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Evening star., 1936-10-24
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report. New York City led all metro
politan centers with September
valuation of S17,708,645, Los Angeles
was second with S7,745,154, Chicago
third with s7,019,73s and Detroit
fourth with a total of s4,39S,8l1.
There was an increase of 1o2 per
cent in the number of family dwelling
units. provided in the 758 cities in
cluded in the survey comparing Sep
tember, 1886, with the corresponding
month of the preceding year.
Includes Government Work.
The data collected by the Bureau Of
Labor statistics include, in addition to
private construction, the number and
value of buildings for which contracts
were awarded by Federal and State
governments in the cities included in
the report. For September, 1886, the
value of these public buildings
amounted to Sl3.l85,00 for August,
1896, to $32, ISIS 900, and for Septem-
ber. 1895, to s9,314,000.
Permits were issued during Septem-
Der for the following important build
ing projects: In New York City, n
the Borough of the Bronx, for apart
ment houses to cost nearly 1850 900;
in the Borough of Brooklyn, for apart
ment houses to cost nearly 5000, 900;
in the Borough of Manhattan, for
apartment houses to cost over 81. 400
600; in the Borough of Queens, for
apartment houses to cost nearly 81
100000; in Syracuse, N. Y. for a
school building to cost s400. 900; in
Kokomo, Ind, for a sewage plant to
cost over 100000; in Battle Creek,
Mich, for factory buildings to cost
$3.50 900; in Detroit, Mich. for factory
buildings to cost over 100000 and for
store and mercantile buildings to cost
over $3.50, 600; in Pontiac, Mich. for a
factory building to cost s35o,00o; in
Dayton, Ohio. for factory build
Evening star., 1936-10-24
SEPTEMBER SLUMP
SEEN IN BUILDING
Award of Private Contracts
Reveals More Than Sea-
sonaI Drop.

Building contracts awarded in the
field of private enterprise in septem-
ber showed more than the usual sea-
sonal curtailment, according to the
Alexander Hamilton Institute. The
decrease from the August volume
amounted to 1877 per cent as COM
pared with an average decrease Of A.
per cent during the previous II years.
At the same time, activity in Sep
tember was at much higher rate
than in the same month last year,
with total contracts showing q gain
Evening star., 1936-10-24

without the help Of lower building
costs. A real reduction in the cost of
construction work does not appear to
be in immediate prospect in view of
the obstacles in the way of reducing
wage rates in the building trades. as
well as in the industries producing
building materials.
Evening star., 1936-10-24

ings to cost $380,000: in Wash
ington, D. c., for apartment houses
to cost nearly 100000; in Miami
Beach, Fla, for apartment houses
to cost nearly 100000; in Long
Beach, Calf. for school buildings to
cost over 100000. and in Los An
geles, Calf, for apartment buildings
to cost over S45O,000 and for school
buildings to cost nearly 2,400,000.
Evening star., 1936-10-24
New Light Bulb.

A new light bulb, usable In any
socket, gives both vitamin D producing
ultraviolet rays and correct reading
or working light. Its special glass Is
said to filter out harmful rays, allow
ing unlimited exposure without SUM-
burn or other Ill effects.
Evening star., 1936-10-24
New York Leads Volume.

