uIand, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wvest Virginia, Oklahoma, New Me ico, and Washington, setting the total tax which may,'be levied against. any piecéî of real estate in any omie year at rates varying from .5,per cent to 2 per cent of true value. Similar leg- isiation is being introduced in somne 20 other states during the 1935'legis- lative year. Successive steps in the committee's program are the enactment of laws making -the income or Use value of re al estate a'mandatory consideration, of tax assessor in valuing property; assumptin of'a larger share of school *costs by the state with its broader taxing powers; curbing of special as- sessment practices; distribution oô£ vhleand gas taxes. to city streets as weil as country roàds; establishmient *of state agency with control over al budgets and bond issues. These items have places in mo~tst aes' tax legis-. lation progranis this year. Mlembers of the committee are recomnmended for appointicnt by local real'estate boards and state as-. .Sationis of real estate boards. There g re more than 400 comm unities rep- resented on the conimittee, froni 47ý States, Hawaii, District of Columbia. *and 'Manitob>a, Canada. Paul FI. Stark., Madison, \Vis., is chairinan and Ehuier H. Grootemaat, Milwaukee, \Vis., iýý vice chairinan. Edyth Diedrich to Open Janus Salon on Friday Edyth Diedrichi, formerly of 708 Church street, Evanston, is giving an *informai reception, fashion show, and * tea Friday afteriioon, April, 5, from 2 until 6. The occasion is the open ing of the new janussalon. located Ï11 the building of the, North, Shore Schoolof Physical Development, ,1700. Central street, Evanston. An 'inter- eýting feature of the afternoon will * be the discussion by 'Miss Diedrich, a former baroness and very well das P. Hamline. Dr Pletity Of hot, .water when- yo eed it! no fuss..no, ..no waiting. Youar ch, ice of làora- tory- tested Pittsbar*, In 1874 Orrington Lunt, after whom Orrington avenue was named, moved bis family to Evanston and purchased the Hamline home. The Lunt's former home was destroyed in the great fire in 1871. Fifty years ago, Miss: Cornelia 911 iChum'ch'St. J 516 MainS t.