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Evening star., 1950-11-25
By D. M. Derwin

The vast majority of home
owners today enjoy doing many
of their own home improvements
themselves. They experience a
satisfying sense Of enjoyment in
undertaking and finishing their
own projects, whether it be re-
painting, wallpapering. refinish-
ing furniture or even finishing of
an expansion attic.
At some time or other, most of
us men have longed for a set of
power tools for a basement work.
shop. In many respects. our own
arguments for getting them have
been completely correct-they do
make wood working or plastic
projects easier, they do enable q
man who works all day to ac-
complish much in a free evening.
Best of all, they give the fin
ished project a more professional
look. When the actual purchase
time arrives and the tremendous
field of power tools is looked at,
the confusion is great as to what
units to buy and how many units
with which to start.
The basic tool. to my way of
thinking, is an 8-inch bear
ing circular power saw. It is a
fitting table saw. The cast iron
table, Is inches x Is inches tilts
a full As degrees to the right, so
that all possible angle-cutting can
be done. It will cut stock 2K
inches thick and with O special.
inexpensive extension table. will
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Basic Power Saw Features Godqet List

/ cut a board 121a inches wide an6
up TO the middle of a 4-foot panel
The rip fence extends the full
length of the table and is locked
in back as well as in front. giving
rigidity and assuring accurate
work and added safety.
The rip-fence is self-aligning
and, therefore, is always perfectly
parallel to the blade. A micro
meter adjustment allows for &C.
curate setting. The front guide
bar is graduated for accurate and
quick setting. A patented miter
gage. claimed by this manufac-
turer to be the best designed gage
available, rides in a milled slot
on either side of the blade for left
or right-hand work.
The head swings full 60 de-
grees to right and left, permitting
all angles to be cut. It also has
adjustable stops at IS degrees and
95 degrees and stop rods a full
five-sixteenth inch for repetitive
operations.
Micrometer adjustments permit
accurate cuts. The table of this
circular saw can be easily raised
or lowered by means of a ball
crank handle. while a similar
handle controls the fitting of the
table. 1t locks rigidly in place.
The arbor is five-eighths inch,
moulding cutterhead Or dado
long enough to accommodate a
head thirteen -Sixteenths inches
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Loan League
Continued From Page BID

panel meeting will be held at 8
am. Wednesday in the Congress
sional Room of the Hotel Statler.
Moderator will be Harry II. Hall,
president of the society.
Speakers ut Meetings.
Effects of the stepped-up pre-
paredness program will be dis
cussed, as well as possibilities in
case Of changes in that program.
Sessions of the 58th annual
Savings and Loan League con-
vention will be the occasion for
presentation Of an award to Ed
ward c. BaltZ, president Of the
Perpetual Building Association.
Meetings will be addressed by
William K. Divers, chairman of
the Home Loan Bank Board: DR..
Herman B. Wells. president of
Indiana University; Chairman
Spence Of the House Banking and
Currency Committee: Charles T.
Fisher, administrator of the Fed
eral Reserve Boards Once of
Real Estate Credit; DR.. Sumner
II. Slichter of Harvard Univer-
sity; Raymond Moley, and others.
Evening star., 1950-11-25
Beoux Arts Institute
Sponsors z Contests

The Beaux Arts Institute of De-
sign in New York is sponsoring
two national competitions, one
for a garden apartment Develop
ment and the other for a SWIM
ming pool, which will provide $325
in prizes.
Co-sponsor is the Tile Institute
of America. Both contests close
December %.
Catholic University'S archi-
lecture department has an
nounced it can furnish students
with information. The competi-
tions are open to architectural
students at colleges and univer-
sites in the United States, Canada
and Cuba.
Evening star., 1950-11-25
Home Repair Expert
Answers Questions
For Househo|ders
By Roger c. Whitmon

