respect, including tanks.
incidentally, whatever It may mean.
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Then, there Is the geology section.
It is even more imposing in some of
its details. The various types of rocks
which make up Mother Earth's face
have been Clipped and cracked and
packed in neatly labeled boxes to
make Junior a lot smarter about such
things than his father ever was. 1t
makes one think that posterity Is
going to be pretty awful in its pity for
our preSent-day ignorance.
The building impulse of the child
can find q few dozen more forms Of
satisfaction this year than ever be-
fore. The skyscrapers he can build
today are higher, the bridges longer
and the machinery more complicated.
Moreover, every form of construction
which involves that appalling array Of
metal or wooden members which
usually comes in such q set has been
simplifed. Instead of having to bolt
them together, they now merely snap
into place and stay there. There
should not be so many calls for help
when the impatient youngster gets
busy on a construction venture which
resembles the dimensions Of P. w. A.
project.
Also new on the educational side
Is the graphoscope. It works on
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Toyland's guides declare the English
still make the best toy soldiers.
That funny side of life represented
in the comic strip character has gone
into Santa's bag en- masSe. The COM
plete dramatic personnae of the funny
paper and the movie cartoon are there,
shattering that gravity which always
has seemed peculiar to dolldom.
There is a rather more profound
nautical influence about toys this year.
1t finds its most vivid expression, nat
urally, in speed boats that are exact
reproductions of everything from Gar
Woods last Miss America to the tiny
hydroplane fitted with IN "outboard"
engine. The whole mammal family,
moreover, is reproduced in rubber, in
cluding a whale that spouts in true
whale fashion. This class of toy, once
designed to make the baby forget the
rigors of the matutinal bath, has def
nitely grown up. Even adults can find
, something amusing for themselves.
A CORNER for the family pup has
- been reserved in Santa's knapsack
this year; quite an emphatic evidence
that it is going to be rather lavish
year-the best since %. One must
mention this side of il. 1t is mighty
important. of course. to Santa Claus.
who always is encouraged to do his best
by such an expression OF approval.
The dogs toys, mostly made of rub
Der, include bones, balls, rings and
Santa has his RabelaSian streak it
seems-a special private fireplug.
Benevolent old person that he is,
Santa has not forgotten that the citi-
zens of today were the boys and girls
Of yesterday and probably still like
playthings.
He stands ready to provide enter
tainment and amusement for them on
q most lavish scale. In the way Of
games. for instance. he has outdone
| himself. There are. Of course. only
three basic games, but Kris Kringls
has produced literally hundreds of va.
riations on the fundamental themes.
For those gaps between the last rub
ber of bridge and the refreshments, he
Continued on Second Page)
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Kris Kring Goes Completely Modernist With Full Array
of Oman Equipment-Do Carriages, Seooter Sleds and
Skates Streamlned Limit Speed Up World of Children
By Frank J. CarmOdv.

THERE no longer is any room tc
question it. Santa Claus is ar
universal genius.
Long the complete master o1
the humanities, he now has become
equally dominant in the field of SCI
ence. In a way, the latter conquest is
not surprising. 1t has been intimated
for years. It's completeness now, how
ever, is startling
There is no missing link in the
world of the child which Santa now is
prepared to equip. Is father, for in
stance, a geologist? His son also can
be geologist, to scale, of course. Or
maybe dad is Oman. Even that
won't stump Kris Kringle He is pre-
pared to satisfy the Oman urge born
in the childs vivid imagination to the
extent of equipping the play room with
a set of hnger-print powders, record
forms, etc. It's a Oman year in
toys.
A topical gent, Santa Clausl AS top
ical as today's newspaper. His vast
assortment of Oman toys is a most
impressive sample of this aspect of
his genius.
It is not the only one, however. For
the little girls of the world, in whom
the maternal instinct is as rampant as
brothers lust for adventure, Santa
has gone about as prolific as is pos
sible. He has reproduced the Dionne
quintupletS on a scale that would be
positively scandalous were any ore
else involved. Lifelike they are, too.
The Annette in Santa's bag locks eX-
actly like the Annette in DR.. Dafoe'S
hospital-and so on to the end of the
list.
There's an interesting angle In the
Dionne toy development. The quints
are sold in broken sets, one at time,
If one prefers. The visitor to Toy
land finds himself wondering how
Papa Dionne would like that. He,
the inspiration Of it all, had no such
choice as those fathers and mothers
who will buy Marie, ETC., for their
own offspring.
SPEAKING of dolls, they are more
realistic than ever. Their vocab-
ularies are larger, too, although none
of those which played on the father
string in the writer's heart could say
"Da-da" Maybe little girls wouldn't t
like it if they did.
The German dolls still are around,
but rather in the background this
year. Santa's spokesmen explain
that the American dolls are so much
more lifelike; with prettier faces,
joints where joints should be, and
the ability to speak without an accent.
In the doll world-and we must
stop this and get back to the scientific
ield-the dominant figure is that of
Shirley Temple. In fact, the average
child can virtually reproduce the daily
routine of the popular child film star
what with not only dolls, but all the
games Shirley plays, the books she
reads, pictures she paints, and the
like. The number of them makes one
wonder when Shirley ever finds time
to act in the movies.
One returns from Toyland with the
conviction that the worlds fathers and
mothers are going to learn q great
deal during the next few months about
the photoelectr1c cell. That, non
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place of many fascinaons is toyand. Q A plaything
for the "rumpus ROOM is a combination billiard, ping
pong and supper table. ) Santa makes it possible for
every have quintuples and Dionne quntupets
that (3) Toylands huge railroad yards. ~ The bike
ypes the speed compartment of Santas big knapsack.
(5) Santa-she hardly believe her eyesi (6) Even
sleds have gone streamlined Photos by wilkinson
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Wooden and Tin Soldiers Lose Prestige Even in Wake
World Today's Youngster Finds Love of Adventure
Satisfied in Speedier Vehicles and Scientific Payhings
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THERE no longer is any room to
question it. Santa Claus is an
universal genius.
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AUCTION SALES.--FUTURE DAYS.
THOS. J. OWEN a. SON, AUCTIONEERS.
143l EYE ST. NV.

