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Evening star., 1941-01-25

equipped by years of actual practice
to turn out a finished subdivision
And the neighborhood has an i'm
portant bearing on the resale value
of your home.
Financial responsibility: Dealing
with a builder who is financially ir-
responsible may lead to no end of
trouble. Buyers have discovered
after purchasing and moving into
their houses that various kinds of
equipment, such as refrigerators,
have not been paid for. Either they
paid the bill or the refrigerator was
repossessed. II you are in doubt
about a builders financial record,
get a credit report.
If his credit record is bad, with a
string of judgments and mechanics
liens, ask to see a release of liens
signed by all sub-contractors and
suppllers for that house.
Background: Washington is full
of out-of-toWn builders who have
rushed here to take advantage of
the demand for housing. When
times become normal many will
leave. Some houses, like automo-
biles no longer manufactured, will
then become orphans, so to speak.
Their builders will no longer be
here.
Reputable builders are anxious to
make those minor adjustments
needed in every house after it is
sold. A builder whose home is in
Washington and expects to con-
tinue in the building business must
have satisfied buyers. He will not
forget a purchaser after a sale is
completed. He cannot afford to
have dissatisfied customers. Within
reasonable limits he will see that
anything which goes wrong with
any house he sold is made right.
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Much Private BuiIdinq
Predicted for 1941
Despite Handicaps
Rising Prices, Priorities
For Defense and Labor
Shortages Forecast

The volume of private building
In 1941 will be large, though handl-
capped by rising prices, priorities
for defense projects, and by a re-
sulting shortage of skilled labor for
private work, according to Edwin
Bergstrom, president of the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects.
private capital must provide the
major portion of the funds neces-
sary for expanding and creating
industrial plants that will produce
the materials of defense Mr.. Berg
strom says. 1T must build housing
and facilities to care for the work.
ers in its plants and their families.
1t must build homes for its plant
executives. 1t must provide funds
to modernize and enlarge the build
ings of commerce and to build new
ones that will be made necessary by
the increased business that must
result from the large volume of de-
tense wages and salaries.
I'm this general picture the field
OF industrial building design looms
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large. It is one In which many
architects have been conspicuously
successful. 1t requires not only
ability in the art of design, but
executive and administrative abil-
ity of a high order, a working
knowledge of the technical process
for which the buildings are con-
structed and an exact knowledge
of building costs, of the effects Of
taxation, and of financial pro-
cedure. 1t is a field well within the
province of the architectural pro-
fession.
The major portion of the Ma
tions building for l941, however,
will consist of projects initiated by
the Federal Government for de-
fense purposes, Mr.. Bergstrom
points out. The erection of can
tonments. bases, and stations, of
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build their projects those who they
feel will complete them within the
periods allotted for construction.
Architects and engineers in private
practice have not been engaged to
the extent they had hoped, for the
Federal agencies have used, largely,
plans and specifications developed
by their own planning bureaus for
former emergencies
"The records show, however, that
private practitioners have not been
ignored. The Federal agencies
should utilize to still greater ex-
tent the knowledge and experience
Of the planning professions.
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Builder
Continued From Page BID

something about the builder of that
house. You may not be able to
select your builder the way you
choose your grocer. your haber-
dasher or your furniture dealer. In
such cases you decide upon certain
store. All carry the merchandise
you want. This is not always true
in the case of home builder. The
finest builder in town may not have
the kind of house you want at the
price you can pay or in the right
neighborhood. Therefore, 1t is often
necessary, after you select the house,
to find out something about the
man who built it.
A good house should last at least
so to 100 years. 1t cannot be traded
in at the end of a year for a new
model. 1t will be with you for
years, perhaps to the end of your
days. Its design, construction,
equipment, comparative freedom
from repairs, all these are dependent
upon its builder. Good builders en-
ploy good architects, capable en-
gineers. They buy st-class ma
aterial and use only skilled artisans.
Without all this you will get neither
good house nor a good value for
your money. Then, isn't it sound
sense and good business, too, to find
out something about the man who
is responsible for a product costing
you several thousand dollars?
The following are some things
that you should know about the
builder of your house.
Experience: As with everything
else, experience counts in home
building; not merely experience in
actual construction, but in subdi-
viding ground to the best advantage,
street layout, house design and
financing. Anybody can buy a lot,
use a set Of stock plans and build
a house, but 1t takes a man we'll
Evening star., 1941-01-25
Peach, yellow, Mulberry

