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ing, owner and builder; Harvey P.
Baxter. architect; to erect II 2
story brick dwellings, 1908, 1910, 1912,
1916, 1918, 1920, 1924, 1926, 1880, 1882
and 1884 Twenty-first street Sc;
to cost $4,000.
Mike Asha. ZIG Southern Building,
owner and builder: H. w. Gaines,
designer; to erect eight 2-story brick
and cinder block dwellings, 224 to
238 Division avenue NE; to cost
$4,000.
c. M. Wallingsford, 1910 Vermont
avenue NV. owner and builder;
George T. Santmyers, architect; to
erect four 2-story brick and cinder
block dwellings. 1894 Ritchie place
NE: to cost $4,000.
Antonitta Pellegrino, 4617 Forty
first street NV, owner; w. j. Blank
enbaker, 1904 c street NE, designer
and builder; to erect one 2-story
brick and cinder block store and
apartments g units, 4611 Forty
first street NV; to cost $4,000
Louis Miller, 81 K street NV,
owner, designer and builder; to
erect two 2-story brick dwellings,
5409-541l Forty-first street NV;
to cost $500 each.
Saul Gordon, 21O4 New York ave-
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Good Circulation
Important Factor
In Home Design
Family Needs Privacy
And Enough Room
To Get About

Improvement in home designs to
provide for better Circulation" OF
people and air within them is being
studied by leading architects, build
ers and home-flnancing institu-
tions, according to an article in the
June issue of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Review. the official or
gan Of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board.
Good circulation in a residence
Is as important as good circula-
ton in the human body, but too
many small homes are being built
without proper attention to this
primary factor to health and hap
piness, the review pointed out.
Good circulation is the keynote
to privacy and does much to avoid
family friction" according to one
small-house designer quoted in the
review.
Difficult to Visualize.
Because of the reduced dimen-
eions and concentrated use of space
in a small house, the provision for
short, straight, uncrowded floor
space in which to move within a
room, or from one room to an
other, is of great Importance. With
good circulation family life can
flow smoothly even in very small
quarters. Without it, no one has
enough space and housekeeping be-
comes complicated and irksome
burden that even the most modern
labor saving household conveniences
cannot overcome"
1t was conceded that the appor-
tionment of wall space for furni-
ture placement, the location of win
dows in relation to furniture groups
and the proper amount of free
space that should be left around
furniture are difficult factors for the
layman to visualize from a blue
print or even from the completed
or unfurnished house
No Prescribed Formula.
Unfortunately, it is not possible
to reduce their consideration to a
prescribed formula said the re-
view. Space requirements are def
nitely influenced by local conditions
prejudices and the manner of liv-
ing of the individuals who occupy
the dwelling now or who may oc-
cupy 1t in the future. The answer
as to whether or not particular
design gives adequate consideration
to these problems may require the
services of competent technicfan
who is skilled in such analyses. -
The review pointed out that one
authority on small house designs
has stated that "the best designed
house plans will produce undesirable
property unless the physical char
acteristics of the location upon
which the dwelling is to be con-
structed have been taken into con-
sideration" Technically known as
"orientation," this process involves
the appraisal of such factors as ex-
posure to sun and wind, topography
convenient access to the street and
garage, and privacy.
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nue. NV, owner; Evan j. Conner
designer; Banks g. Lee, Inc.
Woodward Building. builders; to
erect one 2-story brick and cinder
block store and apartment, 2l06 E
street NV; to cost $4,000.
La Sale Park Corp, 1920 K street
NV, owners and builders; Schreier
& Patterson, architects; to erect
two 2-story brick dwellings, 1909
1913 Varnum street NE; to cost
$4,000.
Joseph M. Stanley, 5513 Broad
Branch road NV. owner and build
er; Kirkhuff g. Bagley, designers;
to erect one 2-story brick and Gin
der block dwelling, 1915 Upshur
street NV; to cost $1,000.
J. Dallas Grady, 1104 Vermont
avenue NV, owner and builder;
George T. Santmyers, architect; to
erect one 2-story brick and cinder
block fiat. 1912 Harvard street NV;
to cost $4,000.
Simon Beloff. 1908 New York ave-
nue. NV. owner and builder: A. S
j. Atkinson, architect; to erect one
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circle NV, pastor; Maginnis Il
Walsh. architects; Charles j. Cas-
sidv Co., Inc, 1907 Eleventh street
NV, builders; to erect one 1-story
stone addition, Is Grant circle NV,
to cost $1,000.
Jacob and Edith Kolker, PAIL
Fourteenth street NE, owners; Max
Barth, architect; Joseph Hopkinson,
47O0 Brandywine street NV, build
er; to erect one 2-story brick and
cinder block dwelling, 1851 Morri-
son street NV, to cost $1,000.
Max and Sarah Barth, l4O5 Som
erset place NV, owners; Max
Barth, architect; Joseph Hopkinson,
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2-story brick dwelling. 1911 Decatur
street NV; to cost $4,000.

