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The Seaforth News, 1933-02-23, Page 7THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933. THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN. D. H. McInnes Chiropractor Of Wingham, will be at the Commercial Hotel, Seaforth Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Diseases of all kinds success- fully treated. Electricity used. QUEST FOR BETTER HOUSES. !Public _a'tltenbiolnhas recently Ibelen aroused 'over the ,great commercial. Ipoltentilalibies of a arousing ind'us'try., 'N'ation'al ,maga'z'ines, :eagerly publiieiz- h Is'ometh'in that is not really ,new, have :served to keep as in a 'ferment. 'INPo one denies that When the 'big "if" is removed •a mighty: ,ind'ustry, wil spring up, hut in view of, the .h'ystt'eria it is well to eomsid'e'r in all seriouslnesls what :hats been 'offered the ,pu'bfiic. The idea of redesigning the :house is no :recent 'concept 1Wlhlalt is new is a seri- aously :a'wa'kened pulblic interest. Ln this :paper, .I shall try to set Horth clearly and ,concisely, and iI hope fairly, 'the various basic ,ap'pro'aches aro:far made to theiindulstry of house building. lI ;sihall'confine :m'y'self to'She Structural ,methods tinged. 1I' sits('' il- lustrate the types and discuss What seems to ,be the outstanding ,example. It must' be rec'ognized'that there are many problems besides that Of build'- ing 'the hou's'e. Out granting a salu- •'fion of all the !financial, :labor and so'c- iaddiffictil'ties, it is still epparent that a new;sort of house must' be'pnoduced in order to permit read in'dustr•?alizla tion The :chief appeal our captains of the new industry must make •is to the -pocketbook, 'In 'order 'to 'have a com- mon basis of 'comparison we will ad- mit the thesis of inass production, for this is postulated in all the .propos'a'ls: 1We may examine, then, 'the cri'teria to which any successful plan 'will have to measure. They are: 1: -'Is 'bhe sys- tem 'susceptible of alm'os't universal application, •regardless of site :and cli- matic condition's? Unusual roofs, cel- darless: houses, houses .without heat- ing plants, will not do. Making such economies dodges the p'roblem% 2:— Can .the pants of bhe house be made .repetitively? 3,—:Are these .parts of a unit type permitting a wide flexibil- ity of plan and elevation to meet . a widely varying demand? 4,—IDo the pants lend theinselves to rapid es- semblly and early occupancy? Can they he put 'together simplyand without any unesual equipment? -Are the pants light enough to be shipped . widely? Unless relatively 'few plants can make 'the houses, mass production will not be achieved. 6.— Do these ,parts when assem'b'led pro- duce anything more 'than' structure? An economy of 20 per ce'n't in bare structure 'will prod'u'ce the trivial, say- ' ing of'5 per cent in the 'final price to the (buyer, ''i —IIf finish. is incorporat— ed in the plan, is it of a type and quality accdpltalble to the 'buyer? 8,— Does 'the :construction .make a real effort to provide for accessories In such 's way es to eliminate later cut 'ting and .fitting? 9.—Will the .comlplet- cd house be dry, easy and econ'omicall' to heat in winter, cool in• summer, will it shed snow and reflect,ithe burn'in'g rays of the desert sun? 1110 IDoes:t'he system (make any effort to cope with tradition? Lt is all very weld to ;plan• what .is good fon people 'but very bard, to make 'them ;buy it. 11—Per- haps most important ,of all, is the house actually cheaper 'fo'r What is offered? !It is :much easier to sell a 'comp'arab'le 'a'ntiele'for less .Money than a :better .article for the same money.; tllt is quite 'natural that the earliest' attempts at industrial 'ho'us'ing should have been, efforts to 'build a house ju's't dike 'the one to 'wh'ic'h everybody Ma's accustomed; i.e,, of `wood. To do this 'the house was ,planned in ad- vance, Ithe ltimlbers 'were cult It •prop- er ,length and stored until sold. 