Delightfully."- feminine is bed
room in which peach, yellow and
mulberry are gracefully combined.
These colors are all employed in
hand-blocked fabric which covers
the headboard of the bed, and from
which the color scheme is derived.
A fiat paint of peach color is used
to finish the walls. The bedspread.
upholstery of the easy chair and
curtains match the wall. The floor
is covered by mulberry carpet,
and the furniture is of sycamore
wood, natural finish in period style.
Evening star., 1941-01-25
Fill Floors in Winter

Home owners will find winter one
OF the best seasons of the year for
the repair of cracked flooring. Wood,
as a general rule, is much drier dur
ing the heating season than during
any other period of the year.
Evening star., 1941-01-25

A public series of lectures on the
relations of the United States and
Brazil are being given in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Texans 10 Arrive Today
For R. f. A. Convention

Fifty rural electrification special
lists from Texas, clad in cowboy
clothes and accompanied by band,
were to arrive today to attend a
weeks convention beginning tomor-
row at the Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration, Connecticut and Rhode
Island avenues NV.
The Texans, accompanied by three
R. E. A. managers from New Mex
leo and one each from Arizona and
California, were to be met by r. E
A. Administrator Harry Slattery and
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Grover Hill. After sightseeing and
entertainment today, they will be-
gin a week of technical meetings at
5 am. tomorrow.
Among those who will address the
conference during the week, in addi-
ton to Mr.. Slattery and Mr.. Hill, are
Milo Perkins, surplus marketing ad-
ministrator; M. L. Wilson, director
of defense nutrition and of exten-
sion service in the Department OF
Agriculture; DR.. John w. Stude-
baker, commissioner of education,
and F. c. Holloman of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. The con-
vention closes Saturday afternoon,
with Friday dedicated to Food for
Defense"
Evening star., 1941-09-21
More Children 10 Obtain
W. P. A. School Lunches

Due to establishment of central
kitchens, extension of service to chill
6ren who can pay, and extension of
lunches through fall and spring,
more school lunches than ever before
will be served by the Works Projects
Administration throughout the Ma
ton this year.
Last years high mark of more
than 100000 children served daily,
it was announced yesterday by Mrs.
Florence Kerr, Assistant W. P. A.
Commissioner in charge of COM
munity service projects, will be
topped next year despite decrease in
w. p A. payrolls.
Fewer workers can now prepare
food in central kitchens and bakeries
and send it to schools not previously
served, she explained. In addition,
children not classified as needy"
and able to pay for food will this
year be added to the luncheon group.
Many schools, she said. will extend
lunch service beyond the limit Of
coolest months maintained last year.
More than the $4,000 schools par
ticipating last year are expected to
join in the plan this year, Mrs. Kerr
said
Food is provided by the Surplus
Marketing Administration of the
Agriculture Department, school
boards. the w. P. A. and non-gov-
ernmental organizations. The w. P.
A., Mrs. Kerr said, has been pre-
serving food all summer for the
lunches.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Driving Tests
TooShort,
Clubs Say
Keystone, A.A.A.
Ask Additional
Examiners

Motorists are being given opera
tors permits to drive District streets
after a driving test that averages
only about five minutes in length.
This was the complaint Of the
American Automobile Association
before the Commissioners at last
weeks budget hearings as both the
association and the Keystone Auto
mobile Club urged appropriations
for additional permit examiners for
the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic.
Four new examiners are asked by
the A. A. A. and two by Keystone.
Washington I. Cleveland, manager
of the local A. A. A. club, declared
emphatically that under present
conditions permits are being issued
to persons not qualified to drive.
Mr.. Cleveland insisted that a
minimum of Is minutes should be
devoted to the road test, which now
consists of drive around tn, block.
The applicant. he protested, is not
tested on ability to drive in heavy
traffic, to start and stop on a hill Or
on skill in operating the car on the
open road.
In fact" he declared, "the test
indicates little more than whether
or not he can start and stop car,
steer and back"
In asking for two additional eX-
aminers, George E. Keneipp, man
ager of the Keystone Club, declared
SO per cent of his membership IA
vored re-examination of all opera
tors involved in accidents resulting
in personal injury or death.
Scores of motorists, he added,
have bitterly assailed the delay and
inconvenience in obtaining privers'
permits despite the fact that the
tests are less thorough than they
should be. He placed the blame
squarely on lack of adequate per-
Sonnel.
Both spokesmen pointed out that
the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic collected about $1,000, 900 in
taxes last year.
Only $356,985 was spent on the
Department of Vehicles and Traffic,
Mr. Cleveland said, adding that the
motorists have thus already paid for
the increases requested.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Group Issues
Publication
RI. Avenue Unit
Pamphlet Recalls
Years of Work

