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The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Paints Pretty Picture

Vienna's great municipal apart
mentS, erected at that time, have
become world famous. Nine.
Helene Scheu-RieSz, whose late
husband directed the housing pro-
gram during the socialist regime,
providing modern living quarters
which were turned over to the
workers at hardly enough rent to
cover maintenance charges, viv,
idly described the achievement
while visiting Washington in De.
cember.
She spoke OF the thousands OF
five-room houses in charming
garden colonies" in suburban
Vienna, as major contribution
to Austria's social advance. Tell
ing how it was done, she said:
Eighty thousand persons out
of a population of 100000 were
organized in Builders and Set.
tiers COOperatives. The city
leased them land. Each men,
ber contributed 1000 hours of
voluntary work. Men and wOm-
en- dug the ground, hauled sand
in wheelbarrOwS, made bricks or
did carpentry or office work,
until One-third of the family'S
housing cost was covered. 1t was
easy to get a cheap loan on the
other twO-thirds, and in a few
years thousands of houses in
these garden colonies housed
happy children, whose fathers
and mothers were sure of one
thing-that they had done their
best for the Oncoming genera
tiOn.
"TheSe cooperative houses are
still the pride of Vienna and of
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
French SIunus SurUiUe

With the aid of the machinery
thus set up and through credit ex-
tensions by the government, some
300, 900 houses have been built
since the Armistice. Many OF
these are on the outskirts Of Paris.
Reparations payments by Ger
many have naturally been OF as
sistance in reconstructing devas-
tated areas. Even so, little prog
ress has been made in rehablll-
tating the slums, and France has
vet to follow England'S example
in dealing with this problem.
Italy builds houses-or has-for
government employees. Czechoslo'
Vakia has experimental with gov
ernment housing for low-income
workers, but on a small scale.
Here and there in other countries
of central and southern Europe
the principle of public assistance
for housing of the "other half" OF
the population has found occa'
sional expression, as the programs
of Germany and neighboring ma
tions have influenced their econ
omy. Because of national poverty
political unrest or other causes
these activities have in no case
assumed major proportions, except
in northern and western Europe.
In the Scandinavian countries
and Switzerland, on the other
hand, the central or municipa,
governments have carried on hous
ing programs for many years
again attesting to the more pro
gressive character of the smaller
nations of Europe by comparison
with their larger and more lethar
gic neighbors. From 1926 to 1885,
total of 10000 homes were built
in little Switzerland; in Sweden
from 1917 to 1929, 81 400; in Nor
way, from 1914 to 1928, $4,000.
Ito Be COntinued)
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

has found expression in the con.
struction of huge single flat build
ingS, frequently set off by them
selves and containing accommoda-
tionS for as many as 5000 families.
Although a Central Association
for Housing Reform was organized
in Austria in 1907, nothing of con-
sequence was done in the direction
of meeting an existing shortage
and correcting a condition of ap-
palling misery and neglect in
Vienna until 1924. Then, under
the leadership of a socialist gov,
ernment, a cooperative housing
program was undertaken which
in the ensuing four years produced
$4,000 of the $4,000 dwellings pro,
vided since the war.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
KING BILL HITS
AUTO PERMITS

Revocation of driving permits
to persons against whom a damage
judgment is obtained, is provided
in a bill introduced yesterday in
the Senate by Senator William H.
King CD, of Utah, chairman OF
the Senate District Committee.
The measure would amend the
present automobile financial re-
sponsibility act, which sets $100
as the minimum judgment under
which a permit may be withdrawn.
The new measure would cancel the
permit no matter how small the
judgment.
Senator King introduced three
other bills recommended by the
District Commissioners. One would
establish a lunacy commission of
eight physicians and one lawyer
to pass on insanity cases, which
would remove these cases from
open hearing in lunacy court.
The others would prohibit the
sale of bootleg gasoline in Wash
ington and regulation of the prac-
tice of optometry.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