Question: ! expect to remove
the present bble-dash or cement
that is on my house and want
to cover 1t with a three-eighth-
inch thick insulation and asbestos
shingles outside Of that. I have
been told that this will make
the house damp. The house is not
insulated. Can you give me any
advice?
Answer: 7 presume you intend
removing the stucco down to the
wood sheathing and then install
ing wallboard, covering it with
asbestos shingles. After the wall
board is put in place, you will
need to put up at least a 15-pound
slaters' felt to protect the in
sulating board from moisture and
at each joint between shingles
there should be an asphalt backer
strip. Be sure you use nails that
are long enough to go through
both the insulating board and the
wood sheathing. When you pur-
chase the shingles, get the manu-
facturer's application instruction
sheet.
Quarry Stone Foundation.
Question: The foundation of
our home Is made of quarry stone.
It's an old home and by now this
foundation is very dirty looking,
and loosening UP in some places,
making it look more uneven than
1t should be. How can we improve
these conditions?
Answer: If the old mortar be-
tween the stones is starting to
crumble, it should be raked out to
o depth Of a half Inch or more,
and loose bits well cleaned out.
The grooves should be wet and
then packed with fresh mortar,
either ready prepared and needing
only to be mixed with water. or
else with q mixture made by mix
ing one part portland cement,
three parts of clean, coarse build
Ing sand and Just enough water
TO make a workable mixture. The
stone can be cleaned by scrubbing
with a securing powder. or If you
do not object to spending some
money, by the use of sand blister
ing or high-pressure steam. This
work would have to be contracted
for with companies that specialize
IN this type of cleaning.
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wide. Overall dimensions on a
steel floor stand (Which is op-
tionaD are AZ inches high, 20
inches wide and Is inches deep.
For information on products
mentioned, write (do not tele-
phone) to Mr.. Derwin, Room 724,
The Star Building. inclosing self
addressed. stamped envelope for
reply.
Evening star., 1950-11-25
Phillips Office Moved

Thomas l.. Phillips, real estate
broker, has moved his Offices from
3518 Connecticut avenue NV. to
larger quarters at 1920 Connecti-
cut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1950-11-25

tre hbbe and stately trees Contains large living dining
den st floor ovoto ponty ond kchen we'll popoioned
bedrooms and baths End floor bedrooms pioyoo and bath
on Bird; 2-cor buiIt-n garage, oil heot.
70
Nett 45h
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An excellent properly built le4e this Miller
controlled community Of stone brick and Coono sne it is
ponned for comfortable omy living and eonons living den
dining lovotor, kitchen porch; bedrooms
baths and Storage End floor Storage ot bu heo
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spraying, pruning, feeding, moving, cabling,
bracing and repairing.
Unfortunately. only small percentage of
Americas trees get this protection and care.
Each year mcounted thousands of them die,
their ailments diagnosed too late or not at all.
Every section of the country is infested by one
blight or another the cause of which is I'M
known, or the cure for which has not been
found.
The familiar - and still virulent - Dutch
elm disease afflicts 16 Eastern and North
eastern states, plus Colorado. Ten neighbor-
ing states not yet struck by the disease none
theless harbor the bark beetle which carries it.
Fifteen Midwestern and Southern states
are suffering from the little known ''elm
phloem necrosis" a disease so deadly that, in
the words of plant pathologist, 1T makes
Dutch elm look like peanuts" Last year it
killed ], 500 elms in Springfield, ILL.,. alone.
The leafhOpper which carries it has been
found i'm seven other states.
In the Rocky Mountain region, pole
blight" - cause unknown is devastating
the Western white pine. Little leaf" -
cause unknown-is invading Southern short
leaf pine.
And now 'toak wilt" This latest plague,
called to public attention only this year.
is so far confined to parts of six Midwestern
states 1t hits red oaks hardest, though other
varieties are not immune. No red oak has
ever been known to recover from it. Usually
the trees die in so to 80 days
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The cause - ChGlGrG QueTctssG, a fungus
which grows in the trees sapwood - has
been identified. But how it spreads has not
been discovered, and no completely satisfac-
tory method of controlling the disease, once
it starts, has been developed.
The race against oak wilt, as against other
tree diseases, is bound to be slow. The cure
will have to be effective, yet harmless to
other trees and to good" birds and insects.
Many remedy for one ailment has later up
set natures balance by killing off. say. bird
which fed on buglet, which, in turn, was
responsible for another tree disease
While this maddening puzzle is being solved,
100 billion board feet of oak timber in the
Eastern U.S. are threatened. Hardwood floor
ing. strong furniture, snug barrels, water
tight decks and sturdy railroad ties are just
few of the products from oak which may be
affected And that doesn't even take into
consideration the beautiful oak shade trees
that grace thousands of American lawns.
"Cause for Alarm"
we NEED not be panicked," says Dr.
Curtis May, head pathologist of the Depart
ment of Agriculture research station at Belts
vile, Md, but there is cause for alarm"
In this black picture, there is one bright
spot: peoples growing awareness of, and
interest in, trees.
For many years tree service was considered
luxury business, confined largely to the es-
tates of the wealthy. Today many towns
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yes Very much. What's that got to do
with the maple?"
'You make it yourselves" Shorty per-
sisted.
The house owner nodded.
Shorty displayed a handful of white crys-
tails. That accounts for all this SALT" he
said, land salt accounts for the maple. Every
time it rains, brine from your ice-cream
freezer soaks into the root system. It's poi
soning your tree"
He prescribed care and salt-free diet
The maple recovered
Billions Of Patients
WILLIAM R. SHORTY" WILLIAMS is typical
of our army of surgeons whose patients
run into the billions. His daily business is to
help protect one of America greatest natural
heritages - our forests and our fruit and
shade trees.
Shorty happens to be an employee of the
Davey Tree Expert Company, which in
turn is typical member of the nations large
and thriving tree-care industry.
Most of these companies offer more or less
the same service And although they're called
tree surgeons % their field men these days
actually specialize less in surgery than in
preventive medicine" This theory holds
that it is easier to keep patient in good
health than to cure him after he has become
i'll.
Right now, as every summer, they are busy
across the country, keeping trees healthy by
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SIX WAYS YOU CAN DAMAGE TREE

