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Evening star., 1936-03-21
1000 NEW RESIDENCES
1886 DETROIT PROSPECT
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DETROIT, March 14.-Prediction
that at least 1000 homes will be built
IN metropolitan Detroit during 1886
was made by Frank E. Quinlan, presi-
dent of the Greater Detroit Builders
Association, at the eighteenth annual
builders show held recently in Con-
vention Hall. The show was held
under the sponsorship of the Federal
Housing Administration and was at
tended by industrial leaders, city
officials and the general public.
I'm 1885 there were 1,50o single
homes built in the city," Mr.. Quinlan
said. That was more than in the
four previous years"
As of February Is, the Detroit office
of the Federal Housing Administra-
ton had received more than $13,000,-
900 worth Of applications for insured
mortgages.
Evening star., 1936-03-21
DAILY SHORT STORY
SMALL GAME
lose the bag.

close the bag,
do you carry a
p en-, too? Mr..
Fleming had one.
All, yes, that was
the name. He said
7 was TO sign q
paper and then
he'd see that the
money was sent to
me every month.
So much m or e
convenient t h an
having to wait six
months for In.
terest."
did you sign it,
dear?"
well, you see, I
haven't a very
good head for busi-
ness. Dear mamma
hadn't a good
b u S j n ess head
either and one day
she sigr ed some
thing jus. to please
Evening star., 1936-03-21
Lettering of Windows.

Before painting lettering on q win
dow clean the glass thoroughly to
make sure that every trace Of dirt
and grease IL removed. Draw the
letters on the outside Of the glass
with chalk. Paint on the inside with
color ground in japan. Drop black
or ivory black Is best for black letters.
A little spar varnish mixed into the
paint adds gloss to the letters. For
best results the inside Of the glass
should not be too cold.
Evening star., 1936-03-21
(To be continued.
COLUMBIA us REALTY
Is PRAISED BY BUTLER
President Says Holdings Are Most
Secure Investment of It's
Endowment.

Columbia University's real estate
holdings In New York City, known as
the Lower Estate and the Upper Estate,
represent the most secure investment
of the endowment Of great institu-
ton Of public service" President But
Ter says in foreword to a new volume
from the Columbia University Press
entitled, Columbia University Ofncers
and Alumni, 1754-1857."
What Is Rockefeller Center to most
Of the world is still the Upper Estate"
to Columbia, Donald Geddes of the
Press pointed out in commenting upon
President Buffers discussion.
President Butler, discussing "The
Evening star., 1936-03-21
CHAPTER XVIII.

us ablutions and breakfast
. completed, Joaquin strolled
over to his big black thor
: Il oughbred, which, after the
Evening star., 1936-03-21

.Do YOU J. think ink
~ that If one
had any money
one should put it
in the postal saw
ings instead OF In
the bank?"
"I don't really
know, mother. I
haven't enough TO
bother about my
self"
"Of course I
only mefnI II oAAS
did have money.
Not I, you under
stand"
I understand. It
has been a family
conventio n for
years that mother
has no m o n y.
She prefers h er
children S h oul d
think so, and I,
like the rest, have
turned a blind but
$oir1u UatchfJll
Evening star., 1936-03-21

algly WdtSAAu
eve. 1t has to be watchful; in ap-
pearance mother is the investment
sharks dream.
what put it into your head, dear?
Has some one been talking 10 you
about the bank?"
well, you see, was at the Gulio
on Thursday and that Mrs. Eaton
was there. Poor thing, I wonder why
she wears those hats? used to know
her years ago before her children
were married. She had a red-halreo,
freckled boy. I remember he always
had holes in his trousers"
II X 4 X
"DOESNT Mrs. Eaton approve OF
~ banks if her son is bank pres
ident? He doesn't have any holes
now, does hep"
mo, no, I don't think so. Poor
Mrs, Eaton, she reminds me OF old
times" I tried another lead.
How was she when you saw her
on Thursday?"
mot very well. That was why she
asked me to go for the drive with her.
Such q nice drive. We must have
gone at least $50 miles. was so
tired; but it was worth it. And then
I saw the well and all the oil work.
ings."
oh. I didn't know Mrs. Eaton had
oil wells"
mo, she doesn't. It was some
friends of hers. They have oil lands,
and Mrs. Eaton told me she has put
in all her money. She wanted me
to put in some, too." Real anxiety
got the better of me.
Does Mrs. Eaton know them well?''
"Wny, no, think she met them at
some club she goes to. But they took
q fancy to her at once. It was won
derful. You know she's so deaf. It
must be dreadful to be so deaf as
that"
Dreadful. How did she know they
had taken a fancy to her If she
couldn't hear anything they said?"
n Il Il
1.-THE husband wrote her q note and
asked her to go for a drive with
them the next day. He said she re-
minded him Of his mother. He was
passionately devoted to his mother.
Sons always are, you know"
always. And when did they sell
her the oil stocks?"
ats not stock. At least I don't
think so. They said 1t was chance
to make millions, and that I'd have
a shic fucoyae for the rest 0f INV life %
] held my breath. Now ! would hear
the hopeless news. Have you got q
pin, dear? This seems to be coming
undone, I must mend 1t. A safety
pin. A 'hefty' you used to call it
when you were a child. Such darl-
ing child. All my children were beau-
tiful. People used to turn on the
street TO look at you"
''will this do?" I produced q pin
from the bottom Of my bag. My
fountain pen stuck out as tried TO
Evening star., 1936-03-21