virtuoSo of outstanding attain
mentS, and musician OF impreg-
nable artistic ideals. Since that
time, Iturbi has been returning
every year to play for a greater
audience each season until today
his name is literally a household
word in music.
Coincidental with his achieve
ment of high rank as a pianist
has been Iturbi's almost phenon'
email development as an orcheS.
tral conductor, the result OF
an incident that happened in
Mexico City some four years ago
and which brought him, last
season, the post of conductor OF
the Rochester Symphony Or
chestra.
Winifred Cecil, soprano. who
appears tomorrow afternoon with
the National Symphony Orchestra
at Constitution Hall at o'clock
has been adding steadily to her
reputation as singer since she
first appeared here at the Water
Gate series in 1885. This spring
she will return to Italy. where she
will fill several engagements IN
leading opera houses there.
The main waltz theme o1
''DanSe Macabre" (Saint-SaenS)
shown above, is rather difficult tc
play on the Pied Piper's fife, as
the instrument is so simple that il
does not permit of the use OF eX
tensive accidentals. To become
familiar with the theme it is best
played on a regular instrument
Listen in on VOL this evening al
5 o'clock.
The chorus of the Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church, under
the direction of Norton M. Little
will offer the second musical Serv
ice of the season, presenting works
entirely by Tschaikowsky. This
composer is probably best known
for his orchestral works, but he
did extensive work in adding tc
the liturgy of the Russian Ortho
dox Church.
Note that the regular Wednes
day night symphony orchestra
concert of the Marine Band at the
Marine Barracks is again post
poned this week on account ot
conflicting official duties.
Frances Nash, Washington
pianist, will play with the Wash
ington String Quartet at the sec
ond in a series of four concerts Al
the Sulgrave Club, 1901 Massa
chusettS Ave, Thursday after
noon, February 4, at 5 o'clock
Members of the Washington quar-
tet are Milton Schwartz and Pau
Brightenburg. violins; Georgt
Wargo, viola, and Howard Nit
chell, violoncello.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
THREE OTHERS
AVOID DEATH
SENTENCE

MOSCOW, Jan. 80 GNS).
Secret police sped plans today for
a third big trial that will purge
the country of the last Trotskyists"
as Russia's millions, whipped up by
the official press to expect death
for all II defendants in the latest
trial, learned with amazement and
even anger that four escaped with
prison sentences.
The last words of the Judge as
he sentenced 13 to die early today
started the machinery in motion
for the next trial:
"The peoples enemy, Leon
Trotsky, and his son, Sergei
Sedov are, in the event of their
being discovered in Soviet terri
tory, subject to immediate ar
rest and trial by the military
coIlegium of the supreme court"
The verdict left the fate OF
Vladimir Romm, former Washing
ton correspondent, in doubt.
Arrest Ignored
The fudge ignored an official
announcement two days ago that
Sergei Sedov had already been ar
rested for attempting to kill by
gas" workers in a machine plant
at Krasnoyarsk.
Clemency towards Karl Radek
and Gregory Sokolnikov in the
present case gave grounds for be-
lief that other old-line Bolsheviks
now facing trial with TrotSky'S son
will be saved from the firing squad.
Those now in prison include
Nikolsi Bukharin, former editor OF
Radek's paper, the official lives
tia: Alexis Rykov, former premier,
and Budum Mdivani, Georgian
politician.
Alexander Georgevitch Bella
borodov, who signed the death
warrant for Car Nicholas II and
the imperial family, is also under
arrest. The voluminouS COMES
sions Of the II in the trial ending
today indicated that other priS-
oners may run into the hundreds.
10 Years for Radek
Thousands standing outside the
courtroom in the darkness braVed
the most severe winter night Of
the year, with the thermometer
at 20 degrees below zero, to hear
the sentences today.
Radek and Sokolnikov were
sentenced to 10 years imprison-
ment each. v. V. Arnold, soldier
of fortune, former United States
citizen and army man, was also
sentenced to 10 years. M. S.
Stroilov, examining engineer, was
let off with only eight years i'm
prisonment.
Property of all will be confis-
Gated.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

once a month and this is the
first meeting of the federation
since the award was made to
DIR. Hail."
The reference to DR.. Hall meant
DR.. Curtis Lee Hall, prominent
surgeon. who has handled much
charity work among child patients.
To Be Continued
Following the receipt of the
letter, the management of The
Washington Times announced its
plans had always been to make
the Citizens Service Award Com
mittee and the selection of a
most distinguished citizen" an
annual event.
Later this year a committee for
1887 will be chosen and the pres
entation of an award will be made
on January /, 1888.
Nominations for the most dis
tinguished citizen" are welcomed
from clubs or individuals, and may
be sent in at any time to the
management of The Washington
Times,
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Germans Well Housed

