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TO ERECT IDEAL HOME.—
For years architects, builders
and prospective home owners
have been dreaming of an ideal
modern home. The dreams have
varied a little, naturally, but in
€ general they have been very
much alike.
The year 1930 can make
those dreams come ftrue. In
many cases it has already hap-
pened. The house of the fu
ture is here.
These are some of the fea
& tures home designers and home
® dwellers have had in their
§- minds: Clean-cut beauty, com-
bi plete fire safety, structural
strength, low first cost, mini-
mum maintenance cost, weath-
er-tightness that means easy
heating in winter and easy
cooling (possibly artificial) in
summer, controlled ventilation
and the utmost in convenient
arrangement to meet the every-
day needs of modern, motor-age
living.
In practically every part of
the country there are new
houses, finished or under con-
struction, which embody all or
‘many of those characteristics.
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‘How Slang Term “Phoney”
Came Into Common Use
The following statement as to the
derivation of “phoney” from H. L.
Mencken's ‘American Language”:
“Phoney is applied to cheap, brum-
magem jewelry. All of the American
‘dictionaries list it, but none of them
accounts for its origin. Webster sug-
gests somewhat vaguely that it may
‘be related to funny. Another etymol-
ogist believes that it is derived from
telephone, and ventures upon the
strained theory that ‘a statement is
phoney if it is like the practical jokes
and false impersonations that are so
frequently perpetrated over the tele-
phone.’ But I am informed by a jew-
eler that it really comes from Forney,
the name of manufacturer of cheap
Jewelry. This manufacturer made a
specialty of supplying brass rings, in
barrels lots, to street peddlers, and
such rings, among the fraternity,
came to be known as Forney rings.
‘The extension of the designation to
jail cheap jewelry and its modification
to phoney by the law of Hobson-Job-
son followed.”—Pathfinder Magazine.
How Vatican Acquired Name
The Vatican received its name fron.
an old name of the site on which it
stands, says an article in Pathfinder
Magazine. In ancient times a low,
‘level region on the right bank of the
Tiber was known as Ager Vaticanus,
Vatican field. This name, it is be-
lieved, was derived from Vaticum, &n
Etruscan settlement which had van.
ished centuries earlier. Be that as it
may, Vatican came gradually to be at-
dached specifically to the neighboring
eminence. The popes acquired pos-
‘session of large portions of the old
Vatican field, as well as Vatican hill,
‘by extensive purchases during the
Middle ages. A papal residence had
een buill on the site already In the
time of Symmachus, who was pope
‘from 498 to 514.
How Pecan Output Grows
Pecans have advanced several pegs
until now they rank fourth in nut con-
sumption in this country. Peanuts, of
course, lead the list with seven pounds
per person per year. English walnuts
are second, with 1.09 pounds; almonds,
73, and pecans, about .33.
Production of pecans for the pas:
four years averaged about 29,000,000
pounds, with a likelihood of increases
in the near future, as the price low-
ers and the demand increases.
How State Is Created
A territory wishing to become a
state takes action among its citizens
‘to prepare and present a memorial to |
‘congress asking for statehood. If this
|1s passed favorably upon, a bill is in- |
{¢roduced termed “an enabling act,”
{which if passed permits the people of |
ithe territory to meet and formulate
a constitution, which is submitted to
[congress for action.
How to Transfer Pictures
} Make a solution of one-half ounce
oft soap and two drams pearlash in
sixteen fluid ounces of water, Moisten
the picture with this solution, lay.
gheet of thicker paper over this and
rub with bowl of a spoon to transfer. |
Hf the ink on the paper is quite fresh, |
pictures can usually be transferred by
jmere rubbing. i
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How Carat Is Divided
All precious stones are weighed by
hat is known as the metric carat of |
milligrams, The carat is divided
into 100 parts, one part equaling 2
milligrams; thus instead of writing a
carat and one-quarter it is expressed |
1.25, and instead of one carat and a
half it is expressed by 1.50.
