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| Patterson says, but It is thought that
fatalities might be large in event of
an accident. Virtually all high-speed
mileage is on territory equipped with
automatic block signals, automatic
train control, or cab signals. Block
signals that used to be placed every
mile now usually run two to a mile
in congestsd areas.
Running through block signals is
not possible-unless mechanical things
break down-since devices have been
arranged. for stopping trains auto
matically at block signals. whether
the man in the cab puts the brakes
on osnot.
HighWay-railroad grade crossings in
existehce on January l, this year. to-
tailed 234,231, reduction of 8578
with the record number in 1880. Ehat
menace to life still exists, but may
eventually disappear, according to
Mr.. Hall. Engineers dream at night,
he says, about persons in high-powered
automobiles who race them along par
alleling highways. Two long and two
short whistle blasts from locomotive
indicates that train is approaching
highway grade crossing under the
signal code used by all railroads in this
country, but few persons know this.
Barricades erected at such crossings,
operating with train signals, are not
practical, Mr.. Hall says. A racing
autoist is likely to run into them and
he always believes he would have
stopped before colliding with the pass
ing train. Sometimes he wins law suits
on the subject.
Railroads all over the country were
long ago forced by the occasional
fainting or death of engineers on duty
to install the "deadman" throttle. To-
day they are listening to demands for
regulations on having two engineers in
q cab, New York so far being the only
State to pass a law on the subject as
the result Of agitation of railroad
employees.
THE "Deadman" feature is a spring
lever device on the throttle, so that
II the engineer removed his hand-or
his foot If it was a foot pedal-air-
brakes were automatically applied.
But, say engineers with the lives of
hundreds riding the rails behind them.
automatic devices always may fail, and
two engineers in q cab is desirable.
No detail contributing to the speed
of rolling stock Is being overlooked,
With safety always in the background.
While American highways are being
Strengthened and the curves banked
for motorists, the same is being done
for trains. Rails are gradually re-
placed by heavier Ones to stand the
pressure and heat Of high-speed stop
ping. The heaviest rail in use today
weighs 152 pounds per yard, while 60
pound rails were commonest 80 years
ago.
While switches once were operated
nnanually. today q current Of .elec-
tricity flows through the tracks to
govern signal discs. The messages Of
wayside signals-the arms showing
red, xreen. and lights with which every
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looking from time to time at the work
Of ones contemporaries and seeing how
wrong these foolish fellows are. or
how, with amazing good sense. they
occasionally agree with ones self. The
past week has seen the reviewer in
dulging in such lapse, going with
touching zeal through the back pages
of three leading periodicals-Harper's
Scribner's and the American Mercury
Here are the findings:
Scribner's, which has John Cham
berlain for its book man, gives its
most prominent space to two books on
the state Of the Nation by two men
who specialize in the Nations state,
two men who, as it were, hang over
the Nations bedside, thermometer and
stethoscope in hand, and shushing
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this volume, resumes his researches
into what makes this country such a
terrible place to live in. The book
concerns the exploitation of natural
resources. Excerpts from it will soon
appear in the public utterances Of
DR.. Tugwell. Wallace, Ickes ct al"
And that is all. Could it be a snuh
to Mr.. Stuart Chase? Would even the
Mercury have the heartlessness to
scowl upon that perpetually glowing
young man? 1t seems so. In fact. it
is so. Well. we'll
And then, getting around to Har-
per's. We find that Mr.. Harry Hansen
who does books for that periodical
ignores both Mr.. Chase and Mr.. Seldes
completely. They are not even on his
reminder" list.
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Pigs Go to Market.
THE slaughter of nips which 6,,

THE slaughter of pigs, which figured
so prominently in some of the
more sarcastic moments of some of tine
political speakers will be heavy this
season, although for a different rea-
son than A. A. A. curtailment.
The high price of corn indicates
that the packing houses will receive a
greatly increased supply of pigs this
Fall and Winter The result will be.
Of course, a greatly decreased market
ing in the last half of the year.
Indications are now that pig and
pig product exports will be heavier
during the next six months. but after
that sharp decline is likely.
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By NJ. G. r.
NEW monthly comes to the
rauiamar,s dask fodau-if fs

