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organizations, failed, but will be taken up early in December, accord-- ing to Congressman James S. Park-- er, author of the bill. The fourth mittees, and which .will be con-- sidered further at the December session include the Browne--Watson bill, sponsored in the eleven mid-- American Congress on Highways at Rio de Janeiro; the second au-- thorizing $25,000 expenditure for the Federal Government to enter-- tain delegates to the Permanent International association of Road the appointment of a commission to study the constructiomr of a North-- American Highway traversing North, South and Central Americas. "from the motorist's viewpoint, endorsed by the motorists The Oddie amendment, authorizing an expenditure out of Federal funds for tree planting along the Fed-- eral highway system, marks the first step in the beautification of our highway system, which -- will Vice--President Mayer points out. Figures compiled by the associa-- tion show that on July 1 there will be a total of $241,115,000 of Federal ment shall share with the states on an equal basis, the original cost of tree planting and maintenance. The four measures which are now pending before various com-- highwxay program. Of t $128,000,00 is available for Congresses, which will hold its sixth session in the United States being -- available for projects not yet begun, but which have been ap-- proved, and $84,115,000 being avail-- appropriation for the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway; the $4,000,000 flood relief measure for reconstruc-- tion of Federal highways in the wof Vermont, Kentucky and Hampshire and the Oddie am-- endment to the Federal® Highway Act. The amendment marks the first step that the Federal <overn-- ment has taken in beautification of the Federal highway system. It authorizes the planting of trees along the Federal--aid route, and provides that the Federal govern-- AUTO OWNERS REVIEW FIVE BILLS PASSED The five measures which passed were the $165,000,000 Federal aid bill country, involving $239,200,000 were passed by the 70th Congress, which Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Parks -- ac-- companied by the former's father motored to Grand Rapids, Michigan 'l'nudag;'.'l"hey returned on Friday. Dr. is installing some new slides for the summer bathers. the $66,000,000 automobile excise Mrs. Robert Rouse and daughter, m Jane, Mrs. Gordon R'K;, Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Lloyd Ray at-- tended the Lake Forest Garden Show on Saturday at the Edith Rockefeller McCormick estate. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Allanson attended on Mrs. Gonyo, of Shady Lane, will entertain the Ladies' Aid on Thurs-- day. Mrs. Haynes and Mrs. Arthur Holland will assist her. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Southorn en-- tertained the Community Club on Thursday evening. Mrs. Andreson and children, Bet-- ty and Wendell, of Chicago, spent Baturday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mrs. Calkins and son, Richard, of' Lomita, California, spent several days this week with her sister, Mrs. Gordon Ray. _ _ Mrs. Burchis' dau&t:r, Mrs. Eliz-- abeth Lassoon, of Chicago, is visit-- t'r. and Mrs. Ransom, of Ivanhoe} are living in the Fred Kiene house. Sixty--five people ate picnic dinner Tuesday at Gages Lake under the auspices of the Diamond Lake Com-- munity Club. Horse shoe proved an interesting sport for the men. Races were run by young and old. Among the visitors were Mr. Wileox and son, Robert, of Libertyville, Mrs. Calkins of California, Mr. Parks and Mrs. Grubb of Omaha, Nebraska. was a guest also. _ Mrs. Earl Kane, Mrs. Fred Town-- er, Amelia Celba, Gladys Hansen at-- WASHINGTON, June 16.--Five ajor pieces of legislation, of-- in-- rest to the motorists of the Cassius Mason is driving a ] for PAGE SX DIAMOND LAKE for all time to come," Meyers, of Mundelein for s the Du| The Daily Vacation Bible School vhich pro--| will open on July 9th with two ex-- i of a 500| perienced teachers. Anyone may en-- he United| ter his child. A child will derive a y the leas-- | yreat deal of benefit from the school throughout | and it is hoped that there will be a Federal] large attendance. motor bus} A committee has been appointed the xl'"'"'to discuss the matter of providing ssion, @AAG! a tennis court ond croquet ground on a score of|the Church Lawn. -- & commercial, Mrs. Lewis Mills and children t will be spent Sunday with Mr. and _ Mrs. er, m"A. O. Rockenbach, of Crystal Lake. s S. Park--| Mary and Lyle Rockenbach returned The fourth|to spend a week at the Mills' home. $29,000,000 Mr. and Mrs. Park Allanson <en-- tertained the latter's parents, Mr. Mrs. Mary Allanson is visiting Mrs. Welch of Libertyville. . A number of relatives gathered together on Sunday at the Cassius Mason home in honor of the birth-- day anniversary of Mrs. Fred Town-- er. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. George Gehrke and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stoerp of Crystal Lake, Mr. and Mrs. James Towner, Mrs. Sophia Towner and son, Rus-- sell. A picnic dinner was eaten in-- doors because of the rain. 7 and Mrs. Smale, of Mundelein and sister and famfly. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin of Ivanhoe. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Barrett, of Batavia, spent Sunday at the Arthur Holland home. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, of Mechanic Grove Road, Libertyville, called on the Hollands The Maine hen that laid 303 eggs in a year must believe that a cackle a day keeps the hatchet away. tended the Teacher's Conference Fri-- day at the DesPlaines Camp Grounds. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ray are now living here in their summer home at Diamond Lake. Mrs. Paul Allanson g)ent Thurs-- day with her mother, Mrs. Holmes, of Chicago. .. Mrs. Erb has remodeled her house on Oakdale Avenue and {)r.u opened it as a restaurant. Neb Mrs. Emma Mills entertained Mrs. Robert Rouse, Sr., Mrs. Har-- den Rouse of Mundelein, and Mrs. Wilson of Seattle, Washington on Friday. _ d A church social will be held Fri-- day evening on the church lawn. Everyone is invited. « Rzert Southorn spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Southorn. ssaA . in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Snetsinger, of Lake Zurich ate Sunday dinner with Mrs. Emma Mills. The Kane reunion was held on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strong of Elgin. Be-- cause of the rainy weather it was necessary to eat indoors. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kane, Mr. and Mrs. Le-- Roy Kane, Mrs. Caroline Mitchell and Mrs. Sophia Ost attended from Diamond Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Hen-- ry Kane and daughter, Genevieve, of Mundelein, Mr. and Mrs. Will Addingtor of Osage, lowa, were here to attend the reunion. Marjorie Ann Frisby and Leslie Southorn were quietly married in Chicago on Saturday, June 9th. The latter is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob-- ert E. Southorn. The young couple spent part of the week with their parents here. Mrs. Telsenthal entertained _ her parents of Chicago on Wednesday. -- Mrs. George Heinsohn -- visited Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Allan yfle]iskopf and infant son a Liberty-- e. * Mr. and Mrs. John Irvine -- and daughters, Maude and Ann of South Bend, Indiana, motored on Saturday to their . daughter's home, Mrs. George Heinsohn, where they spent the week end. Sarah and Roy Rockenbach, of Crystal Lake, spent last week with their sister, Mrs. Lewis Mills. s Miss Lillian Schlagel of DesPlain-- es is visiting her cousins, Thelma and Gladys Clift. ts | ! Y' Performance typical of the §$TYLE ~(CENTURY-- r SIX & EIGHT REE MOTOR SALES AAnt Hupmobile owner will tell you that spar-- kling performance comes foremost in the list of his car's fine qualities. Power, rated not in spasmodic bursts of speed, but in the manner in which these superlative high--compression engines settle down to their tasks; sweetly and smoothly without visible effort or strain. Mechanically, the new Century Hupmobiles are as far in the van of Twentieth Century motoring progress, as the modish body styles and luxury with which they are surrounded. Prove this statement to your own satisfaction by an hour or a day's test in a Century Six or Eight, 24 body and equipment combinations, standard and custom, on each line. Six of the Century, $1345 to $1625. Century Eight; $1825 to $2105. All prices f. o. b. Detroit. POW ER Libertyville -- Phone 8 _--In America's Puritan ere the church pews of a Sunday morning were always filled with a wide-- awake -- congregation. Wide--awake because an ever alert usher went about tapping nodding heads with a rabbit's foot which was affixed [to a