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capital supplied by banks and other
financial institutions. The entire op-
Grating cost Of the Housing Admins
tration to the national Government
from its beginning up to December
I has been $22,619,065. This does
not include insurance claims paid to
lending institutions On defaulted mod
ernization and repair notes, which
are paid for from . separate insurance
fund established by the National
Housing act. Up to December !,
these insurance claims, less collections,
amounted to $5,293,7lA.
The major part Of the expenditure
the modernization and repair pro-
gram under Title I. Much Of ths
remainder was devoted to laying the
foundation for the insured mortgage
system-representing outlays which
will not have to be repeated. Many
Of the insuring ofices in leading cities
are now producing sufncient revenue
through mortgage insurance premiums
and valuation fees to pay their sx-
penses under Title II.
Revenue II now coming into the
Federal Housing Administration
through mortgage insurance premiums
and valuation fees at the rate Of
around $500, 900 q month. This will
increase as the volume Of business
grows.
Fund u Sls,o3e,e ~.
The Housing ADMINISTRATOR mu.
tual mortgage insurance fund in thl
Treasury now stands at over 315, 900, :
900. This fund Is available for the
payment Of possible net losses under
the insured mortgage system. OF
this amount, $4,000, 900 was supplied
by Congress Is an original revolving
fund and the remainder has beer
built up through the accumulation ol
premiums, valuation fees and other
earnings. BY July !, 1887, the fund
should exceed SIC. .000, 900.
In this connection, the experience
Of the Federal Housing Administra-
ton, after two years Of pioneering In
the mortgage insurance field, has beer
most gratifying. Only five properties
have been conveyed to the admins
TRAITOR under foreclosure proceedings
and an aggregate Of 3lS,4S0 in deben-
lures issued for them. One OF these
properties has been sold, leaving only
$l2,677 in debentures outstanding ur
to December !, 1885.
"Our gross business since we began
operations totals s1.175,s3s,240 up to
December l, 1885," Administrator
Mcdonald said. and our operating
net expenditures have been $22,6ls,-
065. When We take into consideration
the increased revenue flowing into the
national Treasury from corporations
and individuals formerly in the red
who derive their income directly or
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Colors Should Aid Eyes.

In the sewing room, where the work
Is most exacting On the eyes, it is
wise to use colors that reflect light.
Ideal seeing conditions are obtained
through the combination Of ample L.
Elimination. white or light tinx Of fat
paint on the ceiling and Q restful wall
color.
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LUMBERMEN PLAN
BUILDING DISPLAY.
1000 Demonstration Home
Units in Nationwide
Demonstration.
Uresial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MADISON, Wis, December 12.-In
enthusiastic session here this week
lumber men from all parts Of the
United States, meeting to plan for
new highs of prosperity in 1887, de-
cided to launch a Nationwide home
building demonstration of unprece-
dented scope.
One thousand demonstration home
units of from one to three houses
each to be built this Spring in 1000
cities of the United States will bring
concretely before the home minded
