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savings. building and loan executives
from the District and from all over
the United States, will be presided
over by E. c. Baltz, secretary of the
Perpetual Building Association here
and president of the United States
League. The British building societies
have their counterparts in the savings,
building and loan associations here
and have played the principal role in
the building revival in the United
Kingdom.
Besides the banquet address, Sir
Harold will speak before two other
groups in Washington next week. He
Is scheduled to address the Southeast
ern conference of savings, building and
loan associations at the Mayf1ower
wednesday on Building Societies Po-
sition and Operating Policy" and the
Graduate School of American Uni
versity Thursday afternoon on Re
cent Economic Developments in Eng
land"
Frequently serving in advisory ca
pacities to the British government on
problems of housing, building mate
rial costs and unemployment, the Eng
lish visitor has presented the econom-
les of the building society business and
Its relations to the general economic
situation in several widely read books.
He has been twice chosen to head in
ternational congresses of building soci-
cites as we'll as serving several years
as chairman of the national organi-
zation of these institutions in Great
Britain. He is member of the Order
OF the British Empire and was knight
ed in 1882.
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tions have consistently made arrange
ments for their borrowers to pay of
the debt month by month. That is
why there Is such direct connection
between the funds available to savings
and loan institutions and the home
ownership record.
Even with other institutions in the
home-lending field adopting these fea-
lures Of the savings and loan plan
Of repayment under the impetus given
by Government sponsorship, 1t Is still
important to the country's home own
ership record for more savings to be
directed into the thrift and home
financing institutions. None Of the
other groups of lenders know six
months ahead whether they will use
funds invested with them for home
mortgages or for some totally different
purpose. The only way to earmark
savings for the particular aim Of in
creasing home ownership is to put
them where they will not be invested
in anything else"
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Silver Star Home
(Continued From First paneN

Committee. This group is headed by
James S. Taylor Of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration as chairman
Other members are John Nolen, jr.,
director of planning of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion; Irwin S. Porter, prominent
architect; Edwin H. Rosengarten,
builder, member of the firm of Davis,
Wick & Rosengarten, and Frank
Luchs, who is serving on the COM
mittee for his father, Morton J..
1uchs. president of the Washington
Real Estate Board.
Open Three More Weeks.
The Kirkside home will be open to
the public for three more weeks It
may be reached by driving out Con-
nectlcut avenue to Chevy Chase Cir
Gle. Then proceed all the way around
the circle to Western avenue. Turn
right on Western to Oliver street and
right again to the property. 1t may
also be reached by driving out Wis
consin avenue past the District line
to Oliver street. Turn right on Oliver
short distance to the property
The entrance hall of the home is
furnished with Chippendale mirror
and Duncan Phyfe console card table,
which is an adaptation of a piece
In the Metropolitan Museum. The
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house has a center-hall plan. To the
left of the hall is the living room,
which has been furnished in inter-
esting fashion. The davenport of
French Chippendale design is covered
in fine Aubusson tapestry with shades
OF blue to harmonic with the ORR
entail rug On either side of the
davenport are twin commodes in satin
wood with white twin lamps. Placed
in front of the sofa is a leather-topped
cocktail table The secretary in the
room is an 18th century piece,
highly decorative. accompanied by a
lyre-back chair of French provincial
type. On the right of the fireplace is
a wing chair covered in green broca-
telle. Nearby is a love seat covered
in black and rose denim Twin ia
bles in satinWood with marguerite in
laid tops are at either side of the
fireplace. Lounge chairs and floor
lamps have been placed at convenient
intervals in the room.
The dining room is furnished with
a true Williamsburg grouping in ma
hogany, using the credenza buffet,
a three-piece ensemble table, twin
corner cabinets and turn-top server.
The chairs are copies of the Sheraton
shield back. Lighting is furnished
by twin prism lamps and an indirect
torchere lamp. Rugs throughout the
first floor and in the library were
furnished by Manoukian Bros.
Library Is Spacious.
From a landing halfway up the
stairs one enters the large library.
The fireplace setting here is formed
by two leather chairs with reading
lamps beside each. Nearby is a large
red leather sofa with Chinese Chip
pendale cocktail table in front and
an end table and lamp at one side.
A leather-top desk and chair COM
plete the furnishing of the room.
There are three bedrooms on the
second floor. One room, furnished
in maple pieces, contains the Brook
dale grouping, rare old New Eng
land antique that is influenced by
Hepplewhite motifs. This group is
made up of bed, night table. knee
hole vanity and highboy with deck
mirror. The hand-hooked rug has
a colorful design.
A second bedroom is completely
furnished with the Old Town Hall
series. This consists of poster bed,
highboy, dresser and mirror. Scatter
rugs are used in this room. The
boudoir chair. covered in black and
rose denim, is in keeping with the
furniture
The large master bedroom is fur
nished with a suite of the Queen
Anne period in swirl walnut woods
The group is made up of twin beds,
Evening star., 1938-04-23
HOME BUILDING
REFLECTSSAv|NGS
Expansion of Ownership in
U. S. Found Geared to
Association Funds.

