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War BlOtS Out Politics

Both party arrangements consider
themselves badly out of luck in that
the Battle of Britain has reached
the critical stage at the very moment
Roosevelt and Willkie cohorts hunger
10 dominate the front pages and the
air. Major announcements and
speeches by the rival candidates will
command prominent newspaper and
radio attention, but not approxi-
mately TO the extent that would he
the case If John Bulls fate were NOT
al stake in the days between now
ana election time. Undoubtedly the
country's thought is concentrated
almost exclusively upon events in
the British Isles. American politics
seems very small beer by compari-
son. II there's any campaign ad.
vantage in that fact. it lies with The
PRESIDENT, for there is practical una
nlmlty of sentiment as to the grim
necessity Of the national defense
program which Congress. on the
administrators initiative. has an
proved. About the only anti-Roose.
Veit use the Republicans can make
OF the preparedness issue is tn trv
70 sell the idea that the President is
leading down the road to war"
1here are signs that some of his on
poiiehts mean TO harp vociferousIy
on that key.
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Washington Observations
Presidents First Political Speech Indicates
He Will Drive Hard for Labor Vote

because he was a brand-new type
of presidential aspirant. He now
must demonstrate whether he has
those qualities which are capable Of
stirring the enthusiasm of voters to
the degree that they aroused the in
terest Of convention delegates. Will
kie is a resourceful debater of is
sues. His friends expect him promptly
to develop into a whirlwind cam
paigner. His latest utterance. on
the eve Of the western swing, dis
closes that the G.. o. P. standard
bearer proposes to hammer hard on
the third term as one of his para
mount talking points. To date,
that vital issue has cut surprisingly
little figure in the campaign. Will
k1e's emphasis on it will drag it back
into the full glare of public interest
and discussion.
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the manner of the Attorney Gen.
erals recent opinions, and control
also of the Supreme Court which
upholds nowadays virtually every
thing the Attorney General argues
for.
The New Dealers for seven years
have sought just such laws so as
to complete their concept of a
bloodless revolution, but not till the
excuse of national defense" came
along did they succeed. Sleepy Re-
publicans and Democrats in Gov
eminent have given the President
dictatorial powers. Mr.. Roosevelt's
ability to bamboozle Congress has
certainly not been diminished by
his third-term candidacy.
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tional. but it is not concerned in
time of peace.
The Presidents open avowal of
the right to commander plants in
time of peace means that he alone
is to be the judge of what is ma
tional defense" Under the vague
terms used and under the sort of
opinions recently enunciated by the
politically minded Attorney Cen
eral, any man and any business
now can be Communicated at any
time for any reasc> This is dictator
ship.
The Roosevelt administration has
begun to insist on such broadly
phrased powers because it already
has control of departments and bu-
reaus which interpret the laws in
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Wilkes Task.

WILKES rans-continental cleo
pioneering expedition. which began
at Chicago today, will rivet politi-
clans attention to an unsual degree.
They're particularly anxious to dis
cover how much there is to the
theory that businessman suddenly
turned offlce-seeker has something
to offer voters. which is radically
different from the appeal they GUS
ton!arily hear from the hastings.
The Republican nominee sold him.
self to the G. o. P. at Philadelphia
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reer in Washington. this observer
thinks one of the hest relates to
the time when Ashurst, still a
schoolboy in his teens and long
before Arizona became State. in
scrlbed one Of his textbooks: Henry
Fountain Ashurst, United States
Senator from Arizona" He lived to
become the States first public off,
cial of that rank and to serve it
uninterruptedly for nearly 80 years
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Former U. S. Lines Ship
Sunk OFF British Isles