Germany's slum problem was
never so acute or widespread as it
was in England and still is in the
United States. There housing was
undertaken by the government as
a national policy having as it's OBJ
iectives social reform, better ur-
ban development and employ
ment for large numbers Of peo-
Pile. It was part Of a planned
economy.
Before the war 1,400 German
housing societies had built 100000
dwellings, This program was
rapidly expanded after the armls-
tice. AS Germany plunged into
initiation in the early '20S and
wiped out the old mark, and with
it her internal indebtedness, an
other 100000 dwellings were built.
Thereafter, from 1925 to 1881,
with the aid of rent tax paid by
the more prosperous element OF
the population, 1,436,000 more
were provided. Of these, 10 per
cent are reported to have been
built by public authorities, "a per
cent by public building societies,
and the remainder by private en-
terprise, frequently assisted by the
government.
In all, government assistance Is
credited with having figured in
the construction of four-fifths OF
the 100000 dwellings built in
Sarroapv since 1919 II has been
estimated that during this peak
period of German building 1925
l930) 14,000,000,000 marks went
into new construction, of which
8 900, 600, 900 marks repreS n e d
public public funds.
Most of the urban housing de-
velopment in postwar Germany
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
D. E. REALTORS
T0LD0F NEW
PROSPECTS

Modern, scientific sales methods
have replaced "the dizzy order
taking days" of the boom period,
Vincent P. Bradley, Trenton.
N. j., realtor last night told men,
bers of the Washington Real Es-
tate Board meeting at the Carl
ton Hotel.
Order taking in real estate
sales, he declared, is out, and Gre
ative salesmanship has taken its
place. He said:
"The boom days dealt real
estate the most death dealing
blow 1t has ever known, but still
it illustrated the fact that real
estate is the King Of invest
mentS."
Bradley said real estate has
proven its superiority over triple
A bonds as an investment through
the fact that it has always re-
tanned its value, and even though
it's sale during the depression era
was difficult, it lost none Of its
inherent value.
Mortgages in Demand
This fact Mr.. Bradley attributed
to its utilitarian value. He said:
'Life insurance companies are
now securing the country looking
for the best investments-fir
mortgages. This is a great tri-
butte to the product we offer for
sale"
He said the Government spend
ing program has had Salutory
effect on the real estate business,
and stated that it has brought
home to Americans the value of
their country and given them q
greater love for it.
1t has led, he asserted, to in
creased activity in the real estate
investment field as investors have
learned the value of property. Also,
he said, there has been greater
realization of the needs for more
expert management of property.
He warned local real estate opera
tors that huge syndicateS have
been formed to manage property
and that unless they were abreast
of the modern technique of man.
agement, such business would slip
from their hands.
Three Main Factors ..
He stated:
There are three important
factors which we must take into
consideration in management of
property. We must curtail over
head, increase the income and
increase the net yield, and if we
don't, owners will place their
properties in someone elSe'S
hands to be managed"
Bradley said realtors should
know every element of cost in
volved in property management,
and stated that the mismanage
ment of properties by some banks,
trust companies and insurance
companies is a crime.
He called on real estate opera
tors to concentrate on modern
selling technique and forget the
"old days" when it was merely
matter of taking an order.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Problem Dates Back
To Middle Ages
On Continent
No. 16 ne s~ 'it.a hear how Sow

the Socialist government IN
Vienna built great apart
ments for the city's 1Uork-
erS, renting them for hardly
enough to pay for their
maintenance. GermG n q,
having housed her lo1O-in-
come families in the cities,
turns to subsistence home-
Steads. Read 7Chdt has been
accomplished through coop
erGtive housing in the Scan-
dindUidn countries. This is
the story of Europe's hous-
ing activities. Neat 1OilI
come programs suggested
for the United States.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Started at Manchester

