Evening star., 1935-03-31
Embassy Linoleum?

Another harbinger of Spring has
made its appearance in Washington.
and once more the Better Business
Bureaus calls are increasing.
This time, it is the temperance of
the Inoleum salesman who has a
strip left over" after covering the
floor Of an embassy kitchen"
Mrs. Sallie P. Muchmore, assistant
director OF the bureau, devoted a radio
address last week to the subject of the
reappearlng ineleum salesman. In
vestlgation has shown, she said, that
II all the linoleum offered by door
to-door salesmen actually had been
left over from a job at an embassy
then every embassy and legation in
washington has had its floors covered
with several layers.
AS matter of fact, she said. the
canVasSers purchase nnoleum rem
nantS at the regular retail price and
tnen with a smart sales talk dispose
OF 1t at considerable profit to him
self TO the housewife who can't re-
slst a bargain"
by educating the woman In tho
mouse to beware of the various scheme
promoted in this manner" Mrs. Much
more said, II am not only saving Won
from buying something that is per
maps not worth the price, but I am
aiding the ethical, legitimate door-to
door salesman and the ethical mer-
cnantS OF this city who are interested
IN giving you a good piece of mer-
chandiSe at fair price"
april will continue the record
breaking trend for conventions that
began the first of the year, January
FEBRUARY and March, In turn, set new
records in the number of conventions
ana the attendance when compared
ooth with the preceding month and
with the corresponding month last
year. '
Twenty-seven conventions are
scheduled for April, according tn
Curtis Hodges, executive director of
the Greater National Capital Com
mlttee OF the Washington Board of
Trade, and more than $4,000 dele
gates are expected at the meetings.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution and the Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States head the
list, each expecting close to 1000 per
sons to be present.
Other conventions scheduled follow:
Grand Council, Order of De Molav.
April 3-4. at the Mayflower Hotel
American Alumni Council, April
SO, WATdman Park Hotel.
american National Red Cross, April
Gil.
Daughters of Founders and Patriots
OF America, April IL, Washington
Hotel.
American College of Surgeons, sec
tional meeting, April 11-12, May
flower.
College Art Association, April 1917.
Wardman Park Hotel.
National Retail Lumber Dealers
Association. April 16, Shoreham Hotel
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, April 1920, Willard Hotel.
school tour from Caledonia, N, Y,
April 1924, Harrington Hotel.
ASSOCIATION of Civic Service Club
executives, April %, Mayfiower Hotel.
National Society Of United States
Daughters of 1912, April 1924.
National Academy of Sciences, April
1924.
Eastern States Regional Confer
ence, Civil Service Assembly, April
1928.
American Road Builders (board
meeting), April 1926, Willard Hotel.
American Society of International
Law. April 1927, Willard Hotel.
American Trade Association Execu-
tives, April 29-May 2.
Commission on Evangelism, Federal
Council Of Churches, April 30-May /,
Calvary Baptist Church.
Middle Atlantic Automotive Jobbers'
! Association.
National Astrologians' Association.
National Society Children Of Amer.
ican Revolution.
Catholic Association for Interna-
tional Peace, April 1928, Mayfower
Hotel.
American Short Line Railroad,
board meeting.
American Physical Society.
American Geophysical Union.
American Guild of Organists, tri-