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ready to finish the wood. What
would be your recommendation
for a coating that will best bring
out the bright red color of the
cedar?" Mrs. w. L. writes.
Answer-If you installed the
cedar lining because Of the aro-
ma of the wood and the pro-
lection it affords clothing, then
put your tools away-the job is
complete now.
(Released by The Register and Tribune
syndicate, 1850
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Simple Jig Can Help Frame Pictures
BY Hermon Boum

81 wish to make several pic
ture frames for pictures that my
children draw. The profession
ally made frames are too expen-
sive for this purpose. One con-
Germ that does framing has a
very elaborate device for clamp
ing frames together while they
are being assembled. I would
appreciate your idea for such q
Device" q reader asks.
Answer. This is a commendable
project. The simple jig is q most
useful device to have around any
home workshop. Something sim
liar can be purchased in most
hardware stores for about So but
anybody who buys one when they
are so easy to make can't be a
member of our club. II you have
never gone In for making jigs and
tools, you are missing most Of
the fun In having q home work.
shop. The fun is in the puzzle
Of designing a device that will
function. \
Jigs must be made with ex-
IRENE care because they are
mold for the finished product and
any inaccuracies in the jig will
surely appear in the things that
you make on them. This jig is
made from three-quarter inch
plywood. The parts are cut from
one piece measuring IL inches by
20la inches. If you do not have
a bench saw. the lumber dealer
will furnish you with a piece of
this plywood IL inches wide and
this should have at least one cor
ner that is perfectly square. This
is the corner marked "A". Pieces
numbered 2 and 5 are drilled and
countersunk for IL inch No. 10
flat head wood screws. These
pieces should also be glued be-
cause great pressure will be ex-
efteo on them when the wedges
are driven together.
Painting Over Wallpaper.
wallpaper on the ceiling of
my home shows stains caused by
leaks. What must do to these
before painting over them so the
stains do no show through" Mrs.
B. j. asks.
Answer. I know of no reason
why the stain should show
through paint without the use
OF a sealer. I would caution you
thought that this paper might
not be securely attached and
therefore may come loose when
the weight Of paint is added to
it. 1t is usually best to remove
paper instead Of painting over it.
Floor "Sweats."
Have you any suggestions as
to what I might do to prevent
a concrete porch floor from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24
APAR TMENT FORUM
By NoRkAA and DON

wool. nyion Or rayon rugs
can also be cut and glued. pro-
|piding they are made with o
|lock-weaye which win not fray
out along cut edges.
Your Year-Round Garden
potted plants maintain that
touch Of summer green In your
apartment throughout the vim
ter. Now Is the time to give your
plants some special care.
Chances are that they have
been growing fast during the
summers long days. Some may
need larger pots. and some may
shape up better II they are
|pruned back.
For the benefit Of any brand
new apartment dwellers,, we
might add. that potting soil.
pebbles. sand and all other es-
|sentials are available at florists
and other places where plants
Iare sold.
You probably know the soil
requirements for your faYorite
plants. A layer Of pebbles In
the bottom of the pot win inn
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RTys, roo spFAIL9--1f You