fashion of all horses trained to COW
work, stood complacently, bride
reins on the ground, "tied to the
breeze" He ran his hand under
the cincha, discovered the horse was
cinched so tightly he must, pres
emily, In sheer distress, commence
to buck. Joaquin removed the sad
die, felt the saddle blanket-and re-
moved two hazelnutS between the
folds; but one thickness of the blan-
ket separated these nuts from the
horses back.
"Juanito," he called to Three
Fingered Jack, come here"
His lieutenant spurred over to
him and Joaquin showed him the
two hazelnuts nesting on the blan-
ket. THE man who saddled my
horse has q sense of humor, Jua-
nito. Had I mounted this horse, I
would have had a rough ride, de-
spite the fact that he is q gentle.
we'll trained animal. 1t is not well
to make such an animal misbehave.
1t spoils him. Also 1t is cruel. Send
to me the man who did this"
Evening star., 1936-03-21

First Site Of the College" on property
in the blocks now bounded by West,
Murray. Church and Barclay streets.
traces the evolution Of Manhattan
Island.
The Washington times., 1936-10-28
SEEK YARD AID
ON NEW SPAN

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. %.
Members of the Alexandria city
council are seeking to secure an
agreement with the Potomac rail-
road yards that a new bridge pro-
posed to replace the ancient over
head bridge on the Washington
Richmond Highway at Potomac
Yards will be maintained by the
railroad company.
Virginia's department Of high
ways has already offered to re-
place the span with a modern
bridge if the city will agree to
maintain it. Since the present
bridge is maintained by the rail
road company, under an agree
ment between the city and the
railroad, council members here
last night agreed to take the re-
sponsibility of maintaining the
span if the railroad will agree to
reimburse the city for all funds
used for the maintenance Of the
project.
The Washington times., 1936-10-28
BOXING PUT UP
TO CITIZENS

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. 28.-An
attempt to legalize amateur box
ing in Alexandria city will be sub
jected to public expression" it
was decided by members of the
city council last night.
A proposal to legalize the fistic
art in this historic city was pre-
Sented to the city fathers by James
Moriarity, local inspector for the
Virginia Boxing Commission, with
the endorsement of number Of
athletic clubs of Northern Vir-
GINA.
Upon motion of Councilman
George K. Bender, action on the
proposal was ordered held over
until the netx regular meeting of
the council in order to give the
citizens of Alexandria time to ex-
press their views.
The last general assembly of
Virginia made amateur boxing
legal, but provided for local option
on the issue in the various cities
Of the State.
The Washington times., 1936-10-28

learned his trade here in the w.
D. DoremuS Machine Company,
and started in the Navy Yard in
the west gun carriage shop, where
he has become a special rate me-
chanic.
He was given that rating for &C.
compliShing one of the most diff
ficult tasks which has ever been
performed there-that of cutting
a gear-rack on 21-inch sub
merged torpedo spoon in A hours,
together with Jimmy O'Brien.
That was done Is years ago on a
planer, and it's never been done
since, says Reidy.
When he was furloughed from
1925 to 1927 because of lack of
work at the yard, Reidy was given
a rating above 100 per cent-Spe-
officially 101.75 per cent.
VOTE AMERICAN
New Conductor Lands
NEW YORK, Oct. % GN.SD.
america will get the best
I've got"
So said John Barbirolli, 37-year-
old British conductor, who arrived
yesterday to take the place of
Arturo ToScanini as head of the
New York Philharmonic Orches-
ira.
The Washington times., 1936-10-28
0LDNAVYA
AIDE MISSES
FIELDS