public the fact that small, low-cost
homes of real beauty and charm, and
equipped with basic modern necessi-
ties, can be built in lumber at costs
ranging from $2,5o0 to $500.
''The Spring program of the lum-
ber industry will show" according
70 Wilson Compton, secretary and
manager of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association. that
modern, well designed, small homes
can be built throughout the United
States at prices people can afford to
pay"
Local Labor to Be Used.
The homes will be built with local
labor, at market prices for materials,
and as single houses which any one
wanting to own home might ar
range to build.
with modernized methods OF
financing and new willingness on the
part Of industry and Government to
cooperate, it has now become posi-
BILE" says DR.. Compton, "for practi-
cally every employed man in the
United States-those in the II per
cent OF the population with incomes
OF $4,000 and under, as we'll as for
those who earn more than $4,000 a
year-to provide a home for his
family.
The program Of the lumber in
dustry comes as result Of serious
study. Data accumulated by Gov
ernment departments interested in
housing has been analyzed and the
findings used as basis of judging
the needs and wishes of the American
people for adequate modern houses. u
Parallel Homes Here.
Each small home unit will parallel
one Of the three demonstration homes
built RECENTLY in Washington, follow
ing F. H. A. small-house designs "B,'
ID" and "E," in Technical Bulletin
No. 4. These small homes upon which
the attention of lumber dealers of
the entire Nation has been focused
durin the last three months were
built originally to prove that such
houses could be properly constructed
in lumber and completed for the fig
ures set by the Government estima tes.
Meetings of all regional associa-
Sions Of the lumber industry in Janu-
ary and February will be addressed
by representatives. of the F. H. A.,
who will explain the requirements
covering applications Of home build
ers for insured Government mortgage
loans. Detailed information about
building the low-cost houses will be
given through the showing of films
giving details of construction and
OF models OF the houses.
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itself lends no money. The busi-
ness on its hooks represents private
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the jail depends upon how the Bureau
of the Budget feels about it. And what
the Bureau of the Budget might decide
is unimportant, unless the committees
and the houses of Congress agree.
In the meantime the jail, character
lied as a "sixty-year- pile of junk"
stands as contradiction to about every
thing that penologists, including those
who represent the Federal Government,
have advocated. Efficient and even
skilled administration have been able
to accomplish little, though 1t is doubt
less true that under less efficient or
skilled administration there might
easily have been disorder and a major
scandal.
It is time for some one with the in
fluence and the determination of the
Attorney General to step in and give
weight to the efforts of those who have
been working to correct the conditions
that exist today. Unhappily, our unly
remedy for crowded jails seems to lie
in building bigger jails. But as long as
that is the only remedy applicable now, it
should not be longer delayed.
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Third Term.