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How Carnations Are Dyed
~ Placing the stems of white carna
ons in a weak solution of iron sul-
te or copper sulphate will turn the
oms green. An aniline dye which
soluble In cold water may be used
ead, For different shades, try dif-
nt proportions,
STATE TAX MEN AND
‘commissioners’ committee,” says the
BANKERS IN ACCORD
Months of Negotiation Lead to
Agreement on Changes Broad-
ening Method of State or Local
Taxation of National Banks.
NEW YORK.—Months of conference
and negotiation between an American
Bankers Association special committee
and the Committee of the Association
of States on Bank Taxation have re-
sulted in an agreement on a form of
amendment to the Federal statute
dealing with state or local taxation of
national banks that “maintains the in-
tegrity of the protective principles of
the section and is satisfactory to the
American Bankers Association Journal.
Thomas B. Paton, the organization’s
General Counsel, in making the an-
nouncement says that previously pro-
posed amendments to the statute,
which is known as Section 5219, have
been opposed when it was felt their
terms would enable any state to place
banks in a tax class by themselves.
“The law as it stands today,” Mr.
Paton says, “permits state or local
taxation of national banks or their
shareholders in one or the other of
the four following forms: the share-
holders upon their shares,—a prop-
erty tax; the shareholders upon their
dividends,—a personal income tax;
the bank upon its net income; the
bank according to or measured by its
net income. Only one form of tax can
be imposed, except that the dividend
tax may be combined with the third or
fourth form if other corporations and
shareholders are likewise taxed.
“The conditions permitted are: the
tax on shares must be at no greater
rate than on other competing moneyed
capital; the income tax on sharehold-
ers must be at no greater rate than
on net income from other moneyed
capital; the tax on bank net income
must be at no higher rate than on
other financial corporations nor the
highest rates on mercantile and manu-
facturing corporations doing husiness
within the state; the tax measured by
net bank income is subject to the
same limitations as the tax on net °
income of the bank but may include
entire net income from all sources.” |
States Seek Broader Law
National banks and their shareholu- |
ers are taxed in different states under
a diversity of systems, he says. The
U. S. Supreme Court has held that the
low inillage rate on intangrble person-
al property is in violation of the pres-
ent law where it results in national
bank shares being taxed at a rate
greater than that assessed upon com-
peting moneyed capital. A number of
states, unwilling to use the income
methods permitted, had the alterna-
tive of either repealing the intangible
tax laws or limiting taxation of na-
tional bank shares at the intangible
rate. Therefore they sought a broad-
ening of the permissive provisions.
Also, Mr. Paton points out, a Su
oreme Court decision held a state's
excise tax on corporations invalid
where it included income from Federal
and local government bonds in the ex-
cise measure. This created doubt as
to some state bank excise taxes.
“Conferences have been held tu
reach some agreement which would
protect the banks, satisfy the tax com-
missioners and avoid a contest in Con-
gress,” Mr. Paton says. “From the
standpoint of the tax authorities, the
main objectives have been an amend-
ment which would permit certain
states to retain their low rate tax upon
intangibles and at the same time de-
rive an adequate, but not excessive,
revenue from national bank shares,
and an amendment which would per-
mit certain states to tax corporations
on their net income, excluding income
from tax-exempts, and at the same
time derive the same revenue from
the banks as heretofore. From the
standpoint of the banks, it has been
deemed imperative to maintain the
protective principles of Section 5219.
The Changes Agreed On
“In the proposed amendment the ex»
isting provision permitting taxation of
bank shares no higher than the rate
upon competing moneyed capital has
been modified with respect to certain
intangible tax states only by a provi-
sion under which, instead of the
moneyed capital limitation, the rate
shall not be greater than the rate upon
! the shares of other financial corpora-
tions, nor upon the net assets of indi-
| viduals, partnerships or associations
employed in the banking, loan or in-
vestment business, nor higher than
the rate assessed upon mercantile,
manufacturing and business corpora-
tions with head office in the state.