!: RUG TOO ssEALLs1f you
have ! carpet which looks too
small for your room. this may
Be good news for you. You can
now enlarge II BY buying some
similar carpet IN the same or 2
Contrasting color. and giuins Q
border around the edges.
Cutting and gluing carpet can
Be undertaken on any scale up
10 designing q whole custom car
Bet for room. But it Is perhaps
most practically used to enlarge
d rug, to change the shape Of
Il when you want to use Il in
another room, or to make small
area rugs. or bathroom rugs Of
striking designs and colors.
! The materials needed. in addi-
lion to carpet. are measuring
fools. q rug-cutting knife. rue
Tape and some adhesive COM
bound. Some manufacturers Of
cotton carpet are selling COM
plete custom carpet kits. includ-
ing instructions and equipment
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apartment only temporarily. you
may feel it uhwise 10 buy major
pieces OF furniture until you are
permanently settled.
Nevertheless. this doesn't keep
one from longing for something
new. especially when the season
changes.
Why not buy your dining
hairsfour or six OF them In
a distinctive style such as Hitch
cock. Windsor. ladder-back. Tyre
back, Chippendale. Victorian. or
modern.
They viii add q new note Of
charm to your apartment living
dining room for you to enjoy
now. Also. If properly chosen.
they will at into any future din
ing room.
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prove drainage, and Il you can.
mot ind Q nat stone or pot chip
TO place over the drainage hole.
10 large button makes . good
substitute.
II you want to save the clip
pings. most Ivy and plniloden-
|dron, win root In water, and
many other types viii root in
moist sand.
After re-potting, keep plants
well watered and out Of the
direct sun for . week or two.
With an occasional feeding with
|one Of the new plant foods,
your plants should thrive ali
winter.
DO IT WITH CHAIRS-If YOU
ARE among those apartment
|dWellers who plan to live in an
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founded BY the late Albert 3.
Landyoight. who served Is It's
president until his death On
March rs this year.
| The other officers are ]. Max
wen Prinele. president: Betty r.
Straw, secretary: r. Marbury
Stamp. treasurer, and Helen
Marx. assistant secretary. d.
rectors are Sidney 2. Mensh,
II. Max zimmerman and Mr.,
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Lnndyoiot Firm
Under New Direction

Mortgage Service. Inc, 81
Washington and Pringle-Hurf
81 Co., Inc, Of New York City
which have just acquired A. e
Landpoigt. Inc. today announced
appointment OF Thomas s. Bauer
as executive vice president Of
the firfn. an FTzA-approved
mortgage service company witt
Offices at BIS Fifteenth street
NV.
Mr.. Bauer was formerly asso-
ciated with the Mortgage Loar
and Real Estate Investment De.
partment OF the Prudential In
surance Co. here and In Phila-
delphia for over 20 years.
The Landvoigt firm was
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Wiring Month SET

The District Commissioners
have issued q proclamation nam
ing October Adequate Wiring
Month The proclamation urges
all citizens in the Nations Capi-
tai to have wiring In their houses
checked for adequacy and safety.
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ARE YOU
ENJOYING THESE
LUXURIEs NoW7

. Luxurious living room with huge
boy window. Il #. high cother
drol ceiling, wrought iron en-
closed balcony. full size dining
room
. Fully equipped, 10 IT. kitchen
with dinette bay and picture
window
. Recreation room poneled with
stone fireplace, large picture
window. and outside entronee
. Three twin-sixe bedrooms with
waIk-in closets
. Two ceramic tile boths, one
with gloss shower enclosure
. Big two-ear sorose, outdoor
barbecue pit. sole dsod-end
street M
Q Brick with stone trim eonstrue-
ton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24

DIRECTIONS: Out Shirley Highway to the
Springfield FYanconia cloperleat, right to Back
Lick Road then right on Back Lick Road one
mile to North Springfield on left.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
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Key West Vacation

President Eisenhower looked exceed
ingly At in his going-away picture So
much so, in fact, that reporter, with
ample justification, wrote of the Presi-
dents ''chipper" mood as he prepared to
board his plane.
Clipper or not, however, there is
every reason why the President should
take this trip to Key West. 1t boils down
to very simple proposition.
His heart specialist, DR.. Paul Dudley
White, has been saying for some time that
he wanted the President to spend two
weeks or so in some vacation spot where
he could exercise in warm sunshine.
After that he wants Mr.. Eisenhower to
return to the White House and take on
full, or nearly full, work load. Then,
and only then, can DR.. White tell whether
the Presidents heart can stand the strain.
In view of this advice, It would have
been foolish for the President to Insist
on staying in Washington, or on going
to Augusta, where climatic conditions are
not what his doctor ordered. Presumably,
the President will wait for a final medi
cal judgment before definitely deciding
whether to run again. If this is the case,
the president should not prejudice the
Anal judgment by disobeying instructions.
1t sounded last week as though Mr..
Eisenhower had been bitten by the bug
Of indispensability, that he was beginning
to think of himself as man who couldn't
get away for a trip South. But of course
he could manage-and has managed-it.
Nor is the executive branch of the Gov
eminent going to pot while he is away.
The work which has to be done will get
done, and there will be plenty waiting
when he returns. The difference Is that
the returning President will be in what
his doctors think of as the best possible
shape to take on the load. After that we
shall have to wait and see what the ulti-
mate verdict is. But it is gratifying that
the President is not going to try short
cut on his road to recovery.
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Mark of the Pro