In drive for members the Mem
bership Committee of the Rhode Is
land Avenue Citizens Association
has issued this season a six-page
pamphlet, setting forth reasons for
joining the association and its ac-
complishments through the years
1t is entitled. The Making of Your
Stabilized Community"
Fred T. Devine, chairman of the
Membership Committee. said that in
the past the committee had issued
mimeographed papers and similar
material, but that they went fur
ther this Tina and issued pam
phlet.
Prefaced with a general statement
concerning the ideals of the group,
it lists in chronological order the &C
complishments of the association
since its formation in 1908.
Among the items for which the
group has worked and have been
realized are Woodbridge School, 1927;
full-time operation of Langdon
Playground, 1899; completion of
John Burroughs School, 1921: Taft
Junior High School, 1888; Woodbridge
Library, 1929; repaving and partial
widening of Rhode Island avenue,
1910; number of pavings, widenings
and extensions of sewers in the area
and full-time operation of the Taft
Donrootioyo Ccpter 1910
Mr.. Devine said the publication
was written with the advice of "old
and new timers" and was not pub
lished until thoroughly reviewed by
previous officers"
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Rates, Rats
Civic Topics
This Week
Ten Groups Plan
Sessions on
City Problems

A proposed increase in water rates
and rat determination in the District
will be the principal subjects dis
cussed by citizens associations this
week as 10 groups hold meetings.
The North Capitol Association,
meeting tomorrow night, will take
up the question of increased water
rates in the District and the elimi-
mating of certain streetcar stops in
it's area. Mid City and Hampshire
Heights organizations will also take
up the water-rate question. Also
on the program of the former group
will be the rat-control program and
appointment of nominating COM
mittee, with elections to be held in
October. Hampshire Heights will
also discuss the recreation setup at
the Rudolf School, which is in its
community.
One other association, Anacostia,
meeting Friday night, will take up
the determination program. APP
pointment of a nominating commit
tee and q speaker from the Red
Cross is also on the program for
the evening.
Henry Heine, representing the
traffic department, will talk on
Safety for Children at meeting
of the Arkansas Avenue Community
Citizens Association at its meet
ing Thursday night. Plans for
minstrel show to be held sometime
this winter and a definite meeting
place for the association will be
other items discussed, 1t was said
by Miss Helen Gilcrest, publicity
chairman of the group.
Members of the Burroughs Asso-
citation will be entertained by color
movie showing people and places of
interest in the Brookland-Wo
ridge communities. A community
sing has also been scheduled, it was
announced.
Following is the complete schedule
of the 10 citizens associations meet
ing this week:
Monday.
GEORGETOWN Parish hall, st.
Johns Church, Potomac and o
streets NV, 8 pm.
Lincoln Park-Kingsman School,
Fourteenth and E streets NE, g
pm.
Mid City - Thomson School,
Twelfth and L streets NV, 8 pm.
North Capitol-McKinley High
School, Second and T streets NE,
8 pm.
Tuesday.
Hampshire Heights B Barnard
School, Fourth and Decatur streets
NV, 8 pm.
Thursday.
Arkansas Avenue Community
West School, 1888 Farrsgut street
NV, 8 pm.
Conduit Road-PaIsades Park
Field House, Edmunds and Sherrier
places NV, 8 pm.
Fort Davis-Ryland M. E. Church,
Branch avenue and S street Sc,
pm.
Friday
Anacostia-Anacostia Junior Sen
ior High School, Sixteenth and r
streets Sc, 8 pm.
Burroughs - Burroughs School,
Eighteenth and Monroe streets NE,
8 pm.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Trade Units Plan
Three Meetings

Three committee meetings are
listed on the Board of Trade calen-
dar for this week. Two of them
will bring together the heads of
several committees for a general
discussion of future activity.
General Chairman Charles H.
Tompkins will meet with the chair
men of the four committees under
his general supervision at pm
tomorrow in the boards Offices in
The Star Building. On hand will
be Leon Chatelain, jr., Architecture
and Architectural Awards Commit
tee; Arthur B. Heaton, public anc
private buildings: Charles S. Stock
sanitation, and Harry Blake, zoning
Also scheduled for tomorrow is 6
meeting of the five committee chair
men working under the direction Of
H. l.. Rust, jr. They are E. Barrett
Prettyman, municipal finance
George E. Keneipp, public schools
Lee D. Butler, cultural develop
ment; John A. Remon, rivers ane
harbors, and Harvey L. Jones, park.
and recreation. This session viii
be held at pm. at the home o1
Mr.. Rust, 2101 Connecticut avenue
NV.
The Membership Committee viii
hold its regular weekly meeting al
12:40 pm. Tuesdays in the board
Offices.
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RedskinChief
Speaks to
Jaycees
George Marshall Is
Featured at
Weekly Luncheon