George Creel, writing in Golfers,
makes the assertion that President
Roosevelt has no idea of seeking third
term in the White House. He quotes
an unnamed intimate of the President
to whom the President said: "On jan
uary 81, 1941, when new President
takes over, will be in Hyde Park hav-
ing the time Of my life" This would
seem to settle question which has been
widely discussed, although President
Roosevelt has not yet begun his second
term.
The third-term talk grows out of the
sweeping victory which President Roose-
welt recently won at the polls, with q
vote greater by many millions than that
given to any other candidate. The great
personal popularity Of the President, at
the present time. gives it added impetus.
Other Presidents in the past, from
Washington down, have been discussed
as third-term possibilities. Washington
wisely declined and set precedent that
has been upheld in American politics and
government.
The friends of President Ulysses 8.
Grant talked of third term for the
soldier who commanded the Union forces
at the close of the Civil War. Theodore
Roosevelt, after having served as Presi-
dent almost all of the second term to
which President Mckinley had been
elected and after having been elected
President in his own right in 1904, made
. statement declaring that he would not
seek third term" Calvin Coolidge,
who became President following the
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Welcome Help.

Will the inspection of the District Jail
by Attorney General Cummings and
other officials Of the Department of
Justice end as so many other inspections
Of the past have ended-in indignant
protest that such conditions should not
be permitted to continue in the Capital
and that something ought to be done?
Hardly that. For the very fact that
Mr. Cummings and Sanford Bates, Fed
eral director of prisons, have accepted
the invitation of the Board Of Public
Welfare to see for themselves the condi-
tions at the jail indicates that they feel
some responsibility and are prepared to
see what they can do in discharging it.
OF course, there Is very definite re-
sponsibility by the Federal Government
in the penal institutions of the Capital.
The Federal Government is, as a matter
Of fact, exclusively responsible. It is
merely the long-existing snarl in the
fiscal relationship between the Federal
Government and the District that has
served to create condition where every
body is interested and nobody appears
to have the responsibility. What the
Board Of Public Welfare can do about
the Jail depends on the merits Of their
case as the Commissioners see 1t In rela-
ton to other District needs. What the
Commissioners might be able to do about
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ligiouS enthusiasm lmmeQlately preclpl-
tated the Simpson storm, is in private
life Alfred Walter Frank Blunt. History
is sure to record that he lived up to his
family title on the critical occasion now
gripping the worlds attention.
Predictions are freely made that John
Hamilton will receive a vote OF conf
dence and be retained as chairman Of
the Republican National Committee
when he assemblies it on December II to
receive his resignation and pass judg-
ment on his conduct of the recent cam
paign. Despite the inevitable enmities
that the young KanSan engendered dur
ing his ill-starred maiden venture into
big g-time politics, and the mistakes he
made. it's considered by many Repub-
licans that angels could have done no
more under the circumstances Hamilton
faced, The argument runs that this was
so invincibly Roosevelt year. everything
considered, that even Mark Hanna
could not have elected Republican to
the presidency. Hamilton himself said
a mouthful the other day when he de-
clared that If New Dealers had been up
against the sort of opposition the
G. o. P. had to combat, Roosevelt would
have been as Overwhelmingly defeated as
Landon was. Hamilton's friends think
he should have chance to fight again
when the odds are not so hopeless.
k* X
If Representative Sam Rayburn of
Texas captures the Democratic House
leadership as now seems probable, he
can mainly thank two &c" men-Garner
Pv oanarQ1 consent IT'S the
Intervention of the Vice President and
the Pennsylvania boss that turned the
scales in Rayburn's favor. His succession
to the coveted post will accentuate the
ascendancy of Dixie and of Texas in par
ticular in Congress. The South now has
the vice presidency, the speakership and
II Senate chairmanships. including the
most powerful ones. The same sort OF
Southern preponderance prevails in the
House, where Texans head key commit
tees like Agriculture. Appropriations. In
terState and Foreign Commerce, Judi
ciary, Public Buildings and Grounds and
Rivers and Harbors. 1t was once thought
that heavy Democratic gains in North
ern representation, as the result OF the
80, "a and '36 elections, would break
Dixie's stranglehold on congressional
plumS, DuC 1Or LNe lHlulculdIc luIuC
seniority will keep the South in the
saddle.
Uncle Sans newest 10,000-ton cruiser,
the $15,0O0,000 Brooklyn, Just launched
at New York Navy Yard, is the third
American warship to bear that name.
The first Brooklyn was constructed at
Philadelphia in 1858 just before the
Civil War She took part in the capture
of New Orleans, the bombardment OF
Galveston and the battle Of Mobile Bay.
The second Brooklyn, also built at
Philadelphia, in 1895, achieved record
of II captures during the Spanish
American war and received 20 direct
hits in the battle of Santiago.
Although not an official of the admin
istration no man in Washington has done
more to promote the new era of inter-
American fraternity now finding express
sion at Buenos Aires than DR.. Leo s.
Rowe, who Ii completing his sixteenth
successive year as director general Of the
Pan-American Union. 1t Is Rowe's Job
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