'Gut- ting and 'fi'tt'ing on the job, were sup' 1 posed fa he eli'mliniated'. tAtlthongh the actual efforts ;511 presu;ppased a few Standard typos ,of houses, it is .p'os- sibile'th'att some ,standard (basis of plan- ning might have el'imina'ted this diffi- culty. The princi'pa'l difficulty 'with 'bhe .pre-cut house lies in the ,proper- ties Welf lumber .wlhich, with changing humidity, expands or contracts in different degree along and across the ,grain. Thus the pants of the .Noi's'e have a 'way of (being the wrong size 'when they c'om'e to be Used. The hest ,minds were early 'fasei'n- ated by .concrete. 'Naturally, many p,eepl'e thought it 'o'ugh't to revolu- ?tio,nize 'house '0on's'tru'ct'i'on. !No sldhetne of this sort Was more oo'inpletely d'e- velop'ed than 'that of Thomas Edison which was 'widely acclaimed. Edison provided east -:ren forms, so con strticted ,a's to 'preside :molds not only for the shell •orf the house 'bust for stairs, mantels, and even a 'batliltuib. *were bhe concrete had set the 'forms were removed and ,but little 'finishing was supposed to `be required. 'The house was ,c'ampleted merely 'by p1iac- ing .windiotws, heating plant, and ac- cesseries.. The Edison s'eheme pr'o- posed . six different types of forms to avoid monotony. The difficulties with the approach were many and a'lmos't self-evident. Dike most of the other •propos'a'ls, standard forms may. effect economies when .one .thou's'and like hou's'es are to be erected on the same site. When it comes to Shipp'in'g vari- ous parts of :forms over the. oountny, the gigantic requirements df bhe plan- ning. become more sign'ific'ant. !In this approach there is no repeti- tive production 'olf' house ,parts. :Wide 'fexibiiwty Of plan and elevation' are not attainable uniese such a tmu/ti- .pliclty of various form :types are pro- vi'ded as 'to ineralidiate the whole idea. Rapid assembly is not possible nor early occupancy 'because ,concrete takes a long time to dry, lout. Forms that San •be used ,very many tine's are so heavy as to 'preclude .distanit ship- ment and this is also. impracticable in view of the 'capitalaie-up during transportation, The finish of such a house is vat of a type and quality anybody iwentbs unless additional ex- pense is incurred. If installation of aoce'ssaries is to be provided, still more 'types of 'form's are required. 'Concrete is a 'bad insu'l'ator, it :tends to leak un'les's an :unsigh'rly m'emlb- cane water'pro'ofing is applied. Final- ly, the east 'has so far been. high. 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'rinse enough ht's elapsed to draw 't the conclusion that the effort has gone the way of; most ` Others IMennbers of the second,school of thought looked upon the skyscraper and found it good, but they did not lolok 'far enough to penetrate the real priaciples of big ;bMid ings. These ;people erected frames of relatively' heavy members, 'suc'h as small iH-col-, urns ,and (junior I -beams, used , with their Sul' structural vague and ,hence placed' .at relatively great intervals. The true •principlles of s'kyscrap'ers, have only recently been understood` by 'those 'who 'build them. Brick an'd' shone have considerable wall strength but are incapable of .sustaining, the load's' of malily'floors. !Thus, early sky- scrapers had 'steed (frames wh'ic'h car vied ail: the load' aud'u'sed steaditional Lead ''bearing m'a'terials as filled. Late -1 sly the designers of hiiglh :buildings have realized how rid'i'culous this is and ore turning to'experiment with lightweight metal 'fitters. New the same material's that cannclt be load- bearing in' a ,s'kyscr'aper will 'nt'ore than carry' house loads. None the less we see ,propon'en'ts 'olf'!lie structural, steel 'f blithely , rams bhthely q:gnorin,g this principle, ignoring resent advances in sky- scraper d'es'ign, end 'building 'heavy 'frames of steel only to fill up all the spaces ,with bri'ek, tile, .concrete, or even wood. Just what -function the Steel ,frame serves is not apparent. It represents an extra and ulttenly un- nece's'sery Cost, The really en'coura'ging efforts in sdiving the 'problem by , the use of metal have almost .entirely been 'made by those :whoa have 'tried • varying forms of :metal' panels. 