]. Water Leaves in Heat Of Day: Washing off
city SCOT and CRIME helps trees, but only in the
cool hours. Droplets of water act as lenses when
the sun is high, may burn leaves.
I. Bump Bark scith LG,OnnrO,Oer: Bark is
trees skin. When it is lacerated, disease
enter. Use hand clippers for grass around the
trunk; hang youngsters swings from metal lag
hooks. These will not hurt tree, will nails
if they driven in tightly.
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j. WhitesU0sh Trunks: The notion that this
wards off insect pests is nonsense. The fact is
it will eventually damage the bark.
=. Strip it Of Foliage: The appeal Of dOgwOod
or NAPLES is often irresistible. Slashing off
armful, however, a tree to die back
from the torn ends of its branches.
J. Burn AUTUMN Leaves: The passion for a neat
lawn prompts most hOusehOlders to rake up
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and burn every last autumn leaf This even-
tually starves trees. Humus decOmpOsed
leafy matter - nOurishes them, replaces food
elements taken from the ground If you must
burn leaves, do it in the open to avoid scOrching
branches.
B. Salt Sidewalks and DTiUesUays in Winter:
This is fine for ice. Melted brine, however, is
toxic to trees. II allowed to soak into a trees
root system, it may be fatal.
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JACK MANNING


SH0RTY'S been sowing trees for IS years
GGCHoRTY" WILLIAMS was stumped. He'd
- never seen sicllier Norway maple -
nor one with less reason to be sick.
1t stood firmly in good soil near the back
porch of its owners house. No insect pest
had burrowed into the bark or destroyed the
leaves. There was no sign of fungus infection.
Noroot was girdling the trunk and strangling
the tree Yet in midsummer its foliage was
sparse and ragged. its health obviously bad.
Suddenly, Shorty dropped to his knees and
began paving the earth around the porch
some 20 feet from the tree. In few moments
he Strengthened up and called the house owner.
''Your family like ice cream?" he asked.
Evening star., 1950-01-19
Mr.. Denhum's Move