George Preston Marshall, presl-
dent of the Washington Redskins
professional football team. will ad-
dress members of the Junior Board
of Commerce at the weekly luncheon
Thursday, at 1880 pm, at the
Annapolis Hotel. President Millard
F. West, jr., will preside.
Eight business meetings and ath-
letic events have been scheduled for
the week by the junior trade group
Here's the schedule:
Officers meeting at 1890 pm. to-
morrow, at Taft House Inn; PreSi-
dent West presiding.
New Members Committee at 12:3C
pm. tomorrow at Taft House Inn;
Bernard j. Nees, chairman.
Board of directors at 8:15 pm to-
morrow at the Mayfower Hotel.
Public Health Committee at 1919
pm. Tuesday at Taft House Inn;
Paul Guernsey, chairman. The ques
ton of a 1-cent milk program fol
needy school children and the
Health Departments rodent contro
program will be discussed.
Golf match at 2 pm. Wednesday
at Kenwood Golf and Country Club
Gene Krewson, chairman.
Bowling League at 7:30 pm
Thursday at the Petworth Alleys
James Thomson, chairman.
Municipal Affairs Committee at
pm. Thursday in Room 701, Unior
Trust Building; Floyd Pomeroy
chairman.
Tennis tournament finals at 7:3(
pm. Saturday at Kenwood; Charles
R. Grant, jr., chairman.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Trade Board
Takes In II
|NewMembers
Executive Group
Admits Them After
Session Last Week

Twenty-seven business and pro-
fessional men were elected to men,
bership in the Board of Trade at a
meeting of the organizations Execu-
tive Committee last week. New
members are:
Clifton D. H. Bierman, sales en-
gineer, 3o31 K street NV; Jack
A. Bowen, Washington Shade g.
Awning Co., 2021 Seventeenth street
NV; S. Hardey Burgess, salesman
engineer, 3031 K street NV; Alfred
D. Cone, 1918 Eighteenth street
NV: Don Caffery Classic. engineer,
Munsey Building; Howard S. God
ard, radiator cabinet distributor,
Arlington, Va: Louis H. Hall, real
estate operator, 2125 Rhode Island
avenue NE; F. F. Healy, District of
Columbia surveyor, District Build
ing; william G. Irwin. jr.. builder,
5516 Thirty-ninth street NV:
Philip N. Israel, president Washing
ton Engineering Co.. 1926 K street
NV; Barna Allen johnson. man
ager Northeast Branch Call Carl,
604 Rhode Island avenue NE; Will
liam H. Limerick, proprietor gas sta
ton, 4430 Benning road NE; Rich
ard E. Meissner, policeman, Metro
politan Police Department.
Lawrence j. Mills. attorney, Met
ropolitan Bank Building; M. Edgar
Milstead, insurance broker, 1417 K
street NV; DR.. A. Harry Ostrow,
dentist, District of Columbia Health
Department; Logan Pingree, exca-
vator. 3100 K street NV; Howard
T. Randolph, salesman, 1929 K
street NV; John D. Sebastian,
contractor, 1872 Roxboro place NV;
]. Robert Sherwood, banking, Mount
Rainier, Md; Edward c. Stewart,
proprietor service station, Hyatts-
vile, Md; Carl T. Tate, policeman,
Metropolitan Police Department;
Byron c. Thomson, sales manager
Rosslyn Steel g. Cement Co., 303l
K street NV; Richard L. Under
wood, patent lawyer, McLachlen
Building; DR.. William L. Walters,
dentist, ITO Rhode Island avenue
NV; Hugh H. Weldon, jr., preci-
sion hearing instruments, Farragut
Medical Building: Frederick L.
Wight, jr, druggist, Sixty-third
street and Eastern avenue NE.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
D. c. Sofety Society
To Hold Ladies' Day

The Washington Safety Society
will hold ladies day luncheon at
the new Washington National Air
port at 80 pm. Saturday. The pro-
gram will include an inspection Of
the airport under the direction Of
A. C. Maher, safety engineer Of the
terminal.
Speakers at the luncheon will be
]. ]. ODonovan, vice president of
Pennsylvania Central Airlines, who
will talk on What Safety Means
to the Airlines," and John Groves,
manager of the airport, who will dis
cuss THE Nations Greatest anA
Most Modern Airport"
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Three Win Scholarships
In Boroh Essay Contest