'T'h'e oldest metal house of which I know, built over a century ago at No. 1' 'Lock, Tipton Green, 'England, is Of this type. It has ,flanged iron plates for walls and iron window IEremes. Rut nothing more was done in this d'ire'c- tion :for a long time. II1 remained. 'for post=war 'Britain, to give real impetus to this ,movement,. After 'the ,war bhe housing shonta'ge in ,England was seri- ous and the steel industry, at . a law ebb, employed every resource to trove its products. 1L'ord • Weir, for ex- ample, developed a 'house in which thin steel sheathing was applied Ibo a light steel .frame while thin sheets off asbestos -cement were screwed 't'o the. frame. Eor interior !finish, Althell IS'teel (Houses constructed a ,frame o!f light angles to which 'they' fastened thick metal ,plates coated on the inside with granulated cork. 'The interior was'fi•n- ished with fibreboard. The most pro- mising of these s'c'hemes was 'present- ed by Braithwaite and was known as the "Telford" system. Here 1'-8 inch ,steel 'plates were formed with their edges bent at right angles to, form a pan, The backs of these pans were closed with asbestos Sheets, . T'he 'flanges were butted and ,bolted to- ,gether. 'A little ' Pater,' in •Germatvy, the "'Sleeken" system .used coppered steel sheets formed like those •o'E Bmai'bh 'smite land wood battens to support in- terior finish sheets of ,fireproof insula- tion. .I'have described these in some de- tail because they are the clear pee - genitors ' of the General :Houses scheme recently proposed by Howard Fisher. This proposal has probably received the wid'es't publicity of any scheme yet offered the .American peo- ple. Cl'a'ims have been made for Gen- eral Houses that it has finally achiev- ed :in adtuai integration of 'bhe hous- ing industry. G'ene'ral Houses 'pro- poses rather radical changes , in livs rag ,conditions in onder to simplify its t'hough't as a problem. This is not a pioneering •thought as 'I shall shortly point out. But. 'the Fislher 'plan is e'ot o extreme as to invalidate all his alter concl'usi'ons- The :Fisher scheme rapop'ses a metal panel, facing the vealth'er unashamed and unconcealed, He makes it serve the double purpose; f structure and' finish. A foundation s to be poured of accelerated con rete within standardized forma. The tandsed well panels are to be erect - d in eight hairs by four men, iA'll naill'wark, accessories and the 'like are o he 'hoi•slted over bhe waits with a sane 'before the 'flat 'roof of similar allele isapplied, IT'he top of the roof to be covered with aluminum ,foil or insulation. Finish of flours will be palm'') or 'laminated wood attached two inches of insulation and ap- lied to lthe metal euefaccs with mas— c. 'The entire construction is dry. ands are :peepeinted with two ,coats the sloop, 'buttered, and, 'halted in ace. A final coat of 'painit is 'applied the field, The plans are good, 'the evetaons not 'tinettraet•ive. The Fish - house 'fai'ls to meet someorf the ilte'rfa, although itis a long Step. rwand. Thesban.dardized foun'd'ation. cans •encounter the same objections those proposed' by 'Edison.,,al- e:ugh in less .degree, as they cover' ssof th,e 'htouse, ,Transport of bhe asoline crane makes rural ootesltr•uIc on dieficult, !There are :two more' 0rious, 'less easily overcome dblj•ec- ons, The hulk cif 'com'peten't author y, 'particularly in iBlritain, serio'usl'y uhts whether thin steel plates wild, 1thstam'd 'weathering for any length' The ereecut 'lumber idea does not d'i'e easily. Many' people seem .to have thought that the only difficelty with s this approach lay in !the inconstancy o'f wood. 