Each successive wave Of increase
In the percentages Of homes owner
occupied in America has been simul-
taneous with step-up in the propor-
ton Of the country's total savings in
vestment which was set aside for home
financing. This discovery leads the
Home Building and Home Owning
Committee Of the United States Build
ing and Loan League to believe that
considerable expansion OF investments
in the savings. building and loan asso-
Citations In the next decade will be
called for in addition to annual mil
lions of Federal Home Loan Bank
financing to maintain the country's
world record for owner occupancy.
These institutions are the only per-
manent units in the country which
conflne their loans to homes
Between 1890 and 1920 the per-
centage Of owned homes in the Nation
rose from 36.9 to 400, Clarence T.
Rice. Kansas City, Kans., chairman
of the committee indicates. During
the same period investments in saw
ings and loan Institutions rose from
around S per cent OF the country's
total savings to 10 per cent. Home
ownership percentage increased again
to 468 in the decade l920-l930, and
investments in savings and loan asso-
Citations had risen to 1877 per cent Of
the total savings by 1890.
Ratio Maintained.
Mr.. Rice points out that with this
increase in these institutions portion
of the Nations savings, they main
tanned about even from 1890 through
1890 their portion of the country's
home mortgage loans outstanding. In
1890 building and loan mortgages were
IS per cent of the total home mort
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gage. $3.50, 900 900 out Of q debt Of
not more than $1,000. .0o0, 900. Thirty
years later they held 81 per cent of
the country's mortgage debt, some
$500, 900, 900 out Of the $4,000, ,415,-
695 total. From another decade, the
frenzied 20s Of building boom fame,
they emerged with IS per cent Of the
$22, 2,500, ,000, 900 at which the home
mortgage debt had arrived by that
time.
THE home mortgage debt Of the
country has increased more rapidly
than its total savings and thus insti-
tutions which make loans only on
homes found themselves having to
multiply their part OF the Nations
savings In order to maintain their
customary load Of the financing de-
lhand," said Mr.. Rice.
Direct Connection.
"The portion Of the home MORTGAGE
debt held by savings, building and
loan associations has always been par
ticularly important in the cause OF
home ownership because the associa-
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Lights for Bookcases.

1t is often difficult to get proper
light on large wall bookcase from a
lamp or from a central ceiling fixture.
The installation of small tubular lights
at the side OF each shelf or a cove
light above the cases will prove con-
venient.
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night table, knee-hole vanity. dresser
with hanging mirrors and a highboy.
The large recreation room occu-
pies the entire third floor. 1t is
furnished in modern leather and
chrome furniture Bright reds,
browns, greens and white are the
colors used in this room.
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the United States
Building andLoan
L e a G u e at the
Mayaower Hotel
n xt Thursday
night. He will talk
on The Housing
Question-Public
and Private-and
General Position
and Participation
in the British Sit
uatlon Today"
The b a n q uet,
which is expected
to d ra W an at
tendance of 500
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BRITISH building
LEADER TO SPEAK
Sir Harold BeI|man Will Be
Honor Guest at Banquet
Thursday.

Sir Harold Bellman, internationally
known building society executive. man.
ager-director of London's largest
building society. the $250.000. 900 Alb
bey Road. will be the guest of honor
and principal speaker at banquet of
Evening star., 1938-04-23
Pleasing Improvement.