pole. Today other means are taken to preclude the possibility of lflcat-nap"ping during even the most orthodox sermon. '_Over 10,147 complaints have been investigated and adjusted by the commissions administering real es-- tate license laws, the reports fur-- ther show. f Over $3,261,910.32 has been : re-- funded to victims of -- unscrupulous real estate agents through the ope-- ration of the real estate license laws in the twelve states which have kept records of such refunds since the laws went into effect, according to a compilation made by the National Association of Real Estate Boards from reports of officials administer-- ing the license laws. _ To the figure in question must be added several hundred thousands of dollars returned ---- to _ victimized clients through the activities of real estate commissions in the ten states which have kept no statistical rec-- ed during the year 1927 alone in the eleven states where commissions CHURCH FIXTURES SHARE * IN SERMON's sSUCCESS A study of assembly, halls has dis-- closed the fact that it is not the ser-- mon, the lecture or the sptéech that is to blame for this deadly ennui, but improper lighting facilities. The specific problem in church lighting is to give reading light, to avoid gloom and glare, to keep attention on the service and to create that atmosphere which is necessary. to calmness of mind and meditation. The solution of the problem lies largely in the selection of fixtures for it is by their arrangement and character that mere light is trans fermed into illumination. Charles Henry Macintosh, former president of the Association Adver-- tising Clubs of the wold, will be a leading speaker at a special confer-- ence on real estate advertising to be held in connection with the com-- ing convention. Mr. Macintosh will also address the general convention body at its opening meeting.-- . Ward C. Gifford, of Kansas City, Missouri, will also address the con-- ference, which will be held on Thurs-- day afternoon June 21. Ward C. Clifford, of Kansas City, Missouri, chairman of a special committee of the National Associa-- tion of Real Estate Boards appoint-- ed to study proposals for eliminat-- ing objectiondble advertising on scenic highways and in urban resi-- dential sections, will preside at the cenference. . The meeting of two committees has been called in connection with the annual convention of the Nation-- al° Associations of Real Estate Bogzrzds to be held in Lousiville June 19--22. * Proper control of outdoor adver-- tising, so that use of billboards may not result in loss to the community of: intangible but valuable dssets of beauty, will come before a joint meeting of committees representing the National Association of Real Estate Boards and Outdoor Adver-- tising Association of America, to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, Wednesday afternoon, June 20. SPEED A total of $329,930.69 was refund-- ADVERTISING MEN CONFER STRENGTH THE LAKE COUNTY REGISTER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928. A very important service of the California Real Estate -- Department in its examination of, and, report up-- on rural lands subdivisions. During the past year the department has made 24 such inspections reports. A questionnaire is sent to the subdivid-- The Real Estate Commission of New Jersey reports that the aid of the Commission was sought during the year by 2,000 or more persons, many, of whom were making their first purchase of propérty located in the state. $ In British Columbia, the Cana-- dian province having a real estate license law, 628 brokers license were issued, and 329 salesman's license were issued. Twenty-two license were revoked. kept record of such refunds. Com-- plaints to the number of 2,234 were adjusted during the year by. the eighteen real estate commissions ' In the twenty--one states in which real estate license laws were -- in operation in 1927, a total of 113,261 real estate brokers license and total of 116,625 real estate --salesman's licenses were issued. License were dénied to 1,895 ap-- plicants on the ground that they were either not of good reputation, or not competent to transact a real estate broker's business. A total of 48 real estate license were suspend-- ed, and a total of 83 were revoked during the year. Commissioners in a number of states have been--active in suppres-- sing the sale of lots by what is known as the 'free lot scheme.' Real Estate