A NEW monthly comes TO the
~ reviewers desk today-it is
~ "The Sky" 1t is issued by the
= Hayden Planetarium Of the
American Museum Of Natural History
Of New York City, is non-commercial
and Is designed for dissemination
Of astronomical data" While 1t has
. complete incomprehensibility to the
reviewer, save that the pictures Of
spiral nebulae are rather pretty, it
seems likely to fall In with the tastes
Of all those who enjoy heaven comb
ing. 1t discusses the weather, the
problems Of celestial navigation, the
present position Of stars in the heav-
ems, the chances Of rocketing to the
moon (there are still practical" diff
ficulties in the way), recent books on
astronomy and offers q department
for juniors. 1t seems likely to be q
clean little journal and one is de-
lighted to mention it. One repeats
that the pictures of the spiral nebulae
are really quite nice. Yes, nice.
There is a certain morbid fascination
to-one supposes-any reviewer in
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understandable, antagonism based on
an accumulation of small irritations.
The ironing out Of these kinks is
handled deftly. Petty feuds between
the genuinely eccentric and highly
ludicrous relations are left exactly as
they should be; in statu quo.
All this makes light, engaging read
ing 1t is the fault of Miss Rosman's
publishers, who have been issued new
books by her every June for years,
that inevitably they come under the
head Of Summer reading. Such pleas
ant, adult light fiction Is by no means
seasonal in appeal.
Evening star., 1936-11-07
Germany Rules Grain.

GERMANY is operating a system Of
price control over grains which
provides q constantly rising price un-
til the next season of harvest arrives.
Starting at a price below that
which prevailed at the end Of the
last marketing season, each grain is
increased in price monthly. To give
some comparative idea Of the costs,
wheat started at $205 q bushel.
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one IS familiar-are in many cases
transferred to devices inside the cab
to facilitate engineers running in fog.
"Shatter-crscks' ks'-fssures apt to at
tack steel rails and weaken them. but
not visible to the naked eye-are to-
day detected with an electrical device.
Track walkers identify a defective rail,
daub it with spot Of paint, and it Is
replaced.
Endless details like these, it seems.
help gear the world to a faster pace.
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Transport

Continued From Page B-1.)
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CANARY. BY Gustav Eckstein. New
York: Harper 6s Bros.

THAT delightful writer. Gustav Eek
stein, gives us here compilation
Of chapters on the life Of the birds
which he las already made famous.
Readers Of Harper's Magazine In past
years hardly win have forgotten them
the canaries who, shared Mr.. Eek
STEMS bed and board and won from
him sensitive and fespectful study.
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Roosevelt