Built-in shelves just wide enough to
hold flower pot or bowl of ivy
make a pleasing improvement in the
appearance OF the breakfast room or
kitchen.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
A VExING PROBLEM
HAPPILY SOLVED

Imperial Valley is below sea level.
Not startling statement, nor a new
one; but 1t explains at a glance why it
was entirely necessary for the Imperial
Irrigation District to obtain control of
lands lying close to and around Salton
Sea. 1t explains the reason the district
had to pay 100000 for large holdings
OF the Southern Pacific Land company
IN the Salton Sea neighborhood.
Water seeks its lowest level, and its
lowest level in Imperial Valley is Salton
Sea, Water, alsO is necessary to the life
of the valley. Ergo: if we are to have
water in Imperial Valley we must have
Salton Sea. And we must have waterl
1t would take some power greater than
human to guarantee that the level of
Salton Sea will not fluctuate, that lands
on the borders of the sea will not at
times be under water, and at other times
above water. Eventually, it is true,
general average level probably will be
reached and maintained-but the best
of engineers cannot today state beyond
a shadow of a doubt what that average
level will eventually be.
The district should have full latitude
in the matter of draining excess irrlga-
tion water into the sea. Especially is
this true in view of the urgent need exist
my here for better drainage facilities.
Such latitude cannot be had unless the
district controls the lands Immediately
surrounding the sea. If the district pro-
ceeded without control of these lands,
innumerable damage suits and other ie-
gal embarrassments would arise. The
point is demonstrated by the $250,Oee
damage suit by the Southern Pacific,
which the company agreed to dismiss
when the Salton Sea land transaction
was completed.
The Imperial Irrigation District board
followed the only logical course open
to it in completing this deal, and has in
the past carried out-and continues to
carry out-a commendable program Tor
acquiring without great expense other
lands bordering the sea which are held
by private persons.
Since the district board cannot pre-
vent water from flowing down mil, IL
has done the next best thing. 1t has pro-
vided a place for the water to go when
it does flow down hill.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
Bruce Cation Says
- The LEGAL Profession and Mass Production

There has been, in the last year
or so, an increasing movement on
the part of bar associations thru
out the United States to place
legal service on a rapid-turnover,
loW-cost basis for those who need
it. The aim of this movement is
the legal service bureau, an organi-
zation run by the bar to operate
on scale of moderate prices and
reaching the legal needs of low in
come groups.
The legal service bureau is
sharply distinguished from the
legal aid societies which furnish
free advice and service to those
persons unable to pay even a mod
crate fee for legal aid.
The movement represents the
first step of the legal profession
toward mass production, toward
Standardization of prices and serv-
ices. The legal service bureau be-
comes a shop where prices are set
in scale and the process of indus
trialization is applied to the law
for the first time.
It's a great break for the people
who have long needed legal sery-
ice at q moderate fee-the 'laborer.
the salaried man and the small
business man.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
WAR CHICKENS
HOME TO ROOST
{ Riverside Press


japanese chickens are coming home to rooSt
On Feb. ls there was a big riot in Parliament
at Tokyo, in which the speaker of the house
was beaten and spokesmen for the government
party headed by Prince Konoye were driven
from the floor. On the following day the opposi-
ton continued with leaders of the major parties
blocking discussion of the general mobilization
bill. There was booing, shouting and fist fight
ing.
These demonstrations are explained as intend
ing TO stop the Fascist regime which Konoye is
accused OF trying to establish. They were pre-
ceded by the invasion of the headquarters o.
the two leading political parties by alleged hench-
men of the premier
1t is plain that the strong popular groups
denied right to participate in the government,
in spite of repeated victories at the polls, are
getting their courage up again. They are fed
up" with the conduct of the minority group
which swept them into against China.
Doubtless they have been moved to action by
the fact that the Chinese drive has not gone
according to schedule. The war has turned out
TO be longer harder, more ambitious and much
more expensive than the public led to ex-
pect. Casualties have risen above 100000 of
which one third have been fatal. The daily
arrival of several hundred dead soldiers for
burial is depressing. 1t grows harder to raise
money. with the widening boycott against Japa-
neSe goods.
There may still be hope for China. A good
majority of Americans hope so, at least.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10

