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shall have much more than dou-
bled the size of our air force and
more than tripled its power and
efficiency. The Army Air Corps
will be increased from less than
1000 officers to more than 4,500,
from less than 10000 men to more
than $4,000, from less than 1000
planes to more than $500, and five
great new air bases will have been
added to our air defenses.'
1t is a calamity for the human
race that man has turned the air
plane into war vessel, Col. john
son declared, adding:
But it would not be humanita-
rian altruism, but the sheerest of
folly, were we not to recognize this
perversion of mans greatest me-
chanical dream. The air phase has
come to warfare. 1t must be recog-
nized. We must add to our system
of national defense an adequate air
defense"
Evening star., 1939-09-09

Warnings and slogans in the Dis
trict's new and official traffic safety
educational program. for which
special fund of $500 is available,
will be flashed before the public eye
by many different means, ranging
from milk bottle tops and bottle
shoppers to the radio and movie
screen.
A program recommended by Traf-
fic Director William A. Van Duzer
for division of the fund among vari-
GUS phases of the program was
adopted yesterday by the Com
missioners.
Safety signs are to be erected at
10 major entrances to the city. Some
80 900 window cards will be provided
at cost of $3.50; for publicity re-
lease and preparation of radio
scripts a fund of $1,000 was ear
marked, and 5000 was allotted for
painting of warnings and slogans on
sidewalks and a similar sum was set
aside for messages to be distributed
to homes on milk bottles and bottle
shoppers.
Among other items were: One hun
dred dollars for short electrical
transcriptions to be played on radio
programs, $3.50 for visual education
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Farmers Are Warned
To Beware Wartime
Crop Expansion
O'NeoI, Farm Bureau
Head, Sees Pority
Prices Within Reach
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Sept. 9.-Edward A.
ONeal, president Of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, told farm
ers today to beware of economic re-
percussions if they embark on a pro-
gram of war time agricultural ex-
pansion.
On the eve of winter wheat seed
ing for 1910 crop, ONeal urged
wheat growers to keep acreage with
in A. A. A. limitations. Secretary
Wallace this week appointed Mr..
O'Neal to the Agricultural Advisory
Council to assist in formulating agrl-
cultural policies as a result of the
war.
Il don't see how farmers can fig
ure it would be to their advantage
to take the acreage lid off," Mr..
O'Neal said in an interview, "but If
they do they will have to pay the bill.
With huge surpluses of commodi-
ties that are available it might prove
disastrous. Lots of us haven't for
gotten the World War and its after
maitland more recently 1888"
Mr.. O'Neal asserted the A. A. A.
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II felt mean as was leaving them
in misery and was going to comfort
and security" said Mrs. Ernest Dack
of 1929 New Hampshire avenue NV.
Mrs. Dack was speaking yester-
day of her departure from England
in the critical days Immediately
before war was declared. A United
States citizen of English birth, Mrs.
Dack sailed on the Queen Mary
August 80 with her husband. War
was declared while the Queen
Mary was at sea. Precautions were
taken and the boat reached New
York safely September 4.
Mrs. Dack sailed from America
July % to visit her people in Eng
land. She found little tension, but
a quiet determination. 80 long as
the English don't lose their sense
of humor they will be all right" "
Mrs. Dack said.
She told this story to show that
the English are "all right: Prepara-
tons were made for a general
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Suit Challenges Poll Tax
In Federal Elections

By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. ga
suit seeking to establish that a poll
tax by States in Federal elections is
a violation of the United States Con-
stitution was filed in Federal Court
yesterday. Judge Elmer Davies set
a hearing for Monday.
The suit was brought by repre-
sentatives of the Southern Confer
ence of Human Welfare.
J. S. Gelders of Birmingham, Ala,
secretary of the Civil Rights Com
mittee of the organization, said the
suit seeks to eliminate the poll tax
as requirement to vote in the 1910
general election in particular and all
other elections in general.
Maury Maverick, Mayor of San
Antonio, Tex, and former member
of Congress, is chairman of the
committee.
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Legion Armaments
Drive Bearing Fruit,
Johnson Declares
NewIy-Formed Unit
In Commerce Department
Is Installed

