National Retail Directors' Annu.l Meeting

(Continued from Page 11) wliich is a program of education and publicity relating to small homes proraotion, and sponsored jointly by the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. This year the program entails the establishment of State and Regional Homes Foundations.

I\[r. Northup stated he felt that each year the program has made very substantial progress, and more men have learned the secret of building attractive small homes at a profit.

A highlight of the Wednesday morning session was a talk by Carlton K. Matson, Director of Public Relations, of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Company. Mr. I\fatson's remarks were, as he said, more or less in the form of an "editorial," prior to the showing of a small-home technicolor film produced and to be distributed by the F. H. A. in cooperation with the Libbey-Orvens-Ford Company. The title of this "short" is "Design for Happiness;" it has an eight-minute running time; and will go out before about 12,00O,000 people.

At this time Mr. Matson introduced to the Directors two men who u'ere present from the F. H. A., Jay KeeS?r, assistant administrator, and George Vanderhoef.

Mr. Keegan stated that the F. H. A. appreciated the cooperation it had always received from the National Retail f he Board of Directors adopted resolutions extending thanks to the Home magazine committee, to the lvholesalers' and manufacturers' groups for the splendid cooperation they have rendered on the Wage and Hour matter, to the committeq which contacted the Procurement Division of the Treasury with reference to W.P.A. purchases, to Captain H. E. Collins, director of the Procurement Division, to President Roger Finkbine, and also expressed to Secretary Carnahan and his daughters its sincere sympathy in their recent bereavement.

Lumber Dealers' Association, and that the F. H. A. officers have a very close working arrangement with the association and its officers.

Mr. I. N. Tate then reported to the Directors the results of a real estate tax conference he had attended the first week in May. This conference, he said, started with the National Association of Real Estate Boards, but the scope was broadened to include the National Association of Building Olvners and Managers, the National Grange, the Nlortgage Bankers' Association of America, and the National Apartment Owners' Association; thereby giving the real estate tax problem a "broad mouthpiece." The conference adopted a very vigorous platform, in the aim of correcting the situation.