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Evening star., 1939-09-09
July Home Financing
In District Shows
1904 Mortgages
BOB New Dwelling
Units Planned, About
Same as Lost Year

r,,v home financing activity In
The district totaled $4,754, 900 with
! oe4 home mortgages being recoroea
bv all types of lenders, ofnclals OF
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board
reported today. BY lending groups
the figures were: .
sayinss sIon: and loan .ssoe'a 4s2 sacss ooo cSS
Banks. and trust COM 81 5oe. 900
Individuals ----------- $S5d $Sd 1.ooiIo,,SSS oIS,SSSS
Tot Total figures were the equivalent
of so77 per capita (non-farmD.
The division of research and sta
tistics of the board complies the
recordings monthly with the CO.
operation of o. K. La Rogue, presl-
dent of the Federal Home Loan
BANK of Winston-Salem; savings
and loan executives in all the
States; the Mortgage Bankers AS
sociation, and the American Title
Association.
3O3 New Dwelling Units.
New dwelling units built or plan
ned in the District in July numbered
3O3 and cost S1,148,800. These tlg-
ures compare with 301 units built
at a cost of $1,277,000 in July, 1888.
Board statisticians based these flg-
ures on building permits reported 10
the United States Department OF
Labor.
Home financing activity in the
various cities and towns in Virginia
In July totaled $7,79l 900 with 2,o3l
home mortgages being recorded. BY
lending groups, the figures were:
SAVINGS and loan associa- ono e,.sa ooo
Insurance companies 27s 1,375ooo
Bank panies snd n- trus. COM sss els,oooooo y ooo
individuals ---------IIIffss Ifs z 5sf 5s9 600 600
Total figures were the equivalent
of $3.50 per capita non-farm).
New dwelling units built or plan
ned in Virginia cities OF 10000
population or over in July numbered
332 and cost $1,163, ZOO. These flg-
ures compare with 2O8 units built at
a cost of 1862 200 in July, 1888.
MdTyldHu olo"sA'
July home financing activity IN
the various cities and towns in
Maryland totaled $5,081 900 with
! 600 home mortgages recorded. BY
lending groups, the figures were:
Number. Amount.
eaci5iSS ciations sNo Won Jos S.. 5s1 900
Insurance companies 40 Zoo'ooo
Banks and trust COM o,o
panies --------,-- -2. SSt'noU Snnn
Mutual savings banks ID lS.UUoUoo
Individuals =! .S2.Uonuu
Others iol 4l1,Wuu
Total figures were the equivalent
OF 1884 per capita non-farm).
New dwelling units built or plan
ned in Maryland cities of 10000
population or over in July numbered
167 and cost S552,0O0. These figures
compare with 1874 units built at
cost of 1922, 100 in July, 1888.
Evening star., 1939-09-09

Editors note-For further in
formation about products de-
scrfbed here, write the Misses
Ducas and Gordon, 230 West
Forty first street, New York City,
and inclose stamped, self lad
dressed envelope.
Evening star., 1939-09-09

are over This compact unit, with
walls Of. metal and leak-proof pre-
cast cement and stone composition
floors, fits into q minimum amount
OF space. Installation charges are
reduced to very little, because no
expensive wall or floor changes are
necessary. Your remodeling may be
q matter Of hours instead of weeks.
The unit Is divided into three
parts-at one end, the toilet inclos-
ure; at the other, the shower cabinet,
and in between the two a panel on
which Is hung the lavatory and mir
ror. The side opposite this panel is
open, with merely q handrail to
hold the two Enclosures together,
from which curtain may be hung.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Veterans Pensions

American veterans of the World
War are not forgotten men," Such
Is the judgment of Stephen F. Chad
wick, national commander of the
American Legion, who has let it be
known among his comrades that he
is opposed to a movement for gen.
eral service pensions.
In letter sent to Legion officials
throughout the country, Mr.. Chad
wick has declared that "ill-consid-
cred and ill-tempered resolutions"
are being circulated by persons mo-
tivated by "the thought of possible
personal financial benefit" in utter
disregard for the national legislative
program Of the Legion. These reso-
lutions, he insists, may create op-
position to the continuance of priv
ileges which the veterans already
enjoy. Eleven billion dollars has
been spent in their behalf since 1918.
The appropriation for the Veterans
Administration for the fiscal year
1910 is 1851 $4,000. Any campaign
for pensions now, he said, might en-
danger "the high favor and stand
ing with the Anglican public" which
Evening star., 1939-08-11
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1peH,