Continued From First Page.)
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Record for Last "A Hours.
fFrom noon yesterday to noon today.l
Highest. "a. at 2:3O pm. yesterday.
Lowest, 81, at 2 am. today. Year
ago, 50.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Hishest, 1O5, on July 10.
Lowest. O. on January 23.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
fFrom noon yesterday to noon today9
Highest, SO per cent, at pm. yes
Lowest, 40 per cent, at noon today.
Tide Tables.
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projects to reduce unemployment by
building useful public works. They
are also q part Of our Nationwide
program to insure the normal main
tenance and necessary expansion Of
educational facilities for use even In
time of depression.
Our purpose was not only to provide
work in all sections or all parts Of the
population, but to enable them all to
share In the benefits to be obtained
from these works SO long as bricks
and mortar shall endure.
As far as 1t was humanity possible.
the Government has followed the
policy that among American citizens
there should be no forgotten men
and no forgotten races. It Is q wise
and truly American policy. We shall
continue faithfully to observe it.
Howard University has shared as OF
right In our public works program.
These Government financed improve
ments in the facilities of this great
center of Negro education should en-
able it to continue to provide for its
students cultural opportunities COM
parable to those offered by other first
class institutions of higher learning
in the country.
At its last commencement Howard
University sent forth 245 graduates
to join nearly 10000 alumni in all
parts of the world. Here Is record
of which the Negro race may be proud.
1t is Q record of which America is
proud. It is further fulfillment Of
our dream Of providing better and
better educational facilities for all
our people.
Today we dedicate this new
chemistry building, this temple Of
science, to industrious and ambitious
youth. May they come here and learn
the lessons of science and carry the
benefits of science to their fellowmen.
University Called Challenge.
Secretary Ickes declared that How
ard University should stand always as
a challenge to those who say that
liberty is for the privileged few"
Our democracy, with all its i'm
perfections," he said" is by far the
best state Of society that civilization
has had to offer.
As P. w. A. Administrator Ickes de-
clared the funds allotted to carry out
the university's 20-year expansion
program were well spent. "Of all the
works undertaken under our program"
he said" consider that schools and
hospitals represent the soundest posi-
BILE investment of Federal funds"
P.W. A. already has provided a class
room building, and a power plant at
Howard, he reminded, and future
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Twenty-fourth and Chestnut streets.
He will leave Philadelphia around
$50 pm. and reach Wilmington. DEL,
for o rear-platform talk about 6:l5
pm. Leaving there Is minutes later,
he will return to Washington around
o pm. to spend the night. before start
ing out again Friday for speech in
the Brooklyn Academy of Music that
night and another in Madison Square
Garden Saturday night.
The President delivered nom
political address to large Negro
audience yesterday afternoon at How
ard University. where he proclaimed
as q policy of the Government that
among American citizens there
should be no forgotten men and no
forgotten races"
His purpose in going to Howard
University was to dedicate a new
p. w. A. built chemistry building ito
industrious and ambitious youth" 1t
is the second completed building Of
a 50, ,000, 900 program for the advance
ment of Negro education at Howard.
which President Roosevedlt declared
"typified Americas faith in the ability
Of man to respond to opportunity,
regardless of race or creed or color"
Taking part in the program with
the President was Secretary Of the
Interior Harold L. Ickes, who i'm
pressed upon the audience the mil.
lions of dollars spent by p. w. A. for
Negro education and disqualification.
He predicted that Howard Univerity
would become such a force in Ameri-
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Text of Roosevelt Speech