PRoVED REAL ESTATE. LOCATED ON
THE SOUTH Il SIDE OF H STREET; REF, BE; Be;
PURPOSES OF TAXATION AS LOT
s3S IN SQUARE 3lg; SAID PROPERTY
sEEd PaRkNd HsEP PAcE ST cEEsGRr g6s AUf6Mo TJM5
BY virtue Of a certain deed OF trust. duly
recorded IN Liber No. .5419.. folio 1T ct
seq. OF the land records OF the District oil
Columbia, and at the request OF the party
secured thereby. the undersigned trustee
will sell at public auction: in front Of the
premises. on MONDAY, THE NINETEENTH
DAY OF AUGUST. AID, 1885. AT FOUR
O'CLOCK PM. the following described
land and premises. situate in the District
part OF original lot numbered ten (l0l in
square numbered three hundred and nine
teen t3l9D. described as follows: Beginning
OF the lire Of street at the northwest
line thereof south S2 feet; thence east
at right angles to said west line PSI feet
alorg 'he west line OF said public alley to
the line of H street; thence west 25.l feet
to the place Of beginning.
Terms of sale: One-fifth OF the purchase
money 10 5e paid in cash. balance in foul
equal inStallments. payable in one. two
three and four years. with interest at six
from day of sale. secured by first deed OF
trust Upon the property sold. or all cash
at the option of the purchaser deposit
Of 81 900 will be required at time OF sale
Examination of title, conveyancing. record
ing revenue stamps. etc, at cost of pur-
chaser Terms of sale to be complied with
within thirty days from day of sale. other.
wise the trustee reserves the right 10 resell
the property at the risk and cost of de-
faultlne purchaser, after nve days adver-
tlSement of such resale in some newspaper
published in Washington. D. C. or deposit
may be forfeited. or without forfeiting de-
post trustee may avail itself OF any legsl
or equitable rights against defaulting pur-
CHASER.
AMERICAN SECURITY AND
TRUST COMPANY Trustee
By HOWARD MORAN.
(Seal) Attest:
A H SHILLINGTON,
auo-coos eXSu Assistant Secretary.
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ESTATE. BEING A DETACHED TWO
STORY FRAME DWELLING CON,
TA!NISG mn NINE ROOMS HI.S9 AND IB THREE re
GARAoE. AtAe; RSoWN As PREM1sEs
39I5 LIVINGSTON STREET NORTH
BY virtue Of a certain deed of trust
recorded in Lber No. 5439. at folio 3l6.
Of the land records Of the District OF
Columbia, and at the request OF the party
ises on WEDNESDAY: THE TWENTY
FouR-TH1RTY FOUR sf1 O'clock Pm. the; the 1ol-
iHT Hate in the District Of Columbia. and
Jacob s. Gruver's subdivision Of lots num-
Sered e sew Seventeen I ~ hundred and az forty-eisht
per plat recorded in Liber No. IS. at folio
Isl: OF the Iecords OF the once OF the
Terms of sale: Purchaser to pay one
fourth Of the purchase price in cash. the
balance in three inStallmentS in one, two
and three years respectively. with interest
snnum 5ns and Secured By deed Of trust
the property sold. or all cash. at the
SSi1U S4insted q to TT the date Of sale purchaser to
pay interest on purchase price from date
of sale to date Of settlement at six t6)
recording revenue stamps, etc, at the
cost Of the purchaser: good title or no
at the time Of sale and settlement to be
within thirty (3Ol. days Of the date OF
sale or deposit forfeited and the property
ing purchaser after five (5) days previous
advertisement of said resale in some news
paper published in Washington. D. c.
j, WRILEY JACOBS,
Surviving Trustee.
925 18th st. NV,
Washington. D. Q.
auI4.16.1a21.2 % % "a 26.27.2s
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SALE OR EXCHANGE.

Md. 50xl50: one in D. c., 50x135: business
lot, 25X126, S.w.. near wharveS and
markets. Consider acreage. income, or
second trust behind builders loan. Ad-
dress Box 452-X. Star office. 1S'
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--aI IIIaI ., IN IO4NhL 'F'lUV.

New. detached. all-brick Colonial on
Corner lot 5oxl35; bed rooms > baths,
insulated roof. garage OPEN DAILY :
PHELPS. l417 Z st. NV.