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Evening star., 1937-04-17

will be glad to advise you on this Sc
lection without charge.
Building workmen seldom realize
how easily tree can be injured.
Have the trunks protected, or better
yet, fence OF enough space around
each tree 80 that the root area will
not be invaded. Roots are often 50
close to the surface chat they may
be injured II the wheel Of 4 material
truck cuts into soft ground. Do not
permit material ITO be piled on the
root area. The roots may be smoth-
cred. Do not permit mortar or lime
to be thrown on the ground near q
tree or any other vegetation. It
changes the chemical content Of the
soil and that should never be done
except by an expert who understands
what the change will do.
Heat Protection.
do not permit rubbish to be
burned where the heat from embers
may reach tree roots or the smoke or
heat may touch tree branches. Above
all, do not let PAYERS putting down q
tarvia or asphalt drive place their
equipment where the heat and gases
will rise into tree branches or foliage,
because 1t is deadly. If bitches for
sewers or service pipes cross the root
area of q tree have that part tun-
neled. Five or six feet down will pass
under main roots and saving the tree
will be worth the small additional
cost. Do not change the grade over
any part Of the root area Of tree.
Lowering the grade brings roots too
close to the surface and ELL will
smother the roots and kill the tree.
Good trees will give you pleasure
and enhance the value Of your prop
erty, but they are living things and
can be easily injured or destroyed. II
you remember that and insist on your
contractor and his workmen remem-
bering it, you will always be glad"
Evening star., 1937-04-17
F.H.A MORTGAGE
SYSTEM PRAISED
Rea|tor, Recently With Gov.
ernment, Cites Guaran-
teed Values.

The Federal Housing Administra-
tion's mutual mortgage insurance plan
Of home financing and the underwrit-
ing department Of the administra-
ton were praised today by Albert E.
Landvoigt, realtor, who left Govern
ment employment several months ago
to head his own Washington real
estate Office.
Exclusive of farm homes, 81 per
cent Of the families in the United
States occupy their own homes"
Landvoigt stated. Few Of those fami-
hes paid cash or could have paid
cash for their homes. The vast
majority of them borrowed the money
to build or buy these homes, and gave
a mortgage on their property as Sc
curity for the loan.
Home ownership revolves about the
mortgage system. On the soundness
of that system depends, to a major
degree, the soundness OF home owner
ship. That fact should be well con-
sidered by the prospective home
owner. From his standpoint, If an
unsound mortgage Is written on his
home that home IS in jeopardy. From
the lenders point Of view, an unsound
mortgage means that he stands an
excellent chance of losing money on
the transaction. A sound mortgage
Is one that protects the interest Of
both the borrower and the lender
The inerests of both are interrelated
and interviewer.
F. H. A. Testifies to Soundness.
There are very good reasons why
both borrowers and lenders have come
to regard the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration's insured mortgage sys-
tenn as sound method of mortgage
writing. And the soundness of the
insured mortgage system rests upon
the Judgment and integrity exercised
by the Federal Housing Administra-
lions underwriting staff in passing
upon the qualifications of home
mortgages submitted for insurance.
In exercising this function, the
underwriting staff has won wide CON-
mendation for major contribution to
good practice in the home-mortgage
field. For when the Federal Housing
Administration insures a mortgage
the owner can feel assured that he
has sound mortgage on his home,
that he has assumed an obligation
that he can afford, that he will be able
to meet the monthly payments, that
the home will be his with no indebted
ness at the end of the term for which
the mortgage is written.
Guarantee m ConStruction
THE lender is also reasonably sure
OF his investment, because he has
An extra check on the ability Of the
h-rrower to pay for home within a
given price range without consuming
too much Of his income. And the
lender also knows that the house,
bought or built, Is adequate security
for the loan.
I'm the integral worth Of that Sc
curity, the home owner can take a
Justif1able pride for he has the salts
faction OF knowing that his house Is
constructed according to a well-de-
signed plan and proper specifications,
that it is built of good materials by
competent workmen, that it is ap-
propriate to the neighborhood and
that the neighborhood has a good
chance Of withstanding rapid depre-
ciation. Such mortgage on such a
home Is sound mortgage, and makes
10 sound home ownership"
Evening star., 1937-04-17

