Families S Md. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY Tugwell’s principal Uto- pias is now open for business, and some say it's good some say it's bad. At any rate, the first families have moved into Greenbelt, Md., ‘‘model town" ministration formerly by Tugwell, and perhaps we shall one day see just how ef- fective the co-operative, slum- less community can be. A year ago this time Greenbelt was the target of much criticism concerning high costs, venture of the federal government into “collectivism,” “communism,” and other horrible social and eco- nomic isms which, during the heat- paign, were grouped under one gen- eral head—""Tugwellism."” Friends of the project usually had defenses for these charges; what you believe is probably greatly influenced by the trend of your politics. The impor- tant thing today is that the experi- ment is definitely under way, | | | 1 | { ] | i | | i life, the opportunity to enjoy rd sports and free range of several thousand beautiful acres of land. The white with en- and harmonizing The drive and are flanked with trees, most of them still young. houses are in JN every im- aginable precaution for safety hav- ing been taken. All highways are crossed by means of underpasses, so that the children who attend the sary to watch out for automobiles Queer at first do Greenbell's in other sections of the nation. Greenbelt, with its 885 units, rests on a crescent-shaped plateau, ton, D. C. from which it gets its name. roring it is an artificial lake of some 25 acres. the front doors are at the back, if that is not taxing the reader's logic. In other words, they face on the open space at the rear, rather than on the street. They are durable and attractive, but not ornate. Kitchens Are Sensibly Modern. Foundations are of concrete and roofs of tinted slate. Broad case- ment windows assure plenty of sun- light, and plenty of air. In this cli- mate the summers are likely to be hot, but ceilings of poured ce reinforced with steel rods, rooms cool. with copper sheathing to banish drafts. Fi and walls have last a hundred years, but they have not been foolishly planned outlast the Coliseum in Rome. C and oak been built to O8~ is Their local government will be run by an ultra-modern city manager, under the first city manager char- Maryland. All the business will be directed which was sponsored by the late Ed- ward A. Filene, Boston merchant. Settlers who buy shares in the sumer distribution corporation” receive rebates at all the stores in the community. Inhabitants Carefully Selected. It is not easy for a family to be admitted to life in Greenbelt ne | are most likely to be trod upon. Kitchens are modern, are metal cupboards with and smooth, easy-dusting Sinks are of enamel and bathroom walls are covered with inexpensive waterproof paint. All fixtures are sturdy and in good taste. Greenbelt’s business and commu- crescent, includes a cantile building, a municipal rage, a fire-house, a town inn, taurant and a school. en every precaution in selecting the tenants and, purportedly, political “pull” doesn’t mean a thing. First, name, residence, information; hundreds were dropped immediately on the basis of this preliminary data. Those whose ap- plications survived were asked for more detailed information about themselves, and this was checked by officials. The candidates were then visited in their homes, their character and credit ratings investi- gated and their references verified. The final selections were made on the basis of a summary of all these findings. If Greenbelt is to succeed, the durability of its buildings must he matched by the integrity and sin- cerity of its inhabitants. These tenants will be living in the most completely planned com- munity in America. Where they may have lived in city slums, with poor environment for their children, they are now set down in the rolling green hills of Maryland, where fresh air is plentiful, where there is a good school, where their budgets will allow them to live as well as their much wealthier city neighbors. Greenbelt’s citizens can go to and from work in the city, if they like, by bus. At home in the evening after the day's labors they can put- ter around in a garden. They will ing. sides like inverted flying but- ses. There is a chiseled frieze of cubist characters. Interiors are the ultimate in scientific design buttresses support the walls of a Light brown plaster help to diffuse the plentiful sunlight which enters corridors and school rooms through windows and glass brick panels built into the walls. Students keep their belong- ings in individual lockers. The out- er wall of each classroom is of transparent glass, stretching al- most the entire height of the room. Conditions such as these are about all a teacher could ask for. All commercial operations conducted by the consumers’ cor- poration. Two per cent of the gross revenue will be turned over to the federal government as rent; any re- maining profits will be returned to the customers as dividends. Operat- ed on this plan will be a general merchandise store, a drug store, a food and meat market, a motion pic- ture theater, a barber shop, a beau- ty parlor and a garage and service station. When and if the community decides it does not like this system, it may adopt a new one. There are no churches in Green- belt