2-story brick dwelling, 1911 Decatur
street NV; to cost $4,000.
Herman c. Davis, owner; Grahame
Finlayson, designer; Robert A. Gra-
hame Co., 1924 K street NV, build
ers; to erect one 2-story brick dwell
ing. 4600 Warren street NV; to cost
$4,000.
Edward c. Cox, 1927 I street NV,
owner; David A. Sills, designer; Co.
lonial Construction Co.. 1927 I street
NV, builder: to erect one 2-story
brick dwelling, 2117 Thirty-fourth
st. Sc, to cost $1,000.
Misses c. E. and A. F. Swaziek,
1905 Tenth street NV. owners; l..
B. Turner, Arlington, Va, designer
and builder; to erect one 2-story
brick and cinder block dwelling 47O1
Alton place NV, to cost $8,700.
Mr.. and Mrs Daniel r. Cohn, 2735
Connecticut avenue NV, owners:
Edmund w. Dreyfuss, designer;
builder not given: to erect one q
story brick and cinder block dwell
ing, 5000 Thirty first street NV, to
cost s8,75O.
Rev. John M. Mcnamara, 26 Grant
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designer; M. Cladny Construction
Co., 635 F street NV, builders;
apply marble facing, 414 Seventh
street NV; to cost $1,000.
Rudolph Schneider and Dermot
Nee, owners; Harold Hambright, 6112
Seventh place NV, builder; to make
repairs, 622 Fl street NV; to cost
81 1000.
s. Dolan Donohue, 3O14 Thirty
second street NV, owner; M. s.
May, architect: Henry j. Conner
Inc, 726 Jackson place NV, build
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ers; to make repairs, 3014 Thirty
second street NV; to cost 81 900.
F. M. Davenport, 5000 Parkside
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lane NV, owner and builder; to =
erect brick addition to garage, 5000
Parkside lane NV; to cost $1,000.
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$4l Per Month

Including Interest, Principal, Toxes and lnsuror
TO REACH: From traffic light on
Georgia Auenue in Sluer Spring,
drive up the Colesuille Road direct
to Woodmoor. Just beyond Indian
Spring Club.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
CRIME PREVENTION
AND CONSCIENCE
Porterville Recorder)