ly necessary for the ultimate success
Of the new methods whose value or
merit will be to give the public that
which it has been waiting for long
time, i. e., cheaper houses"
"The critique of conventional house
construction advanced by the advo-
Gates of prefabrication was essentially
sound" the magazine AYERS in arriv-
ing at its conclusions, "and although
they have failed to produce mass
housing they have succeeded in pro-
ducing an approach: In proposing
belt-line construction for houses, the
prefabricators failed to recognize de-
termining factors peculiar to the house
construction industry.
Many Special Factors.
These special factors are many,
but foremost among them is the fact
that houses, unlike other consumers
goods, last long, long time. It Is
because of their durability that houses
are long-term investment and the
individual consumer is able to af-
ford much more elaborate and costly
housing then he might otherwise be
able to do. This implies that houses
must be kept at least reasonably up
to-date. And this has actually been
done. The effect on the building
business has been enormous.
During the past so or so years the
house has improved tremendously,
Central heat, gas piping, electric light
and modern plumbing have success
sively been added to the structural
shell OF the typical house. And for
each OF these improvements there has
always existed two markets-the rela-
lively small new house market and
the much larger market represented
by existing homes. Naturally, there
fore, each Of these improvements was
worked out in q form equally ap-
plicable to existing houses and new
ones.
During the same period the house
has become an exceedingly complex
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mechanism, its production involved.
Manufacturers Of building products
have Of necessity specialized, no one
manufacturer producing more than a
few of the vast number of parts max
ing up house.
And only recently" the Forum
concludes, "the advocates Of total shop
fabrication have begun to realize that
their objectives can be accomplished
only by the orderly integration Of
building as whole, the integration
Of conventional as well as prefabri-
Gated construction technique. That,
in other words, prefabrication can be
reached only in the same way as
other big advances In building have
been made"
Evening star., 1937-04-17

Felted outside yolis asdsr the fsrriss dosblss
the rail efficiency in retaining heat ssl ksstiss
0gt asts, rsynsiS, etc.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
MARYLAND FARM SOLD
John D. Bailey Of District Buys
st. Clements Bay Property.

LEONARDTOWN, April II LP.-
John D. Bailey OF Washington has
bought the Hopton Park Farm OF 81
acres on st. Clements Bay. The estate
formerly belonged to Delegate Philip
H. Dorsey, jr. a member Of the State
Legislature. The farm Is noted for
its tobacco and its good beach frontage.
Evening star., 1937-04-17

noor u covered In linoleuIn of . soft
green shade, with curtains in green
faced with raisin and trimmed with
crystal fringe.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
IVORY is FAVORITE
IN PLUMBING FIXTURES
Replaces Green As Preferred
Color-Pastel Shades Sup
plant Vivid Hues.


plant Vivid Hues.
Green, for some years the favorite
color for plumbing fixtures, has
yielded first place to ivory, says the
Plumbing and Heating Industries
Bureau. Other popular colors are
peach, soft tan, light brown and deli
cate blue.
The soft pastel shades, including
the green's, are preferred today to the
vivid and theatrical colors that were
widely used a few years ago.
The popularity Of ivory and its
prominence in interior decorating to-
day is attributed to its adaptability
and conservatism. It can be used
successfully under various lighting
conditions and in innumerable COM
binations with other colors.
The Washington times., 1937-04-19
when he cleans your teeth

DR.. Lyons is just as effective as Milk
of Magnesia.
DIR. Lyons keeps your teeth
REALLY CLEAN and clean teeth
mean firm, healthy gums and the
least possible tooth decay. It leaves
your teeth feeling so much cleaner,
your mouth so refreshed, and your
breath so sweet and pure.
Brush your teeth with DR.. Lyons
Tooth Powder regularly-consultyo your
dentist periodically-and you will be
doing ALL that you can possibly do
to protect your teeth.
DR.. Lyons is not only doubly eff
Gent, but it costs only half as much
to use. Even a small package lasts
twice as long as q tube Of tooth paste.
The Washington times., 1937-04-19

high despite the rise of raw ma
terialS and wages.
However, there are definite in.
dications Of general economic i'm
provement in France.
Revenue in Excess
It was announced that for the
first time in five years the reve-
nue. for February has exceeded es-
Inmates.
National production Is rising,
with railway earnings 20 per cent
above the corresponding period Of
last year, and there is a 9 per cent
decrease in unemployment.
There is intense activity in the
heavy industries and much retail
buying power.
The improvement of trade rela-
lions between France and Ger.
many would accelerate the return
of prosperity for both nations and
tend to remove the mutual politi-
cal suspicious Of the two neigh
borS.
The Washington times., 1937-04-19
Do As Your Dentist Does