In the long view, the complaint which
Robert N. Denham has filed with the
Labor Board against John l.. Lewis, and
the companion request for temporary
Injunction, if granted, should have the
salutary effect of establishing whether.
Mr.. Lewis and his United Mine Workers
are beyond the reach Of the law. 1t is
doubtful, however, that the steps taken
by Mr. Denham will relieve the imme-
diate public distress resulting from the
three-day workweek and the wildcat"
strikes by the miners.
Mr. Denham, the Labor Boards General
Counsel, contends that Mr.. Lewis has not
been bargaining in good faith. In support
of this he cites the unions demand for
union shop without having complied with
the preliminary requirements of the Taft
Hartley Act, the demand for welfare
fund agreement under conditions which
violate the law, the insistence that the
coal operators agree that the miners shall
work only when willing and able" and
coercive devices, such as the limited work
week, to compel the operators to accept
an illegal contract.
In the old days, under the Wagner Act,
many an employer was found guilty of a
refusal to bargain in good faith on grounds
less substantial than these. So in the end,
Mr.. Denham may win his case before the
Labor Board and If the court grants his
Injunction request the miners will be for
hidden to strike or slow down mining
operations to achieve those objectives
enumerated by Mr.. Denham which can be
classed as unfair labor practices.
This does not mean however, that the
miners will be forbidden to strike for
legitimate objectives- relating to
wages, hours, working conditions, etc.
Thus, there remains very large loophole
through which MIR. Lewis, If he wishes to
do 50, can continue to deprive the Nation
Of needed coal. About the most that Mr..
Denham can hope to do is force Mr.. Lewis
to sit down with the operators and go
through the forms OF bargaining in good
faith.
If the miners still refuse to produce the
necessary coal, and base that refusal on
some apparently legitimate objective, the
President, when state of national emer
gency is reached, will have to seek another
Injunction under the national emergency
provisions of the law
This would get the miners back to work
for a period of 80 days. But it would
not cure the defect in the laws which
permits a reckless union boss to trample
on the legitimate interests of all the
people.
Evening star., 1950-01-19
School 'Extortionists'

The conflicting statements of school off,
cials make 1t difficult to determine just how
much Importance should be attached to
reports that gangs of youthful extortionists
have been victimizing school children and
possibly forcing them to commit crimes.
There seems to be enough substance to
the reports, however, to require something
more than casual investigation.
The most recent incident occurred at
Banneker Junior High, where an eighteen
year-old colored boy allegedly robbed a
flfteen-year- Banneker student of a
wrist watch and threatened the younger
boy with a whipping" If he reported the
matter. According to Albert N. Brooks
assistant principal at Banneker, this was
not an isolated case. Evidently the same
sort of thing has been going on at other
schools, and Mr.. Brooks said they had been
trying for two years to stamp it out at
Banneker. The gangs, again according to
Mr.. Brooks, used to enter the schools but
that has been pretty well" stopped. Now
they waylay school children on streets and
Fairgrounds at recess time and after school
hours.
1t is hard to believe that there is any
excuse for a condition of this sort. Ger
tainly, given proper cooperation among
school officials, police and the juvenile
authorities, the offenders ought to have
been caught and punished in less. than
two years.
Evening star., 1950-01-19
A Worthwhile Study