opportunities regardless OF race. or
creed, or color.
The American Negro's response to
this opportunity in the field of higher
learning has been prompt and eager
as in other fields. In 1867, at the
first term of Howard University, "a
students enrolled. Today there are
nearly 1000 students on the lists.
Cites H0ward's Growth.
Howard University has not only
grown steadily in numbers. but also
in the range of its courses. To provide
equal opportunities for Negro men and
women the university offers instruction
in its colleges of Liberal Arts, Medicine,
Dentistry and Pharmacy and in the
schools of Law, Engineering. Archi-
lecture and Music. A graduate school,
recently organized. attracts graduates
of other colleges and universities and
has helped to make Howard University
q real center of Negro culture in
America.
Howard. with justification, may take
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The text Of the Presidents speech
follows:
I have a special interest in Howard
University. because the Government
of the United States has long had a
special relationship to this institution.
Since 1879, Congress has made con-
tinuous and increasing appropriations
year by year to help meet the general
expenses of the university and its
various departments-and to provide
new buildings. And in part. at least,
the Department of the Interior shares
in the responsibility for the admin
istration of the university. In a very
real sense, therefore. Howard Is one
of the Nations institutions.
But I would be interested in this
university even though the Govern
ment had no such relationship to it.
Its founding as an institution for
the American Negro was significant
occasion. 1T typified Americas faith
in the ability of man to respond To
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The Sun and Moon
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
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pride in its high standards Of scholar
ship among other American UNIVERSE
ties. Its schools of law and medicine
are rated among the class A schools in
the Nation.
Despite the constant raising of the
scholastic standards of the university,
as the years went by, the demand
for higher education among our Negro
citizens increased to an extent which
created strain upon its facilities.
And so the Federal Government has
provided three new structures for it.
These represent the happy conjunction
of two important Federal Government
programs to meet the difficulties Of
the depression.
They are q pert Of our Nationwide
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can life as will help to bring about
a readjustment of racial attitudes
and an acceleration of the settling
into place of the Negro in the Ameri-
can scheme Of things"
Response Is Enthusiastic.
President Roosevelt's reference TO
forgotten men and forgotten races"
brought an enthusiastic response from
the several thousand students and
prominent colored citizens that brsved
with him a biting wind that swept
the campus. Mr.. Roosevelt had
doffed his overcoat after leaving the
White House car and sat on the open
platform apparently unmindful of a
cold that caused hundreds to turn
up the collars Of their coats. From
the White House to the Howard
campus the presidential party was
greeted by small crowds at nearly
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plans call for q new mems dormitory
and library In addition to the newly
dedicated chemistry building.
In the South, he declared, over 200
new school buildings have been built
with p. w. A. aid for Negroes and new
disqualification provided for them
at a cost of over $3,250, 900. Howard
University, he reminded has yet to
reach the pinnacle Of its capacity for
service, not only to the Negro race
but to the Nation"
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every corner. and the President was
kept busy waving as he sped by.
DR.. Mordecai w. johnson, presi.
dent Of the university, welcomed the
President. and white-haired Rev. Wal
ter H Brooke, pastor of the Nine
teenth Street Baptist Church, said q
prayer. DR.. johnson declared that
ANY university in the world would
be proud" Of the new chemistry
building, which he stressed had been
planned for by DR.. Percy L. Julian,
head Of the university's chemistry
department, and designed by Albert
I. Cassel, a colored architect.
At Howard University, which he
declared constitutes "a challenge 10
the self-expression Of the Negro race, /"
DR.. johnson said there was congre-
gated the largest group Of Negro
| scholars in the world.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
BELGIAN REX|ST
WILL URGE REVOLT
Fascist Leader to Carry
Fight to Overthrow Govern
ment Into Parliament.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, October 27.-Leon De-
crelle, embattled leader Of the Fas-
cist Rexist party, arranged To-Day 70
invade Parliament in his flght 10
overthrow the Belgian government.
The defiant Degrelle announced his
intention of staging a dramatlc
"jaccuse" scene when a special legls-
lative session convenes today to de-
bate Belgian foreign policy. an i'm
portant turn in the nations history.
He said he would have / OF his Il
Deputies resign from the Chamber. so
that he might invoke a Belgian law
permitting him to take the lawmakers
place to shout the Rexist accusations
where they would have to be heard.
Chargese Dictatorship.
The Belgian Fascist leader charged
the administration with setting up
repressive dictatorship through Its
stringent precautions to prevent
Fascist march on the capital last
Sunday. Degrelle declared the pre-
cautions were unprecedented in peace
time Belgium.
Compromised by scandal" Degrelle
declared, "this government must hold
itself together by machine guns and
bayonets."
Degrelle wants to demand Parlia-
ments resignation as body so he
can set up a cooperative state on the
plan Of Italy's.
Released from Jail, where he spent
Sunday night after street fights be-
tween his followers and Brussels police,
Degrelle reiterated his determination
to march on the capital with 10000
followers to overthrow the regime.
Belgium,s recently modified neu-
trality plans were to be defined al
the special parliamentary session
which, leaders believed, might require
more than two weeks of discussion
The possibility was weighed that
the government, until now strongly
pro-French in its sympathies, might
ask Parliament to fortify the French
frontier as it has the German. All.
thoritative sources, however. forecast
the cabinet probably would affirm the
governments desire to stand by ex-
isting accords and avoid any new al
liances.
Convening Of the Parliament fol-
lowed King Leopold's Interpretation Of
Belgian foreign policy october Is, il
which he urged complete neutrality
The Legislature was expected to ex.
pand and clarity his pronouncement
It also was to be asked for extraor'
dinary funds for rearmament and au
thoriZation to increase the term o
compulsory military service from 1
year to 18 months.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow; continued cold with
about freezing temperature tonight;
rising temperature tomorrow; gentle
northeast winds.
Maryland-Fair with freezing tenn
perature in west portion tonight; to-
morrow fair and warmer.
virginia-Fair and continued cold
tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.
West Virginia-Fair with freezing
temperatures tonight; tomorrow fair
and warmer.
River Report.
Potomac River muddy and Shenan-
doah very muddy today.
Reuort for Last 14 Hours
The producers news., 1936-11-27