4NC" 4VAh A<SHAo NoAoAASs
New York again leads ON financial
volume, s155,843, 900. Los Angeles Is
second with $45.829,918; Detroit,
third, S31, ,749, $40; Washington,
fourth, $25,1O9,876. Chicago, second
largest city in America, with $l4,-
126, $50, holds seventh position.
Although the New York home to-
tai is for eight months, they are also
leading in home building, with ground
broken for 81, 1852 homes since Janu-
ary /, 1886. Los Angeles is second
with 5,133. One and two family
dwellings are included in this figure,
Detroit is third with 3073; Phila-
delphia fourth with 1.499, and San
Francisco fifth with 1861. The Chi
cago nine months, 1896, total was 607
homes. The like 1885 period was 272
homes. It is estimated that over
100000 Nationwide new homes will
be under way by the end of 1886
While considerably short of normal
years output of 100000 homes, it is
far above the last five years.
On issued building permits Los An
geles leads with 22,330. Milwaukee
Is second with 1929. Cincinnati third
with 1888 and Detroit fourth with
1862. Chicago occupies twenty
fourth position.
An apartment and hotel shortage
exists at Miami Beach, Fla. This
Winter playground lists 80 hotels and
"a apartment buildings started since
January !. This community says an
influx Of skilled building labor from
all over the United States is working
there, and the major portion of their
building activities is being done by
private capital. Atlanta, Cleveland,
Dayton, Des Moines, Detroit, Duluth,
Little Rock. Louisville, Milwaukee,
San Francisco and st. Paul report
apartment shortages accompanied with
rapidly rising rents. On the Pacific
Coast rent increases have taken more
Of a rebound in relation to other
scattered countrywide sections. De-
spite residential upturns ranging up
to Is per cent in Los Angeles, Seattle
and other Far Western cities say their
construction gains do not begin to
measure up to supply and demand.
Expect 1887 Improvement.
In analyzing 1887 building prospects
all cities predict that next year will
show a substantial improvement over
1886. Underlying building improve
ment forces, they point out, continue
strong and are genuine.
Twenty cities report shortage of
certain building crafts. Duluth COM
plains of a bricklayer shortage and
Kansas City a scarcity of bricklayers
and iron workers; Des Moines, a
decided shortage of all skilled labor
due to w. p. A. New York estimates
$4,000 building mechanics now en-
gagged on Federal projects within their
borders.
Mr.. Craig says one deplorable after
math Of this prolonged construction
stagnation is that when construction
swings back to normalcy a shortage
OF skilled building help cannot be
averted. How large this will loom is
. guess. but 1t Is certain that an
alarming lack Of competent building
help will be impossible to recruit to
Evening star., 1936-10-24
Wash Rooms Lacking.

Thirteen per cent Of the restaurants
in % typical American cities surveyed
by the United States Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce were
found to have no wash rooms either
for employees or for patrons.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
A COTTON ROAD IN CLEVELAND

Experiments have proven that the use of a cot
ton fabric in road construction has many advant-
ages and since we are to have additional road con-
structien in Cleveland this spring we hope the
highway commission can be induced to let us have
cotton road. -.
1t would be quite appropriate because OF the
fact that Cleveland is not only the largest cotton
producing county in North Carolina but produces
more lint per acre than any county in the cotton
belt.
In building these so-caled cotton roads, cotton
fabric is put between the layers of btulthie sur
facing which is big help in making the road
weather-resistent. 1t seems to preserve and pro-
teet the road from unraveling and dissolving III
freezing weather.
Up in New Jersey where a test road was built,
E. E, Reed supervisor of the state aid projects for
the state ms de an investigation and comparison OF
several types of road He found the cotton treat
ed section The nop-treated cotton section was
broken in spots and the surface had rayeled, but
the cotton treated section had remained intact"
Another good reason for cotton roads Is that 1t
provides new use for surplus crop. In this day
when cotton fabric is being superseded by synthe-
tic materials made from wood pulp, lnters, waste
and other stuff, it is necessary to find new use
for this tough, hard-wearing cotton-fabric.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
SELFISH DRIVERS

Highway fatalities are being reduced in the Car
olina as result of the enactment and enforcement
of the drivers license laws in both North and South
Carolina. The splendid cooperation of the news
papers and various organizations throughout the
Carolnas in this important work is getting results
The Carolina Motor Club is exceedingly pleased
with the results being obtained, because havpg
been the original sponsors of the enactment OF
these laws the Club naturally is gratfied to see IT'S
predictions come true. 4e4.s, ~ ~.
All of the laws and all the enforcement officers
and all the courts cannot possibly bring abeat COM
plee elimination of highway fatalities nor can they
bring about the results desired as long as our hgh-
ways are used by selfish drivers. The driver who
will deliberately drive in the middle of the road, on
the left side of the road, or park on the highwa5
or pass hills or curves is really too selfish at
their places of business or at their hemes but when
they get out on the highways they forget all about
the sense of fairness and so jeepardize not only
their own lives, but the lives of others
Do not be a. selfish driyerlLCarplina Motor
News. .....
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
Stepping On Banana Peels
By WICKEy WAMBOLDT