“Also an added fifth alternative per
missive method, designated as a spe-
cific tax, permits a state, in place of
an ad valorem tax on bank shares, to
add together total dividends paid the
preceding year and the increase in
capital, surplus and undivided profits, '
less additions to capital or surplus
paid in by stockholders, and to divide
this total by the number of shares. '
The state may tax the shares based
upon this amount, but not to exceed
the rate on other corporations in pro-
portion to their net profits.
“This method is designed for states
which have heretofore taxed national ,
banks upon their entire net income
from all sources at a proportionate
rate to that assessed upon business |
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corporations. The amount which is
the basis of the tax is the equivalent
of the entire net income from all |
sources, but being assessed against
the shareholder upon his property im
the shares and not a tax upon the |
bank, it 18 not open to the objection
| as an indirect tax on exempt income.” |
i temple,
Acropolis, is of Pentelic marble, to |
“Porch of Maidens,” the Acropolis.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Soclety, Washington, D. C.)
ECALLING its century of mod-
ern independence and its thou-
sands of years of glorious mem-
ories, Greece is celebrating its
centennial. The republic of today has
an area of approximately 49,000
square miles and a population of some
6,000,000. But the memories of past
glories cling chiefly to the Plain of
Attica, surrounded by its hills, with
“Athens, the eye of Greece,” as its
center.
To every one sensitive to historical
suggestion, to every one to whom
beauty makes the supreme appeal, the
first sight of this immortal city be-
comes the moment of a lifetime.
To the right rises Hymettus, famed
now, as in ancient days, for the honey
which the bees rifle from its flowers;
to the left, and nearer, the island of
Salumis, with its deathless memories;
a bowshot away, Psyttalia, where Ar-
istides and his band cut down the
flower of Persian chivalry, after the
naval battle of Salamis; still farther
to the left, the ranges of Parnes, ex-
tending in a full, voluptuous curve to-
ward the east.
As one looks closer, the city reveals
itself more clearly and, out-topping all,
the Acropolis, with the Parthenon as
its diadem., In its still beauty, its ma-
jesty and its tenderness, the scene has
a vague unreality.
It is a tiny country, this heart of
Greece. The Attic plain stretches
from the sea in an irregular oval from
south to north; the entire provinge
wontains a bare 700 square miles.
Yet Attica “balances in the universe
the glory of Imperial Rome.” “Re-
member well, Quintius,” writes Cicero
to his friend, “that you have command
over the Greeks, who have civilized all
peoples, in teaching them gentleness
and humanity, and to whom Rome
owes the light she possesses.” Cicero,
of course, meant Attica, for it was in
this little country that what we call
the Greek genius was most effectively
qt work in the Fifth century B. C.
Moments of the Past.
When the visitor fares forth in
Athens the past beckons to him. One
of the first classic monuments his eyes
are likely to rest upon is the Arch of
Hadrian. This emperor, it will be re-
called, was one of the principal bene-
factors of Athens in the value and
character of his gifts. These em-
braced a water supply, a reservoir
which is in use today, a library, and
perhaps the Temple to Olympian Zeus.
He also built the new city beyond the
old one, and the arch marked the di-
viding line between the Greek and
Roman towns.
Passing through the arch and turn-
ing to the right, one enters the pre-
cincts of the Temple of Zeus. The
like the buildings on the
which time has given an exquisite
golden brown color, especially on the
side which faces the sea. Two of the
columns stand detached like sentinels
and by a happy accident close the
three-mile tangent formed by the
Syngros avenue, which links up mod-
ern Athens with its little seaside re-
sort, Phaleron.
One cd trace his steps through the
Arch of Hadrian by a narrow street
known as the Street of Lysicrates
which is probably the site of the an-
sient Street of the Tripods.
In the sge of Pericles, apart from
. the athletic contests which took place
at the Olympic and other games, there
were contests in oratory, in poetry,
and in music. At Athens (he victor
in one of these games was given a brass
tripod, with the privilege of erecting
a pedestal on which to place it, some-
vhere in the city.