Spanish music is coming into its own
IN the United States with the publicity
given all music by the radio and a great
increase in recent years Of travel to
Mexico and the Argentine, in particular.
The term is not an exact one-prob-
ably Spanlsh-type music would be better.
1t refers to the rumba, the tango, the
paso doble, conga, carioca, waltz-with
dif1erence-samba. butuque, calypso,
flamenco, seguidilla, bolera, and many
more.
They come from Cuba, Spain, Mexico,
the Argentine, the Island of Trinidad,
and many other places. They have vari-
GUS rhythms, but one and all have mel
ody. They have a curiously complex, but
essentially simple, way about them from
the stately to the ultra lively, but all are
set apart by mood of joyousness at all
times close to tears.
The guitar is the essential accom-
paniment Happily this fine instrument
has been coming into its own, too, in
recent years. Once regarded solely, at
least in this country, as part of man
dolin and guitar orchestra, today it is
accepted as an essential rhythm maker
OF dance bands, and on its own as solo
instrument with vivid coloring all its
own In the great world of musical
instruments.
Now there is no instrument at once
akin to tears, as the guitar.
Have you ever heard a really good
performer play the Spanish fandango in
the night?
We will not refer to the so-called steel
guitar, as developed by the Hawaiians
That is musical world of its own, with
its own distinctive flavor, catching up
the sea and the stars and the lights
in Womens eyes.
Spanish-type music Is something else,
from the songs of the Spanish gypsies,
the flamenco, redolent with the smoke of
campfires, to the happy rustic of the
rumba, or rhumba, as you please, the
languorous sway OF the Argentinian
tango, thence Partisan tango, to the
happy, capricious samba of Brazil, with
its women's voices like little childrens,
catching somehow the very CLINT of the
Southern sunshine.
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The wonderful thing about all of these
types of music from that of Old Spain to
the various New SPANS" of the New
World, is the beautiful melody.
The longer one studies this music, the
surer he becomes that it is the most
melodious music in all the world
A large statement, that, surely.
Every nation has its folk tunes. from
the gay to the sad, causing the feet to
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Byrd-Price Troubles

Political observers In Virginia be-
lieve there Is much significance in
the visit of Governor Price to the
White House to discuss with Presi-
dent Roosevelt the results of the
primary that was held in the Old
Dominion on August l. They believe
there is much food for thought, too,
in the Governors remarks to the
press after his talk with the
President.
AS he left the White House. Mr..
Price said the President had ex-
pressed general satisfaction" with
the outcome of the primary. He was
also quoted as stating that, Il had
control OF the Legislature last year
with less friendly membership than
I will have in the new Legislature. !"
Subsequently, Governor Price denied
having used the word control" and
said he might make a corrective
statement later.
The primary was watched for signs
OF the relative strength between the
Democratic organization headed by
Senator Byrd and the party faction
led by Governor Price The result.
according to most impartial observ-
ers, was not conclusive, both sides
seeing some of their supporters tri-
umph and others meet defeat. In
fact, the results were so inconclusive
that it is difficult for either side to
dispute the claim of the other If it
chooses to view the balloting with
general satisfaction.
Meanwhile, some questions can,
and have been asked. These cues
tions include:
What is the Presidents interest in
purely local primary involving no
national issues?
What, If any, plans have the Presi-
dent and Governor Price which re-
quire consultation and analysis of
the primary's results?
Will Governor Price become a can
didate against Senator Byrd when
the latter comes up for reelection
in 1910?
In view of the New Deals attempts
to purge critics Of the Byrd type,
such queries are pertinent. But only
speculative answers can be obtained
for many months to come, for Gov
ernor Price can hardly be expected
to reveal his aspirations until after
the 1910 session of the Virginia
Legislature. His ambitions may be
shaped largely by the results of that
session.
Evening star., 1939-08-11

dance, and the heart to rejoice and then
grow sad. No land has a monopoly on
these simple, yet inherently melodic
ideas of the people.
A careful listening over a sufficient
length of time, will convince any hearer,
We believe, that, song for song, no music
Is quite as wonderfully melodic as this
which We call freely Spanish music
La Paloma," old and hackneyed as it
is, is perfect, but it is only one type.
There are many more, and some so
strange that it is necessary for the
musical mind, probably brought up on
symphonies and fox trots-strange bed
felloWs-to direct the ears to listen care
fully for long time before the music
censor OF the individual will permit it
to be taken in at its full worth.
Once this is done, the listener will have
a secret JOY, all the more happy because
he knows he has overstepped narrowly
nationalistic lines-yes music unfortu-
nately has them-and stepped squarely
into the beauty of another peoples ex-
perience
The busy rustic of the rumba, for in
stance, is like nothing else on earth.
Once you fall under the sway of it, you
have new musical experience, which
makes the soul prick up it's ears every
time it hears the clack of the maracas,
gourd filled with seeds.
The happy discovery, in all this Span
ish business, Is that there is nothing but
complete musical satisfaction in all this
music, whatever its type; 1t has real
character and a genuine beauty beneath
It's rustic and sway which appeals mostly
to the real musician. That is why all
music is filled with echoes of it, in a
thousand different ways. You will find
1t IN symphony and opera, in popular
hits in the most unexpected places and
ways.
once the glamour of the prolerlv
played tango gets into your music blood
you have something, musically speaking.
you never had before. Here is a music
whose invention is boundlesS. 1t ranges
from the snappy to the sad from the
SPIRITED march to the gentle lullaby. all
IN the one form. Just how it is achieved,
II Is impossible TO say, nor can it be mi
tated, except heavily, by non-Spanish
peoples.
We think this glorious music, in it's
many forms-and We have named onlv
few OF them-pleads heavily for these
peoples against all that may be charged
against them.
This is the better side of them. which
speaks to us in many singing melody,
wrought out of sunshine and tears.
fraught with stardust and moonbeams,
speaking the dream of all lands for ham
pness and peace for all peoples in a
world where "only man is vile"
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Moneuverinq for Position