Twenty years of pleading and i'm
ploring by the American Legion are
bearing fruit in an adequate ma
tional defense program, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce J. Monroe
johnson declared last night at in
stallation ceremonies of newly
organized Department of Commerce
Legion Post.
The American Legion, Mr.. John
son said, has a mission to preach
battleships, guns and ammunition
to keep America defended. He
commended the program for speed
ing up industrial mobilization un-
der the leadership of "a Legion COM
rade, Assistant Secretary of War
Louis johnson.
Officers of the post installed at
the ceremonies, held in the Com
merce Department Auditorium, were
Joseph R. Moore, commander:
George Wohlgemuth, junior vice
commander; Thomas Reynolds, ad-
jutant; James Flaherty, finance Of
ficer; Clinton Young, chaplain, and
Alex Bolker, sergeant at arms.
Among the guests were Miss Fran
ces Kelly, representing Secretary of
Commerce Hopkins; E. w. Libbey,
chief clerk of the department; Wat
son B. Miller, national director Of
the Rehabilitation Committee of the
Legion; NJ H. Enkle, director of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, and DR.. Timothy F.,
Murphy of the Census Bureau. JOS
eph Malloy, past commander of the
District of Columbia Department,
and Haywood Saunders, senior Dis
trict vice commander. represented
the District Department.
Music was furnished by the Sons
of American Legion Fife and Drum
Corps, the Fort Stevens Post Fife
and Drum Corps, the Fort Stevens
Post Clown and Serenaders, the
Navy Band and the Navy Orchestra.
Mr.. Moore said the new post now
has lat members and expects a
membership of between 500 and 600
by December.
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Nov. 80 Thanksgiving
Likely for South Dakota
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PIERRE, S. Oak, Sept. AL
though the President ha sset No
vember % for Thanksgiving Day, it
looks like South Dakota will stick to
tradition and observe it Novem-
ber 80.
Pleading assistance for business,
the President proposed abandoning
the traditional last Thursday OF
November for the holiday, but Gov
Harlan Bushfleld, Republican, while
he has not made a proclamation,
declared opinions expressed to him
thus far ARE unanimous that
Thanksgiving be left as it always
has BEEN"
Unless some good reason" ap-
pears why it should be changed, he
said it was likely that South Dakota
would keep to the last Thursday
date.
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ton and reelection Of President
Roosevelt?
There are those who insist that the
matter is already concluded; that
Mr.. Roosevelt will be renomlnated
and reelected beyond the shadow
of a doubt. They base their con-
tention on the theory that the
country will not make a change OF
administration while the world-if
not the United States-is torn by
war; that the American people will
insist upon the reelection OF the
President. They point out he is
the most popular leader in the
country, and they discount Amer
lean dislike for violation of the
third-term tradition.
Shrewd politicians are unwilling,
however, to make definite predlc-
ton in this matter. They point out
that the Roosevelt record in dealing
with the war situation has yet to
be made. They say also that the
President himself has said nothing
to indicate what his own position
in the matter will be. Many of
them still believe that the President
does not wish to be a candidate.
Theory Is Discounted.
AS for the theory that the people
will not change horses while cross
ing a stream" that has not always
held water. In 1918, while this
country was still at war and after
President Wilson had made an ap-
peal for the reelection of Dem
ocratic Congress. what happened?
The country elected Republican
House and turned over the Senate
majority to the CT. O. P. The cleo
ton came a week before the armls-
tice in the World War. In 1916,
when President Wilson was head OF
the Government and this country
was still neutral" only the mistake
which Republican politicians made
in ignoring Hiram Johnson In Cali
fornia prevented Mr.. Wilson'S de-
feat at the polls. Mr.. Wilson's chief
campaign slogan that year was: He
Kept Us Out of War
If this country remains out OF
the present European war next year
and the President has dedicated
himself to keeping America free of
the war-the political situation in
this country will be one thing. If
the country becomes involved in the
war, it may be very different.
Democratic candidates for the
presidential nomination of 1910 and
their friends, despite the war, are
not slackening their efforts. In the
Garner camp, for example, business
is as usual. There has been no in
dication either that the supporters
of Paul V. McNutt are retiring from
the field, or are those who are using
their good Offices for Gov Lloyd c.
Stark of Missouri, or the friends OF
Postmaster General James A. Farley.
More and more, as the country be-
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OiI-Producing lroq
Tells Britain It's Loyal
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 9.-Iraq, an i'm
portant oil l-producing country, yes
terday telegraphed King George vi
its determination to cooperate with
Great Britain in the European war
until right and justice and lofty
principles" prevail.
The message, from Abdul 1lah, re-
gent of Iraq, said the country re-
manned true to its treaty OF alliance
with Great Britain, made in 1927.
Iraq earlier this week gave the
German Minister "a hours to leave
Baghdad and instructed its Minister.
In Berlin to ask for his passports.
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Dr. JAcop 'iher' ana Is special
ist in the international behavior of
money. That subject is obviously to
the fore in Secretary Morgenthaus
program of financial preparedness.
DR.. Viner was lent to the Govern
ment by the university in 1884, as
chief adviser to the Treasury. He
returned to Chicago with the under
standing that he would be available
if they needd him badly. They
often did, and he has been called
in frequently as a money doctor,
notably in 1887, when it seemed that
gold might get out of hand.
Stephen Leacock to the contrary.
in his recent reputation Of classical
economics, DR.. Viner sticks pretty
closely to the founding fathers of
the dismal science and has indicated
that the chief difficulty with eco
nomic laws is that we don't let them
work. His opposition to price and
wage fixing and his inSistence that
only real wages matter has thrown
him into sharp opposition with some
of the New Deal economists, but
they keep on consulting him. His
selection is one of several instances
of a wider catholicity of choice in
building the administration ex-
tended cabinet.
DR.. Viner is a native Of Canada.
AZ years old. After his graduation
from McGill University he took his
doctorate at Harvard. teaching. lee
turing and writing as he built his
career as an economist. He is the
author of many impressive treatises
on money and credit, which are
quite esoteric to this writer, but. by
reputation. profoundly searching
studies. A bright young friend OF
this writer, student of DR.. Viner's.
says he has mind like a powerful
searchlight and makes everything
clear as day in his lectures and in
formal discussions.
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U. 5. Air Program
Holds Our Safety,
Johnson Asserts
Every Sone American Will
Applaud Presidents
Foresight, He Says