From one of Americas greatest author-
tiles on crime and criminal detection, J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, comes express
sion of the hope for the day when every
man, woman and child will be impelled
by the force of conscience to abide by the
spirit of the law, rather than. be driven
to abide by the letter of the law imposed
to correct abuses that would not exist
if justice prevailed.
When man as accustomed to the ways
of the underworld, through his profess
sional duties. can voice such a wish as
this, it must be that redemption of the
wicked is not impossible.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
has been and is a great power for crime
prevention through its work in breaking
up organized gangs of bandits, bank rob-
bers. confidence men, hdnapers, counter
feiters and other crime nests.
Under the relentless pursuit of such
violators of the law, activities of kidnap-
ers and bank robbers have declined over
80 per cent in the past seven years. Of
the l52 eases of kidnapping that have
been handled by FBI since the federal
kidnapping law was enacted in 1882, all
but two have been completely solved, and
other two. the Levine and Mattson cases.
still are being followed Mr. Hoover is
confident these mysteries also will be
cleared.
During the past decade more than
$4,000 notorious criminals have been ap
pretended and convicted by this federal
bureau.
The cost of crime is heavy, greater it
is said than the national tax bill But the
cost of operating FBI is offset almost
four TO one by the recovery of stolen
money and goods.
Give more thought and energy to crime
prevention and the cure of the causes
of lawlessness, Mr. Hoover advises, in
stead of being forever combating it. once
it is rampant. Sound policy that, and a
ringing challenge to the home, the church,
the school, the social welfare agency and
its numerous branches.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
Bruce Cation in WashinQton
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON Officially, the
United Automobile Workers strike
against General Motors in the De-
troit Cleveland area is not yet be-
fore the National Labor Relations
Board. Unofficially. people at the
board will admit that an extraor-
dinary complex problem is being
dumped III the boards lap.
Although General Motors. some
weeks ago. took advantage of the
new regulation adopted by the
board and asked for an election
to determine whether the c. I. o.
or A. F. of L. wing of the Auto
Workers should be the bargaining
agent for its employees, that petit
ton was filed with the boards
regional office in Detroit.
1t has not yet reached Washing
ton, and immediate action on the
request is not in prospect I the
past. an average of from so to 50
days has elapsed between the filing
OF a petition and the holding OF
hearings.
But even assuming that the Pc
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
A NATIONAL EMERGENCY
(RiVerside Press J

When an emergency arises, the Ameri-
can people act.
When an epidemic strikes, the nation
mobiliZes to conquer it.
When flood, fire or hurricane roar
across the country, millions of dollars
and trainloads of food and clothing pour
into the stricken area.
If an enemy invaded our shores, every
one of US would rush to the defense
Today we are faced with national
emergency as great as any of these
greater, in fact because it is less spec
tacular and arouses less alarm.
A lot of us have had the SNUG idea that
we had the traffic problem whipped. Last
year the nation cut its death toll 10 per
cent. This year started out the same way.
Then something happened We started
stepping on the gas and jaywalking
again. Accidents shot up. The safety drive
faltered, then begged down.
And in June, the National Safety Coun-
ell reports, the traffic death toll went up
for the first time in 20 months.
In June alone, 1880 people were killed
on streets and highways. Eighty thou
sand others were injured. And the heavy
vacation months still are to be heard
from
Is that an emergency or not?
Your help is needed-needed Just as
much as in fire or flood.
Not your money. Not your time Not
your services.
Just little common horse sense when
you drive and walk
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
CALExICO FACES
THE FACTS

II more city councils had the courage
displayed by Calexieo municipal trus-
tees, taxpayers would have less ground
Tor complaint and city administration
would be far less subject to charges of
political spending
Faced with the possibility of a Sl3,500
defieit-a possibility that was pretty
near certainty-the CaleXco city coun-
Gil sharpened pencils, examined expense
Items, and decided to pare costs within
the administration.
The time-honored method would have
been to accept the deficit with hope
less shrug and pass the bill on to the
taxpayers. Hearty congratulations are
due the border city councilmen because
they took the other method-the method,
by the way, which any business house
would have to take in similar circum-
stances
There is this difference between
private business enterprise and munic-
ipal corporation. The private business
cannot boost its revenue merely by rails
ing the price of its goods If it does
people stop buying the goods. The munic-
ipal corporation. on the other hand, can
hike its receipts by boosting its tax rate
The taxpayer can strike, of course, but
if he does he will lose his property. A
in operation If all municipal corpora
tons did the same thing, city admins
tration would be far more efficient.
The test in CaleXico will be in the re-
suits achieved. Taxpayers in the border
city, thankful at the prospect their rates
will not be increased, should bear in mind
one thing: The city council there has
avoided a big increase in taxes only by
stringent economies within the admins
tration-and such stringent economies
do not go along with increased services
The CaleXican who wants the city to in
crease its services in any direction should
stop for Just moment to ponder the
thought that the councilmen cannot stick
with an economy program if the people
they represent continually demand more
expensive service.
Members of the Calexico city council
are doing all they can to save their peo-
pie money. In any such program their
greatest need is for the support of the
taxpayers they are trying to help.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11