who should bring in a load Of or
anges to sell.
This fellow, not having the
hundred dollars to pay the tax,
was arrested. He put up his
truck and oranges as bond, aban-
doned the whole outfit, hotfoot-
ed it out of town, and &humbed a
ride home.
He still owes what he borrow
ed. His best bet would have been
to have got job with someone
who was trucking oranges from
Florida until he learned the
game, and saved up enough to go
into the business without borrow
ing money.
A man who was in the produce
business struggling along barely
keeping his head above water,
came to my father one day and
said, "Our local market is entire
ly without cabbages; but a car
load has just rolled into town. If
/ could get hold of that shipment
| could make some money, but i
haven't the money to buy It,"
My father let the man, who was
a warm friend of his, have the
money. That car of cabbages put
that man on his feet and started
him en- the road to success. But
listen to this episode about the
same man:
After he had become well-to-
do, a two-masted schooner from
Nassau laden with bananas came
into port. A shipload of bananas
was more than that man could
handle ordinarily; but the local
market was bare of bananas; so
he bought the entire cargo, ex-
pecting to clean up. ..
But in a few days, to his dis
may, another two-master loaded
with bananas came into port.
This man had to buy that ship
ment too in order to make himself
safe on his first purchase. Then,
to his CONSERVATION. a third two
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
Control of Sucz Cam,

When Ferdinand de Io'.
1898 formed a company ia bn !" q
snip canal, about half ,bo O vi !
were taken in France. ona, $na'e
IN Egypt and very few in rr.,'.ia
Inc canal was opened in Ism ''I ny!
hculties had arisen during i. VI
struction and the Khediye a. ~ r. 'O''
had made a big loan to tho ,rn' s!p'
ers and subscribed for ne,rIr S'''
tire stock. In 1879 his Shares 80, "a'
offered for sale and ,nrora, "e q
foresight of Di>raeli these v ~'
purchased by the British .ora.'
ment, which thereby becamo ~
biggest shareholder. The Come. :"
is predominantIy French ,5nn .!
the French sovernmrnt OWE, a
shares. VI
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NWA Service stan Correspondent

WTASHINGTON-It isn't con-
w sidered good form to ask why
Congress is going to appro-
pirate more than a billion dollars
this, year for the army ind the
navy. And anyone who suggests
economy or budget-balancing in
that direction is sure to Sbe called
un-American and Communistic.
The Senate army bill appropri.
ates $3S4,6s9,619 for military pur.
poses and Rooseyelt's budget esti-
mates $500 ,1S4,077 for the navy.
II you're still impolite enough to
ask why, the navy can give you a
more definite answer than the
army, which seems rather vague as
to whom 1t is going to fight.
The navy is sure that it's going
10 fight the Japanese sooner or
later. That idea is shared by some
officials In other quarters. Nobody
seems 10 know how either the
Japanese or the American navy
could cross the Pacific and wage
successful combat 50 far away
from home--but the navy, at
least, has a goal.
The army obviously isn't ex-
panding for hattie with Canada
or Mexico. No one seriously con-
tends that q foreign foe can break
through the navy and land troops
on our shores.
And you can't get any high
army official to admit that the
army Is being built up-from
$4,000 to 10000 men and hum
.dreds of new planes each year.
to invade foreign territory. That's
what makes it all so mysterious
INSIDE the congressional COM
! mittees on military affairs
when these matters are up, there's
only . vague psychology of war
--Eith an nRknowu foe in some
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
LErTHE RECORD BE KEPT STRAIGHT