THERE is nothing known that
will clean and polish teeth SO
= quickly and leave them SO
cleaning white-as POWDER.
That is why your dentist, when
cleaning your teeth, as you know
always uses powder.
AS it is only the powder part of any
dentifrice that cleans, a dentifrice that
is ALL POWDER-iust naturally
cleans best. DR.. Lyons Tooth Powder
is ALL POWDER-1OO% cleansing
properties. This is more than twice the
cleansing properties of tooth pastes.
Dentists everywhere recommend
DR.. Lyons Tooth Powder, because
The Washington times., 1937-04-19

teeth simply cannot remain dull and
film coated when it is used. DR.. Lyons
cleans off all stains and polishes the
teeth in harmless and practical way
that leaves them sparkling-many
shades winter.
DR.. Lyons Tooth Powder is a special
dental powder developed for HOME
USE by a distinguished practicing
dentist. Free from all acids, grit or
pumice, it cannot possibly injure or
scratch the softest enamel. Even as a
neutraizer in acid mouth conditions,
The Washington times., 1937-04-19
10000 VISITORS
AT GLEN ECHO

More than 10000 pleasure seek
ers from washington and Mary
land attended the opening two
days of Glen Echo Park, the Dis
trict's free-admission, outof-door
park on Conduit Road on satur-
day and Sunday.
Due to the warm weather the
rides, which have been rebuilt
during the winter, were extremely
popular.
The Spanish Garden ballroom
opened Saturday evening at 9
o'clock with music supplied by
Dave McWilliams.
The Crystal Swimming pool will
not open until May a.
The Washington times., 1937-04-19

loan from Britain prevented a
later attack of the franc.
Then the government decided
to unpeg the franc and permit it
to find its own natural level.
Measures were taken aimed at
bringing back into domestic circu-
lation French money Int abroad
or boarded at home.
Restriction Lifted
Restrictions were removed on
the sale of gold to the Bank of
France. The attempt was aban-
doned to penalize those who spec
ulated on the devalution of the
franc last September. Manage
ment of the exchange equalization
fund has been put in the hands
Of a nonpolitical committee.
The issuance was authorized Of
a large national defense loan, re-
payable in francs, sterling or dol
lars.
The French problem under the
international monetary agreement
is to keep prices mounting too
The Washington times., 1937-04-19
By DAVID P. SENTNER
CCopyright, 1887. by International
News Service)

LONDON, April 19.-France,
with a population two-thirds the
size of Germany's, has prepared
with rifles and bullets for what
she feels to be inevitable-an out
right demand by the Reich for re-
turn of all that she lost in the
World War.
To bulwark her security, France
has made military alliances with
the Little Entente, Poland and
Russia. She has obtained a guar
antee against outside aggression
from Britain.
It is mainly the French. Russian
military alliance that has initiated
against a general settlement in
Europe.
Hitler has tried to make France
break this agreement with Rus
STA which expires in 1910.
Pact Aimed at Reich
He has declared such a pact Is
pointed directly at Germany mas
much as bolshevism is the enemy
and antithesis of national social
ism.
In straining for her security,
the French expenditures for her
strong army and air force have
burdened heavily upon her.
France has increased her first
line planes 81 per cent since last
June; aviation munitions we're
increased by so per cent; aerial
ornaments by 10 per cent;
Frances bombing capacity will be
doubled by spring; quadrupled by
the end of 1898; and qu1ntupled
by the end of 1899.
Transitional Period
At present, French economic diff
ficulties overshadow her political
problems. She is facing a crucial
transitional period.
Recurrent "sit-doWn" strikes fol-
lowed the devaluation of the franc
and a resultant rise in retail prices.
The budget deficit is 4,600, 000, 900
francs.
Parallel with her efforts in the
rearmaments race since last June,
France has taken sharp steps to
create q new social and economic
order.
The tripartite monetary agree
ment prevented a collapse of her
currency system,
The recent $20o,o0o 900 railroad
The Washington times., 1937-04-19
FRANCE VIEWS
REICH WARAS
INEVITABLE