The recent exchanges of verbal
shots between the President and his
Democratic opponents in Congress
are merely preliminary skirmishes to
the first of two big battles Mr.. Roose-
welt knows he will have to fight if he
is to protect his New Deal from what
promises to be an attack in force
during the political war now in the
making.
During the 1885 campaign the
President had but one foe to worry
about-the Republicans. But next
year his first major engagement will
be with the conservative Democrats,
and no one knows better than Mr..
Roosevelt that the New Deal will be
doomed if that fight is lost, regard
less of which party carries the No
vember elections. That being true,
it is not surprising to find both sides
already maneuvering for favorable
positions.
Mr.. Roosevelt, characteristically
enough, is carrying the fight to his
opponents, but whether all of his
lieutenants indorse that strategy is
open to question. The President, for
example, in accusing his opposition
of gambling" on the future, made it
clear that he was talking about what
he called coalition" of Democrats
and Republicans. Only a few days
before, Secretary of Agriculture WAL
lace had denounced House members
who voted against $119OOO,OOO item
in the third deficiency bill for the
Commodity Credit Corporation. But
when he was asked whether he was
talking about Democrats as well as
Republicans, he answered that he
had reference only to the Repub-
IcanS. The President probably did
not concur in that view at the time;
certainly he does not share it now.
With Congress adjourned, the New
Deal Is safe for the time being from
further attacks from that direction
and cannot regain the legislative
ground already lost. That being the
case, Mr.. Roosevelt obviously has no
choice but to make the best Of the
defeats suffered during the session
while preparing to use to greatest
advantage the political weapon that
will be his If economic conditions
Should get worse instead of better.
Until the showdown comes, each
side may be expected to continue this
verbal maneuvering to win the sup
port OF public opinion. That is the
reason for the charges and counter
charges that have been and will be
made, and they should be recognized
for what they area prelude to the
real battle which is yet to come.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Prayer for Awureness

stood upon hilltop in the dawn :
And watched the sun come famine
through the mist;
saw the snow-white gulls 20 skimmina.
down
A sea OF opaline and amethyst.
I breathed the freshness and the devr
cool; :
And suddenly made little prayer: =
Dear God. the world you made
beautiful. .
And Oh. the mornings are so fair, 60
fair!"
"Oh help me that never may forget :
To note the grace Of days: the cleaning
noon;
The peace Of days; the jeweled nights
soft Jet; .
The splendor Of the clouds, the stars. M
moon' sss :
s$se4 .
sharpen my senses daily that see ~ Z
Their fullest beauty; give my soul rebirxn. !.
Nor ever let me grow too dull to bessa
Aware Of all this loveliness Of earth. +" T
= MARION H. ADDINGTON. :
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Replies to Wallace on
Stakeholder Voting.
To the Editor of The Star.


In his Chicago address on Monday,
Secretary Wallace is reported as hav-
ing said:
Il sometimes wonder what our cor
ginning they had been organized like
co-operatives, with each stockholder
having only one vote regardless of how
many shares of stock he held and with
voting by proxy barred"
Without undertaking to trace the
history of voting practices which have
been employed in stock corporations, or
to state what they were in the begin
ming, or the notifications which have
since occurred and the reasons for
them, it can be said with some certainty
that there are such fundamental diff
ferences between the status of a MEM
ber in cooperative and stockholder
In corporation that what may be a
fair and sound voting principle in the
one instance would be totally unjust
and destructive one in the other.
1t is not difficult to show what would
be the result II the voting doctrine
which Mr.. Wallace inferentially appears
to favor should now be applied to the
business corporation, since what has
occurred through applying the same
principle in our general elections is
fully apparent.
Inasmuch as the voting strength
would then lodge in those contributing
least to the corporation, and having
the least appreciation of successful
management and of the ramif1cations
of the effects of bad management, .
class of politicians would rapidly apply
the peculiar talents of their caste to
the end of obtaining control of private
corporations.
Before the date set for taking the
record Of stockholders to vote at the
meeting, the names of a phalanx of
holders Of single shares would appear
upon the books Of the corporation
0ater to disappear until again wanted
and politicians having them under
control would herd them to the meet
ing where they would elect such per-
sons to corporate Office as their political
masters determined The persons
through whose capacity and service the
business Of the corporation had been
conceived and developed would be dis
regarded and displaced.
The motive to operate the business
with that efficiency which would not
only provide for the welfare of the
employees but which would produce an
income to the stockholders as such be-
ing disregarded, profits would decline
until they became negligible-if they
| existed ct all Thsk Is to say gross
Evening star., 1939-08-11
If War Comes

