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Evening star., 1936-04-05
DELAYPET|T|0NED
ON RAIL FARE CUT.
Lines Seek to Try Out rs
Cents Charge for 18.
Month Period.

Eastern railroads opposed to the pas
senger fare cut ordered by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission February
% yesterday applied to the commission
for an 18-month postponement of
the effective date of the 2-cent coach
fare due to be applied June O.
The roads asked instead that during
the l8 months ascent fare be tried
to determine whether this would yield
sufficient revenue.
Ten days will be allowed by the
commission for answers to the applica-
ton. At the end of that time the
body will meet to consider the matter.
Four Roads Silent.
The roads not joining in the apphca-
ton are the Baltimore & Ohio, the
Philadelphia & Reading. the Central
of New Jersey and the Western Mary
land.
The application was joined in by
the Pennsylvania, the New York Cen
trail, the New York, New Haven g.
Hartford, the Boston g. Maine, the
Delaware. Lackawana & Western, the
Lehigh Valley ana the Long Island.
The proteS1ntS, however, agreed to
the 3-cent maximum on Pullrcan fares
and abandonment q the Pullman so
per CO., Surcharge ordered in the
commission ruling of February %. The
present train fare is 36 cents per mile
whether coach or Pullman is used.
AS soon as the decision was handed
down sharp protests came from Presi-
dents Clements of the Pennsylvania
and Palmer OF the New Haven.
Clements said the cut would have a
serious effect on our revenues" and
Palmer declared his road would suffer
excessively because it relied more, on
passenger business than any road in
the country.
The force Of the ruling was not
felt by Southern and Western lines.
which adopted the lower fares several
years ago.
The 2-cent decision was written by
Commissioner Claude r. Porter after
a long discussion of a report made
last July by Examiner Irving L. Koch.
In the dissenting opinion. Commits
sioner B. H. Meyer said the present
volume of traffic would not yield in
creased revenues under the new rates.
The rate basis displaced by the Feb
ruary % finding was set up in 1920.
AS soon as the order was promul-
gated there were rumors the Eastern
roads opposed would 60 to court to
prevent the change.
Evening star., 1936-04-05
WADSWORTH HITS
FARMING CONTROL
Agriculture Like Balloon,
New Yorker Tells G. 0. P.
in Missouri.
BY the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, April 4-Representa-
tive James w. Wadsworth, Repub-
lican, of New York tonight visualized
agriculture as an inflated toy bal
loon to illustrate his contention that
attempts ito control the production
of the soil by artificial means" will
fail.
The surface of the balloon" he
said, in an address before the John
Marshal Republican Club, "is marked
out and divided into number of
areas, each labeled with the name
of a certain crop.
"Along comes professor and says
We have too much cotton, and he
takes his thumb and presses in
ward on that portion of the surface
labeled cotton He makes dent in
1t and sighs with satisfaction.
Strange to say. the balloon bulges
out at another point on its surface
labeled, We will say, tobacco So the
professor takes his other thumb and
pushes in at that point. He makes
another dent
More Indentations; More Swelling.
The two indentations result in
an extension of the balloon at the
point marked potatoes This is dis
concerting. but it must be stopped:
so he summons another professor
and gets him to push his thumb in
at the potato point. Each indenta-
ton produces another swelling. 1t
may be cabbages or fruit or onions.
Who can tell?
whatever it is, it is inevitable
that once you start such process
and are determined to adhere to it,
you must follow it to the bitter end,
al which point the pressures on the
balloon, each of them representing
an employment of force, become so
numerous that finally the balloon
bursts.
1T may take years. but we will
learn the lesson eventually. In the
meantime, it will cost billions of the
taxpayers money"
WadSworth asserted that compul-
eory enforcement OF its pollcles-"the
way of Hitler and Mussolini at
the heart of the Roosevelt administra-
.tion.
Outlawed N. R. A., invalidated A. A.
A., the soil conservation act and the
pending Walsh bill which prescribes
codes for bidders on Government con-
tracts we're enumerated by the Repre-
sentative as examples of what he
termed the element of force" in the
New Deal.
obedience Is Demanded"
"Obviously," he declared, IF the
Government is to plan the way in
which people are to earn their living
it cannot permit any individual or
group of people to deviate from the
path marked out for them lest the
whole plan of government break down
To save the plan obedience is de-
manded and if obedience is lacking
then force must be employed ="
That, he continued, lis the road
along which the American people are
travelling today. Whether we think
1t wise or uuwise to pursue such a
course, it must be conceded that it is
not the American way, that it closely
parallels the modern European way
the way of Hitler and Mussolini.'
Evening star., 1936-04-05