The political and economic
status of France is discussed in
the following article, fifth in a
series on "The NeD Economic
Dtplomdcu."
Evening star., 1937-04-09

Carmichael said, no attempt is being
made to operate the plant.
Our office force in the parts de-
partment were refused admittance to
their division, and when they later
tried to enter they were forcibly pre-
vented from doing so, which means
that our products in the hands of
consumers from coast TO coast are
being prevented from receiving proper
service
Both of the above acts We consider
illegal"
American Support Promised.
Thompson declared he had talked
with Homer Martin, international
president of the union, in Detroit and
Martin had promised American au-
tomobile workers will support the Ca
madam workers to the limit"
The American union Thompson
said, has told General Motors there
that as soon as you send one car
across the line to Canada to help
break the Oshawa strike, you'll never
make another car in the United
States"
Martin, who was scheduled to at
tend the meeting of strikers at
OshaWa last night, failed to appear
1t was reported he had returned to
Detroit when the plane in which he
was travelling was unable to land at
Hamilton Airport in the darkness.
The Canadian Federation of Labor,
through its secretary-treasurer w. T.
Burford. supported the stand of Pre-
mier Hepburn against the C. I. O.
The organization has shown Ca
madam workers. Burford said. they
have nothing to learn from the
United States except what to avoid"
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much Of the Nations industrial unrest
could be ended if both capital and la
Dor would freely use the machinery
now provided by the Wagner act to
make operative the principle of COL
lective bargaining"
Capital should abandon all forms
OF espionage over labor, all kinds of
subsidized company unions and the
use OF strikebreakers," he said in
speech prepared for delivery at the
town meeting Of the air"
"As long as industry spies on labor,
or sets up its own pet union, or brings
in professional strikebreakers 20 render
a lawful strike useless, 1t will be diff
cult to convince labor that the scales
OF industrial democracy have not been
weighed against it.
If capital abandons the unfair and
Evening star., 1937-04-09

necessary if we were to attain some
measure of equality in the bargaining
power of capital and labor"
Walter Gordon Merritt, labor counsel
OF the New York Real Estate Board,
said the cause of the present trouble
is "the attitude of public officials, and
the character of laws which have been
passed by State and Federal Legis-
latures leading to the conviction on
the part of labor leaders that in
large measure they can do what they
wish without restraint on the part of
government"
Evening star., 1937-04-09
Judiciary
Continued From First Page)

promptness seems entirely at variance
with the facts. Enlarging its numbers
as proposed would, the Chief Justice
assures us, hinder rather than expe-
dite the promptness of its decisions.
Furthermore, unless the new ap-
polntees were, in effect, pledged in ad-
vance to support certain measures, the
social-political results desired by the
President could not be guaranteed. II
the new appointees were actually
chosen for this purpose, and with pub
lie understanding that such was the
case, the time-honored prestige of the
court would instantly and justly COL
lapse. No judiciary made up of po-
litical 'yes" men could maintain public
confidence and respect.
There simply is no emergency such
as requires this ravaging of the court,
and the greatest emergency faced by
the administration is entirely outside
the present influence of the court and
one which the administration seems
unwilling, or helpless. to face.
Until every reasonable effort has
been made by more carefully drafted
legislation and by constitutional
amendment, if necessary, to secure
the kind Of social and economic
changes desired by the administration,
the effort to pack the court must be
condemned as un-American and ulti-
mately sure to destroy certain of the
foundation stones upon which our Re-
public rests.
Public Opportunity Denied.
"The people have had no opportu-
nifty to express themselves on this
policy, which the President never
mentioned during the recent cam
paign and which his own previous
utterances, as well as the platform Of
the Democratic party, gave no citizen
any reason to anticipate. To spring
it now and to try and whip into line
the huge Democratic majority in Con-
gress is fragrant instance of political
bad faith which it would be difficult
to match in our entire history.
Once our confidence in the good
faith of the Chief Magistrate and the
impartiality of the Supreme Court is
shaken, the end of our form of gov
ernment is in sight"
Following Prof. Cain to the stand,
Coudert said:
1T is perfectly legitimate to agitate
for changes Iii the powers of govern
ment. But it is wholly llegitimate to
attempt to bring them about by indi-
rection. The decisions of the Supreme
Court should not be changed or in
validated by creating new justices
with the expectation that their minds
will be of such caliber or f1exibility
as to adopt their Interpretation of the
Constitution to the will Of Congress
or the executive.
"It would, indeed, be better to abol-
ish the function of judicial review than
to retain the form while abandoning
the substance"
Coudert expressed himself strongly
in favor Of constitutional amend
ment instead Of the court bill
In his testimony Prof Cain argued
that enactment Of the bill would have
an adverse effect on business revival.
Cain coupled his prediction that
passage Of the bill would result in a
business slump with the assertion that
the objectives Of the measure are
inimical to the American system Of
government and the independence Of
- iud'cis-r
Enactment OF this BILL he de-
Evening star., 1937-04-09