1t goes without saying that the United
States Government maintains the strict
est neutrality toward the British conSti-
tutional crisis. But there is speculation
in some Washington quarters as to
whether it will end without certain
effects on Anglo-American relations.
Last week, when the British press was
suddenly ungagged, leading London
newspapers which rushed to the support
of the Baldwin cabinet subtly suggested
that the whole tremendous incident
might never have reached its critical
climax except for the enterprise of
American newspapers in bringing all the
facts promptly and fully to public notice.
Between the lines of these far-fetched
and more or less officially inspired Brit
ish editorial utteranceS there's tinge
of complaint that our newspapers are
therefore not wholly blameleSs for the
upheaval that is shaking the empire to
its foundations Diplomats will tell you
there's dynamite in such innuendoes.
They think it's capable of undermining
even as fervent an entente cordiale as
that which traditionally unites John Bull
and Uncle Sam. In at least one or two
European and Asiatic quarters, the wish
is father to such thoughts-a wish not
at all likely to be gratified.
~ *x
Undoubtedly his Britannia MajestyS
Embassy in Washington has not viewed
with anything resembling equanimity the
faithful reporting of the British royal
romance, including all and Sundry there
with connected. by American newspapers
and periodicals. It's understood that
press clippings accumulated at the EN-
bassy in such piles that they threatened
to require provision of additional storage
room even at the Sprawling premises out
on Massachusetts, avenue, over which Sir
Ronald Lindsay preSides. But the Kings
seasoned envoy has far too keen knowl-
edge of American conditions ever re-
motely to have thought of launching any
protest at the State Department. He
knows what happened in the case OF
Japan year or so ago, when TOXIC
objected to a mere cartoon of Emperor
Hirihito in New York magazine. The
Mikado's government discovered that the
last thing in the world into which any
Washington administration would ever
poke its nose Is interference with the
freedom of the press.
*x **
Should Winston Churchill, M. p,
emerge as prime minister at the head OF
a government pledged to support King
Edwards matrimonial program, the
monarchs chief adviser would appropri-
ately be an Englishman sometimes de-
scribed as half American winston"
as he's popularity dubbed, is SO known
because his mother was Lady Randolph
Churchill, native daughter of the United
States and wife of Lord Randolph
Churchill, one of the outstanding states
man Of the Victorian era. Journalist
and soldier, the present Churchill, for Is
years the Peck's Bad Boy of British
politics, has always been considered,
because of his semi transatlantic origin,
more American in methods and tempera-
ment than British, even though he has
not always distinguished himself by
aggressive friendship for the native land
of his maternal ancestor.
4 \ ~
What's In Q name? The Right Rev.
Bishop Of Bradford, whose plain speak
ing about King Edwards lack OF re-
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death of President Harding. and later
was elected President to succeed him.
self, turned his back also on third
term" He issued his famous IT do not
choose to run" statement in the Summer
preceding the national campaign Of
1928, although many of his admirers
were pressing him to enter the lists
again.
Dissatisfied with the administration of
the man Of his own choice for President,
the late Chief Justice William Howard
Taft, Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 sought
another term in the White House. It
was not, Of course, a third consecutive
term as President. What would have
happened had Theodore Roosevelt re-
ceived the Republican nomination for
President in that year can only be a
matter of conjecture. He might have
defeated Woodrow Wilson. although the
tide was running strongly against the
Republican party in that year. And
had the earlier Roosevelt lived until the
Republican National Convention in 1920,
he would have had strong backing for
the Republican presidential nomination
at that time.
Viewed in retrospect, Calvin Coolidge
showed his shrewdness when he took
himself out of the race for President
in 1928. He had served through one
complete term and the greater part OF
another. The United States Of his day
had reached the heights of prosperity.
Had he been President in 1929 he could
not have averted the crash which came,
or the depression that followed. For
his own place in history and his own
peace of mind, he was well out of it.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt has
served through nearly four tough years.
He has before him four years in which
to round out the program and the policies
for which he has fought. All signs point
to four years of increasing prosperity in
this country. Four such years should
be enough for any President. And if his
administration be successful, the Presi-
dent may well retire to Hyde Park and
have "the time of his life"
Friends and supporters of the Presi-
dent may three years hence begin drive
to re-elect him, believing that his con-
tinuance in Office will be a good thing
for the country That the President will
yield to their demands, however, seems
take the stand that two four-year terms
as Chief Executive is sufficient and that
the precedent established by Washing
ton should stand.
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Change in the Country Store.