The announcement from Mexico that tariff
on American products has been boosted 100 TO
500 per cent came as a stunning blow to Secretary
of State Hull and his reciprocal trade program
The Latin-Amercan republics are becoming
industrial countries instead of merely agrieu-
tural countries, and they are getting rich ana
independent of foreign nations in the process.
They no longer merely provide raw materials for
industrial countries like the United States, Eng
land Italy and Germany TO manufacture into
commercial products and sell back to them at a
large profit. They are manufacturing their
own raw materials into their own needed prod
ucts and excluding foreign products by high
tariff.
Brazil and Argentina now manufacture their
own shoes, rubber goods, electric appliances
radios glass and paint, thereby providing work
for those not engaged in agriculture and STOCK
raising which at one time was the only source
of employment.
All this change from comparatively poor agrl-
cultural nations TO comparatively rich, indus
trial nations was accomplished in the Latlh-
American republics by means of high tariff. The
tariff condition of the United States at present
is very much like it was in 1884 when Grover
Cleveland was elected for the first time. Cleve-
land was elected on the platform, Tariff for
Revenue Only" Before he finished experiment
ing with free trade, he had to borrow money
in the time of peace to run the government.
alameda Times-Star)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10

Under plan recently devised
and proposed for use, such bu-
reau would offer service in lines
considerably specialized and there
fore almost routine for the attor-
neys handling them. They included
craftsmanship of various legal pa
pers cat standard prices obtain
able in advance; simple wills,
leases, contracts, handling of Ger
tain types of disputes, as wage an.I
rent controversies; garnishmentSs
claims for alimony, separate MAIN
tenance and support, mortgage
foreclosures, insurance claims, ac-
cident cases and some criminal
trials.
The bureaus, 1t was pointed out,
will handle many classes of cases
which are not being handled by
lawyers in private practice because
the money involved is too small
and the legal procedure too COM
licated-as services required by au-
tomobile owners in connection with
petty infractionS of the law or
damages to property.
Included in the Recommended
tions for the bureau were nota-
tions that the organization prob
ably would not be self-supportin2u
the first year or two but ther{
after would be entirely so, and there
were provisions for branch offices.
The recommendations tacitly
hinted that in this legal service
bureau young attorneys with crisp.
new diplomas could get sorely)
needed apprenticeship under the
supervision of experienced oldsters.
1t would give them living andl
training at the same time.
Many established attorneys will
hold, as counSelors have alWaySl
held, that the relationship of attor-
ney and client is extremely perl
sonal and confidential, and that
legal industrialization will destroy
in the bar that which has always
been its greatest attribute.
Carried to its farthest concl
sion the legal service bureau migih1
do that, but it seems clear the
originators of the plan aim to sci
limit to its functions. Lawyers
like all of us, are living in worle
that has changed, while the lega
profession is one of the slowest tt
change steps. The bar can progres.
honorably-without losing ont
single ideal.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
BOND REFUNDlNG
BY INDIRECTION

The recent ruling by Superior Judge
Emmett H. Wilson that the court has
Jurisdiction to determine the ability OF
taxpayers to meet installments on their
bonded Indebtedness is not complete
victory for the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict-but it is more of a victory for
the district than for the bondholders
who would like to force immediate pay
ment of all due obligations.
Judge Wilson, in effect, ruled thus:
The court cannot invalidate contracts
(bonds) between the district and the
bondholders by reducing either principal
or interest, but it can determine how
much the district is able to pay at one
time and order payment accordingly.
If nothing else were done-supposlng
that higher courts will uphold Judge
Wilson's ruling-the decision is vitally
important to Imperial Valley. 1t means,
in effect, that no technicality can be
used to force any municipal government
tai BODY to set a tax rate ruinous to the
community. 1t means that confiscatlon
bv taxation cannot be forced on any
community.
The ruling, it seems to us, is an entire
lv satisfactory one, especially because
il provides a new foundation for re-
funding negotiations between the dis
+rict and bondhOlderS
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