bN TUt FsSUV.dTeG FTesS.
NEW YORK, Sept. l3.-The Bel
gian steamship Vile de Mons. 7,43O
tons. formerly the American Shipper
of the United States Lines. has been
torpedoed and sunk If the British
Isles.
The United States Lines. which
made the announcement Yesterday,
said she is the fifth vessel lost of
the eight ships sold by the lines last
February to the Societe Maritime
Anversoise.
The Vile de Mons left New York
August "a for Liverpool and Glas-
gov. 1t is believed she was sunk
September l.
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tlves. This IS only one Of many
signs that the varied activities of
Government agents are proving very
annoying to German diplomats.
1t is extremely unlikely, how
ever, that the administration will
evidence great concern over the
complaints. The State Department
has made clear that it does not pro-
pose to allow diplomatic immunity
to be used as shield for either the
NaZiS or the FaSciStS
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suggests Cne line
on which he in
tends to fight it
out. He means
ito do all I can
to k e e p W a r
away from these
S h or e S for all
time" to pre-
serve a n d ex-
oand New Deal
social gains and
to prepare the
country for in
vincible national
defense. The cir
unStance that
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No Pity Here
The German

lesson of France the
activities German notorious
typical
Department Jackson both
enterpng efficient
of Italian
and radio stations in this country that being
governments will be sent Congress
v Amer
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The Senate's Loss.

With impending departure of
Henry Fountain Ashurst from Capt.
tol Hill, the United States Senate
WILL lose one of the most colorful.
cultured and courteous figures who
ever adorned that scene. The
Arlzonans unfailing wit and good
humor. particularly his gift for cpl
gramatic statement. will be sadly
missed. Among the myriad of
Ashurstian stories and legends which
have grown up during his long ca
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The Capital Parade
German Embassy Makes Sharp Protest,
Alleging Surveillance Of Diplomats

German Embassy recently
the Recs diplomatic representatives in this country The representa-
made with reference the prosecution German bust
in
of protest. Justice
investigators arrested Herbert Hoehn
of failing register foreign that activities accredited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Volunteers at IS

Slxty-flve-year-old A. wander
Berg travelled 270 miles on a BIZ
cycle to bid farewell to his mother,
who was i'll. returned to Schweiser-
Reneke. South Africa. and volun-
teered for service in the army.
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And What
They Do
Norwoy's GouIeiter
Got That Way by
Talking Tough
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

Young Joseph Terboven was q
pale, fat-cheSted, bespectacled, un-
smiling bank clerk, singularly gifted
in incorporate language. The odd
thing about him was that his bite
was worse than his bark. That
pleased and surprised the .Nazis,
when he began to get out in front. in
1925, and they made him gauleiter
Of the important industrial district
of Essen.
There he showed great talent. not
only in routine violence, but in the
more subtle operations of putting
the squeeze on the steel barons and
great industrialists.
TodayS news is that he Is in
Berlin, comforting with Chancellor
Hitler over the final liquidation of
Norwegian sovereignty. As to money,
the Germans print It for the Nor.
weglans and make them like it. and.
in this instance, Herr Terboven has
been gathering instead butter. pigs
and the like for the homeland.
He Got His Chance.
For the last few wears he has
been in charge Of the department Of
throwing a scare into small coun-
tries. task which he DISCHARGED
diligently and well Like many
small, repressed men getting
chance to branch out, he threw his
weight around a lot when he got
going. His gaudy. eight-cvlinder
Marpndpc
the chariot Of Heliopabalus.
His wedding on June %. 1894. was
lust about the biggest splash in all
the history OF Essen. with Hitler
and Reichmarshal Goering both
there. The ponning Of champaene
corks shaded into gunfre Just two
DAYS later, with the killing of about
100 NaziS Of doubtful orthodoxy,
TerbOven had been one Of the bodv-
guard of Roehm and long a member
Of the storm troopers. but had
cannily shifted his political base a
few months before.
Talmadge in Limelight Again.
When Eugene Talmadge sur
rendered tho GovernorshiD Of
Georgia in 1896 to run for United
States Senator, he said he would
make his campaign on Glove" He
said there was too much fighting
and political leadership must turn
to love. Lovingly. or urlovirrlv,
Richard B Russell prevailed against
him, and Mr.. Talmadge again took
to swapping his red suspenders and
calling names in the dependable old
hill-billy idiom. AS this is written,
he leads in the returns in the State
Democratic gubernatorial primary.
During his last two years as Cow
ernor, 1857, he heaved everything
handy at the New Deal, but later
subsidized and in this race pledged
cooperation with the administra.
ton.
He was farmer, putting in COW
barns and chicken houses around
the executive mansion, so he would
feel at home. Dressed in cowboy
clothes, he rode his old horse. Hot
Shot Charlie" expounded racial and
political doctrines of apparent Ku
Klux derivation and pulled hill
billy wisecracks.
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He Kept Us Out of War -