slices OF cold meat, Occasionally
she has some canned fruit.
For dinner, she has approximately
the same kind and amount of food
that she has for breakfast or lunch
This woman came to New York
years ago to make her living as
an artist In those days, she had
to watch every penny. Yet now
that she has millions she eats nc
more food and no better food
than she did when she was poor
Stingy? Oh no. not that She wants
to keep her trim figure. And she
doesn't have much of an appetite
When she first came to New
York, she could afford to rent but
one room. But her husband left
her six story house on Fifth
Avenue home that cost Sl85,-
600, a house decorated with Gobe-
lin tapestries, rugs, and antiques
worth a fortune. Yet she wants
to sell the house, dismiss her help
and go back to living in an apart
ment with one room and a kit
chenette.
She could travel everywhere and
live in the most luxurious hotels,
but she doesn't. She spends every
summer painting flowers on a Mas
sachusetts farm.
With all her millions, is she any
better off than you or I? She can
sleep in only one bed at a time.
She can wear only one dress at
a time. She can't listen to any bet
ter radio programs than you or
can. She probably doesn't eat as
much as you or | do. And you and
I could spend our spare time paint
ing flowers if we wanted to.
Why don't you and I appreci-
ate what we have instead of long
ing for something we can't get?
Do you have youth? Thank God
for it. 1 know woman who would
give ten million dollars if she could
only be young again. Do you have
healthy children? Thank God for
that for I know one of the wealth.
lest men in America who would
gladly pay all of his millions to
anyone who could give a normal
brain to his feeble minded child.
Do you think you would be happy
if you lived in a place and ruled
over one fifth of all the people on
this earth? A king who did just
that, recently gave it all up be-
cause he insisted on having what
you and I already have the right
to marry the person we love.
Let me beg YOU to stop envying
people and be grateful for the
many things you have to be thank
full for Why not reach for a pen
Gil now and write on the margin
OF this paper list of those things?
If you will, you will probably be
bit happier for the balance of to-
day; and that is what all of us
are seeking-happiness.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
CONTRADICTION WITHIN
THE TAX LAWS

Many statewide movements have start
ed in Imperial Valley, so it is not too
much to hope that the activities of
committee recently appointed by the
county board of supervisors will start
another such movement The committee
is made up of attorneys representing
every incorporated city in Imperial Val
ley. It's purpose is to find some cooper
ative method by which delinquent city
tax property may be returned to the tax
rolls.
The situation now is this: city property
more than five years delinquent in taxes
has become state property under tax
titles, and the state levies rents on the
property where it can. Neither the city
government nor the county government
has any share in these rents They all
go TO the state
The contradition is this: the state
levies no tax against such property. The
tax under which it assumes title is tax
levied by the county, but is known in Of
ficial records as the state and county"
tax Thus, when the county loses tax
revenue from the property, it loses every
chance to realize any return from it. So
does the city The state, on the other
hand, while it realized nothing from the
property while it was on the tax rolls,
begins to collect rents when the property
goes delinquent.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11