'Fe:Hewl n'g this t'h'ought to p its 'loigicel cencles'iou, they ,have oat - finally fumed to steel, which does not change dimensions- appreciably and o which .moreover cannot Ibe readily cut i by 'the am'bitiou's erector. INs cern carried tIe first idea further than s the (Steel Frame H•ovse 'company of e 'Pittsburgh, .a su'bsid'iary Of a large steel company, in 'turn a subsidiary of t one of the greatest units in the •s'tee'l c in'dnustry. 'This house . was carefully p studied and 'widely advertised, and is dross 'pr'od'uction was apparently ap_ plied in creating a longe inventory of l parts, There was no attempt to de- to part from tradition in planing, The p colm'pan'y 'intended ,to develop a whole ti set Of 'bui'1din'g .materials of standard Si, :zed 'd'imensions. The frame itself 'was in light, easily produced repetitively, and pl cheaply s'hi'pped( In the last analysis 'm Irewever, ail ,that was provided was a ol m ,frae, costing cons'iderably more than' er the wood frame it displaced. Although cr sligh't'ly better, 'the 'frame could' not fo jus'ti'fy its increased cost 'Finish and ''f acces'sorie's 'still had' to be supplied -as largely in the 'troditianai manner. No bl •d'ou'bt the hicreased cost Is inherent le ;n the idea. 'Steel us'ed' in small sec'tio.n, ;g as a column must be used et a redue- 'ti ed 'fibre stress, so excess 'materia:: was s demanded by this type of framing, ti This ,corporation; s'as a 'Lange one, ity great resources and experience.'' do ht went into the question of stee' tv lof time. Experience indicates 'the dittte waiter 'creeps in around joints, rust isbants 'there and. grasses ::award. There is ,much merit in 'the:General !Houses prop hes/ever, and IFlislher deserves 0 for .so .careful a working out Of d and for 'focusing the spotlight on own endeavor. Another ` interesting house •w'h for 'want olf a butter .place, m'ay. located in 'this .group is the "Mu. aire" housed One of 'these ,house's; signed by A. 'Law^rence IKo:cher Albert 'Frey, 'bath serious eltud'en'ts 'housing, has been built at ISyas :These .men Iphesent a rather .re tion'ery ,plian'=in my opinion too ' 50. Tor 'example, there are to be ;in the north. wail, :a so engineering ic'anclusion, .but Tadde'ge: tire. The 'house is not ,ugly any one Who can ,look modernism the eye, but the battle with R'radil is Scarcely recognized in a ,proposal this 'type, The'house is eellar1ess. (five -inch 'alumin'u'm tubes carry alb( weight, 'the !walls 'being ent'irel'y ne hearing. 'Steel channels support sit b'attlededk 'floors with-ins'ulati 'beard and alumin'u'm .cohering. 'T stairway is sof steel, 'the treads su with' 'li'n'oleum, The ,wa'l'ls. 'have light steel .frarnewark and an :insu'1 ing board covering. Over this is wa ereroefing and 'finally cornugated :al !iridium fastened ,with screws an washers. The inner well 'facing is washable fabric, Most ,of the Euro sure is 'built in. alhere is mo..fireplac 'Un'dou'btedly many .of the .pants a susceptible of 'mass production, 'T frames offer id'ndficut'tles. of iiexibilit The big db's'tacles-are the 'revrolntio ary -changes living 'habits ne'ces's toted by this house, the old.idea nev substantiated 'by public, dollar-suppo that °" I-knoiwiw'hat-is-goo'deFee-you 'better -than -you -do," the d'ou'bt as any economy in such a complicate smut IV. construction. ]Fully as muc material is used as 'in any ether haus Of all the radicals in house'design the trenchant !p'os't-INietzchean pen B'uckminster !Fuller uses' ink mos freely and 'has 'been farthest s•prea throughout the hand, Tor some year now 'he has been going up sed the country demonstratinlg ,models o his Dymaxfon house. 'Feller 'has 'lav hold of two important p.rin'ciples. H was 'pro'bably the 'first to propose i the .field of .housing 'that steel mem hers are 'much 'nacre' efficient in ten sion than in compression, •Hence h advocates sc'rap'ping all the old ideas of compression as the governing 'fee. tor in 'house structural design and' substituting tension or suspension; :His secon'd'ba'sic principle, .perhaps wise acceptbaible, is 'that there are two elements in a' 'house: one the housing of u'tili'ties and accessories, the other the housing of people. 