At the Navy Yard these days is
the loneliest, but happiest. man
In the city.
Strange? Nevertheless it's true.
"Dave" Reidy is one of those
people who appears always happy,
always has q smile on his face
and Irish wit ever on his tongue.
But, at heart, he is admittedly
lonely nowadays, because Rob
Roy Mackey, who, with Dave, 1"
put on a daily Weber and Fields
act for the entire Navy Yard, is
retired.
Reidy, who lives at 1905 MasSa-
chusetts Ave. N. E., couldn't X
plain exactly how he and Mackey
got started, but at 7:50 a. m.
every day, hundreds of the yard
employees would be waiting for
the two comedians to arrive. And
during the time from 1850 to 8
Q. M, Reidy and Mackey would
perform. Sharp dialogue kept
the yardmen roaring with laugh
ter, and the show would be con-
tinued for about 10 minutes at
the noon lunch time.
Regular Pals
Sometimes, Reidy explained,
some of the men would walk away
fearful that they would come to
blows, but, he added:
"When the shop whistle would
blow we would laugh at each
other and go back to work. We
were always the best of friends
used to pal around a great deal
during the evenings. Here's a
good one:
81 used to find out what
Mackey did so 1 could kid him
during our shows at the yard,
through my seven 'G-men,' as I
called them. They were seven
men who would call me and tell
me about Mackey doing this or
that, and when 1 would kid him
the next day he would be
amazed that 1 knew about it. 1t
was lots of fun, but since he's
been retired / feel lost.
YEARNS TO RETIRE
Gas a matter of fact, would
like to retire myself, because
I've been a machiniSt at the
Navy Yard since 19O2-34
years. But, under the present
laws, I can't retire until I am
so years old, which means that
I will have to work there seven
more years. / want to retire
and take my wife to Ireland, so
/ can see the real shamrock"
A native of Washington, Reidy
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-30

known that the air, elgnCy per
cents, nitrogen. offered an unlim-
tied source of that necessary ele-
ment. But how to get the nitro
gen out of the air in form to be
used agriculturaliy and CONNER
cially had defied discovery. But,
according to Sir Williams fear
some prophesy, the thing had to
be done; or by 1880 the world
would begin slowly but surely to
starve. SO the thing was done.
In a few years the chemists
had unlocked the secret of salts
factoriiy and economically ex-
tracing nitrogen from the air.
They found that by forcing steam
and air through glowing co ke,
then COMPRISING the resulting
gases, they could get ammonia
gas. By exidizing the ammonia
gas they could obtain nitric acid.
And by treating this nitric acid
with washing soda, they could
prou ice nitrate of soda contain
ing sixteen per cent, nitrogen,
which could be dried into white
CRYSTALS and shipped in bags.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-30
THE OLD HEARST TERROR

United States senators are now saving the "free-
dom of the press from old Mr.. Hearst. If the
press cannot save its freedom without the assist
ance of the senate the sooner the press loses it the
better.
The News and Courier has no affection for
Brother Hearst, but if the devil were here it would
give his due and it recalls that this ssn Hearst did
more some forty-odd years ago to raise the wages
of employed newspaper writer's than any other
publisher than this country has done. rs ,...
Dreadful man that he is, Hearst has always been
able TO know Drains when he sees them and that is
why has press is such terror to the peepul"
II the psople had equal skill in selecting brains
LOT tpe op''sa Eeates senate the outlook would b.
shr'ghtef esrleston News and Courier
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-30
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
BLoATED i TiAx.EA,lT!ER


