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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-26

may be a narrow bridge ahead and
the warning sign may have been
knocked down in some manner.
Many things can happen to the
motorist who speeds along over a
strange highway.
It Is always safest to drive care
fully, even on familiar roads. It
is absolutely necessary to drive
carefully on strange roads The
motorist who fails or refuses to
follow this rule is counting dis
aster. Always. if you do not know
the highway you are travelling,
be able to stop within a short dis
lance. Don't allow sharp We
or q narrow bridge to come flying
towards you.
Drive Carefully-save a Life!
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-26

1836-Elihu Vedder, American
painter and modeler, who resided in
Rome most of his adult life, born in
New York City. Died Jan. 20, 1923.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
RESIDENCE REMODELED

Old Alexandria Building to Have
Four Apartments.
An old brick residence at Hills
North Fairfax street, Alexandria,
Evening star., 1936-09-26
HOUSING SESSION
SET FOR MONDAY
Lumber Men Sponsor Meet.
ing to Discuss Low.
Cost Building.

An invitation meeting to discuss
low-cost housing will be held at 10
am. Monday in the United States
Chamber Of Commerce Building, un-
der sponsorship of the National Lum-
Der Manufacturers Association. Gov
ernment officials and housing authori-
ties will take prominent part in
the program. The association has
just completed three low-cost houses
on Cedar lane, Bethesda.
During the meeting a complete
analysis will be made of all of the
problems which were encountered in
constructing these homes in this area
within the price specified by the Fed
eral Housing Administration. There
will be a discussion also of materials
used and methods followed. Oficials
of banks. building and loan associa-
tions, the lumber industry, contractors
and city officials have been invited
to hear the following program: In
PRODUCTION, by Wilson Compton, Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers Asso-
ciation; Market for Housing" Bruce
A. Wilson, director. Division OF Edu-
cation, F. H. A.: principles of Plan
ming Low-Priced Homes" Howard Le-
Land Smith, chief architect, F. H. A.;
developing Subdivisions for Low
Priced Homes" Seward A. Mott, chief,
land-planning section, Technical d.
vision, F. H. A.: Practical Demon
stration of Low-Priced House Con-
struction," r. G. Kimbell. director,
technical service. and c. r. French,
merchandising service, National Lum-
Der Manufacturers Association.
Following the morning meeting, Of
flcials will visit the demonstration
houses. THE information which will
Evening star., 1936-09-26

be obtained at this meeting will hs
Of wide interest to builders, sub.
division developers and mortgage
lending institutions" j. Reilly Stan.
ton, director Of the District office of
the Federal Housing Administration.
said today.
"The home-buying public locally
has displayed . great deal Of interest
in the house that can be purchased by
the family with . modest income.
Heretofore it has been almsot i'm
possible to obtain q livable house In
a well-planned community at the fig-
ure which the National Lumber Man.
ufacturers' Association has now shown
possible.
MY ONCE will have men available
on the premises on the day OF the
opening, to fully assist any interested
persons and to explain to builders
how they may avail themselves Of the
opportunity to produce such houses. I"
Evening star., 1936-09-26

husband and her mother. She's plan
ming another like 1t, only larger.
Tom Brown is building two houses
one for himself and one for his par
ents. Chester Morris, moving to his
rancho few miles out, is erecting
stables on his new estate. He'll be a
neighbor of those other country gen.
tlemen-Spencer Tracy, AL Jolson,
Edward Everett Horton and Hugh
Herbert.
Robert Taylor is completing his
bachelor house, a place high in the
hills. He'll move in soon-alone, he
says. Fred MacMurray just bought a
lot, near Gary Cooper's. and will build.
Suppose it would be cheaper to
build a nursery right into it now"
said Fred, significantly, the other day.
II have another house, too," re-
ported Glenda Farrell. But I'm not
living in it. Nope, not an investment,
either. Another Farrell moved in.
have several houses. Farrells in them
all, too. How many Farrells there are.
you'll never even suspect"
Evening star., 1936-09-26
Film Capital Realty Booms
As Stars Build Dream Homes

fencing and landscaping came to an
additional $4,000. Jane liked the
house because it's on knoll over
looking the practice field of the Uni
versity Of California at Los Angeles.
Dick Powell traded his bachelor
mansion-said to have set him back
s45 ,000-for more formal. family
type Of place in Beverly Hills. His
and Joan Blondell's effects will be
moved into it while they are honey
incoming. Speaking of trades. Victor
Moore traded his Long Island home
for one here.
Claudette Colbert is looking for a
buyer for her recently-completed
mansion. which cost in the neighbor-
hood Of $4,000 (nice neighborhood q.
1t isn't big enough for herself, her
Evening star., 1936-09-26
HOUS|NCSHORTAGE
GRIPS WASHINGTON
No Residences Available at
Reasonable Rentals.
: Apartments Few.