Change in the Country Store.
think upon the days of yore
When in the good old country store
The words of wisdom we would hear
With now and then song of cheer,
A touch of hunger no one knew,
For we had cheese and crackers, too,
But that was several years ago
Before they got a radio.
We give attention most profound
AS words of wiser men resound.
Our gift of eloquence and song
And now put back where they belong.
While men accounted truly great
Instruct the people of the state.
We simply keep the fire aglow
And listen to the radio.
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to cement the ties among the 81 Amer
icas in variety of ways outside the
scope of official relations, but which
require no less skill, tact and diplomacy.
One of the main items on the confer
ence agenda in Argentina is intellectual
cooperation" In that field the Pam
American Union, under DR.. Roweis in
dustrious leadership, is restlessly active.
The notable series of Latin American
concerts held during the past two or
three years has been q recognized friend
ship-building factor.
tCopyright 1857
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aculons with other birds and say that
they are quiet.
There is one female which comes to q
feeder placed on q stake about feet
high. At this time of the year the SPAR
row population departs the feeding
scene about 4 o'clock. Not until the
sparrows have left does this particular
cardinal arrive. Then she appears. al
most as If by magic, in the tray of the
feeder.
There she partakes of sunfiower seed
for half an hour or more, all by herself,
turning her head from time to time to
drop overheard the outer covering of
the seed.
She is a very fine specimen, with soft
gray browns mingling with subdued pas
tel reds, with just hint of green here
and there
Her bill is exquisite, and her entire
aspect is more kindly than that of her
more brilliant mate, mostly to her lack
of the black ruff aforementioned.
She reminds one of q sedate grand
mother, neatly done up in Paisley shawl
and cap.
Our correspondent says that along
with the dozen cardinals were few nut
matches and a titmouse and some Eng
lish sparrows. but they are good friends
with the other birds
The titmouse is one of the finest OF all
the birds which Winter hereabouts. 1t
is most often seen with its friend, the
chickadee
These two small creatures are the de-
1iuht of the diScripipa TING bird Watcher
and he or she will be repaid for the
sharp outlook necessary to spot them
among the sparrows.
These are among the aristocrats of the
better birds. 1t is a curious thing, how
birds, in a sense, emulate mankind.
There is distinctly nothing snobbish
about this, certainly not among the birds,
and in no sense among their watchers.
We find the English sparrows make up
the mass of the bird people. They are
hustling, bustling fellows, pushing and
showing each other out Of the way, each
trying to get the good things OF life and
not minding bit stepping on anothers S
toes
The titmice, nuthatches, chickadees.
cardinals especially the females, be-
long to the bird aristocracy. They seem
10 nave HlOIc DdChSlO OOllO- AA1cS w INV
rush at food. but approach more daintily.
They actually appear to be better bred.
They do not seem to scatter their food
around, to eat so fast, or to be in SO
great hurry about it.
They do not. in other words, gobble.
It is a toss-up which is the favorite
bird of most watchers. the chickadee or
the crested titmouse.
They are much alike, especially in
habits.
We speak up for the chickadee. Now
there is bird for you!
1t is supposed to cry "chickadee-dee, ="
but the listener must use his imagina-
ton 1t does utter, however, four dis
tinct notes. with the pause as indicated
by the dash in "chickadee-dee."
Just what it is which makes watcher
admire one fine bird more than another
is almost as much of a mystery as a
similar preference for one human over
another.
1t must be matter of character plus
appearance. Birds have character, there
can be no doubt of that. not only OF their
species. but also differing from each
other.
The discovery of these differences.
bird from bird, is one of the higher
reaches of bird observation as it is prac-
ticed in the back yard. aided by feed
ing station well stocked with seeds and
Grains
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Approaching an Agreement.

"I have forgotten more about states
manship than you ever knew" said
the rude visitor.
II don't know how much you knew
in the first place." answered Senator
Sorghum, "but there is no doubt in my
mind about your having forgotten it,"
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Lawyers are referred to by Attorney
General Cummings as servants of So
ciety." There will always be enough rigid
politicians among them to keep the Office
typists tuning up on now is the time for
all good men to come to the aid of the
party"
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A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
The Wastrel.

He w dStTcls
A good for nothing prodigal,
A vagabond, rover,
Who chose, instead of dignity.
To trail the whole world over.
His father stormed, his mother wept.
Yet from each Steadfast mooring
He sailed away with each new tide
To find scenes more alluring.
Somewhere bright eye caught his own,
And in the port he tarried;
Then, as the idea novel seemed,
He stayed along, and married.
Now he is rising in the world.
When wanderlust enfolds him
He toSSes high his little son
And laughs, because he holds him.
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English radiocasters have defined a
social crisis which is not to reveal any
body as conspicuously eligible to the
Nobel peace prize.
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utopia" has been frequently men,
toned. The only thing positively ascer-
tanned about it is that there never was
any such place.
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Restored to Circulation.

Restored to Circulation.
They put shiny dollar in
A little "bank" made out of tin.
A cautious boy, I let 1t stay
And there it. rests until this day!
It hasn't bought a single thing;
No pleasure has it helped to bring.
I'll send it, with no more delay,
To function in its proper way.
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Perfect Traffic Rules.

Perfect Traffic Rules.
In heaven, where streets are paved with
gold,
He who its glory gains
May find new traffic rules, we're told,
OF which no one complains.
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Jud Tunkins says he never yet knew
a man who felt like Dragging about his
wealth when it came to reporting his
income tax.