At the end of the little street stands,
in almost pristine loveliness, perhaps
the only surviving monument of this
character. . It is the exquisite little
structure—the oldest extant—erected
by an Athenian, Lysicrates, on which
to place the tripod awarded him as the
organizer of a choir of young men
which won a prize in vocal music in
one of the games in the Fourth cen-
tury B. C.
Theater of Dionysus.
This little structure was built into
a convent in medieval times and was
thus preserved from destruction. The
convent was standing in Byron's day
and he was a guest there in 1811; it
was not until some years later that
the monument was restored at the ex-
perse of the French government.
LOVE OF TREES IN FRANCE.
O. O. McIntyre, spending his
vacation in France, writes to the
New York American:
Every Frenchman was reared to
love his native trees. Desecrate
‘them and they slap you in jail and
forget where you are. Such senti-
mentality as circling knifed initials
in a heart would likely result in
the guillotine. Indeed a gendarme
will eye you coldly if you lean
against one.
Would that we Americans could
rear our nation to so admire and
treasure our native trees, instead of
ruthlessly destroying them as is be-
ing done.
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various remains, including the charm-
ing Odeion built by Herod of Attica,
another Roman benefactor, of the Sec-
ond century, A. D., and on to the iron
gates which mark the lower precincts
of the Acropolis. Passing through
these and walking up the long incline,
one comes to a turning on the right
and sees ahead the gates, or Propy-
laea, of the Acropolis.
High up on the right is the little
Temple of the Wingless Victory, while
a corner of the Parthenon can be de-
scribed over the retaining wall. A
steep stairway which leads from the
outer gate of the Propylaea to the
upper level must be climbed before
one reaches the platform on which is
the Victory temple.
Perfection of the Victory Temple.
The view outward from this plat
form is marvelous, but the shrine com-
pels attention. Nothing can exceed in
delicacy and charm this exquisite lit-
tle structure. Four Ionic columns,
each some 13 feet in height, support
the architrave, but so perfect are their
proportions that it is only when stand-
ing beside them that one realizes that
they are twice the height of a tall
man,
This diminutive, yet perfect edifice
was demolished by the Turks in order
te build a bastion, and was later re-
constructed with the fragments of the
original building.
Nearby is the spot from which the
aged King Aegeus took his stand to
catch the first beam glittering on the
sail of the returning ship in which his
son Theseus had sailed to Crete to
kill the Minotaur.
Inside the temple are spots to which
traditions cling. In the Treasure
house, at the west end, it is said was
stored the booty taken at Salamis,
which included Xerxes’ great golden
throne,
The portico commands a superb
view of the Saronic gulf; at every
turn names familiar as household
words came to the observer's lips—
Salamis, the Bay of Eleusis, the dome-
like rock of Acrocorinth, Aegina, and
in the distance the soft line of hills
marking the Peloponnesus.
Porch of the Maidens.
Turn again and you will face the
Porch of Maidens—the Caryatids.
These are too familiar to everyone to
require any description and elabora-
tion, but, as with other Greek sculp-
tures, are admired whole-heartedly.
The perfection of the draperies, the
radiant youth animating the figures,
the dressing of the hair, massed to
give added strength to the neck, are
a few of the elements of loveliness.
Despite the latter device, however, in
later times it has been found neces-
sary to make a sort of iron frame on
which to support the weight of the
roof.
A dozen paces from the Erechtheum,
whose portico stands today in almost
untarnished beauty, are the walls built
by Themistocles after the destruction
of the first temple by the Persians in
480 B. C. In it were used a number
of the drums of the ancient columns.
Immediately below these walls lies
a little hill which is pointed out as
the Areopagus, or Hill of Mars. Phys-
ically, the place is of little interest.
There is a short flight of steps cut in
the rock, and at the top are the sites
of ancient altars.
The ancient Court of the Areopagua
consisting of venerable and eminent
Athenian citizens, held its sittings on
this hill, and it is usually assumed
that it was from here that St. Paul,
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in A. D. 54 spoke to Athenian skeptics
with a reference to am altar “To the
Unknown God.”
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