Everything in the United States lags except tax
alton. Business, wages, industries, may decline,
but the tax-eater wakes fatter and fatter.
Since March A. 1898, there have been created 30
bureaus and commissions that did not exist prior
70 that time although the national Democratic plat
form pledged a reduction of bureaus and commits.
sions 49,.
Those agencies have 10000 employees. &c..
More than two hundred million dollars year
are pumped out of the taxpayers pockets to pay
the salaries alone of these employees.
The expenditures of these bureaus run into the
billions. with such fabulous tax-eaters as the PWA
the AAA. and the Resettlement Administration
leading, : -. e ....
This is only glimpse of the federal activities in
the field of tax-chIselrng. "......
What the taxpayers of America would like to
know is this: T. 81 T. .
How far do these gigantic bureaucracies that
have sprung into being almost over night actually
function as emergency agencies and how far are
they political in their nature
!, How far are they part of the organism of the
administrations recovery" program and how far
are they permanent parasitic growths?
That the majority Of these agencies are polti-
cal and parasitic is proven by this fact
=, The Supreme Court declared the NRA unconsti-
tutionaI on May 2. but on July 81, the NRA, which
legally and actually no longer had any existence,
still had 1908 employees on the government pay
rolls. d. - ... ..:.
They were, it is said, engaged in research work.
. So far as anyone can discover this research
work consisted mainly of research work in the
pockets of the taxpayers.
The continuance of an. NRA Skeleton force"
"a fat skeleton if there ever was one) shows how
bard it is to get rid of an army of government
employees when they dig in the bureau or commits
sion s., ..-s....
Once titanic patronage army is glued to fed
eral state county city pay roll it is as hard to
disband as an army of guerrillas.
.- With the second session of the seventy-fourth
congress- we may look for uHgmer tation of the
agencieS-and more taxes.
, There can be no breathing in this country I'M
til this frightful burden Of bureaucracy-until this
swarm of hundreds of thousands of employees
taken from the shoulders of the taxpayers
For what the country is praying is not "breatn-
ing SPELL but normal Observation-Disclosures Geor-
gian. r.sis
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-30
BoRAHING FROM WITHIN

Has the senior Senator from Idaho put himself
outside The Republican Party? We're he anybody
but Mr.. Borah, reports of his Chicago speech would
leave no other conclusion possible Not only did
he say that the leaders of the party "dd not re-
spond to the need the humanitarian demands of
the American people: he said that "1O 900
men and women who had been reared under the
traditions of the party" but who deserted to the
Democrats in 1882 would never come back" if
the old leaders continue in power. Then he added:
They say am not god Republican, but
AM good enough Republican to fight as long
as have power against the domination of the
men who. brought the party to its present con-
dition. .S....
Of course these conclusions may be questioned
The 100000 figure seems bit high inasmuch
as the Republican vote in 1882 was only about
5000 900 below the 1928 total. And undoubtedly
some people will want more proof that 'these men,
have handed the Republican Party over to the
Interests" Are not the men now in control OF
the party organization very much the same men
who were in control in all the years that NJ
Borah has supported the national ticket. Even
the layman will wonder if it was these leaders or
q depression which elected Mr.. Roosevelt in 1882.
But when these things are said, considerable
sympathy for Mr.. Borah's case against his party
leadership remains And more than little admir-
alton for his courage. He had just made a swing
through Ohio and Illinois, and found the party
leaders resolved at all costs to block a rankand-
file declaration in favor of Idahos oneman party.
He manifestly feels that in many states the Re-
publican cheftsins are trying to keep the delega
atoms IN their own hands by putting up "favorite
sons who are really stalking horses" to be aban-
| doned when the time comes and trade can be
made with the managers of the most available can
didate No one denies that such procedure makes
mockery of the primary system
1t may be that Mr. Borah's long Impotence with
the more conservative Republican elements has at
| last reached the breaking point He may have
decided there is no hope of getting the nomination
1 himself But no one who knows him would expect
him to leave the party for that reason And many
have reasoned that his chief purpose was to bore
from within, to swing his party as far as possible
| toward a progressive candidate and platform at
| Cleveland by building UP delegations pledged to
himself in the western states He can still do much
! in that way For he is still party in himself
Christian Science Monitor
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

| subpoena kilograms are agreed that
Chairman Hugo Black o. Alabama
is very smart man.
Whatever your opinion o. the
ethics involved, consensus IN Wash.
ington Is. that Blacks recent coun.
ter-moves have been good as strate.
gic maneuvers. Loaded down with
bad publicity by legal and other
protests from Liberty Leaguers and
William Randolph Hearst-who OBJ.
iected TO Blacks perusaJ of their
kilograms - Black first diverted
public attention and got the spec.
tstors all stirred up again by re.
veaIing that six congressman had
lived last summer with a power
trust" lobbyist. .
Then he achieved his master
coup by making available to Rep.
John J. McSwain (Dem., S. c., an
alleged copy Of a telegram which
Hearst by court action had sought
to suppress. The results were
scarcely less than terrific as the
popular McSwain, quavering into
the heights Of melodrama, read
Hearsts description of him in
message to an editorial writer as
"a Communist IN spirit and a
traitor in effect"
The House roared its approval Of
McSwain, who in 1917, at the age
of AZ. volunteered to 60 to war as
a private and returned a captain.
He is a member Of the Sons of
the Revolution. Sons Of the Con-
federacy, American Legion. and
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
pacifists have called him "the
worst lingo in the House"
No man suggested that the tele.
gram was private" and shouldn't
have been in McSwain's hands. No.
body cared. One Of the boys" had
been attacked! And the reaction
of the House spelled out the fact
that, insofar as Congress was con.
cerned, Black would have. a free
hand and all the money he wanted
for his investigation.
Copyright. 1886 NEA Service. Inc.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-30
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
SEA Service Stnff Correspondent


WASHINGTON. -Donald f.
" Richberg is back Or the in
side again.
Once known as assistant presi.
dent" chief New Deal co-ordinator
and head Of the National Elmer.
gency Council, he disappeared from
White Heuse huddles as well as
from the public gaze after the U. S.
Supreme Court swung at NRA in
its famous decision on ,Richberg's
pet Schechter case.
But now he has again become
such court favorite-without pub.
licity. =. that. other insiders who
don't like Mr.. Richberg are begin
ming to grumble.
Richberg wrote most of the presi-
dents relief message to- Congress,
which called for cooperation by
private industry to increase en-
ployment.
Don't be surprised If he soon re-
ceives an important appointment
under the Department of Justice
and subsequently appears both be.
for the supreme court on New
Deal cases and before the public
with pro-New Deal campaign
speeches.
Although his friends thought
he had been treated shabbily by
being dropped after taking many
traps" for the administration, Rich
berg never became bitter.
He began series of speeches
supporting Roosevelt on the con.
stitutional issue and relations be.
gan to arm up again. when. as
head Of che National Progressive
League. he caustically criticized AL
Smiths Liberty League speech.
His Job used to, be to conciliate
indnstrialists and business men
with the. New Deal and he prob.
ably will resume that function,
PRACTICALLY all parties con.
eerned in the dispute over the
Senate lobby committees right %
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Today the world is producing
more nitrate from the air than 1t
can consume. 1t is entirely indie
pendent of the Chilean nitrate
fields. Any nation, if it chooses,
can produce it's own nitrate.
Another point: The United
States was largely induced to un-
dertakc Tie manufacture of nj
trate from the air because of the
way Chile held US up during the
World War. The price of Chi
lean nitrate was boosted from
fOrty-six dollars to 'eighty-three
dollars a ton and at one time went
as high as a hundred and fifty
dollars a ton. That showed this
country what grave danger it
might be placed in if it had to de-
pend on Chile for nitrate. And
particularly was that something
to think about since nitrate is
necessary in the manufacture Of
munitions.
Today the United States is in
pendent of Chilean nitrate be-
cause it is taking nitrate of equal
quality out of the air.
Persons, firms and corporations
having commodities and services
which the people need should take
note of what happened to Chilean
nitrate, and should not be led into
iharging more for their rOmmodi-
ties and services than is reason
able and fair.
And still another point: Germ
any would never have started the
World War had she not been able
to make nitrate from the air. SO
long as Germany was dependent
on Chilean nitrate for agricul-
tural munitions purposes, she dar-
ed not start war, for the Allies
could easily have cut off ship =
ments of nitrate from Chile to
Germany.
Thus again we see that a great
benefit to humanity was employed
as a great harm to humanity.
Industrial production is active
in all lines in British India.
Chile has many labor disputes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-30
1t Sounds More Like Magic
By WICKEy WAMBOLDT

When the British Association
for the Advancement of Science
met in Dublin in 1898, its presi-
dent, Sir William Crookes, startl-
ed the civilized world by declar-
ing that since nitrate was essen
tial to agriculture, and that. since
the Chilean nitrate beds, which
supplied most of, the worlds nj
trate, would be exhausted in 32-
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years, humanity
would face a SER
iOus permanent
f 90 d shortage,
beginning W i t h
1880.
SO ala + m e d
were chemists by
Sir Williams dire
prediction t h at
t h c y inmtdiatc-
ly 5 e t about
seeki n e n c w
sources Of nj
trate.
For many years
scientists h a d