It was not until the middle Of
the nineteenth century that public
opinion began to focus on housing
as one of the causes which breed
revolt among the masses of the
people and to cast about for
remedies.
In THE Building of Manches-
ter" the authors, E. D. Simon and
J. Inman, speak of the earliest ef-
forts at bettering the housing con-
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
MAN, 70, ENDS
LIFE BY SHOT

A verdict of suicide was re.
turned by the coroner today in
the death of Thomas Caylor, 10.
of 3613 Eleventh st. N. W., found
dead last night with a gunshot
wound III his breast.
Mrs. Barbara Fromwelt, land
lady at the place, told police Cay
lor left the dinner table last
night, complaining Of being i'll
and saying that he never ex-
pected to eat again"
Shortly afterward a Shot was
heard and his body was found in
the basement. A shotgun was
found nearby.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
LOUest in Europe

This program, while worthy
enough in it's objectives and re
suits, was financed by an almost
confiScatory tax on private prop
erty. AS Socialists passed from
power the rents charged in the
new municipal apartments were
readjusted upward, but still re
main the lowest in Europe.
Nine. Scheu-Riesz, who has
lectured on housing in many
American cities, and likewise ad
dressed housing groups here, char
acterized housing conditions as
she found them in the United
States as "disquieting and dan
gerouS."
In both Germany and Austria,
now that they have caught up
with their shortages and PROVIDED
remedies for the housing condl'
tions existing at the close OF the
war, public attention has been
turned to the development OF sub
sistence homesteadS, with the
management usually in the hands
of municipalities. The homestead'
cost about $625, thus substantially
Simplifying the problem OF exist
ence for thousands of persons IN
the lower-income groups.
France, where the first houslnt
society came into existence in 1858
and where in the same decadt
Napoleon III had given the better
housing movement his blessing
was farther along the road than
England when the World War
overlook her.
In 1889 the first housing confer:
ence was held in Paris, and
Frances first housing act was
passed in 1894. In 1912 two years
before war burst over Europe, pub
lie housing offices were opened II
France.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

ditions Of the poor as having been
undertaken there in 1885, in a
houSe-to-house investigation which
included most of the working-class
families. In 1848 English munich
palitieS received the authority to
provide water supply and drain
age, to pave streets and to collect
refuse. These same writer's say the
horrible descriptions of Slum life
in Manchester and other cities
have not been exaggerated.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

Housing Plans in Northern and Central Europe Studied
in Vienna,
Built by Socialists,
Boast Zero Rents

all Of the political parties. The
bigger and more spectacular
tenement houses, alt h ou 6 h
front-page news for q long time,
are in q way less successful
than the garden colonies in the
suburbs. From the viewpoint
of slum- m-clearance and low rem
tails, however, the big houses
were almost q miracle"
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
DAILY TIMES
TABLE
TOnAv

The Presidents Birthday Ball
at Shoreham, Wardman Park,
Mayflower, Hamilton, Willard
and Raleigh Hotels.
Conference-American Legion
Area "B" Child welfare, Ward
man Park Hotel.
P.M.-Luncheon, Darby Print
ing Company, Raleigh Hotel.
TOMORROW
PM. - Debate. Norman
Thomas and Neil Carothers, Town
Hall, Shoreham Hotel.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

be conceived by the modern mind.
The London of Dickens time and
for generations afterward con-
tanned fostering sores, in which
great numbers of human beings
moved in a miasma Of filth and
degradation. This condition was
repeated in Paris, in Moscow and
to a lesser extent in other con-
tinental centerS.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
The World of Music
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Moin Theme From "Dmse Mucubre," by SantSdens
suggestion tor using and preserving the daily music theme
appreciation their pupils to clip and
paste them filing Dtth composers at the top
and file them n nphdbeticdL orderD
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
THURSDAY NIGHT

THURSDAY NIGHT
Bradbury Heights, 4413 Bowen
Rd. S. E.
Connecticut Avenue, All Souls
Church.
Northeast Conference of Cit
liens Association, Twelfth Precinct
Police Station.
Washington Highlands, 154
Yuma st. S. E.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
By CARL L. DENIES