Award of three scholarships to
winners of the William E. Borah
essay contest was announced yes
terday by DR.. Joseph E. Gellerman,
chairman of the Scholarship Com
mittee for National University.
Winners are Louis w. Sornsen,
1924 G street NV; Henry D. Nazlen,
2134 F street NV, and Edmund D.
Rozen, -1712 New Hampshire ave
nue. NV.
Judges we're Brig. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, director of selectiVe serv-
ice; Harry Mitchell, president of the
Civil Service Commission; Admiral
C. R. Train, Representative Gear
hart of California and Mrs. Borah.
The scholarships we're founded in
memory of the late Senator Borah
and covers the cost of books, tuition
and incidental fees for two years in
the junior college of the university.
it was stated.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Beuuvoir School
Ceremonies Listed

Cathedral officials will participate
tomorrow and Tuesday in the open
ing ceremonies at Beauvoir, the Ma
tional Cathedral Elementary School
The Rev. Theodore o. Weedel
canon chancellor of the Cathedral
will conduct the service at the school
at 9 am. tomorrow, marking the
beginning of the schools 10th year
The Very Rev. Noble G. Powell, dean
of the Cathedral and Bishop-coad.
jutor. .elect Of Maryland. viii address
the students Tuesday.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Three Conventions
To Meet Here

Three conventions will be held
here this week, according to an
announcement by Russell Schneider,
manager of the Greater National
Capital Committee of the Board of
Trade. The list follows:
International Association of Elec-
trical Inspectors, Eastern section,
tomorrow through Wednesday at the
Mayflower Hotel; 300 delegates.
American Rose Society, Thursday
through Saturday; 200 delegates.
Gyro International, District 3
Friday and Saturday at the Wash
ington Hotel; 300 delegates.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Red Cross Glasses

Several Red Cross activities will
get under way at the Garnet-Patter-
son Community Center, Tenth and
U streets NV, tomorrow night. Be-
ginning at o'clock, registration for
Red Cross classes in home nursing
and first aid will be started, and
volunteers In garment production
also viii b enrolled.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
New Speech Program

George Horsley Smith, teacher of
speech, announced yesterday he is
conducting new radio program at
6:45 pm. each Thursday over a
local station. The educational fea-
ture is entitled Your Speech and
YOU"
Evening star., 1941-09-21

as a stenographer for two members
of Congress. Then for five years
he was a machinist and since 1921
he has been connected with P. T.
Moran Co., in Georgetown. He is a
member of Draft Board No. 16.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Business Groups
Five Associations
Will Meet

The following five businessmen's
associations are scheduled to hold
meetings this week:
Tuesday, September %.
Columbia Heights - Luncheon,
Sholl's Cafe, 3027 Fourteenth street
NV, 1890 pm.
Thursday, September rs.
Central-Luncheon New Colonial
Hotel, Fifteenth and M streets NV,
1915 pm.
Northeast-Luncheon, Continental
Hotel, North Capitol between D and
E streets, 1890 pm.
Northeast - Regular meeting,
American Security & Trust Co.,
Eighth and H streets NE, $50 pm.
Friday, September rs.
Milk Producers-Regular meeting,
association headquarters, 932 Phila-
delphia avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
Time 10 be set.
Calendar Notes.
The Electrical Contractors Board
Of Governors will meet Tuesday at
pm. Place to be set.
Evening star., 1941-09-21

The Library Of Congress 10 the
largest Ia the world.
Evening star., 1941-09-21

The Federal Food Drug Cosmetic Act Of 1889 contained
provision which stripped of the
smmary condemn products spoiled otherwise unfit
consumption The Health Department for many years
exercised this for the protection OF the health
of community
complicated and requires court action before
required that it is impossible to ef-
fectivey promptly get spoiled food out OF trade
drafted bill to restore this power
to the Health Department and urged Congress approve
is organizations anxious to have
this protection restored bring the the attention
Of Congress for early action.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-21
SfarIet S Best Aid
Is Veteran Talent

IT'S THE veterans of Hollywood
who are mainly responsible for the
development of the motion picture
youngsters. The authority for this
Statement is -AHH- RatAeFfeFd-ene
of the screens leading starlets-
Lewis Stone has been my
biggest aid In learning how TO
act" she says. working with
him in the Hardy Family pic
lures has taught me more about
acting before the camera than 1
could ever have hoped to learn
any other way.
yet, / don't mean 10 mention
Mr.. Stone alone. Fay Holden
and Sara Haden have given me
the benefit OF their experience
in the Hardy pictures. And,
working In Keeping Company
IL was Frank Morgan and Irene
Rich from whom 1 was learning
every day."