The safety of the air frontiers of
the United States and our standing
in the world depend on continuation
of the combined efforts of military
and civil aviation toward air prog
ress, Assistant Secretary of War
Louis johnson said last night in a
radio broadcast from Washington
in connection with the national air
progress observance.
"As we look across the sea to
troubled Europe, now torn by con-
fiict," Col. johnson said, every sane
American will applaud the President
of the United States for his fore
sight and vision in planning and
building an adequate defense for
this Nation-air, sea and ground.
Air progress has added new and
mighty weapon to the long list of the
vehicles of war. Air progress in this
country must now supply to Amer
lea the means of an adequate de-
fense."
Changes Course OF History.
Reviewing the course of events in
Europe, Col. Johnson said:
1T may be that the airplane as a
weapon of war has changed the
course of history. Undoubtedly, the
power and threat of this new arm
have been used as primary instru-
ment to change the map of Europe
in recent times. 1t has eXerted con-
trolling influence on diplomacy and
international negotiations"
He pointed out that President
Roosevelt's $300000,000 air expan-
sion program, intended to increase
the airplane strength of the Army
to $500 airplanes, had been in ac-
tual progress less than three
months, since Congress approprit
ated funds last June.
More Than Double Strength.
$50 energetically have we worked
to build up our defenses," Col.
johnson said, that more than
5000 airplanes already have been
ordered When our program is
completed, and it will be completed
within the two years allotted, we
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Members administration left have lately had something very
like thought Washington They did not love
detested Viner for his
Reher Vine warmly
neoperS to be
New Deals intense domestic
well other group under-
excellent that after the first grmbg
effort made possible
ased byth ne m Nevpapr Alliance 1nc)
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Reinforced Right


while middle
thinkers Prof Vner for example
spending theory
his colleagues together constitute
intellectual reinforcement brought to the right wing
of administration in a long time
Eyenm
all leading businessmen
Dealers
problems whether the President
will have through long aute serious crisis in state
these dollara
appointments Boardmust
Indeed beoken entirely atmosphere which Is
Randolph
with the bond market In of the fight from bonds to common
market
the chief
when Roosevelt
the financial capital from Wall
clip the big banks
Flies in the Ointment
cheering universal in Washington at least
the naming of John
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To the CeIIors!

OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 8 R.-
For a few seconds Henry Harrison
thought war was here.
Driving down the street
II saw a flash in the sewer catch
basin at the intersection, and then I
felt a terrible jar under the car"
A storm sewer lid had been blown
against the bottom Of his machine
by q gas explosion.
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power over natlOnaI policy 70 those
who have defied the election returns
in order to thwart the popular will.
Among the little coterie of anti
New Deal leaders who should be
consulted" under Mr.. Lippmanns
undemocratic proposal, we would
surely expect to find Senator Pat
Harrison of Mississippi Mr.. Harri-
son has long been regarded as Wall
Streets ace-in-the-hole for shifting
taxes from the wealthy citizens and
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Soo-oo-eee

AMES, Iowa. Sept. 9 LP,-As a
hog caller, Mrs. Leo Whitmore is
tops-even among men
The Batavia, Iowa, farm woman
walked off with first honors in a
hog calling contest in which most
of the contestants were men.
However, the decision was close.
The judges had to have the con-
testants repeat their calls three
times before a winner was chosen.
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Board is again being felt at the Sc
lection of Tom Smith for the Treas
ury post Like Hancock, Smith has
been a determined opponent of GER
tain New Deal policies, and it is
thought that turning to him for
help looks like surrender"
AS for Morgenthau's choice of
economists. it is proving even more
irritating than the recruitment OF
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Dark Town

HICKMAN, KY, Sept. 9 P.-The
blackouts that big European cities
are experiencing are old stuff to
this Ohio River towns 2,400 resi-
dents
On June l the utilities company
cut off all street lights with the
ultimatum they wouldn't go on
again until 20-year franchise is
granted, or all city light bills are
paid.
Since then the city has been per-
fectly safe from air raids.
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Ship Reported in Distress

DUBLIN, Sept. Q (P).-Lifeboats
were called out from Arklow, in
wicklow County, early today to aid
q ship reported in distress In the
Irish Sea- Arklow lies about 40
miles south of Dublin.
Evening star., 1939-09-09

OF the ulanQd-
tory embargo on
arms shipments
to b elli gerent
n a t ion S, sub
merged. There
is one question,
however, relat-
ing to American
politics, which
is met on all
sides-a kind of
cOrOllary TO tne
war S ! t u a ton
with its war
psychology; will
the war bring
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VINO " e n t a
b lock or two
with the New
Deal, but who
n or m a lily be-
longs more in the
! e t-nature-take
discourse school
of economics. He
is a visiting pro-
fessor at the
Graduate Insti-
tute of Interna-
tional Studies at
Geneva. with an
impressive repu-
tation in Europe,
orJ ie a erario1-
Evening star., 1939-09-09

program is flexible enough to per-
nit increased acres to boost produc-
ton if it becomes evident that
greater quantities of food and fiber
are needed.
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The Capital Parade
New Treasury Aides Viewed as Conservatives
By New Dealers Of Extreme Left Wing


quen gone rather
dolarayear The
1915.
recruits Earle Baie
w. in
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in chief Of the
Army and Navy
of the only man
who served as a
high official in
our Government
at the outbreak
of the first Euro
pean war.
All the high
adnlralS of the
Army and Navy
have long since
retired, all the
civilians who oc-
cupied strategic
posts in the war
Evening star., 1939-09-09
We, the People
Proposal for Coalition Cabinet
Is RidicuIed by Observer
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

conservative commentator
Walter Lppmann to advise the President to invite the opposition into
his councils and specifically include leaders of the anNew Deal
coalition in Congress in of White cabinet"
This the England weaseled
Ramsay MacDonads cabinet
and then conemptuouy threw SHE'LL proposition
Evening star., 1939-09-09

organization to exert any leverage
on national decisions. Those who
know history quite as well as Mr..
Lippmann does may recollect that
from 1914 to 1917 it was the Re-
publicans who clamored most loudly
for war against Germany and who
most bitterly ridiculed President
Wilson's efforts to keep America
out of war, and that after We had
intervened in the World War it was
the RenlIhlicans who annealed to
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Even Milk Bottle Shoppers
Will Bear Safety Slogans

in the schools, $500 for motion pic
ture trailers, $3.50 for provision Of
$4,000 cards for use inside and on
the outside of streetcars and buses
and $400 for 5000 posters for dis
play at filing stations.
Evening star., 1939-09-09