Jose Iturbi, the celebrated Span
iSh pianist and conductor, will
give a fulllength recital Sunday
afternoon, February 7, at Consti-
tuition Hall at o'clock. Iturbi
appeared in Constitution Hall last
season as Soloist and conductor
with the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra, but has not been heard
in full-length recital here since
1895.
Iturbi has selected for his pro-
gram, Sonata in F Major" CMo-
zarD; &C Major Sonata" (Bee-
thoven); "B Flat Impromptu"
(Schuber) two mazurkaS and q
polonaise by Chopin; "Plaintes ou
la Maja ct la RoSSignow (Grana-
doS); and Navarro" (Albeniz).
Eight years have elapsed since
Jose Iturbi first appeared in Amer
ica in the fall of 1880 and began
a short, three-month tour that
ct once established him as q
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

MUSIC FOR THE WEEK
TOMORROW
National Symphony Orchestra,
Winifred Cecil, soprano, COnsti'
tuition Hall, 4 p. m.
Music Hour, Y. w. C. A., 5 p. m.
MONDAY
Gertrude Wettergren, cOntraltO,
and LauritZ MelchiOr, tenor, May
flower Hotel, 11:15 a. m.
Navy Band, Hour of Memories,
Navy Yard Sail Loft, 2 p. m.
Army Band, War College Audi
tOrium, 6 p. m.
TUESDAY
Marine Band, Shut-1nS Dream
Hour, Marine Barracks, 3 p. m.
Henry GregOr, Beethoven lee
ture recital, Phillips Memorial Gal
lery, 3 p. m.
Soldiers Home Band Orches.
ira, Stanley Hall, $3.50 p. m.
Navy Band Symphony Orches.
ira, Navy Yard Sail Loft, 8 p. m.
Philadelphia Symphony Orches'
ira, Constitution Hall, 8:45 p. m.
WEDNESDAY
Andres SegOvia, guitarist, Will
lard Hotel, 8:45 p. m.
THURSDAY
Army Band, War College Audi
tOrium, 4:SO p. m.
Washington String Quartz t,
Frances Nash, pianist, Sulgrave
Club, p. m.
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra
Stanley Hall, $50 p. m.
FRIDAY
Friday Morning Music Club, Eve
lyn Scott, violin, Dorothy Tyler
soprano, Y. w. C. A., 1880 a. m
SATURDAY
Soldiers Home Band Orchestra,
Stanley Hall, $3.50 p. m.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
16-Ounce Babe Lives

TELL RIDE, Col, Jan. 30
G.N.SO Mrs. Raymond Buss, 81,
and her four-day-old son. who
weighed but Is ounces at birth,
were doing fine" today, DR.. j. j.
Parker of Telluride reported.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Association of Oldest Inhabi-
tantS, Old Union Engine House,
Nineteenth and H Streets North
west.
Friendship, Jsnnay School.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
TUESDAY NIGHT

Columbia Heights, Fourth Pres
byterian Church.
North Cleveland Park, Esther
Hall, Wisconsin Avenue and Win
dom Place Northwest.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
SATURDAY NIGHT

Federation of Citizens Associa-
tons, board room, District Build
ing.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

FRIDAY NIGHT
Chillum Heights, John R.
Keene School.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
CITIZENS SPUR
ACTION ON
D. {. BILLS
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

With a large number Of Bills al
fecting the District already in the
legislative hopper, the II Citizens
Associations and the Federation OF
Citizens Associations next week
will find many important matters
on which immediate action is
needed.
The chief point of interest is the
Jacobs Committee report on fiscal
relations, which has been generally
characterized as a "disappoint-
ment."
When the appointment Of the
committee was favored by the Fed
Grafton to represent the views Of
its "a bodies, it was with the hope
that the troublesome question Of
the amount the Federal Govern
ment should subscribe annually to-
ward its share of maintaining the
District would be settled.
Judging from the opposition, the
report fails to do this.
Meetings Next Week
The following citizens aSSocia
tions will meet next week:
Dupont Circle, Monday, 4:3(
p. M, Mayflower Hotel, H. K
Kugel, smoke regulations inSpec
tor, as speaker.
MONDAY NIGHT
Citizens of Takoma, D. c., Ia
koma School.
Forest Hills, Ben Murch School
Kenilworth, Kenilworth School
Manor Park, Whittier School
Michigan Park, Bunker Hill
School.
Progress of Georgetown, Curtis
| School