'The (first he says must he strong, well ,protected, and delicately adljusted,' the second should helight, :free, and -more ' or less temporary. On 'this basis, then, • he erects a .large ,centrad ,mast of d'ura'lu- min, +anchored to .. ,the ground' with guy wires and with three Sloes beams o'f. each deck s'uspend'ed' 'from ih•e mast. T'he'light ,hexagonal frame of the house ('the entire structure is bas- ed an triangulation), is then ,fastened from .the mast and to the ground by wires, triangular 'floor plates 'are "a't- taclhed to central; mast and to frame by wire in tension, and .then the wires are all tightened 'by tenn'buekles,:anak- in'g a rigid framework, The central mast houses the utilities and the ele- vapor. There is no ground 'floor, 'the lower space .being used 'for a garage. it would 'bespeak more sincerity for Fuller's' purpose if he had s'pen't 'less time in.d'eveloping -a series of interest- ing gadgets and more in act'ta'1ly pro- ducing a -house. 'For, strange as it may seem, although he has "been .displayinghis models for several years, the'•warid his's,yet to see •a- full-scale Dylnasion 'refuse. These left-wing ideas have ,been carried further and more substantially in what seems to me :the most .com- plete and 'serious' study yet utade and published. This is the proposal by !Irving Tewnman which he calls "An Appraa'oh 'to Industrial Housing," in !The IBewan ,approaeh is .revolution- a'ry. Lt takes account of ,the 'two real 'F'isher .principles, It seems 'probable that com'plete.IB•owntain' fh.ause could actually be 'built now. A serious effort has been made bo design details 'for existing materials .which can readily economically he obtained and with which +there,'h•as ;been .previous 'expert- ence: The basement is om'i'tted in the Brownian: house. 'The laundry, 'heating equipment and garage are placed on the ground' floor. The "bed'ro'oms are small, adequate only for; sleepi•nig, and the living room is correspeeding- ly Danger. 'The toast of Fuller is re- placed by a' circular 'central stairwell, made .in the Eacitory,. After, the stair tower 'ices ;been created; .:'ligihtwci:ght steel 'trusses are supported on its walls, and, projecting therefrom,: stip- port as cantilevers a set of suspended nthi.ons . in 'th'e exterior wall', 'These 'wullions arc emeltchae'nels; they are tied together by spandrel chau- nels, which with the walls of the stainwell suppont the floor. The floor t a the pro, Oval, redit etail 'h'is lcd, be mo- de - and of set. valu- muoh no and 1051 -to in ion of Six tlhe n eel mg he ur- a it- t- u - d of e. re Th Y. n- er rt to d h e, a`f d n { d e n e units are sleet metal, 'with 'a system .spot welded to top and b (tam sheet metal plates, 12 inch wide, 28 feet long and six inches d ,Board -'faint 'mineral wood •wi!bh'. phenol •c'omposition surface is use :for .fireproofing, This' is hung fro the bottom plate of the floor units 'bouts, The su'b-flo'or has insulatio board 'beneath the itn'islh linoleum o wood, 'The roof and bottom floc. units are filled between 'bottom a' top plates with lightw'eight aerate concrete. The 'second .floor is left he low Tor heating and ventila'ti'ng •duct IB•o'wrnan Brothers• 'h'a've designe same 'attractive combinations. • 'base on, these principles; Their house f free 'from the imputation o'f insineer ity, but it suffers the major defects o the 'Fuller scheme. It is eon -tradition al as to looks and' :comforts, a1lthoug Windows can be opened and door - are 'the usual thing. The exterior joists have the 'same 'weakness . as those of Fisher. 'The Bowmtic :Weyer, ;house, 'hweyer,' is an encouna'ging sign, I imagine its de- signers do 'not think it a 'final solu- tion any mare .than t de. 