tute for Mental Hygiene at 1464 Co
lumbia road. DR.. Paul j. Ewerhardt
and his staff, with members of the
board of the institution, acted as hosts
and hostesses.
The Child Guidance Clinic and the
Life Adjustment Center, both parts Of
the institute, are housed in the new
quarters, which were obtained rent free
Evening star., 1936-04-05
MISTAKE ON MAYOR

CHICAGO P.-Democratic Mayor
Edward J. Kelly, headed for a Demo-
cratic political rally at Loop hotel,
kept cool when he wandered by mis-
take into the wrong room-and a
Republican rally. Seeing he was recog-
nized, he walked to the speakers stand
and announced:
IF had to die now, this would
be as good :. place as any. 1t would be
the last place the devil would look
for me-"
Evening star., 1936-04-05
Medicine Dropper
Baby Attains Four,
Tips Scales at 38
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April A.
Blue-eyed Charles Bernard st.
John--KanSas City's "1-pound"
baby of l932-threw SO vigorous
pounds today into his 4th BIRTH
day celebration, emerging with
cake frosting on his new suit.
He paused a little reluctantly
for the photographer and told
adults who crashed his party:
Il like birthdays"
Blond Charles spent his first
three months in an incubator
and was fed with a medicine
dropper. 1t was not until he
was 6 months old that he ap-
preached normally" said his
mother, Mrs. William E. st. John.
Evening star., 1936-04-05
NEW QUARTERS OPENED

Mental Hygiene Institute Cere-
mony Attended by 800.
Approximately 300 guests attended
the official opening Friday of the new
| headquarters Of the Washington Insti-
Evening star., 1936-04-05
Homes Meeting DELAYED.

The annual meeting of the Jewish
Foster Home, scheduled for next We'd
nesday, has been postponed because of
a conflict in dates with another meet
ing, according to an announcement
by Herbert j. Rich, secretary.
Evening star., 1936-04-05

canton-London Line Opened.
The first plane to arrive at Croydon,
England, In the new Canton-London
airmail service few the 10000 miles in
IL days.
Evening star., 1936-04-05

for three years through the help OF
Mrs. Milton King.
Evening star., 1936-04-05
Milk Consumption High.

Nearly 26.00o,000 gallons Of milk
were consumed by children at schools
of England last year.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
Earnings
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Continued From First Page)
or ONCE space only to per cent Of
cities show any lower rate.
No city of over 100000 population
shows rents down for either central
or outlying business property.
Market for home sites is more active
than a year ago in 80 per cent OF
cities over 100000 population; at about
last years level in 10 per cent of these
cities. Not one reports a less active
market. For the country as a whole
the market in vacant subdivision lots
is more active than last year in 46 per
cent of cities reporting; about on last
years level in Al per cent Of the cities.
How general is the completely
changed condition in real estate money
supply is shown by the fact that 81 per
cent of cities now report capital seek
ing real estate mortgage investment,
whereas in only 21 per cent Of cities
are mortgage loans seeking capital.
Well over a majority Of cities In every
geographical section show capital seek
ing loans and under S per cent Of
cities of over 100. 900 population show
loans seeking capital.
Capital Seeks Investment.
The largest cities still have the most
general capital supply. In 81 per cent
of them capital is seeking investment,
whereas in none Of them are loans
seeking capital.
More than 90 per cent of cities in
every population group above the 100,-
900 mark show capital seeking mort
gage loans rather than loans seeking
capital.
Interest rates are falling in Al per
cent of the 275 cities; are steady in so
per cent Of the cities; are rising in
only per cent Of the cities. More
geographical variation is shown here
than is shown by any other market
factor measured in the survey. For
example, in the East South Central
section 100 per cent of cities show fall
ing rates as against "a per cent of
Middle Atlantic cities, 81 per cent of
cities in the Mountain section and AZ
per cent of Pacific section cities so re-
porting. A very dominant proportion
Of cities above the 100000 population
rank show rates going down. Not ons
reports rates going up.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
Home MOdernizatiOn
New Lamp Is Designed to Protect Eyes Under Any
Strain-Light Is Reflected Up to Ceiling
as Well as Directly on Work.

