Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1925 — Page 21

FRIDAY, OCT. 9,1925

CAPITAL PRIZE TRY-OUT TOWN picking Good Entertainment Is Real Task. A Timet Washinntnn Bureau. 1322 New York Arrnuc. WASHINGTON Oct. 9.—Picking Kl good show Is one of the toughest Jobs a Congressman faces here in "With the Capital fast becoming the premier try-out village of the Nation, it Is possible to spend money more foolishly here than anywhere in the world. far this year more than a O&ZBn plays and near-plays have Started the march on Broadway from Washington theaters. And Washington is as near as at least two Will ever get. Lasff year eighty productions essayed the long trail, and not more than a dozen were final successes. Last year Baltimore critics panned “Lonely Wives.” The play appeared in Washington a few weeks later as “Oh, Oh, Madeleine.” Washington bought tickets and swore. This year anew play appeared, “The Little Mouse.” Washington went. It was the same play, practically. TRICKS USED TO % SELL FLORIDA (Continued From Page 1) factories who know how to advertise and sell merchandise and apply the same methods to land. Out-Sliarp Each Other Then there are the professional brokers who deal in whatever is moving. After catching the public all day, you can see them in their offices or hotel lobbies most of the night trying to out-sharp each other. A few months back much selling was done by men with no offices at oil, who wandered the streets and '’aught prospects where they could. Most cities have now passed ordinances against these curbstone brokers. They have also shut down on the high-pitch boys who would herd the passersby into their offices with megaphones shouting their' wares and advertising auctions of cheap properties. Near Miami, however, the megaphone is still used with effect on motorists on country roads who are urged to stop and buy. The higher the price of the subdivision, however, the more dignified are the methods. Huge offices, fumisned luxuriously, tinted in pleasing colors and banked with, flowers and ferhs, give an air of stability and opulence to the operation. Let a sentimental woman get Into such a place, lending half an ear to the salesman and half to the playing of the fountain in the patio, or the singing of the birds in the flowering shrubs, and she’s apt to sign anything. Mail Business Thrives Thousands of lots are sold by mail order or on representations bv “recommended lists” of brokers who pay for the listing. Thousands are also sold by brok ers who put up deposits on groups of lots. If they succeed in selling enough to pay for them, then they ran obtain deeds for their customers. If they fail, then the customers haveno redress and are shown the sales agreement which the broker has failed to keep and told their dealings have nothing to do with the owner. Rush tactics are employed everywhere You are told that you must buy today because tomorrow the price will be higher. And if you don’t buy, you will be quoted a higher price the next day if for no other reason than the psychological effect. A favorite method of forcing sales in a sicw-moving section Is to advertise that on a certain date the price of lots will automatically rise 20 per cent. Immediately there Is a rush to the spot. Elephants for Lure Almost anything is the basis of a selling spree. The railroad company In one town announced it was erecting some shops. Immediately the price of land for residence pur■poses went up in the neighborhood, "although the shops wall certainly prove a hindrance Instead of a help to high-class residence development. The coming of a station, a warehouse or almost any concrete evidence of activity will make prices jump, without regard to the fact that these buildings will have no good effect on the purpose for which the land is held. We have already seen how owners try to give atmosphere to their subdivisions by giving them names which belie their nature, calling* swamps “heights” and drainage canals “water-front.” One concern Is now trying to ob-

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tain a herd of elephants to give local color to a subdivision with a far-Eastern name. The elephants wil stay long enough to be photographed on the ground. The city governments often give vendors of worthless land their greatest opportunity. Believing that numbers of people is the best evidence of stability, Florida’s- towns take advantage of a State law to arbitrarily extend their city limits now and then and take in extra population. 50 Square Miles Annexed This law provides that two-thirds vote of the combined population of the city and the annexed land shall

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determine whether the annexation Is legal and desirable. Miami, to become bigger than Tampa, recently took in fifty square’ miles Including Cocoanut Grove, Bryan’s old home, and two other villages. She la preparing now to spend SIO,OOO on a cehsus whfch will, it is hoped, show her population about the 100,000 mark. This will not add value, however, to her business district because the Cocoanut Grove folks will still be seventeen miles out, even though in tile ilty limits. They didn’t want to be annexed, but Miami’s vote was so heavy Cocoanut Grove’s vote didn't count. This has already opened the way to fraudulent dealers who are selling land as city suburbs which is

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twenVy-flve miles out end as city property which, though in the new city limits, Is fifteen miles from town. Daytona recently extended her limits twenty-six square miles, thus bringing land which had been "suburban" (in a town of less than 10,000 people) into the city limits, which was an occasion for an immediate price increase. The extension of the town, however, will add no actual value to the land, but make it subject, on the other hand, to taxes for municipal bond Issues for improvements it may never enjoy. Free Transportation One of the most profitable methods adopted by the big operators to sell land is to provide free transporta-

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