but free land is available for them if community groups desire to build them. Greenbelters are given plenty of opportunity to contribute their share toward the beautifying of the town. Anyone may secure the head gardener’'s advice at any time free of charge. Trees or bushes are 1 free from the town { they were transplanted land was cleared This Is “Tugwelltown."” Greenbelt Tugwell's philosophy. He aim was “To obtain a and thus avoid the ¢ { dinarily due to diverse { In this tract to create a community, { protected by an encircling green | belt; the community to be designed | primarily for fami | comeg, and arranged and managed as to encourage a family and | community life which will be better than they now enjoy, but which will | not involve subjecting them to co- | ercive or theoretical and untested | discipline “The dwellings and the land upon | which they are located are to be held in one ownership, public agency to which the federal | government will transfer titie, and | which agency wi - rent or lease the dwel ellings but will not gell them; a | municipal g fo be set up, when the Professor its epitomizes said large tract i 80 vernment in character with sud h Be ve Cco- math on te ) oe estab- in relation to the local and state governments, so that there may be provided th public serv- 5 of educational and other char- unity will re- gi on, lished, Os¢ ice ctr which Th ie Cor mity quire; and, Bally. accomplish these purposes in such a way that the community may be a taxpaying participant in the region, that ex- trav agant outlays from the individ- ily income will not be neces- and that the rents will be suit- to sary, “To develop a land-use plan for the entire tract; to devise a system of rural economy co-ordin ated with the land-use plan for the rural por- tions of the tract surrounding the and to inte- grate both the physical plans and the economies of the rural area and nmunity.”’ Whether or not the model town can be regarded as the answer to the low-cost housing program, even if Greenbelt succeeds as a happy, prospering community, depends on how at it It has been opponents that the project cost far too much and that there were too many delays, alleg- attributable to ‘government in its construction, vou look efficiency,” What Sponsors Contend. Only 885 families may be housed in Greenbelt, opponents point out, yet the cost is $14,227,000, or more than $16,000 a house. The govern- ment's estimated net return on the investment, they say, is less than 15 of 1 per cent. Even if interest were waived, it would take 237 years to repay the cost. Against this the sponsors reply that it is unfair to pro-rate the cost among the houses alone, for it in- cludes the business buildings, land- scaping and many other things. Pre- sumably their answer would have been the same if the cost had been regarded $16,000 per family. Also there is the argument that the “made work,'”’ transient relief labor and such, skyrocketed the cost. They contend that low-cost housing is spreading and that re- payments under the Wagner act will be more generous than those at Greenbelt. They attempt to show that costs of slum conditions are in- direct but that they are even greater than the cost to the government of subsidizing model communities; that well-built homes are in the long run cheaper than flimsier dwellings built for sale; and the Greenbelt accountants write off a third of the total cost as excess labor costs, more directly chargeable to work relief than to the Greenbelt residents. @ Western Newspaper Union, Floyd Gibbons ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “Suicide for Three” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter ELLO, EVERYBODY: Ever get stuck with a rubber check? Well, sir, that is But s a case where a bad check led from one thing to another, Eugene Percifield of Sea Cliff, N. Y., had with a vicious criminal on the Halifax river at Daytona, Fla. Gene Percifield's dad ran an automobile agency in Lake Worth, back in 1928, and it was there that the curious chain of events started that was to lead to the most terrifying ten minutes of George's A stranger came to the agency one day, bought a new car, and Before the man drove away, Gene saw him transfer two pis- tols from his pockets to the pockets of the newly purchased car, but he thought nothing of it at the moment. It was only when the stranger's check was returned marked “No Funds''’ that Gene realized what sort of a man his dad had been dealing with, The crook was gone—and so was the car. Gene's dad notified the Gene never expected to see the bird again, & manner that makes him shiver every time he thinks of it. Gene and two other young lads his own age had gone to Jackson- ville to drive three new cars down for his dad. They were on their way back, about twenty-five miles north of Daytona, when Gene spied a and saw a man standing beside it Gene Captured the Crook. Gene stopped the other two cars hem what he had seen. parked them, one ~told the lads who were driving They drove their buses back to the filling sta- in back, one in front and one alongside of the Gene climbed out of his car and started for the crook. It was then— Through the Bridge Railing Into the River. Gene's eye cast wildly about in search of some sort of weap- on. There wasn't a thing in sight. Then, his knees shaking, his