1t is going to be long time before
any quarterback replaces Sammy Baugh
as the No. / boy in the hearts of Wash
ington football fans. But not-so- young
man named Otto Graham must surely
run a close second
Otto is no shrinking violet. He's
good, he knows he's good, and he makes
no bones about it. Nor will there be much
dissent from the millions of fans who sat
before their television sets and watched
Otto lead the Cleveland Browns to their
38-to-14 worlds championship triumph
over the Los Angeles Rams.
Otto can do Just about everything
that quarterback is supposed to do on
football field. He's smart. He can pass.
He can run. And he's tough. Any doubt
about this last point was removed Mon
day when Ram defender threw crash
ing block into Graham to knock him out
OF bounds on the one-yard line. When the
sound Of that collision had died away the
Ram was on the ground, stretched out
cold. Otto merely shook 1t off and went
over for his touchdown on the next play.
Otto says he is through, and he prob
ably is. For the years (3D must be taking
their toll. In Its way, this is too bad. For
Otto Graham wears the true mark Of the
old probe does the hard things and
makes them look easy.
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Unified Arab Command

Establishment Of a single command
for the military forces of Egypt, Syria and
Saudi Arabia implements an agreement
reached several months ago. And while
1t may bring greater uniformity in arming
and training the military establishments
of those three countries 1t does not, by
itself, imply any new threat to the peace
of the Middle East.
Actually, the tripartite alliance APP
pears more than anything else to be part
of the maneuvering involved in the
Egyptian-1raq rivalry for Arab leader
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ship In the area. Iraq's key role in form
Ing the Middle East Treaty Organization
lin which Turkey, Pakistan ard Britain,
as well as Iran, are MEMBERSHIPS
strongly criticized by the Egyptian-led
bloc. And In the past fortnight, both
Cairo and Baghdad have made overtureS
to Jordan to join the respective alliances
The latter's tentative decision to adhere
to the Baghdad pact brought on a gov
eminent crisis in Amman and pending
new election some months hence, the
Jordan government has announced it
will take no further steps to join either
bloc.
Meanwhile, aside from the military
aspects of their treaty, the Egyptian
Syrian-Saudi Arabian trio have broader
plans for economic and political collab-
grafton. In these, perhaps there is a
greater opportunity for a constructive
contribution to the strength and we'll
being Of the Middle East.
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Jet-PropeIIed Storms

VagarieS OF the high-ny1ng Jet air
stream are blamed by meteorologists for
the windstorms and torrential rains that
have brought disaster to large areas along
the West Coast. Similarly, the fast
moving air stream was said to have been
a factor in the cratic movements of some
of our recent Eastern seaboard hurri-
canes What has caused the jet currents,
ordinarily racing so high in the sky as
to cause little disturbance on the earth's
surface, to wander from their usual paths
is a mystery the weather experts are
trying to solve. While the air currents
may not be controllable, better intelli-
gence regarding their meanderings should
be helpful In forecasting floods and
hurricanes.
The Jet air streams shifting tactics
on the Pacific Coast were noticed first
by pilots of airliners on the San Fran
Honolulu run. AS the high-altitude
air flow changed course and apparently
swooped lower, airplanes encountered
such severe headwinds that air service
to Hawaii was temporarily suspended.
Then came the coastal winds and rains
In, Northern California that soon sent
rivers over their banks, broke levees and
dams and loosed unprecedented flood
waters on many cities and towns. Resi-
dents and officials of the stricken commu-
mites are still hopping up and counting
the damage. Ironically, many OF the
flooded areas suffer from drought condi-
tions during much Of the year, relying
on reservoirs and conduits for irrigation
Of parched lands.
Mans fight against the elements is
a ceaseless and sometimes discouraging
one He has made good progress on two
fronts-the forecasting of storms and the
control of floods. There is room for i'm
provement in both sectors, however, as
recent experience has shown. Right now
the Weather Bureau is preparing to study
the effects of dry-ice seeding on major
storms of the hurricane variety-a move
into the little-explored area Of weather
control Such researches are costly, but,
considering the loss Of lives and property
from rampaging winds and rain, the in
vestment involved is fully justified.
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To Block More Scandals