If you like people You are bless
ed with one of the most important
characteristics ever allotted to
man. If you like people, they will
like you.
Not so long ago a neighbor OF
mine went on a Great Adventure.
from which he is not coming back.
Shortly before, / attended a dinner
given by the Atlanta Journal, IN
Atlanta, Georgia. AT this dinner
were men who either knew my
neighbor personally. or knew OF
him: James R. Gray, editor; John
Paschall managing editor; o. b.
Keeler, sports and feature writer.
They seemed proud OF the fact that
my neighbor, Don Marquis, had
once worked on the Atlanta Jour-
nal and had been a neighbor OF
theirs. Mr.. Keeler read a poem OF
Dons. When he finished, l leaped
to my feet to say that Don lived
two doors from my own home.
There was just one reason why
we all wanted to claim acquaint-
anceship with Don Marquis. We
all liked him! Since his death, |
have noticed that every person
who has mentioned his name has
wanted to tell how long he knew
him. II only knew him a short
time. but | got to know him real
we'll" or, I've known Don forty
years, or twenty or ten.
A radio memorial was held for
Don a few days after his funeral.
Why? Because his friends wanted
still to feel his nearnesS.
Why was this man SO loved?
Here are a few of the reasons.
Don spent a summer at the
Lakewood Theatre in Maine, when
Howard Lindsay was in charge of
theatricals there. A few days after
his arrival, a clerk in the small
grocery store said;
They tell me Mr.. Margins is q
big man down in New York"
Yes, agreed his listener, "he
is.
Why, replied the clerk, "he
acts just like he was one of u.s."
Once after a remark of his,
which fell pleasantly on my ears,
said: Don, no wonder you are
so popular, you make all of us un-
important people feel SO impor-
tant." I wish I could convey to
you his sincerity as he looked at
me thoughtfully and said, We'll,
Dale, everybody is important"
Don Marquis wasn't born to
wealth or prominence. At the time
of his death his friends were or
ganizing a benefit for him. People
didn't claim friendship with Don
for what they could get out of
him. They just liked him-that
was all!
Someone asked him once how he
made so many friends. He replied
do I? Well, I usually like people
and they seem to like me- There
he plumbed the very bedrock of
friend-winning!
If you do not like people gen.
orally, there is one simple way of
cultivating the characteristic: just
look for good traits. You'll be sure
to find some.
Almost any sort of person can
cut a figure, but it takes brains to
cut melon.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
Ell Centre, California
IMPERIAL VALLEY POWER
PROJECT
Specification No. ! Size
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS


Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Directors of the Imperial
Irrigation District will receive bids
for furnishing labor and materials
and performing all work for the
construction of concrete foundations
and other structures for the addi-
tions to the Districts Diesel Power
Plant at Brawley, California; each
bid to be in accordance with Plans,
Detail Specifications and other con-
tract documents comprising Specifi-
cations No. 7, now on file at the
office of the Board of Directors of
Imperial Irrigation District at Ell
Centro, California, where they may
be examined and copies obtained
upon deposit of $1,000 per set, which
deposit will be refunded upon the
return of such copies in good con-
dition within five days after the
bids are opened.
The principal items of work in
volved are as follows:
100 Cubic yards of ex-
cavation;
1880 Cubic yards of back
fill:
$50 Cubic yards of con-
crete in foundations,
piers and floors;
Is Cubic yards of oiled
sand-pad foundation for
fuel oil storage tank;
and
Furnishing and placing
$4,000 pounds of REIN
forcement bars. s..,
Bidders attention is called to the
fact that the work to be done is
a part of power project to be
financed by a Loan and Grant to
the District from the Federal Emer-
gency Administration of Public
Works (P.W.A. Docket No. Calf.
1088-P-D), and the award of the
contract will be contingent upon
securing funds from such source.
Bidders are hereby notified that
pursuant to the statutes of the
State of California, or local law
thereto applicable, the Board of
Directors of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict has ascertained the general
prevailing rate of per diem wages
and rates for legal holiday and
overtime work in the locality in
which. this work is to be perform
ed, for each craft or type of work.
man or mechanic needed to execute
the contract which will be awarded
the successful bidder.
The prevailing rates so determin-
ed are as follows: