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Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18
Berries Golf Ban Size

Berries Golf Ball Size
Among the largest raspberries
grown in America are the wilG akala
berries in Hawaii National park,
which grow as big as golf balls.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18
salt wells Primitiyely Drilled

With equipment no more modern
than bamboo pipes, the Chinese sue
ceeded in drilling salt wells 1900
feet deep.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18
LILLY WHITES
OYSTER PIE

Dear Miss Wilma:-
All was so fused up bout tellin
you how don usta make yor VAL
entine purties dat ah forgots to
tell you just what it was you asked
fo in yor las letter.
Yes indeed, oyster pie is one fine
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18

Objections That Hinder
Nothing will ever be attempted II
all possible objections must first be
overcome.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18
A Plucky Fighter

"A FIucKy Fighter
Any coward can fight a battle
when he is sure of winning, but
give me the man who has the
pluck to fight when he is sure OF
losing.-George Eliot.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18
Huge Desert

The central desert of Australia Il
1000 miles long and 500 miles wide,
approximately as large as the state
of Texas.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18
In Magellan,s Party

OF 268 who started with Magellan
IN the first circumnavigation of the
world only II returned.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18
The Past Is Gone

The Past Is Gone
Grieve not for that which can
not be recalled; fear not for that
which can not be avoided.-Elbert
Hubbard.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18

True Enjoyment
True enjoyment comes from ac-
avity of the mind and exercise
Of the body; the two are ever
united. ed.-Humboldt.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18
Genuine Bayer Aspirin the Thing
To Take for Fast Relief

Instead of buying
costly medicines for
a cold. try the way
nearly any doctor
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18

Ie Toke 2 BAYER ASPIRIN iobIeh and
drink q full gloss Of woter. Repeoi heos.
ment In z hours.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-02-18

This will act to fight fever, and
pains which usually accompany
colds. Relief comes rapidly.
Get the genuine BAYER
ASPIRIN by asking for it by
its full name: not by the nams
aspirin" alone.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
Walk to Garage

But again there arises the prob
lem of getting the infant to the
family car when the family goes
for a drive. In the Tugwelltowns
and some Of the low-cost housing
projects financed by the PWA,
with some hundreds of houses in
groups and rows scattered over a
large area of ground. there are few,
if any, garages attached to the
houses. This is not true Of Green
Dale, Milwaukee. In the other
two Greenbelt towns such garages
as are provided have been built
on the edges of the community, or
along the principal thoroughfareS.
But on the average you have to
walk block or two to reach them.
That requires more, time and in
wolves considerably more inconven.
ience than the householder is &C.
cuStomed to, and he isn't going to
like it. But he is willing to put
up with it, to Judge from the de-
mand for houses and apartments
in garden cities and gardened
housing projects. All of them re-
port long waiting lists of appli-
cants.
Among other advantages, most
of the tenants do not have to look
out of their windows at long rows
Of cars parked in the streets, nor
dodge cruising taxicabS and other
cars looking for fares or a place
to park.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

driVeways to the doors Of most of
these housesD by having their
goods delivered by boys on bicycles
or in little carts, which may be
wheeled to the houses over the
sidewalks. But there just isn't any
way to get to your house from the
street-or to nine-tenths of the
houses or apartments in a Tug
Welltown or in other communities
built on the garden-city principle
without walking from one to
three or four ordinary blocks.
Imagine what the women will
say the first night they start out
to a party in a driving rain or in
a snow or Sleet storm! Instead
of dashing' from the house or
apartment to the street curb, a
matter of a dozen steps, their
satin slippers and evening silks
will be exposed to the elements
while they walk to the nearest
street. Returning, the car or cab
which brings them home cannot
drive toe the front door, the back
door, the side door or any other
door unless they happen to live on
or near one of the main highways
or service drives. Only a few of
the houses face on these streets,
and, in the case of Greenbelt, even
these are set back so or 100 feet
from the nearest street curb.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

and inexpensive: One is that the
additional cost would be prohibi-
tive; the other is that the houses
have no easements.
Inevitably the emphasis on low
costs and low rents neceSsitates
the use of cheaper materials and
more Simplified designs than go
into the development of houses or
apartments costing more. On the
other hand, some of the cheaper
materials are more enduring. even
if less attractive than more costly
types of construction.
In Tugwelltown, for example,
cinder block is used in the outside
walls of many of the houses.
Others, for contrast. that the COM
munity may not be too monoton-
GUS in appearance (and it is diff
ficult enough for your friends to
find your house or apartment in
one of these big projects under the
best of conditions), are of the
ordinary brick-veneer construction.
The ground floor of the houses
in Tugwelltown is built of con-
crete, overlaid with asphalt tile,
instead of the usual wood flooring.
Second-floor rooms are floored
with oak.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
Hard on Evening Wear

This plan, incidentally, has
created a problem which appar-
emily was not anticipated by Tug
we'll and his associates, or by the
other sponsors of planned COM
munities in the United States. In
England and Germany it would
not arise, or would be less pressing
at present than in this country.
That is the problem of getting to
and from your car-almost every
one in America has a car-in bad
weather.
The butcher and baker and
grocer and milkman have solved
the delivery program remember
that there are no alleys and no
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
Streets Save Space

Streets in garden cities occupy
less space than in the traditional
town, whether in America or else
where. In most cities streets take
up perhaps a fourth of the whole
area, sometimes more. Under
modern conditions this means a
heavy maintenance cost, resulting
in high taxes. In the garden cities
the main traffic arteries are re-
duced to minimum, and even
the secondary streets are as few
in number and extent as circum-
stances permit. The familiar grid
iron pattern-Streets in rows,
bisected by other streets in rows.
running at right angles or diagon-
ally-iS absent. The substitution
of a few streets for many streets,
the elimination wherever possible
of cross streets, the use of large
blocks instead of small blocks,
with the interior areas of each
block laid out in lawn and walks,
not only cuts down accidents but
cuts down the cost of maintenance.
Instead of occupying fourth
Of the ground area, garden-city
streets may take up not more than
10 or IS per cent or less-in some
cases, much leSs-of the total area
of the community proper, as set
down in the center of it's circling
belt of green.
Where it is necessary to intro
duce service streets, they are dead
ended so far as possible or con-
verted into circular or winding
drives over which there is no
through traffic.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
PRINCIPLES GOVERNING
AID IN HOUSING
Construction must be sound.
Financing must be honest.

]. Construction must be sound.
9 Financing must be honest.
g. There must be adequate natural light and ventilation
in all rooms.
Building shall not occupy than fixed percentage
of the lot which they built allowing ample
space for lawns and landscaping.
s. All loans be gradually retired by regular pay
ments long period of years.
Owners of largescae projects financed with Federal
aid must consent to limit their rents and their profits and
to build for low Income families.
T. Architecture may be conventional modern, but must
not be freakish
s. SO far possible all large projects are being
structed of fireproof materials
g. Tenants accepted for PWA rentaproecs cannot have
incomes which than five times the of
to be paid The principle probably will be applied in
choosing tenants for the greenbet communities in
Washington, Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
TO- Because the number of applicants for accommodations
in Federay housing projects greatly exceeds the
number of houses apartments available effort being
made choose only persons of good moral char
acter and with a reputation good neighbors
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
D. E. QUOTA SET
AT $4,000

washington's quota for Rec
Cross flood relief funds will be
$4,000. according to an announce
ment made today by Gen. F. R
Keefer, head of the District o.
Columbia chapter.
General Keefer'S announcement
was as follows:
"The District of Columbia
Red Cross chapter has just re-
ceived from the national Red
Cross a request for cOntribu-
ton of $4,000 to meet the needs
of flood victims in eight central
states. Contributions are solicited
and will be received by the D.
C. chapter headquarters at 1880
E st. S. w., and turned over to
the national Red Cross at once.
"This chapter is heading the
list with a contribution Of $1,000
Immediately available"
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
An Ideal Caught

Tomorrow was a descrip-
ton of a certain kind of ideal
lied town which Howard called
a garden city 1t pictured a
union of city and country life,
in which the use of every foot
of land was planned to elimi-
nate waste and provide the
dweIlerS there with pleasant and
spacious living.
"The. idea was so appealing
that a Garden City Association
was formed in England, to
which Howard had returned
within year after his book was
published. Two years later it
had 1900 members, and in 1908
a limited dividend society was
organized, and the building Of
LetchwOrth, the first garden
city, was begun. Today it is a
flOuriShing town, which has am.
ply demonstrated the soundneSs
of the plan upon which it was
founded.
"A second garden city at We'll
wyn, England, was set up in
1918. 1t, too, has proved sue.
ceSSful, but more significant
than these successes, the princi.
pies first enunciated by Howard
have taken root in the work Of
town planners throughout the
world. The ReSettlement Ad.
ministratiOn, therefore, does not
claim originality except in this:
That it is trying to do some.
thing in our country which
others have only wished for. It
did not create the idea of sub
urban communities. They have
always belonged to our tradi.
tiOn. 1t does hope to bring a
few of them, considerably modi.
fled, into embodied reality.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

munity, to introduce into it the
principle of ce-preventiOn
and to set it securely apart from
speculation and cOmmercialiZa-
ton; and so, finally, to eStab-
Iish it with institutions apprO-
pirate to an age which is given
its physical character by motors,
electricity, the use of new ma
terials and close community CO.
operation"
In its modern conception, the
garden city is not always a Green
belt town except in a limited sense.
1t was originally planned as a
small city, set in large area of
rural countryside. Adapted to
the necessities of an industrial
civilization, it has evolved, in Ger
many and England particularly,
into a gardened community which
in general follows the garden city
pattern internally, but because of
land costs or other limitations en-
joys. less protection externally
than is provided in the three dem
onStration towns of the ReseGtle-
ment Administration.
AS built elsewhere, they have
become segments of larger cities,
villages within cities, or subur-
ban communities contiguous to
cities, occupying areas of from
40 or so to several thousand acres,
and housing from few hundred
to many thousand families. But
whether of modest or pretentious
proportions, they are garden cities
only as they cling to the basic
idea of providing facilities for
safe, pleasant living amid attrac-
tive surroundings, at low cost and
without croWding.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
MOnOtOnH Avoided

But the roofs are insulated and
covered with slate or Stag. steel
easement windows are used, the
roofs of the houses are varied a
bit, some being flat and others
pitched, and the rolling terrain
makes it possible further to break
the roof lines and get away from
the row-house appearance, as the
houses are built at different levels.
Some of the houses are painted
white, others are dark in tone.
This likewise relieves the monot-
ony.
This description of the Green
belt com munity applies par
ticularly to Greenbelt, Md. At
GreenhillS, four and a half miles
north of Cincinnati, the first units
will consist chiefly of group houses
and apartments. At -Greendale,
on the outskirts of Milwaukee,
about half the dwelling units are
to be separate houses, each with
it's own garage or with neigh
borhood garage more readily ac-
cessible than those at Greenbelt
and certain of the PWA limited
dividend projects.
1t is possible under the Federal
Housing Administrations insur-
ance plan for limited dividend cor
porationS to obtain commitments
on first-mortgage insurance up to
$10,000,O00 for large-scale projects.
Considering that the Tugwelltowns
all come within this limit of cost,
it is entirely possible for promoters
of private projects of similar
character to finance four-fifthS of
the cost-or, as FILA officials pre-
fer to have it stated, four-fifthS OF
the appraised value of the COM
pleted project, by this method.
The principal stipulations are that
the project shall be subject to
Federal, State or municipal super
vision, or be under the control
Of housing authority similarly
subject to public control; that it
shall be designed primarily for
low income families, and that
rents and dividends shall be linn
tied accordingly.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
TUgWeU Dreamed

"In America, efforts to con.
struct modern towns have gen.
orally produced rather expen-
Sive suburban regions for the
Weather business and profeS-
siOnal groups and have not met
the real needs of our workers or
our farmers. 1t is to show that
these same advantages may be
made available to the mass of
our people that these projects
are being undertaken"
SO the garden city or planned
community came to America, with
another idealiSt-thiS time a col
lege profeSsor-as its sponsor in
this country.
Like Bellamy, Howard, Thomas
Moore, Plato, and others whose
names grow dim and disappear in
the ViStas of history, Tugwell
dreamed of a better order, of a
world made over. But he had an
advantage over those who only
dreamed and wrote, launching
ideas and supplying patterns for
others to follow. To his hand
came millions of dollars Of public
funds. Money to carry out the
idea!
And so, in years to come, it may
be that the name of Rexford Tug.
well, no less than that of Franklin
Roosevelt, will be linked with
Americas garden cities or green,
belt towns. Or, as it is known in
the vernacular Of the Maryland
countryside, with "Tugwelltown. "
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
Ideal for Babies

Apparently, there is no solution
for this problem in a town built
on this principle except to wear
rubberS and raincoatS and to carry
umbrellas in bad weather. If it
is argued that families with in
comes of $500 or $4,000 a year
do not wear evening clothes, the
answer is that the women do
whether the men do or not. And
it's the women who will suffer
most from the inconvenience thus
introduced for the sake Of the
other and more basic attractions
of the garden community.
They are also forced to walk
farther with their bundles of gro.
ceries, to climb more hills anc to
go farther than their city sisters
to catch the street car or bus. But
they have compensations Of many
sorts in the greater safety, clean
illness, comfort and beauty of their
surroundings.
You notice another thing, too,
in the idealized loWcost housing
projects which share the garden
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
GABLE VICTIM
OF INFLUENZA

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. % G.N.SD.
After collapsing in the midst of a
love scene with actress Myrna 10y,
Clark Gable, screen star, was un-
der a doctors care suffering from
influenza today.
Although Gable insisted, II just
had a cold and quit because ran
out of handkerchiefs," doctors said
he was suffering a raging fever.
Gable is one Of more than a
dozen screen celebrities to be
stricken with the disease which
has almost reached epidemic pro
portions here.
More than 200 new cases were
reported in the Los Angeles area
yesterday.
Other screen stars confined to
their homes or to hospitals include
Robert Taylor, William Powell,
Joan Crawford, Robert Montgom-
cry. Martha Raye, Dixie Dunbar,
Simone Simon, Edna May oliver,
George Bancroft and George Mar
shau.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
OULD COMBINE D. C. AUDTORIUN-STAD|Uk
BREAK LOOMS
IN TRADER
MYSTERY

SNOW HILL, Md, Jan. %
QN.SO important break"
in the investigation of the fatal
shooting of Clarence Trader, East
ern Shore utilities magnate, was
forecast today by States Attorney
Thomas F. Johnson. Trader was
found shot to death in the home
of his estranged wife more than
a week ago.
johnson made his prediction
after announcing that Sam Smith,
So, a Virginia planter and father
of seven children, had satisfied
authorities he was not involved in
Traders death. The power mag
nate had named Smith correspond
ent in his divorce action.
Yesterday johnson closel.' queS-
toned Richard Trader, 18, one of
the children, and the widow, Mrs.
Jeanette Trader, 36, and pretty.
She came here from her Stockton
estate when she heard her son was
being questioned.
Ironically, Trader died near the
woman he had left for another
home and whom he wanted to di-
vorce because of the elderly Vir.
ginian. The wife said he COM
mitted suicide to escape the pub
licity of the divorce proceedings.
She said they went to a POGO
moke City tavern January IA and
had some drinks and he insisted
upon staying overnight at her
house. She locked herself in one
room and said he occupied another.
Later she heard a pistol shot and
found him dead.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