Representative Louis Ludlow Dem
ocrat' OF Indiana, has just revealed
some inside information about the
1916 campaign" in a speech in the
mouse: He disclosed that "Presi-
oent Wilson had nothing to do with
adopting He kept US out of war
as the Democratic party slogan, +"
ana mat, as a matter of fact. il
was adopted over his strenuous
and unyielding opposition" Ludlow
creolts the late Senator Ollie M
James Of Kentucky, intimate Will
sonlan and permanent chairman
ana keynoter Of the Democratic
convention at st. Louis. with de-
vlslng the famous battle-crv that
carried Wilson into a second term
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tllS plSoClle CIV
ton. Whatever
enthusiasm there
is already for
him will not be
greatly increased
a n d whatever
prejudice there
is against will
not be removed
by mere words.
The truth is that
when a man has
been President
of the United
States for nearly
eight years he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Roosevelt's opening "po-
litical" speech in his campaign for
a third term-his address to the
Teansters' Union-pretty clearly
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Nazi diplomats were being scruti-
nized as though they were spies. In
effect, Germany complained that it's
secretaries, attaches and consuls
could hardly turn around without
tripping over one of J. Edgar
Hoover'S sleuths.
Jackson, perhaps with his
tongue in his cheek, reported that
the German claims were not true.
His department, the Attorney Cen
eral said was engaged in no activi-
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HE opinions OF the wrters this page their on
necessarily The Stars Such opinions The
Stars effort to gipe all sides OF questions interest
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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Presidents
Decried
Teomsters Speech
Declared TO Spur
Disunity in Nation
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Very little that President Roose-
welt can say over the radio or on
the stump, whether political or nom
political, will affect the outcome of
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This Changing World
Portugal Appears sofe os Long os 1t Is the Lost
Jumping OFF Place for Axis Agents
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Several divisions
the Spanish border but despite invasion
Portugal nothing has happend.
Observers who keep close watch the beran Peninsula
Portugal will touched by the
that it is the
The axis interested n sending
propagands
America Despite the keen watch exercised leaving
landing substantial
reliable
Western Hemisphere they
Although
officers charge the holders
If they not italian German nationals.
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cunstance thai

r. d. R. chose as Frederic William Vile.
a forum for his maiden campaign
announcement the convention of
one of Americas great bodies of
organized workers indicates that the
President will drive hard for the
labor vote. His appearance before
the transfers synchronizes with the
commencement of Wendell Willkie' S
drive for the farm vote. Roosevelt, of
course, is not neglecting agriculture,
but the counting of the rural cleo
torate is mainly the job of his
running mate, Henry Wallace 1t
seems fairly certain that the Dem
ocratic nominee will receive wide
spread popular support. irrespective
of party, for his advocacy of the
defense program. With such stress
as he may lay on that score during
the campaign. he will couple his
concept of total preparedness-that
it's peace and not war policy.
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ties that violated the privileges foreign diplomats The Germans
making what another official called extravagan and founded
plants" where the Another Justice
Hoover.
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Carrying Dispatches


California
Wedeman the General
Francisco H Weidemann
supposed have oene Wolfe datce
diplomats stationed South America Neither the
accredited diplomatic
agent The Justice Department Immediately took action
Wolfe that the
porting trunk containing German dispatches which temporarily
seized scuned Justice
guilty fined $4,000 given suspended
His documents later
Hoehne was apprehnded in Los Angeles He too aeged
documents
the protests WeldHmann Hoehne indicted failing
He pleaded guilty his will
leave this country and the Justice Department
not official
sources of information not in public interest to disclose
No Pity Here
The German protest
treatment of Hoehne Wolfe
general representation that Department violating
international law ALLEGED
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Sarcastic About Opponents.