Although national moving day-Oc-
tober docs not carry as much sig
nificance in Washington as it once
did, because some apartment owners
have substituted monthly rental agree
ments for the customary yearly lease,
and the leases remaining are staggered
as to expiration dates, the day this
year will find the same serious short
age of apartments and houses which
has existed here in the past two years.
An authority places the number OF
vacant residential units at less than
3 per cent of the total number in
the city. He stated that there are
Q few more apartments available now
than were vacant last year, but most
of these are classified as more or
less undesirable There are virtually
no houses to be had at reasonable
Sentak.
This situation is a good illustration
Of the large growth Of the city IN the
last year. Despite the fact that 1000
one-family dwellings have been erect
ed. most Of which have been sold,
and 5000 new apartment units pro-
vided In the District alone, there re-
mains an acute shortage. In adjacent
Virginia and Maryland $500 one-fam-
lily houses have been erected. as well
as a number of apartments. A large
part Of the Colonial Village develop
ment near Clarendon, Va, containing
nearly 800 apartments. has been COM
pleted and occupied within the past
year.
One large rental firm which has
over 5000 apartment units under its
management reported less than a
dozen vacancies. Another huge man
egement firm which operates IA build
lngs stated it had very few vacant
units"
James Med. Shea. manager OF Bliss
Properties, Inc. reported 20 vacancies
among 800 units under his manage
ment. He stated there have been
very few rent increases In recent
months, and these in isolated cases.
In some instances where apartments
are vacated the rents are raised for
new tenants.
The firm of L. E. Breuninger d
Sons, with $50 apartments under its
management, reported no vacancies
in its older buildings. There were
few vacancies in a new building they
have recently opened at Third and
Hamilton streets.
Among the older apartments 1t
handles, the VIM. H. Saunders Co.
reported three vacancies. In build
ing under construction, although
clustering work has not been COM
pleted, 9 Of Is units are rented.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
BRITON WILL DIRECT
TOWN PLANNING STUDIO
Sir Raymond Unwin, Housing
Authority, Awarded Post
at Columbia.

Sir Raymond Unwin of London, in
ternational authority on housing, has
been appointed director OF the town
planning studio of the Columbia Uni
Versity School Of Architecture. 1t Is
announced by Dean Leopold Arnaud.
Sir Raymond. former president OF
the Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects and Of the International Fedora
ton for Housing and Town Planning,
succeeds Henry Wright. founder OF
the studio, who died on July 8. He
will be assisted by Carl Feiss, now
associated with the Cleveland plan
for slum clearance, and by a staff OF
special lecturers.
During the academic year 1867
he will have charge Of studies in town
planning and housing under q grant
from the Carnegie Corp. Housing de-
velopment in the smaller communities
adjacent to New York City will be the
principal activity of the studio, Dean
Arnaud said. Bergen County, N. j..
will be among the regions in which
replanning will be carried on.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. September
26.-September real estate bulletin:
Most renting Hollywoodites have de-
cided this is the time to buy or build
and. as consequence. the last few
weeks have seen unequalled real es-
tate activity. 1t borders on a boom.
Both Shirley Temple and her FAM
lily and Jane Withers and her par
ents have moved into new houses. The
Temple house is modest French
Colonial Of nine rooms. situated in
the middle of two well-fenced acres
1t is said to have made a $35, 900 dent
in the Temple savings.
James house is 10-room early
California type place that cost $685.
600. The adjoining lots, furnishings,
Evening star., 1936-09-26

erected 140 years ago. Is being remod-
eled into apartments. 1t was stated
today.
The old home, built In 1895, was
q part Of the historic Ramsey estate
and adjoined the John Carlyle prop
Evening star., 1936-09-26

erty. 1t is four stories in height and
is being made over into four modern
apartments. The original doors, fire.
places and mantles will be retained.
The reconstruction work Is being com.
pleted by John F. Garrett g. Co.
Evening star., 1936-02-02