'Better than II, 'they 'probably recognize it Y g s in- herent weaknesses. The sbgnfficant thing here is that the designers, in- stead of,starting .with• a lot of' pre- conceived notions or 'bright ideas. ob- tained while walking down the street, have thoroughly studied the 'problem 'before 'putting hand tto ,paper. ' They have examined the difficulties` and evidently decided they are not unsur- moun'tab'le, lit is:iin'the attitude rather nin the melt that their achieve- ment must be judged uobewonthy. 'One thing is perfectly ,clear to me. tHereto'fore there 'have 'been many un- correlated ende'a'vors, often obstin- ately repeating the failures of previ- ous time's without any change suf- ficient Ito 'warrant .olp'timism% a'b'out overcoming'the •causes of t'h'ose . fal- ures. People work far 'too ind'epend- ently, A central research body is real- ly needed, a' central basis of planning is equally. d'ictate'd. If all of the im- portant' factors who are.trying to Work out these results independently could' agree on standards on goal and meanwhile s'tandard's of dimensions on which all might ,work, then it is un- doubtedly- (true that the achievement ,of one man ,could often be dovetailed to that of another and the final .re- sult night be hastened. web of es ee•p. a m b Ill r nd d 1- s, d d s if h A'TiTENLPT ION LIFE OF PR'ESIDE;NTT-ELECT OF US A gunman who "hates" all 'Govern- ment 'tried to assassinate United 8ibatea President-elect Franklin D. R'o'osevelt on the night of :Feb. 1'5'th, at 'Miami, 'FIIorida, and failed as the five shots Ise fired struck other per- sons, one of them Mayor Anton 'Cer- mak of Chicago. With as. old-fashion- ed .312 calibre pistol, ,Guiseppi Zang arc shot wildly into the crowd gash erect about the automobile of Mr, IRo•oseveit in the picturesque bay front park jest as the next president had concluded a brief speech. Mayor Ceranak, s'tand'ing just be- hind the 'Roosevelt can was among the 'first. 'hi't, A bullet lodged in his abdoman and cat operation 'vas con- templated as physicians reported he had little better than a fifty -,fifty chance to live. Shocked and startled by the gun play, Mr. Roosevelt waited to pick up the Chicago mayor, and sped to the hospital with him. He remained there to visit the other niletims and cancell- ed his* train departure' for New York until the next day. 'Firing'blisddy into the throng, the as's'assin made each of his 'five shots good 'alt'hough he .mis•sied teh mark foe which they were intended, The other wounded are: Mrs. Joe Gill, of Mia'mi, s'h'at in ab- dlomen; Miss M'angaret IZruis, of Newark, IN:J., shot in hand; William Sin Ott, ,New York policeman, shot in head; 'Russeld'ICa7dwel'I; o'e hiliaimi, shot in head. 'Confusion preva'ile'd for a few min- utes as ,the .crowd nibhled about. Sec- ret service men and 'police pounced on the gunman, women screamed. ,Looking back from his. car, Roose- velt waited', for 'Cerntak to be lifted in lois 'car, waved re-assuringly to thr crowd' and told', those near: "'Tell then I am all right." 'Returnin'g to the yacht of Vincent, 'A's'tor from which 'lie 'had' ju's't landed from a fishing cruise, the president- elect issued the foltowin'g'statement: "I 'arni deeply moved by the serious inljuries inflicted upon nay friends to night an,d T cin rema'in'ing in Min to Pearn in the morning of their con- di'ti'on. I am entirely unharmed." ,Prestdenl` :Hloower i inedia'tely communicated with 'Mr. Roosevelt by wire. He said: "T'o'gether with every citizen I re- joice that you have v'at been itl,iured,. S shall be ,graltelul ,to you for news of Mayor ,Ce'mmak's condition," The president-elect replied: `s1 deeply ap'precialte your message 'Mayor Cerm'al.,is resting but his'con- diti'on is still serious. 