WHen tne Unlted states went to
war in 1917 the country was in lam
entable state of unpreparedness.
Many vital months were lost while
an army was being raised and
equipped and while the Nations in
dustries were being whipped into
shape to support our own combat
units, as we'll as those of our allies
The lessons taught by the unhappy
experience of that time were costly
but they gave birth to the resolve
to be ready if threatened with in
volvement in another war.
1t was in furtherance of that reso-
luton that the Army and Navy yes
terday announced the appointment
OF a new War Resources Board to
function in peacetime in an advisory
capacity to the Army and Navy Mu-
nitions Board. The appointment is
significant in two respects.
First, it means that the members
OF the board will have an opportunity
to familiarize themselves with the
highly important functions they
would be expected to exercise in event
OF an international emergency, when
the board would lose it's semi official
status and become an executive
agency with broad powers over the
country's industry. In other words,
by reason of the present appoint
ment, the board members, if war
should be declared, will have inti-
mate knowledge of the details of the
highly important work before them
and will be able to undertake it with
a minimum Of delay.
1t is also worthy of note that the
appointees are men Of great distinc-
ton In private life. Headed by Ed
ward R. Stettinius, jr., chairman of
the board of United States Steel, the
new agency is composed OF DR.. Karl
T. Compton, president of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology:
Walter S. Clifford, president of the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Company; John Lee Pratt, a director
OF General Motors Corporation; Gen.
eral Robert E. Wood, chairman of
Sears, Roebuck & Company, and DR..
Harold G. Moulton, president of the
Brookings Institution. One has but
to read the list of names to realize
that better qualified men could not
have been found and, of perhaps even
greater Importance, that political
considerations played no part in their
selection.
Appointment of the War Resources
Board is, of course, but one phase of
this country's preparedness program.
The Army, Navy and Air Corps are
being strengthened with all feasible
dispatch. Legislation already has
been drafted for immediate presen-
tation to Congress In event Of war to
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Pilot Truinino

After jeopardizing the success Of
the first year Of the civil pilot train
ing program by delaying unduly the
appropriation Of necessary funds,
Congress finally has given the Civil
Aeronautics Authority "go ahead"
signal by appropriating $4,OOOOOO for
the flight training of some 10000
young Americans, after the Senate
had refused to agree to House re-
duction Of the amount to $3,0OO,OOO.
AS a result of the congressional
delay, the c. A. A., participating COL
leges and universities and qualified
civil flying instructors who must
shoulder the tremendous load of this
revolutionary new program have lit
tie more than a month left in which
to prepare for the opening of the
new school term, instead of the many
months they should have had to pre-
pare for so great a task.
Since human safety and lives are
involved, however, there can be no
short cuts taken in the vast amount
of preliminary work which must be
completed before actual flight train
ing can begin. Fortunately, no one
realizes this more keenly than the
officials of the c. A. A. who will be
in charge of the program. They are
insisting upon safety as paramount
consideration. Any delays in the ac-
tual beginning of training of the
students who are intended to provide
a national reservoir of partially
trained pilots for the military serv-
ices in case Of emergency, therefore,
should not be blamed upon the
c. A. A. but, rightly, upon failure of
Congress to take action months ago.
The civil pilot training program
represents new policy for this Ma
ton. Foreign nations, especially the
totalitarian states, have for some
years engaged in the aeronautical
training of their youth on great
scale, however, and in view of the
troubled state of world affairs it was
inevitable that some similar form of
training would be adopted here to
bolster our air defense program.
Aside from It's military implica-
tions, however, the civil pilot pro-
gram should be of reaching value
to this country, through it's stimu-
lating effect on private flying for
business and recreation. Expansion
OF private flying, naturally, must
result in stepping up aircraft pro-
duction, development OF new landing
fields and other aids to air naviga-
ton and an awakening of greater in
terest in all phases of aeronautics
The keynote OF the whole training
program, If 1t is to meet with sue
cess, must be safety. Those in charge
OF the program must guard against
being rushed through the preliminary
stages because Of the irksome, dan
gerous delay which already has oc-
CURED. Wisely and safely conducted.
this training program can become a
source OF great and lasting benefit to
the Nation.