tongue dry against the roof of his mouth, he thrust his hand inside his coat, pretending he had a gun there, and faced the crook. The crook took it He didn't even make any pro- in to Daytona and with the crook and front, driving the up i quietly enough There was a woman her. The crook sat car accurding to Gene's directions. t was about nine o'clock of a cool, balmy night and was rapidly nearing Daytona. The crook had his capture so meekly—was following so cbediently that Gene lulled into a false sense of security. He was beginning to think that be so bad after all But later—just a few he was going to change his mind about that. Drove Right Into the River. They were coming into Daytona when things began to happen. There the crook failed for the first time to follow directions and turned onto a Gene told him to stop or he'd knock The turn him over to the police The car bowled was his block off, but he might as well have been talking to a post. They were about the middle of the bridge now. The woman, in the back seat with Gene, began to get panicky. She called to the crook to stop or she'd jump out of the car. The crook said, “Oh, you will, eh?" AND DROVE THE CAR THROUGH THE BRIDGE RAILING INTO THE RIVER. The car turned turtle as it hit the river, and sank in five feet of water. Gene landed in a stooped position, his feet on the inverted top of the The water rose to his knees-—his chest—HIS NECK. And still it was coming up. He cursed—prayed-—tried to break a window. Then he took one last deep breath as the water covered him over. A seat cushion was on his back, pushing him down. He thrust it aside and managed to get his nose above water in a narrow space be- tween the water and the up-ended floor of the car. Then he felt some- thing kick him under water—the woman-—struggling in her death throes Gene grabbed her and tried to pull her head up into that narrow pocket of air at the top of the car. She slipped out of his arms and sank down again. Gene went down after her and found —an opening—a broken window beneath the surface of the water. He dived—felt someone grab him from outside, and was pulled out, a piece of broken glass cutting a deep gash in his back as he went, As he came up, he saw a straw hat floating on the surface of the A crowd of people lined the bridge rail. Two men who were They turned him over © WNU Service, Areas of the States In the following list the figures represent the square miles of the states: Texas, 265,896; California, 158,207; Montana, 146997; New Mexico, 122,634; Arizona, 113,956; Nevada, 110,600; Colorado, 103,948; Wyoming, 97914; Oregon, 96,699; Utah, 84,990; Minnesota, 84,682; Ida- ho, 83,888; Kansas, 82,158; South Da- kota, 77,615; Nebraska, 77,520; North Dakota, 70.837; Oklahoma, 70,057; Missouri, 60,420; Washing- ton, 69,127; Georgia, 59,265; Florida, 58,666; Michigan, 57,980; Illinois, 56,665; lowa, 56,147; Wisconsin, 56,- 086; Arkansas, 53,335; North Caro- Table Manners Manners vary considerably in dif- ferent parts of the world-—especially table manners. What we would con- sider terribly rude in this country is regarded as excellent form in In- dia, says London Tit-Bits Magazine. If you dine with an Indian in his country you are expected to lick the platter clean—to leave anything on your plate is an insult fo his food. Be sure to call for a second helping of everything in a loud voice, and a third, if possible. Always praise the items and give the impression that the food is delicious. You are expected to desist when you cannot A Happy Family of Bluebirds for Linens Take the Bluebird family “un- der your wing” and embroider their five plump images on what ever household linens you'd like to make really colorful. Simple, and just the thing for sheets, pil low-case, towels, refreshment cloth or scarf. They're in 8 to the inch cross stitch, enhanced with a bit of lazy-daisy and c ne stitch. Pattern 1524 contains a transfer pattern of two motifs 63% by 15% inches; four motifs 6 by 7 inches and six motifs 2% by 2% inches: color suggestions: i trations of all stitches used; material require- in stamps ins pref ferred) for thi to the Sewing Cir Dept., 82 Eighth Ae ; N.Y. Please rite plainly number, and or coins 5 pattern Needlecraft New York, pattern address. On Our Dollar Bills + Latin 1 to ““Annuit Coep- tis’ on the most red issue of our lar ills rendered as “He (God) favored our undertak- ings.” “Novu Iirdo Se is transls der of the ages The design on the bac current one-dollar cate presents for any issued by the United States a representation of both the obverse and reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. 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Then they cease immediately. lina, 52,426; Alabama, 51,998; New York, 40,204; Louisiana, 48,508; Mis- sissippi, 46,865; Pennsylvania, 45. 126; Virginia, 42,627; Tennessee, 42.- 022; Ohio, 41,040; Kentucky, 40,508; Indiana, 36,354; Maine, 33,040; South Carolina, 30,989; West Virginia, 24,- 170; Maryland, 12,327; Vermont, 9,- 564; New Hampshire, 9.341; Massa- chusetts, 8,266; New Jersey, 8,224; Connecticut, 4,965; Delaware, 2,370; Rhode Island, 1,248. MALARIA a bad peace.—Franklin. in three dase 666 2: SAVE, NOSE DROPS paors Headache, 30 misses. Try “Rub-My-Tiem™— World's Best Lintment WNU-—4
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