Recent scandals in right-of- way
buying for Maryland'S highways have
shown clearly the need for tighter control
and better supervision of such large
scale land operations. Pennsylvania has
adopted stringent and effective control
system. Several other States have taken
steps to prevent speculation racketeering
OF the sort that has been charged against
group Of persons in connection with
the Route $40 extension in Montgomery
County. Investigations have revealed
evidence Of landbuying irregularities in
other counties.s And an indicted right
of-way official Of the State Roads Com
mission has fed to parts unknown.
1t is against this sordid background
that Maryland's Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Buscher, in charge OF the commits
sion's legal branch, is preparing a bill
designed to forestall such irregularities
In the future. He has in mind a law
somewhat along the lines of the Pennsyl-
vania statute, under which land values
along proposed right-of-way are
frozen" as soon as a route Is laid out
The property, in effect, is condemned at
owners for acquisition. II an agreement
cannot be negotiated, three-member
appraisal board, established In each
county, holds hearings and fxes the
price. Appeals may be made to State
courts
This system, 1t is reported, has dis
couraged speculative deals of the type
that disrupted right-of-way buying for
the Washington National Pike (Route
24O). The General Assembly may not
be willing to go as far as Pennsylvania
has gone with It's controls. The rights
F. Of property owners, of course, must be
protected, including their right to get
fair price for land needed by the State.
But the Legislature cannot afford to
ignore the disturbing revelations so far
made in connection with land acquisition
for State highways.
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Mr.. Nehru and the Reds