A PAINTING, Interior with Figure" !"
BY Burtis Baker, has been pur-
chased by the Corcoran Gallery OF
Art and placed on view with its per-
manent collection. To this painting,
when shown in the Corcoran Gallery
of Arts Biennial Exhibition Of Con-
temporary American Paintings in 1921.
the second w. A. Clark prize OF $500
and the Corcoran silver medal were
given. That was nearly IS years ago,
but this painting has lost nothing in
unerit through the passage OF time.
Evening star., 1936-02-02

Y you may not recall it now, but
" back in the Fall of 1895
safety campaign" was
launched tn DISCOURAGE fast
Evening star., 1936-02-02

GIVE TRACE OF UNKNOWN ART
Freer Gallery Acques Rare Work Which Has No PARALLEL Sc
Far as Known to Art Realm Prize Winning Piece Pur
chased by Corcoran Philadelphia Collection.

/ American primitive" with bouquets
of flowers scattered over landscape
rendered in childish simplicity. But
in the entire collection, from be-
ginning to end, there is not one work
which shows exceptional capability in
brushwork, or, according to standard
long accepted, one particle Of beauty.
This is due not only to choice of
subject matter but to manner OF pres
entation. Rembrandt painted a
slaughter OK and made a masterpiece
of his painting. More often than not
the offense is in the way the subject
is painted. Pigs and hogs are not
necessarily unsightly, but the paint
ings and drawings of such in this
exhibition are not works to dwell upon
pleasurably. And why memorialize
hogs now that the A. A. A. has been
declared by the Supreme Court un-
constitutional?
It is said. and some seem to be-
lieve. that beauty has no reality. but
is instead matter of personal liking
or taste. What generations have
agreed to admire has, in the long
run, been accepted as the unit of
measure according to which certain
standards have been fixed. Obviously,
if one prefers ugliness to beauty and
can afford to have it, it is a personal
matter and none need make COM
plant, but If public museums take to
| throwing uglineSS In our faces and
calling it art, then we have a right
to object. Cezanne painted ugly pic
| lures, but he was striving for some
thing fine and he was agonizingly
conscious of his failure. This is not
the case of many of our young artists
today. They seem to think that by
initiating his shortcomings they will
attain to his greatest, which is alb
surd-they never will.
For incalcuable ages, art has been
associated with beauty, and the only
art which has survived is the art of
competence. There is nothing di-
verting about sloppy painting-it
merely makes inherent ugliness uglier
and more unbearable. It is the pub
lie and public institutions. however,
that are to blame, not the artists. II
We put a premium on bad art by
praising and exhibiting it, We cannot
complain if this is the kind we get
to the extent of surfeit.
AN EXHIBITION of etchings by
Levon West opens in the Smith
sonian Building under the auspices
of the Division of Graphic Arts,
United States National Museum, to-
morrow. AS Mr.. West Is among our
foremost American etchers, this
should prove an event of exceptional
interest. None has had more in
teresting and in a measure romantic
career than he. Born in Centerville.
N. Oak, in 1900, the son of Con-
gregational minister, he began to draw
at very early age. A note in his
mothers diary when he was 2 years
old records the fact that he was try
ing to draw pictures. AS soon as he
was old enough to make it seem
worth while. his father got reproduc-
tions of etchings by Rembrandt. Van
Dyck and other masters for him to
copy. According to modern theories,
this should have killed his originality.
but it did not; to the contrary, it
gave him a high standard and spurred
Evening star., 1936-02-02
BULLETIN OF EXHIBITIONS.


Corcoran Gallery Of Art
Permanent collections. Society of
Washington Artists Exhibition.
Bookbinding today. Drawings by
Thornton Oakley. Closing Feb
ruary 3.
National Geographic Society
Exhibition of sculpture. "The
Races Of Mankind" by Malvina
Hoffman.
National Gallery of Art, Ma
tional Museum-Gellatly. john
son and Evans collections, and
Herbert Ward. African sculptures.
Smithsonian Building-Exhibi-
ton of etchings by Levon West.
Freer Gallery of Art-Chinese
paintings, Oriental art objects;
paintings, drawings. etchings 'y
Whistler and paintings by other
American artists. Two bronze
tigers, Chou Dynasty, recently
acquired.
Phillips Memorial Gallery
Permanent collection of paintings
by old and modern masters.
Studio House-Exhibition OF
paintings, drawings and prints by
artists of Philadelphia.
D. C. League of American Pen
Women-Exhibitio of paintings
by Sara Pryor Dodge.
Textile Museum of the District
of Columbia-Rare and beautiful
textiles, rugs and embroideries.
chiefly of the East.
Arts Club of Washington-Lith-
ographs and drawings Of Gaspe
by D. Putnam Brinley and paint
ings and pastels by Alexander
Clayton.
Library of Congress-Recent
accessions. Pencil Autographs and
original illustrations by Stanley
Reinhart, w. A. Rogers and
others.
Public Library, main building
Water colors by Hugh Collins.
Southeastern Branch Library
Exhibition of water colors by
Washington artists.
Northeastern Branch Library
Exhibition Washington Land
scape Club
Dumbarton House-Historical
exhibit of art in ladies' dress be-
fore 1880.
International House. Y. w. c.
A., GA E street northwest-Ex-
hibition of paintings by members
of the Landscape Club and the
Twenty Women Painters.
Art gallery. Howard Univer-
sity-Exhibition Cambodian and
Siamese sculpture, Javanese pup
pets and masks.
Evening star., 1936-02-02

Photographers Pursued Him
as He Pursued His
Casual Way.

''If you had an automobile the
spokesman argued desperately, you
could go anywhere. anytime Distance
wouldn't mean a thing. Why, with a
good fast car you could have breakfast
here and lunch in Los Angeles"
But" Adelbert protested plaintive-
ly. Il don't want lunch in Los Angeles"
So the Citizens Committee gave Mr.
Quaggmeyer up as hopeless, and for
many days thereafter he was a social
outcast in Swapping Garter. But his
refusal to conform to local standards
brought him Statewide notoriety; and
as the news of his obstinacy spread,
popular sentiment changed The
Chamber of Commerce began to feel a
certain pride in the fact that Swapping
Garter was not 100 per cent motorized.
In that high-pressure era. it was a
unique distinction. Mr.. Quaggmeyer'
neighbors looked at him with new re-
spect. He had resisted all the blandish-
ments of speed, science and sales
manship; he had breasted the tide of
public opinion; and they admired him.
When national weekly magazine
published an interview with him as an
interesting personality, his reputation
was assured Fasteners travelling to
the Coast went out of their way to
catch a glimpse of Adelbert Quagg-
meyer. He was photographed oftener
than any one else in the country, with
the possible exception of that grand
cid character actress, Shirley Temple.
Business in Swapping Garter doomed
with the tourist trade. Mr.. Quagg-
meyer received an offer of $4,000 to
appear for two weeks at the 181st
Street Theater. which was then the
center of night life in lower Man
haitian. But he heroically declined 1t.
IN 1882, on the occasion of his
SEVENTEEN birthday anniversary,
Mrs. Llewellyn Finkelstein, wife of the
President of tine United States, paid
him personal visit, and he was the
recipient of congratulatory cablegrams
from King Patrick I Of England,
President Braunschweiger Of France,
Premier Selassie II of Italy and
Emperor Odsbludsky of Japan.
BY persistently refusing to ride in
vehicles of any sort. Adelbert Quagg-
meyer attained the phenomenal age OF
1903; but long before his death, his
home had become a national shrine.
He passed away peacefully in his
sleep on March 19, 2015. In difference
of his last wishes, no hearse was used
at the funeral. His neighbors, as
pallbearers, carried his coffin to the
cemetery on foot. 1t was an arduous
task, for many of them had not walked
more than half block since early
childhood: but they were glad to do IT.
And today the most conspicuous
object in the little cemetery at Snap
ping Garter is a large bronze plaque
bearing the legend: I'm Memory OF
Adelbert Quaggmeyer-who Demon
strated the Power of Mind over Motor.
It is mounted on revolving tomb
stone so you can read it as you
whizz by.
Evening star., 1936-02-02

began earning money by painting
farm houses and barns in the neigh
borhood of Centerville. Then he did
billboards and signs, some carpenter
ing. a bit of harvesting. After
graduating from the local high school.
he won scholarship at the University
of Minnesota, and. strangely enough,
majored in economies and business
administration. He was on his way
to the Harvard Business School, af er
graduation in Minnesota. when ne
stopped in New York, visited the Art
Students League, fell in with Joseph
Pennell, who was teaching etching
there at that time, and determined
to cast everything else to the winds
and become an etcher.
Under Pennell he not only learned
the rudiments of the art but acquired
assurance and vision of its poten-
tialities. In less than four years. West
became an accomplished etcher with
over 100 plates to his credit and some
editions sold out. During this time
he went to Spain to collaborate with
an author for whose book he was to
make illustrations and there met
Zuloaga, from whom he learned more
Evening star., 1936-02-02