arbitrary practices which I have
enumerated, labor may then fairly
be compelled to abandon retaliatory
practices adopted in real or feigned
elf-protection against capitals un-
fair and arbitrary methods-for in
stance, the sit-down strike and the
refusal to hold elections to permit the
workers themselves to choose their
own union and their own representa-
tiveS to bargain for them"
Courts Blamed.
He said the attitude of the courts
on industrial legislation to some ex-
tent has impaired the sanctity of
the law in the minds of large sections
of the community.
1T is unfortunate, he declared,
that the courts have refused to recog-
nize laws which the community deemed
Evening star., 1937-04-09
Strike
Continued From First Page.)

belts strung over their shoulders and
pistols at their sides, moved into
Toronto from Ottawa and other posts.
The troopers were ordered to strike
duty today-the second day of the
walk-out-as authorities here heard
reports that strikes we're spreading to
other industries.
A union meeting was called tonight
at the McKinnon Industries plant, a
General Motors subsidiary at st.
Catharines, Ontario, for a vote on
whether employees there should join
the strike. The plant employs 1,70O
men.
In Montreal, officers of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association said
they would refuse to work ships of the
Shipping Federation of Canada in all
but few ports. Their action would
be chiefly effective in United States
(harhors. they aeeerted. 4
Five hundred workers at the Ger1
Evening star., 1937-04-09
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Evening star., 1937-04-09

Progressive Chinese women study
ing in schools of Japan have organ
lied, and have adopted as their slogan
DO Women's Part for the Welfare of
HumanitVn
Evening star., 1937-04-09
LAWS HELD CURE
FORLABOR UNREST
SchWe||enbach Urges Use
of Wagner Act Ma
chinery.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 9-Senator
Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Democrat,
of Washington, said last night that
Evening star., 1937-04-09
Scrambled Nestmates.

CONCORD, N. c. R.-A cat and
her four kittens occupy the same nest
with laying hens on the w. M. Sherill
farm
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-21
PARTICIPATION
 OF CONN. DEPENDS

Hartford, Conn.,, May 21.-(UP)- The appropriation committee of the general assembly today considered approval of a $15,000 grant to a temporary state committee named by Gov. Wilbur L. Cross to plan fo1 Connecticut's participation in the United States Constitution sesqui- centennial celebration. Superior Court Judge Kenneth Wynne ap- peared before the committee yes- terday as representative of the gov ernor's group, which comprises:
 Lieut.-Gov. T. Frank Hayes, Wa terbury William Hanna, Bethel; Col Samuel H. Fisher, Litchfield; Philc c. Calhoun, Bridgeport; Frank L McQuire, New London; Judge Newell Jennings, Bristol; Maurice Sher- man, Hartford; Judge Wynne, anc Gov. Cross, ex-off1cio member.
 Judge Wynne announced his ap. pearance before the assembly com mittee shortly after Gov. Cross ac- offlcio member.
 Judge Wynne announced his ap- pearance before the assembly con- mittee shortly after Gov. Cross ac- cepted an invitation of courier from Mayor s. David Wilson o1 Philadelphia to attend the Con- stitution anniversary celebration there Sept. IT.