be the natural repository for such
a program.
For a time local conflicts were
threatened in connection with the
development of the Greenbelt
towns over the issue of local taxes
and local services. This difficulty
has been dissipated as to the Tug
we'll communities, with the an
nouncement that they will take
their place in the larger social and
political scheme like any other
community. They will be subject
to local taxes at the customary
appraisal and regular rates.
Allowance will be made, natu-
rally, for the investment of the
Federal Government in streets
and sewers, in schools. fire sta
tions and other community struc-
lures. These are all problems for
mutual adjustment in the local
areas where they arise. They are
being worked out amicably as they
are reached.
Constructed with local labor
and, as far as possible. with relief
labor-the development of the
garden communities, like other
large-scale housing projects, is CIV
ing work to many thousands of
men. Beyond this, it is putting
millions of dollars into general cir
culation for the materials which
go into the projects. as well as the
other millions paid to labor.
But most important of all, as
the sponsors of the garden cities
see them, they represent a new
and distinct contribution to Ameri-
can civilization. They will help
make America a better place to
live. And that, in the end, will be
the test of their worthiness.
Ito Be COntinued)
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
Welfare Real Test

In the final evolution Of the
Governments housing program,
however, it is probable that n ost
of the garden cities and large
scale housing projects will be
supervised and perhaps financed
in part through other Federal
agencies, with the responsibility
resting ultimately with the new
Department of Public Works pro-
posed by President Roosevelt in
his message to Congress Of Janu-
ary IL. Such a department would
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

TuqweII Gives Credit
To Ebenezer Howard
As Torch Bearer

Note-ThiS is the second halt
OF Article No. 10 OF the current
housing series. 1t describes the
defects as ,DeH as the GdUdn-
tageS OF the garden city plan,
as trdnSpldnted to America
from Europe. Read hoW a
young English idedliSt con-
ceiUed and carried out the gar
den idea.
Mondays WASHINGTON Times
lCill contain the story OF the
Federal housing program here
in Washington. IT you don't
knoW hoU the alley dUeuingS
of the National Capital origin
uted, it will oiUe you chance
to learn.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23

city character without enjoying
the protection of a surrounding
rural belt: In these developments
the baby carriage has returned to
favor. Young mothers are the first
to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to get their progeny into the
sun and outside air, where they
can be wheeled about without
danger of being run down by mo-
toriStS
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
BY T. A. HUNTLEY

Credit for the Greenbelt idea Is
given by Tugwell to Ebenezer
Howard, young English immi-
grant, who came to the United
States following the civil war.
Howard was employed as a stem
ographer in a Chicago law office
when Mrs. O'Leary'S COW kicked
over lamp and started the great
Chicago fire. A large part Of the
city burned. Here is the story as
tells it from that point on:
This tragedy caused Howard
to consider the possibility of
building a whole town accord
ing to a precOnC plan which
would eliminate the hazards so
greatly responsible for the de-
structiOn of Chicago. At Strate-
gical time, in the course of his
random reflections, he came
across Edward Bellamy's famous
book, Looking Backward which
was a description of what the
author thought an ideal civiliZa-
tiOn should be like. 1t shaped his
thinking toward an imaginary
land, which he might create for
himself; and after years of pa
tient though he published a little
book called Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
Easements Absent

Someday someone will have the
bright idea of building community
garages underground and charg-
ing rent for them just as it is
charged for the houses. These
could be connected with the base
ments Of large housing units.
There are two excellent reasons
why this is not done in the Tug
welltownS and other low-rent pro
jects where the houses are small