1t would not be surprising If the ZAP
praiSal" of the Districts coroner system
being made by the Davis subcommittee OF
the House District Committee resulted in
recommendations for a drastic change in
that system. Although the subcommittee
says it is making it's inquiries with an open
mind, 1t is worth noting that DR.. Richard
Ford, of Harvard University, who is con-
ducting the study of the coroner's Office,
is an advocate of the medical examiner
plan in use in many large cities. r
DR.. Ford has been quoted as contending
that the practice of holding coroner's jury
inquests is "antiquated and rather useless"
There is no question about its being an
cient, for the system goes back to the
English common law. The name of the
office itself is survivor of the days when
the coroner, or "crowner," was an agent
of the king, empowered to determine
whether death was suicide or murder
and, in the former event, to seize the
victims personal belongings for distribu-
ton to the poor. The old English law
provided that where a, death takes place
suddenly under suspicious circumstances,
the coroner shall, by his warrant, summon
jury to make due inquiry, upon view of
the body, into the manner of killing, who
were present, and to examine the body;
and that he may likewise commit any
person to prison who may be adjudged as
the author of the crime, and bind over
any witnesses by recognizances to appear
at the>next term of court"
That is essentially a description of the
District coroner's Office. There have been
numerous efforts in the past half century
or so to abolish the Office as outmoded
cumbersome and needless. The District
Commissioners as early as 1896 recon-
mended such reform. Again, in 1912,
the Commissioners proposed legislation to
create the Office of medical examiner in
lieu of that of coroner. Their request was
supported by the then superintendent of
police, Edward J. Kelly, and the then
District attorney, Edward M. Curran. But
hearings before the Senate District Com
nittee resulted in report favoring re-
tention of the inquest system, report
largely influenced by strong defense of
the status quo by Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald Doctor Macdonald testified
that the medical examiner plan would
entail larger appropriations and would not
render any better service.
But Doctor MacDonalds stand is the
opposite of that of a majority of leading
medical authorities, as expressed at meet
ings of the American Medical Association
and elsewhere. The trend undoubtedly
Evening star., 1950-01-19
The Navy Is Stuck With Her

Now would be an appropriate time to
reconsider the decision to keep the
Mighty Mo" in active service with the
fleet. It will probably take lot of money
to get the historic battlesfip out of the
mud and back to duty. It is costing about
$6,700000 year, as 1t is, to keep this last
of the battlewagons in service, largely for
sentimental reasons, Sentiment would be
served just as well and at much less cost
If the Missouri were consigned to naval
museum as relic of the dreadnought era
and reminder of the japanese surrender.
There have been recurrent reports that
the Navy would be glad to decommission
the great vessel and consign it to battleship
row in the mothball fleet. But President
Truman, who naturally has strong per-
sonal attachment sfor the Missouri has
made it plain in quite positive language
that he won't give up the ship as long as
he is Commander in Chief of the Army
and Navy
So the Navy is stuck with the "Mo" as
effectively as the battleship is stuck in the
mud of Chesapeake Bay. Even If high
naval officers think the money used for
her upkeep might be more prontably spent
otherwise, they are not likely to say 50
publicly They recall that Mr.. Truman
blasted one report of the ships impending
retirement as having come from "some
Evening star., 1950-01-19

be presumed to have intended the natural
results OF their actions and also the doctrine
that when group of men simultaneously
pursue common course OF action, each
with the knowledge that the others will
consistently do the same, they may be
deemed to have acted, not Independently"
but under mutual understanding and in
concert.
Adding to Correction Difficulties.
This bill is intended to do one thing:
to make it much more difficult for the
Federal Trade Commission to secure court
afdrmanee of orders calling upon industries
to cease and desist from maintaining these
delivered price systems.
This is not to call into question the sin
cerity of expressions by Congressmen of
their fidelity to the antitrust policy and
laws. II this bill is enacted, am convinced
it will be because the Congress and the
public do not fully grasp the facts.
They do not realize that this measure If
made into law will facilitate scores of in
dustries in the use Of these methods of
eliminating price competition In truth
these systems are in effect the unrecognized
cartelization of industry. They pave the way
to Government Intervention to correct the
high prices which normally follow destruc-
tion Of price competition. This result already
has gone long distance in the building
industry whose supply industries practically
all use these delivered price systems.
EUGENE w. BURR.
Evening star., 1950-01-19

smart alec who poses as naval spokes-
man." Navy comments on the Missouri's
role with the fleet have been confined to
an explanation of her value as training
ship, as a tanker for refueling ships at
sea and, Of course, as an object Of historic
interest
But the hard fact remains that in these
times of reduced military budgets no money
should be diverted to the retention in serv-
ice of equipment which has more senti-
mental than military value. The Missouri
certainly should be preserved as a me-
mortal to American victory in the Pacific
war-but unless she has real combat posi-
bilities the funds for her upkeep should
not be charged to the active fleet.