the clock-operated control and forget
about 1t until the time comes to serve
dinner.
Waxed floors can be kept in per-
feet condition with electric waxing
and polishing machines with almost
no effort, and there are miniature
vacuum cleaners which take the dust
out of upholstery and mattresses,
clean walls and can even be used to
keep your car in a tidy and ship
shape condition.
An electric garbage dispenser is
now on the market which eliminates
your having 70 bother with anything
but glass and metal containers. A
small motor drives a grinding and
chopping mechanism and all waste
food is quickly disposed of by simply
placing it In this device and turning
on the water to flush the refuse down
the drain.
Dishes wash and dry themselves in
the new dish washers, which perform
one of the most disagreeable of all
household tasks. Not only do they dc
all the work, but they eliminate q great
deal of the wear and tear on the
dishes themselves.
The 'house of the future" is here
today. If we take advantage OF these
manifold work eliminators, and the
job of being a kitchen mechanic is
rapidly losing a great deal of its un-
pleaSantneSS.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
II ARCHITECTS VIE
FOR MILLER PRIZES
Planners Draft Details for Five
Ideas in my Home
Competition"

Eleven architects are competing in
the My Home Competition" Of W. C.
g. A. N. Miller, builders. for the honor
of drawing up complete plans and
specifications for the five home ideas
that were selected by the judges from
hundreds entered in the contest.
The architects must have their in
terpretations of the original ideas be-
fore the judges by February II. Irwin
S. Porter, architectural adviser for
the contest, stated that four Of the
plans each have two architects work.
ing on them, while there are three
architects on the fifth plan. The
judges will meet in slightly more than
q week and select the best interpre-
tation of each of the five plans. Then
exact scale models will be made Of
the houses and these placed in win
dow at Woodward & Lothrop's, where
the public will vote on them and
name the winning house.
The person who submitted the idea
for the house that finally wins the
contest will receive s100, while the
architect who draws complete plans
for the place will receive the GUS
tomary per cent architects fee.
The architects who draw the plans
for the four other houses placed
in the store window will receive half
fees.
Contest judges met several weeks
ago, when the competition closed, and
selected the five best home ideas from
the hundreds entered in the contest
by the public. Judges are A. B. Heaton.
prominent architect; Commissioner
Hazen and F. Eliot Middleton, presi-
dent of the Washington Real Estate
Board.
Architects in the contest for COM
plete plans are: Upman & Adams,
Philip Schrier, Michael Patterson,
Russell o. Kluge, Donald S. Johnson,
Leon Chateain, William Douden,
Maurice May, H. P. Baxter, Carroll
Meigs and ]. E. Biberstein.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
CAPITAL LEADS
IN HOME REPAIR
Home Owners Handbook
Circulation Figures In
dicate Status.

Washington residents are taking
more interest in home repair and
building than are those in the great
majority of American cities. This Is
Indicated by an analysis of circulation
igures for the recently published
Home Owners Handbook, gathered
from more than 80 representative
American cities and made public to-
day by c. B. Smith, its editor.
Because the Home owners Hand
book is the first comprehensive guide
20 home repair and building problems
at a price within the means OF all,
circulation figures which we have
gathered from all parts of the country
offer an interesting index to current
public interest in home repair, remod-
cling or construction in a given COM
munity," said Mr.. Smith.
Washington ranked high among the
81 cities covered by the survey, being
well up in the first Is per cent. Other
cities in which interest in homes is
running high include Albany, N Y;
Poughkeepsie, N. Y; Paterson, N. j.;
Asbury Park, NJ j.; Bridgeport, Conn;
New London, Conn; Springfield, Mass;
Harrisburg, Pa; Greensboro, N. c.;
San Jose, Calf. and Santa Barbara
Calf, the figures indicate.
Evening star., 1936-02-08