commissions in Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Illlinois, and California have taken the stand that operation of such a scheme of sales is sufficient ~ground for revocation of 'license. « which kept such a numerical rec-- -- In order that only well informed and properly trained real estate brokers and salesman may be grant-- ed license many of the states have provisions in their laws allowing the commission to require --proof of the candidate's ability. _ The «~commis-- sioners in five <states, -- California, New York, New Jersey, Ohio ~and Wisconsin, have ruled that new ap-- plicants must pass a competency er to fill out and return. This ques-- tnonnaire inquires into --financing, title, how held, encumbrances -- and releases; water sources and rights, drainage; soil, weather and general adaption to expected uses. The department then follows the inquiry with personal inspection by agricul-- tural deputies. The findings and recommendations are discussed with the subdividers. The department where necessary broadcasts written reports on projects using inflated advertising, mailing them to cham-- bers of commerce and realty boards. Last year the California depart-- ment stopped the sale of over 20,-- 000 acres being sold in ten acre plots, advertised as likely of en-- hancement in value when the Bould-- er Dam project is completed. The aepartment placed an altimeter at various points and found the lands to be several hundréed feet elevation above the highest possible point of canal reach from the Colorado Riv-- above the highest possible canal reach from the Colo er. Another of 12,000 a« found to be so poorly fina they must depend upon s which to install necessary ments, including canals, rc The stopping of these s: timated to have saved the loss of several million do The earliest real estat laws became effective in 19 laws are in operation in . twenty--one states and one province. : > the highest possible point of ~reach from the Colorado Riv-- Another of 12,000 acres was 1 to be so poorly financed that must depend upon sales with ~canals, roads, e of these sales is saved the public million dollars. estate in 1919 in 1928 in one Canadian improve license Such etec es-- the test. Wisconsin allows an oral test, but the other four states require a written examination. In California the tests are given by the real estate boards of the various cities, under the supervisions of the license low commissioner. Reports of Commissioners indicate the way in which real estate license laws operate. lStapped sale of lots on unrecorded plats. Obtained adjustments on con-- tracts guaranteeing certain improve-- ments, where said improveinents were not put in. Obtained abstracts and deeds for persons who were entitled to same, but could not get them. Stopped circulation and ordered destroyed over 200,000 misleading advertising circulars. -- Eliminated large amount of blind and misleading newspaper advertis-- Stopped operators acting for both parties in a deal without the con-- sent of all parties. | . Examiners plaints ma Eliminated large amount and misleading newspaper . ing by checking daily a ments in 83 Michigan news] The Ohio Board 'of Rea That Cold ts nated large amount of blind leading newspaper advertis-- checking daily advertise-- n 83 Michigan newspapers. Ohio ~Board 'of Real Estate ers reports that many com-- made-- before it grow out of verbal promise of resale not incor-- porated in the written contract. This practice has resulted usually in overloading the purchaser of lots with more installment payments than could be made. The board has required equitable adjustments or cancellations or restitution and in the most flagrant cases has given to understénd that the continuation of this practice will result in prompt ; 7: toria is a pleasant, harmless \/ Substitute for Castor Oil, Pare-- goric, Téething Drops and Soothing Syrups, especially prepared for Ini;#lts in arms and Children all ages. Toavoid'nitfiiou.dwayslookfotthedmhmof W Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend i* 722\ ®Y ro ¢ x ( 2 R \SSS) k\',! 6 : A XNNN AMaAA N Auttp Te "' / ie i i y smm M 2M n ITIAKARALCAZLEAQGY esc , & BP «> V * -- l ~ / C MOTHER:-- Fletcher's Cas-- y / toria is a pleasant, harmless & Substitute for Castor Oil, Pare-- revocation of license. As a result the practice is being pretty genera-- lly eliminated in Ohio. 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