Referring to communications published
in The Tianes-News, signed by Ludwig
Schiller and M. Markowitz, this newspap-
er Directs attention to the fact that both
gentlemen are inaccurate in ;centering their
controversy on the Chamber of Commerce.
Therbasis of the controversy is the action
of what is known as the MERCHANTS diyi.
sionsof the organization and its recent rec
congratulations for certain steps by the
community.
The public should not overlook the fact
that the action taken, condemned by Mr.,
SCHILLER and approved by Mr.: Markowitz,
wasn by the merchants division of the
Chamber of Commerce and not by that or
ganization as whole. 1t is true that the
merchants are members of the Chambe.
of cemmereeNbut they do mot constitate
the - sfgaaiss,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
Wait
q
Minute,
Please
EFFORTS REWARDED
BY
Noah
Hollowell

EFFORTS REWARDED
Farm Agent G. d. White is much
more impressed with the new ma
tional farm program than with
the old one because it rewards
a farmer for doing something
rather than cater to his lazy in
stincts and pay for what he does
not do.
The average farm operation
comes under one or more of three
phases. The farmer depletes, con-
serves OF improves his soil. The
new program will encourage and
financially reward the farmer
who stays off the depletion pro-
gram as much as possible by
planting crops which will at least
conserve his soil, if not improve
it.
Jack Criswell, state extension
economist, will address Hender-
son county farmers at 2 o'clock
at the courthouse on April 16.
Mr.. White is very anxious that
our farmers hear Mr.. Criswell so
as to become well acquainted
with the governments new pro-
gram under which it will be pos
sible for the farmers to obtain
direct financial benefits.
WALTER SMITH declared,
.I've got it in the bag" after an
absence from the streets for sew
eral days, during which time he
reports contacts, associations,
conferences, ETC., with the Nor
gans of IVA fame, Senator Nor
ris and the Scripps-Howard news
paper heads at a big dinner given
by the Cincinnati member of the
big newspaper syndicate.
Just when are you going to
open this bag with its one hun
dred and thirty-fve million dollar
benefits for Western Carolina?"
composed the query of one who
had been trained enthusiastically
to ask of all events, large or
small, worthy of public mention
in the prints: Who, how, why,
when and where?
"1'm in a big hurry, Just want
ed to show you these things, be-
fore getting off to Washington,
where ! will arrange to answer
the question as to when I'll open
the bag" he replied as he rolled
UP his maps and moved OH.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
Skating

Technically, one does no, s.,,.
on ice, Dut rather upon thin AIn
or water which is melted rrom ~
ice by the pressure Of tho S,o,.'
AT temperatures OF about 20 h.
low zero it would be impossible :,
skate. as this film Of water o.,
not form under the skate blade ~
the reduced temperature. Sipcs \.
film whatever could cyis, be,ws.,
glass and the skate runner an,
also since the glass Is at Least .,
hard rs the blade, the ska,cr rorla
not get a bite" with his b}oJo win
which to push himself forr,J
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
BEHIND THE SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
.nY RODNEY BUTCHER.

unknown territory-and q vague
fear of the reds"
Committee sessions seem domi-
mated by the belief OF certain
members and certain army officers,
that the nation is menaced by
bolshevik revolution. Copeland of
New York, in Senate debate last
year. emphasized possibility of
internal trouble" and General
Macarthur, chief of staff who
drove out the 1882 bonus army,
was always stressing preparation
for the necessity of American SOL
diers subduing American citizens,
Army manuals give Instructions
on how to attack mobs and in
recent years troops have been con.
centrated nearer industrial cen.
tiers. All this means, Of course,
that the army is preparing against
strikes and serious labor troubles.
Perhaps because it has nothing
better to do. *
INSTEAD of building mp small,
l. mobile, mechanical force for
quick action in any necessary
area. the army sticks to the the
ory of Immediately mobilizing the
mass man power of the nation in
event of hostilities.
Mobilization plans call for an
army of 100000. The. peace
time ARMY is scattered over the
country now with the idea that
It can serve as a skeleton for a
vast force and you'd have a hard
time pulling it, together.
War plans call for an officers
reserve corps and an enlisted
mems reserve corps You'll be
interested to know that the for
|.mer has about 10000 members
and the latter about 5000:
And next year you're likely to
discover that the army needs q
lot more than ssst,ooot geo,
lfctpyright.lsss. NEA s Ser 1pcl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08