The suggestion of a Cleveland
grand jury that a course in morals
be given in the public schools has
been attracting no end of attention
1t should For if the country ano
the world today need anything
it is a sharpening up of dulleo
moral senses.
But it does not follow that the
public schools are necessarily the
best place to bring about this re-
vival. The reason is obvious. MOI
everybody agrees on what is mora
and what is immoral. Practically
everyone agrees that two and two
are four, that Observation-Disclosures
tarianism is spelled antidisestlish-
mentarianism, and that ST. Louis
is roughly due north of New Or
leans.
But question three men about
the morality involved In quaffing
a tall, cool mint julep. One will say,
1T is an immoral act" The second
will say, ut is not immoral, but it
is :. r2st unwise." And the third
will say, at is not only quite mo-
raj, but good idea to boot" In
short, there is no general agree
fnent on the moral involved In this
quite simple act.
Therein lies the danger in trying
to set up program Of moral teach
ing in the public schools. The more
specific it is, the harder 1t is
to arrive at program that will not
conflict with specific ideas of mo-
rails held by devotees of various
religions sects; and creeds. 1t
would have to be confined to the
most elemental and generally ac-
cepted principles.
Ohio's education director, E. N.
Dietrich commented that the public
schools are already teaching mo-
rails. "It should be taught In every
thing we do. 1t isn't necessary to
have special course
And of course that is true, too
Pupils cannot go to school together
nor study anything worthwhile
under discipline. without learning
something about morals Some edu-
Gators believe morals are one thing
that cannot be taught, but which
must be learned in association with
others.
Many educators and penologists
Immediately suggested that trying
to reduce crime among youth by
moral teaching would never achi-
eve as much as improvement In
economic conditions, elimination o
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11

tition will presently get formally
before the board. no one can guess
what the board will do with it
The regulation says that an en-
ployer may. ask an election in any
case where two or more labor
groups claim a majority of his
workers. The catch in this case
is that neither the c. I. o. nor
the A. F. of L. group claims a
majority Neither faction wants
an election, now. each one appar-
emily wishing to make sure of its
position before facing a show
down
Suppose an election is held, how
ever. If the precedent set in the
Chrysler decision. just handed down,
is followed, the result might easily
be that the c.. I. o. group would
become the official bargaining a
gent in some General Motors plants
and the A. F.. of L. group would
attain that position in others.
For, in the Chrysler case, the
board has ruled that the individ-
ual plant is the proper bargaining
unit. This is regarded as a dis
tinct victory for the A. F.. of L.,
the C. l. O.. having insisted that
the chain of Chrysler plants should
constitute one all-inclusive bar
gaining unit.
The Chrysler case. however, was
not parallel to the General Motors
case, since, in the former, the elec-
ton was demanded by the unions.
The U. A. w. split took place in
January of this year; since that
time, .Chrysler has refused to rec
ognize either wing as sole collec-
tive bargaining agent, and the case
was brought before the board by
the unions.
One unexpected angle of the Ge"
neral Motors strike, as far as labor
circles here are concerned is the
cohesiveness which the C. l. O.-U.
A. w has maintaied under some
what unsual conditions.
The scrap involves only the tool
and die makers, who are a rela-
lively small group within the union
and who are seeking an adjustment
and since the tool and die makers
in their wage rate.
Since preparations for the 1910
production season are under way
occupy key position, their strike
where it is effectiye-closes down
the entire production line and
closes jobs to their fellow unionists
who are not on strike at all.
Because the production line men
are in big majority, the expec-
tation was that they would speed
lily get tired of this arrangement
and would put pressure on the tool
and die men to settle things SO
that they could ge back to work.
In the main, however, that has
not happened. One labor man back
from Detroit says that the most
surprising thing he has seen is the
way the production line men have
supported the tool and die makers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Moral Teaching Needed; Who's to Do 1t?

bad housing, providing jobs and ade-
quate recreation facilities, and allie
Walton of sheer porerty. These breed
crime faster than any moral teach
ing can eliminate it.
The interest aroused by this
grand jury's suggestion, however,
is such as to suggest that many,
many people realize the problem.
Certainly it is not one to be
laughed off or ignored, for the mo-
rails of this old world and it's people
have been one of its primary pro-
blems since Noah, and probably
long before Everybody and every
institution which can make real
contribution to better personal and
national morals today is fighting
an old battle, but necessary one.