blasts and zero weather. Even II heat
ing systems cannot be installed, some
thing should be done to lift the extra
burden from a frigid battery at start
ing time. Excessive choking and rae.
ing the engine only means trouble
later on.
Seal your garage with insulating
board to keep out the worst of the cold
air. You can get wood board in
sheets feet wide and as long as
needed. which are nailed to the stud
ding and the joists Of your garage,
forming dead air space the width of
the studding between outer walls and
the wall board. This usually is suf-
f1cient insulation to keep a motor
from getting so cold it wou't turn
over. And the wood board, very light
weight, has more dead air cells in it,
besides.
The board is made of peeled pulp
wood, which is ground up, its individ-
ual fibers waterproofed, and woven
into a smooth sheet The sheets are
submitted to pressure and passed
through a dryer under atmospheric
conditions which the board Is likely
to meet, and when it is thoroughly
seasoned 1t is cut into commercial
units.
You can use this same material for
insulating the floors OF attics, too SC
cold air does not soak through and
mix with your carefully heated atmos-
phere below.
y \ Il 4
Let there be light at night, but just
a little light. Don't go stumbling
through utter darkness, when for 1C
cents you can buy a diminutive elec-
trio light bulb which gives illumination
at practically no cost.
The new night light is a tx watt
bulb, making q feeble white light
twilight" we call it. It will last as
long as regular bulb, but is, of course
about one-seventh as expensive te
operate. It's perfect for keeping on
in the baby's room so you can see him
when you 60 In at night, without
keeping him awake.
Evening star., 1936-02-08

the exact shape of the tub sides and
stay that way.
The foot pad, an island Of safety in
the bottom Of tub, matches the side
grips in color and pattern and can be
bought to match shower curtains. 1t
has a grained surface, but not so
deeply grained that it will hurt tender
feet.
Both these non-skidding aids come
in seven bath room shades, and are
two pleasing splotches of color against
the plain white or tinted tub.
If your car is as balky as stubborn
mule these frosty mornings, don't
blame the battery, the motor or the
car manufacture. Look around you.
Is your garage cold? Then the faults
your own.
A garage should be more than a
shelter from rain and snow It should
guard the family equipage from wintry
Evening star., 1936-02-08
Shelf for Galoshes.

A shelf across the back Of the coat
closet just above the base board is a
convenient place for the rubbers and
galoshes that usually clutter up the
floor. The shelf should slope to the
wall and be set about an inch or an
inch and half from the wall SO that
dirt and mud can drop through to
the floor, where it can be cleaned up
more easily.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
FAIRFAX REALTY
ACTIVITY MOUNTS
275 Deeds and Trusts Filed
in II Months Gain of 102
Over 1885 Period.
special plspatch TO The star.


FAIRFAX, Va, February s.-Con-
tinuing the high pace In real estate
activity established in Fairfax County
in 1885, when the number Of recorda-
tions of deeds and trusts in the office
of the county clerk reached the high
est peak in the history of the county,
275 such documents were recorded
during the last month, jump OF
102 over the similar month in 1885.
Although but six building permits
were issued during the month for a
total Of $14,600 by the commissioner
of the revenue under the county's
new building permit ordinance, there
was a substantial building activity
carried over from the preceding year,
especially in and around the town
of Falls Church, which has been hold
ing the spotlight In the county in
this respect.
New Homes to Start.
1t is anticipated that with the
opening of suitable weather condi-
tions a number of new residences will
be started in different sections.
While not counted as taxable con-
struction work, a 100000 sanitary
sewerage system was begun in the
town Of Fairfax late in January and
will probably be completed by late
Spring. The project is one being
financed partly by the Public Works
Administration, with the remaining
funds having been raised through
bond issue.
Serious onSideration Is also being
given In real estate circles to the pos
sibility of a new real estate assess
ment in the county. Legislation is
pending before the General Assembly,
which, If passed in its present form,
might permit reaSSeSsment for the
county.
Retaliation Foreseen.
An equitable revaluation Of all real
estate is foreseen as being beneficial
to all property owners. Comnlis-
sioner of the Revenue James U.
Kincheloe has pointed to the fact
that real estate in many sections
Of the county is assessed at figures
entirely disproportionate to its actual
or fair market value.
The commissioner Of the revenue
has stated that real estate. now as
sessed at approximately s11 ,000, 900.
would carry an assessed valuation Of
about 100000 If all acreage were
assessed at 40 per cent of its fair
market value.
Under present State laws, localities
will not place higher than 40 per
cent valuation in realty assessments,
since corporation holdings can only
be assessed at that percentage, and
TO assess individual property at a
greater figure would result in in-
equitable taxes as between the indi-
vidual and corporation.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
BY DOROTHY DUCAS AND
ELIZABETH GORDON.

Tow would you like to have the
- walls OF your home plastered
and brought to you all fin
Evening star., 1936-02-08
Students Exhibit Designs.

Designs for a new Museum Of Mod
ern Art have been prepared by stu
dents Of the Columbia University
School Of Architecture and will go on
exhibition Monday at the Archi-
tectural League, lis East Forieth
street, New York city.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
BY LAWRENCE CRoLIUs.

II your home is like most homes,
there are very few places in it where
you sit down with your favorite book
or magazine and read under light
that will provide enough illumination
to prevent eye strain.
OF course, there are numerous
lamps that will supply a brilliant
light that Is seemingly adequate, but
few Of them are capable Of giving you
that quantity and quality Of light
which makes reading a real pleasure
and allows the eyes to be at ease even
while they are working for you.
One of the country's leading engi-
neering societies has at last designed
a lamp which will safeguard your eyes
when you are doing anything which
is apt to strain them such as reading,
writing, arithmetic or sewing the fam
ily's socks.
1t is a specially designed lamp that
not only casts pleasing light over a
wide area beneath the shade, but also
directs a bright, soft light upon the
ceiling from whence it is reflected to
different parts Of the room. This re-
f1ected light eliminates sharp con-
trasts of bright spots and shadows
and is obtained by a glass difuser
around the high powered bulb. which
not only directs this light upward,
but casts a softened light downward.
The shade Of the lamp Is lined with
a white surface Of great rejecting
value, which gives you light where
you want it most.
Are you taking advantage Of the
numerous electrical helps that are
available which will eliminate q large
percentage of the drudgery in house
work?
Almost every modern home now
has an automatic refrigerator, an au-
tomato heating plant and numerous
other electric servants, but there are
many new devices now on the market
which take care of almost every
household chore.
The new electric stoves are marvels
of simplicity and ease of operation.
All the housewife has to do to pre-
pare a complete meal is prepare the
food, place it in a unit container,
place the container in the oven, set
Evening star., 1936-02-08
LOAN LAWS AMENDED
Statutes Changed in 80 States,
League Official Reports.

League Official Reports.
Thirty-nine States changed their
laws regarding savings, building and
loan association procedure during
1885, it is reported by H. F. Cellarius.
Cincinnati, secretary-treasurer of the
United States Building and Loan
League.
Particularly prominent in the
amendments were those providing for
the use of the direct-reduction method
of keeping books on mortgage loans,
whereby the association applies
monthly payments directly against the
mortgage Indebtedness, rather than
accumulating the funds in shares
which cancel the loan at maturity.
Evening star., 1936-02-08

Paint Method Dates From 1850.
The discovery of the method of pro-
ducing Prussian blue-one of the two
blues most widely used today in the
tinting Of paints-was made in 1850.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
Rillings-Pemberton Wedding
Witnessed by Immediate Families.

The wedding of Miss Lucille Frances
Pemberton. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cecil r. Pemberton of Silver Spring.
Md, and Mr.. Samuel Clark Billings
of Silver Spring and Belmont. Mass
took place yesterday afternoon at 4
O'Clock at the home Of the brides
parents on Willow avenue The cere-
mony was performed by DR. Ralph
D. Smith, pastor of the Woodside
Methodist Episcopal Church. in the
presence Of the immediate families.
The bride wore gown of pale pink
marquisette, made on tight fitting
lines, with the skirt faring from the
hips. over a slip Of pink satin. The
neckline was high and the sleeves
were short and draped. Her bouquet
was of sweet peas and lilies of the
valley.
Miss Christine Perkinson OF Wash
ington was the maid of honor and
only attendant. wearing a gown of
pale blue organdie, fashioned on long
lines, and carried bouquet of tea
roses. The best man was Mr.. Will
liam M. Sullivan of Washington.
Following an informal reception.
Mr. and Mrs Billings left on a we'd
ding trip to Boston. the bride wearing
a suit of robins egg blue crepe, with
small white crepe hat and white
accessories. On their return they will
be at home at l643 Flower avenue,
Silver Spring, after July 10.