York Federal Reserve Bank, will
have the difficult task of watching
the bond market. Tom K. Smith
of the st. Louis Boatmen's National
Bank, will keep in touch with the
banking and credit situation.
Then there is the trio of econo-
mists who have been brought to the
Treasury, as Secretary Henry Nor
genthau, jr.. explained, to spend
their time thinking Jacob Viner
comes from the University of Chi
Evening star., 1939-09-09
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The European war has been
underway for more than a week,
with domestic politics, except as
they relate to repeal by Congress
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And What
They Do
Dr.. Viner Boasts
Top Reputation as
Money Expert
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-Dr. Jacob
Viner of the University of Chicago.
named to Secretary Morgenthaus
advisory council, is a money expert
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THE opinions OF the rters this page their oo
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented Te
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Roosevelt
QuoIifiedin
First War
President Learned
Naval Tactics
And Diplomacy
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

The first week of the European
war has witnessed a remarkable
thing in Washington-the presence
In the White House as commander
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Holds Proposal Discredited

But Mr. has been answered and his proposal dscrede
people OF Senator Harrions
elected to the United States Senate in 1885, after kngand getting
New Deal help the
New Deal masked by
spring
out in the had his President
by forcing through big business
Now Mississippi held
ship the losing candidate backed the present
Governor Senator Harrison
Blbos candidate
johnson election
Harrison Mississippi represent
the will Of the people of Mississippi
politically weak the region which he to
he with authority majority the
other Lppmann forced probability
President Roosevelt political handouts Deal
sentiment which ought to be consulted conciiaed
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what another the situation
Europe abandoning the responsibility
the the United
y N
Evening star., 1939-09-09

cago Winfield W. Reher the Institute
Moentau usual OF
"he fastestthinkng the world
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Republicans Saw No Donqer

the difference 1t thing that
President his is another that
position accurately caba
nguer who made book with the Republicans order defeat their
partys the Congress.
AS for consulting the leaders of the Republican minority as Mr. Lpp
Roosevelt Republicans
recall
position there
Congress isked bringing general order
cheap of Americas natural fear of another
would
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Flies in the Ointment

cheering universal in Washington at least
felt the New Dealers at the naming Of Jo1
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the big business corporations shoulders the small
business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-10
Appeal Will Be Taken
In Wife-Swapping Case

By the Associated Press.
RUSSELLVILLE, Ala, Nov. 10
Two men and woman planned
appeals today from convictions of
bigamy in a rural wife-swapping
deal in which mates were traded
temporarily before divorces were
obtained.
A l2-man jury yesterday con-
victed Will D. johnson, SO; Ode::
Brand, 80, and Della Brand, 20.
Annie Fay johnson, 49, pleaded
guilty as the trial opened and
testified for the State.
Bigamy was committed, the State
contended, when the four exchanged
mates and remarked a few hours
after the women received divorce de-
crees prohibiting remarriage within
go days.
j. Foy Gwin, defense counsel,
said he would file an appeal with
the State Court of Appeals at
Montgomery. The defendants will
be sentenced today, Mr.. Gwin said,
and released as soon as appeal bonds
are made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-10
LiIienthaI Advocates
DecentraIized Government
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov. TO-
T. V. A. Director David E. Lilienthal
advocated today a strong central
government with decentralized adj
ministration as the ultimate SAL
walton of democracy"
In an address prepared for South
ern Political Science Association
Mr.. Lilienthal urged grass roots"
administration of Federal functions
so that Government power shall
not become so concentrated at
washington, so overpowering in
Size and so distant from the every
DAY life of ordinary people as to
undermine confidence in all govern
mental activity"
Decentralization can only be
achieved, the speaker asserted,
through delegation of authority to
competent men in the field and
by an emigration of talent to the
grass roots"
He described the Tennessee Valley
Authority as 1.-The boldest and per-
haps the most reaching effort
OF our times to decentralize the
administration of Federal func-
TONS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-10
i obucco Seed Tinv

Tobacco remains two years in
storage being cured before it enters
the factory. The stems are stripped
from the leaves and sold to be made
into a tobacco by-product. While one
Of the largest leaf plants in the
world, 1t has a seed so tiny that q
tablespoonful will plant 61a acres of
land. Many American brands are
air-cured, but Turkish tobacco is
dried in the sun and has a much
smaller leaf than the American
brand.