Now that Premier Bulganin and
Nikita Khrushchev are back in Russia,
Prime Minister Nehru has denounced
his country's Communists as reaction
aries, and he has scoffed at Marxism as
thing that has long since been outmoded
by events. But there is reason to doubt
that his words can do much at this time
to discredit the Indian Reds or weaken
their potentially dangerous influence.
This is so because Mr.. Nehru himself
although he has fought against them
throughout his political life-has done
a good deal recently to put mantle of
reSpectability on midas Communists.
Certainly they have gained more than a
little in that respect as a result of his
lavish and gushing hospitality to the
Soviet leaders during their tour of his
country. His camaraderie with MessrS.
Bulganin and KhruShchev and his almost
fulsome avowals of friendliness toward
them are bound to have impressed great
numbers OF IndianS-and to degree that
must make the Reds among them seem
appreciably less unattractive than in the
past. After all. how can Mr.. Nehru expect
to sing the praises of the Kremlin and it's
chief tenants without at the same time
helping the cause of communism in
India?
All OF which brings to mind the old
adage about the wisdom of using long
handled spoon when one sups with the
devil In its own way, the admonition
is also applicable to Communists, but
Mr.. Nehru has not needed 1t in playing
host to the Soviet bigwigs The result is
that he has added to the stature of the
Indian Reds and weakened himself in
relation to them-a fact that may cause
him considerable political grief from here
on out.
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The political picture changes.
Democrats, who Immediately
after President Eisenhower's
heart attack on September "A
scented 1856 victory. may have
to revise their estimates and
also their campaign plans for
next year. Without Eisen-
hover at the top of the g. o. P.
ticket, the Democrats could
see nothing but q clean sweep
in the national elections.
"Irrevocable" Decision
The only other man they
thought might put UP q real
flght-Chief Justice Warren
had said months before that
under no conditions would he
leave the bench to 60 back
into politics-and he said his
decision was 'irrevocable."
Now. however, although
Democratic National Chair
man Paul M. Butler still clings
to his prediction-made even
before the Presidents illness
that the President will not run,
many othe" Democrats are
taking another look. It is still
a gamble, though the odds
seem to have shifted. II the
Presidents recovery and health
keep up their present rate Of
improvement during the next
six weeks. he'll run again.
Health, of course, Is unpre-
dictable, even for the so-called
normal man, with so many
elements Of chance involved.
Back in 1882, when the late
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cover
nor Of New York, was a candi-
date for the presidential NOM
ination, and then campaigning
for election on the Democratic
ticket. there were plenty of
medical and lay predictions
that he could not stand four
years as Chief Executive. The
reason: He was terribly afflicted
with infantile paralysis. He
couldn't make it. they said.
He made 1t for IL years
plus-and they were tough
years. Mr.. Roosevelt was UNI
able to get out and take physi-
cal exercise. 1t was terribly
painful for him to walk at all.
He could swim. and he could
go flshing-but his physical
exercise was not that of a
normal man. He demonstrated
it is not necessary for a man
to lead the strenuous physical
life of a Theodore Roosevelt
to be President of the United
States. He can sit down and
be President.
II the doctors are right,
President Eisenhower will be
fully capable Of ordinary phys
ical exercise. even to playing
some golf. If it was good
gamble for the American
people that Franklin D. Roose-
welt would last four years in
the White House, it's good
gamble for them that Dwight
Eisenhower will do so, too.
So, if Eisenhower is renomi-
mated. what will be the tactics
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THE POLITICAL MILL.
By GOULD LINCOL%
Changes in Political Picture

Of the Democrats? They seem
to have been set, so far, on the
denomination of Adlai Steven
son. But in 1852 Adlai Steven
son was no match for Eisen-
hower-he carried o of the a.
States and was some SIS million
behind in the popular vote.
Will Mr.. Stevenson's nomina.
ton seem so advisable to the
rank-and-file Democrats and
to many Of the party leaders
II he must run against Eisen-
hover q second time? Par
ticularly since the polls testing
Eisenhower's strength against
Stevenson's continue to show
the President far head? viii
Kefauver. Hartman or Will
liams seem more attractive as
potential presidential nomi.
nees?
Democratic leaders have In
sisted all during the year they
could win the 1856 presidential
election against Eisenhower
when they talked for publica-
ton. Mr.. Stevenson even con-
WINGED himself Eisenhower
could be defeated--and I'M
doubtedly he still holds that
opinion. They thought q few
weeks ago they'd not have to
take that chance. Now they
are not so sure. They know
that If Eisenhower gives the go
sign, he will be renominated
by the Republicans with q
whoop next August. Can they
afford to attack personally q
President who has a tremen-
dous following, a following that
will In all probability resent
such attacks? Gov. Hartman
of New York has been trying
that out, and it has not gained
him any appreciable strength.
If Stevenson is the Democratic
nominee, 1t is unlikely he would
permit himself to be drawn
into such an attack on the
Chief Executive.
Cost Northern Votes
Will the Democrats make
health the issue in the presi-
dental campaign? Doubtless
they will try-just as the Re-
publicans attempted to make
it an issue against Franklin
D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt's own
doctors told the people that,
despite his affliction. he could
do the job. If the leading heart
specialists in the country tell
the people that Eisenhower
can do the job. too, the issue
may not be impelling.
More probably the Demo-
Gratis will aim their attacks on
Vice President Nixon who
seems almost assured Of re-
nomination If Eisenhower runs
ON the theory that he might
become President. They will,
too. seek to capitalize espe-
cially on discomfort among the
farmers. In the South. they
may speak of the anti-segre-
cation decision. handed down
by a Republican. II they do,
they will lose votes in the
North that have been theirs
for many years.