1l will wire you 10 F.nJ RHEOMAiISM New Medicine Drives Out Poisons, That Cause 'Torturing Stiffness, Swelling and Lameness EASES PAIN FIRST DAY You cannot gest rid of rheumatic aches 'and •pain's, Neuritis, lame knotted muscles' and stiff swollen joints till you drive from your system the irritating poisons that cause rheu- matis'm. :Exxternal treatments only. give 'temporary relief. ]W'h'at you need is 'RU -MA, the new internal medicine that acts on the Ever, .kidneys land 'blood and expels through the natural channels of 'elim- illation, these ;dan'gerou's .'poisons. IN'o long waiting for your suffering tb 'stop'—IRIU-MIA eases pain 'finsit day —and so . guidkly and safely end stif- fening, crippling 'lameness' and 'tortur- ing 'pain that .Ohas. :Alberh'art urges every rheumatic sufferer to get a bottle today. They •gnaeanitee it. in the 'morning alter I have been to the ho's'pital." Tells Weird Story 'Gruell'in'g examination - of the swar- thy` complexioned 'sto,0ky-built assas- sin by secret service men and ,Miami officials brought .cut a d'ieeonnected, weird story. 'According to their account ,Zangaea purcha'se'd his pistol in a pawn shop here three days ago• for s,t, He told them he intended to kiln President Hoover, but when he read that Mr. Roosevelt was com'in'g here he decid- ed to give attention to ;him,. Taking no chances 'tha't the gun, play was 'the work of one distorted mind, police to'o'k .into custody under su'spici'on, Andrea Valenti, who lives at the s'ame address as Zangara. INewspaper clippings found en Zan- gara reported the movements of Mr. Roo'sevel't and police said one of the clippings tolld the story of •the assassi- nation of President McKinley. 'Intimate friends of Mr. :Roosevelt stood about his car for the brief speech he made as he motored from the yacht to the ,train. They inchided Robert 'Gore, of .Chicago; -liarvin Mc IIntyre, secretary to Rcswsevelt, and Represen'ta'tive -elect Wilcox of this district. The next president had just spoken it few words into the micraphane from his automobile. Sitting down beside Mayor Gautier o1 \'C>ami, iie turned to talk to him when fhe firing started about 23 feet away. I:t was'a woman, Mrs, 'W. F. Cross, of Miami, who gra'b'bed at the arm of the assassin, James Galloway ,of Mia- mi Beach, joined her. 'George Broad- nax, a secret service operative, pounc- ed on the shooter. Police wined. 1W'ith the departure of Roosevelt and the 'hurried carrying away of ;the assassin, order was quickly restored, Meyer ICenmak sagged to :the pave- ment, Mrs. Gill also fell. The victims ;appeared stunned, I't was the bystand- ers who did the shouting and scream- ing. 'Police indicated after lengthy exam- ination o'f Valenti, who was 'taken into .cu'stod'y on suspicion; that they did not belive him identified in any way with the attack made by ,Zangara on President-elect Roosevelt. He was held 'te'm'porarily in custody but the conviction grew that it was a one -matt job. Mrs. !Gill is the wife of the pres- ident of the 'Florida Power and Light 'Company. There are now in bhe neighborhood, of 'F,360 boys' and girls' clubs in Can-' ada, with a membership of 21,822. These clubs under competent leader- ship engage in the study of a variety of subjects relating to six proje'c'ts, namely, dairy cattle, beef cattle, swine poultry, grain and 'potatoes. 'In the fall of the year in each province the district teams are brought together in a competition arid the winners are selected for a free 'trip to th "Royal," where they .again compete with high teams from other provinces. Only members between 16 and 20 years of age are eligible for 'this test and won- derful :prizes; other rewards are of- fered ,for members between 13 and 16 years of age. The event at the Royal is symbolic of much earnest effort a- mong progressive clubs in agricult- ural d'is'tricts frown one end of Canada to the other. A busy .main 'h'a's 'Vsw idle visitors; to the 'boiling pot the fly come not, Cred'itor's' 'have better memories than d'ebtors. Li'berality is, not giving 'much but giving wisely. .A 'Foe to Asthma. 'Give 'Asth'ma half a chance and it .gains ground rapidly. .But give it repeated treat- ments of Dr. J. D. 'Kellogg's Asthma Remedy and it will fall back even faster. 'There is no half way measure about this remedy. It goes right to work and drives asthma out. It reaches the inmost breathing pas- sages and leaves no place for the trouble to lurk. Have it by you for ready use. Send us the namss,of your visitors.