ton and the Chamber of Commerce MEM
bership as whole has not been polled in
reference to the proposals of the mer-
chants. If the directors of the Chamber Of
Commerce have ever voted on these p.o-
nosals The Times-News is unaware of the
fact. 81
Messrs. Schaller and Markowitz are wei
come to space in this newspaper but if
they continue the discussion they should
make it plain that what they are writing
about is the action, not Of the Chamber of
Commerce, but. of an organization of Hen
Jacksonville merchants, which for reasons
that are justifiable, We believe, is known.
as the merchants division of the Chamber
of Commerce.
The Times-News does not believe it
advisable for the public. to become con-
fused about this matter. The merchants
NAV be nearly unanimous in endorsement
of their program, but that unanimity does
not extend throughout the membership OF
the Chamber of Commerce-and in very
large degree it does not extend to the
population of the town and county. II the
public becomes confused with the idea that
the Chamber of Commerce is the daddy of
all the proposals launched by the mer-
chants organization; the first named Or
ganization is certain to become involved in
a controversy and fight which will prove
very harmful to the Chamber of Com
merce.
Therefore, let it be clearly understood
by the public that the program of the mer-
chants division is not the program of the
Chamber of Commerce in its organized
capacity, Notwithstanding the fact that a
considerable proportion of the Chambers
membership is composed of local mer-
chants ~ -....
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08

gued with himself, zone doesn't
need to know anything about it;
anybody can do it."
The man had no money, but he
borrowed enough to make the
first payment on a secondhand
truck and to cover his expenses
and the cost of a load of oranges.
When he got to Florida, not
knowing the ropes, he was sold a
load of. poorly Favored, exceed
ingly sour fruit at too much mon
ey. On his way back his truck
broke down; the repairs used up
every cent he had.
When he got home he found
the market oversuppled with bet
ter fruit than he had, and at less
money. So he drove to another
city in the hope of selling his
oranges. There he found that a
narrow-minded, unpatriotic city
council had built a domestic tar
iff, wall around the community in
the nature of a hundred dollar
privilege tax on any foreigner"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08
WARNS AGAINST TAX SPENDING

Senator Borah is no friend of the rich man. In
fact he has usually been found on the other side
of this barricade. ss.,s s-... - ~ =,
When he stated in his recent Chicago address
that taxation is taking already % 1-2 per cent of
every dollar earned in America he was striking the
lowest possible estimate. ~ $50 sss
Others calculate that 1t runs as high as 80 cents
out of every dollar. lss.y. -, AS 81 a.,
Bnt even Senator Borah isviewing With alarm.
He knows, as every other intelligent man knows,
that wealth can not be Lifted from the puckets of
useful ndiSiduals or useful industries turned over
to the government to spend usually for non-wealth
creating ends andcertaipy for wealth creating
ends and certainly for nop-productive purposes
without making the whole people poorer
That is truism that North Carolina people ID
al grades had better be pinning their faith upon
an these days.-Charlotte Observer.
Joe Louis has been elected director of an insur-
anse company. Just before thsr bout, he should
hate little troHhle sslingsa policy tosB radaSek
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-08

tiSn one way or the o If,.& de.al
method does not Seem an an eIec.sl
election Ge1'sI lar ss' amendment S. to R
one, one, REGARDLESS of the Ic ~s3Sess)
that prompted it. for , 'SSai aiIo
TO prevent by law tbo Wv eiiec !
right to vote for whom h., clec'ea
ana tso denies denies the people to to p PIE.
the matter has been pv, 70 e., WHOM,
sion to decide. The m prt Tor dta
be discussed from a I "coiF colI
point at length. S"' Sta!
JOHN EWBAyr