This year 1sS6-s7 the Juniors
Will study 'The Cooperative
Movement, Yours and Nine"
Pamphlets containing the les
sons are Is cents each. The local
leader Is allowed one free at
charge. Additional reference ma
tefial may be obtained from the
jamestown office or hy writing
to our own State Junior Ieader
MRS. Mildred Kay Stoltz, Waller.
montana, at a very slight cost.
Lessons for the Junior Reserves
and Juveniles are handled by the
Educational Service in the same
manner.
One point we of the county or
gahiSadon want to stress is this:
Don't feel IL beneath you IL YOU
are an adult member 10 study the
lesson outlines along with your
young folks.
Remember this, we are irving
Ss an organization to build In a
sane, peaceable, logical and ra-
tlonal manner an economic order
for the betterment Of mankind
and we need to inform ourselves
along these lines. that. we may be
Of help. -.
Every great reform waS born
in times Of stress as a dream In
the mind Of some seeker Of jug-
tice and truth. The dream Of the
millineuni of the cooperative
commonwealth is already begin.
ming to take share not AZ =
dream but as a reality. Fostered
by its membership. recognized
and approved by the government
Of our beloved nation. u fare
forth 70 build an economic order
(CCntinued On last page)
The producers news., 1936-11-27
PLAN TO HAVE
W WARTIM E
r. DICTATORSHIP

WASHINGTON - Virtual die
tatorShip by the President Is in
Volved IN the new industrial mo-
bilization. plan prepared for re-
commendation to Congress by the
War Department, according to
Secretary: Of War Harry + Wood
ring. The Constitution designateS
that the President is the COM
Hnander in chief Of the army and
navy, and the War Departments
proposal would make him also
the arbiter Of men, money and
materials in industry during war
time.
Accoding to the plan, it would
create soldiers Of industry" in
the employ Of the nation and
subject TO War Department re.
gulations and discipline as SOL
diers in the field. "The Depart
ment will propose a labor draft, {"
Mr. Woodring said.
Specifically. the Departments
program delegates to the PreSi-
dent the authority to draft into
government service the nations
industrial management personnel; !;
to fix prices Of all commodities,
and establish a system of prior
ity for delivery Of goods required
for successful prosecution of the
war; to regulate all commodity
exchanges %ots AkA I,.~snAs4.> - A. =
war, If thought desirable.
w ar Department divisions
would supervise the operation Of
the industrial mobilization plan.
Its authors visualize such divi-
sionS as ''war resource" ''war
labor" "war trade" and "war
finance" each directed by admin
istrators, a price control commits
sion and an advisory defense
council, all named by the Presi-
dent.
The producers news., 1936-11-27
WAR NO LONGER
A GOOD RISK

LONDON, Eng.-All Of Lloyd's
war risk insurance policies VIII
ba abolished, hencefoxth, It was
announced here by the company
a few days ago, according 70
United Press. This action, taken
by q conference Of Lloyds under
writer's, is taken to mean that
this most famous of insurance
firms considers the European 81
tuation So unstable that it can
not afford TO offer odds against
war. The ban on war insurance
Ia understood TO include insurance
on buildings and other ilnmovable
possessions which ordinarily are
insurable against war risks IN
the United Kingdom.
obvionIy the Fascist rebel air
attacks on the city Of Madrid
lust as II Duce's invasion Of Eth
opia 4 few months ago, are the
practice grounds Of q future
world war, and those who. nave
bean wiling to place odds On
sanythinr in the world are tax
in0 the cue no less than the Swl-
vei-shair generals. :