California, the first monorail train
completed q coast-to-coast run IN 81
hours. It was a gyroscopic nlonorall
train propelled by rockets-tne feature
editors dream come-true.
Although the daily casualty list
heightened ominously, 1t did not
dampen the American enthusiasm for
moving sitting down. People Travelled
for the sake of travelling. They did
not even look at the scenery. Gas a
matter of fact, scenery had been pretty
thoroughly exterminated by this time.
All cities and towns were built on the
unit system of the Civic Standardiza-
tion Bureau, so that they looked alike,
and the intervening countryside was
effectively screened by solid rows OF
billboards.) Their eyes were fixed on
the speedometer-the wavering needle
that told them whether or not they
would improve upon yesterdays mile
age.
ON MAY 4, 1856, DR.. Alexis Mayhem
" marked a new epoch in the annals
of surgery by performing the first au-
tomobile appendectomy. Using local
anesthetic, he removed the appendix
of a man who was driving from Toledo,
Ohio, to Gary. Ind. The patient never
took his hands from the steering
wheel. and maintained an average
speed of IS miles per hour throughout
the operation.
Everybody was on the go; everybody,
that is, except Adelbert Quaggmeyer
of Swapping Garter, New. The folks
in Swapping Garter had always known
that Mr.. Quaggmeyer was a bit &C.
centric. He was q modest, middle
aged bachelor. conventional In ap-
pearance, and In no sense . publicity
Evening star., 1936-02-02
SIoWest Man in Dizzy Era
Became Great Subject
of Feature Writers.
Bv Weare HOlbr0Ok.

Y you may not recall it now, but
" back in the Fall of 1885 a
safety campaign" was
L launched to discourage fast
driving. 1t received its impetus from
a magazine article which described
typical automobile accidents in all
their CORY details. The article was
widely reprinted; insurance companies
sent copies of it to their clients;
MAGISTRATES read it to offenders in
Traffic Court.
Following in its wake came the
cameramen. News reels and roto-
gravure sections were filled with on
the-spot pictures of mangled motor
cars and the tabloids specialized in
roadside snapshots # the PROSTATE
passengers. Automobile manufacturers
stressed safety rather than speed in
their advertisements Morbid minded
statisticians announced that more
Americans were killed in year of
motoring than in all the years of the
World War. The public as a whole
got a good healthy scare.
But no crusade can last forever,
and in the Summer of 1886 the
old spirit of recklessness showed symp-
toms of reviving. Soon the highways
were once more blurred with speeding
cars and the emergency wards were
crowded with luckless drivers who had
proved certain elementary theories of
physics by personal demonstration.
An ambitious automobile manufac-
turer brought out low-priced car
that was guaranteed to do SO miles
an hour before turning over. The
railroads with their streamlined loco
motives shaved whole days from their
schedules and gave the automobile a
run for its money-beating it to the
crossing by fraction of a second.
MEANWHILE new records for speed
~ and endurance were being made
in the air. On April 18, 1889, Lieut..
Julius Peregrine flew from New York
to Chicago at an average speed OF
402 miles per hour-a new world
record. Immediately thereafter a
free-lance news photographer named
Tedrick few back to New York with
pictures of Lieut.. Peregrine's tri-
umphal arrival in Chicago. But
when he reached New York he found
that the papers were not interested In
his pictures Of Lieut.. Peregrine. They
wanted pictures of Tedrick himself,
for he made his trip at an average
speed of 407 miles per hour-a new
world record.
A few weeks later little Lavinia
Inkslip, an 18-year- r-old schoolgirl pilot,
made q trip from Tulsa, Okla, to
Kansas City in SIS minutes, flying
upside down. It was the first time
1t had ever been done that way. In
recognition of her achievement plane
manufacturers produced misses,
size monoplane which was capable OF
going 1s5 miles an hour In any dl-
rection.
In 194e, just 100 years after the
covered wagons made their trek so