The President proceeds TO make
an address in which he refers
several times to his administration
and its accomplishments and TO
what the Democratic platform IN
Chicago said and adds thereto sew
eral sarcastic remarks about his DO
litical opponents. Indeed, he now
charges that the word so often used
on the stump these last few days by
Vice Presidential Nominee Henry
Wallace, namely, "appeasement," is
a polite word for "misdirected par
tISanShlD.'
Does the President think that the
American people who listen to radio
speeches are gullible and that they
swallow a political speech as nom
political just because he himself
naively contends that he doesn't
know what it is? There is reason
for the belief that the President is
directing his campaign to persons
who are Influenced emotionally by
what a President says, and who can
not think independently for them
selves.
But those people who have sense
of discrimination can tell that Mr..
Roosevelt's speech was conceived
with a political purpose and de-
livered with political arguments
germane to the present campaign.
The point would ordinarily not be
important. There is no reason or
rule which forbids Mr. Roosevelt to
make all the political speeches he
likes. But in a time of great crisis,
when the appeal on every side is
for national unity, it is unfortunate
that the man who happens to be
President of the United States
merely furnishes in his speeches
corroboration of what many anti
New Dealers have openly contended,
namely that they do not feel Mr..
Roosevelt should any longer be
trusted with public power because
of his lack of candor.
Take the words national defense"
Mr.. Roosevelt possesses vast author
fly which was given him for pro-
lection of the Nations security. But
in his address he introduces the sub
ject of labor force" as another
type of national defense" Then
after plainly boasting that his ad-
ministration has helped to increase
membership rolls of the labor unions
hardly a Government function
he turns violently against the en-
ployer class. This means disunity
instead OF national unity and is GER
tainly a species of class warfare that
could be described as "misdirected
partisanShip"
Hits Use of Eminent Domain"
Later on Mr.. Roosevelt uses the
phrase eminent domain" to justify
seizure of plants. This effort to
apply broad historic phrases to cover
the present enlargement of execu-
tive power is what has caused
widespread concern in America
Everybody knows that the object
of national defense program today
Is to get meChanicized weapons
manufactured as rapidly as pos
sible. The power to seize plants in
time of war is conceded as constitu-
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Difficult to Restrain keutroIs

If
States to OF the South American republics he provided
papers visitor who intends business
Tor Jew weeks The same thing applies of Italian German
visitors although their travel has drasay restricted
special assignment.
AS long Lisbon remains the only jumping of place for Europeans
Hemisphere
he axisp
The Nazi felt
dictator of Michaes
all possible
Berlin for the needed
will within the
German economic advisers
policy and most of the tabe soil will
peasants Agricultural
transportation permits and
swords pillow
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known personality in the land and
his policies have been so publicized
in detail that he cannot in the
eight or nine weeks of a campaign
reveal a new or changed personality.
That's why the Presidents speech
to the teamsters' union on We'd
nesday night in all probability
neither lost nor added votes; and
perhaps in that sense it was nom
political. The address was not
needed to win votes among the
teamsters and on the other hand,
served to confirm to opponents OF
the President why they have Quilt
up what unhappily amounts to a
distrust of him as an executive in
charge of large public powers.
A concrete instance of the reason
so many Americans regrettably dis
trust the exercise by the President
of vast powers may be found in the
text of the speech itself. Thus the
President starts out:
II don't know whether this is
pOlitiCal speech or not"
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PLAYS No EaYoriteS.

Although speaking before one of
the strong units of the A. F. of L., it
is noteworthy that the President
was at pains to bracket all three
great branches of organized labor
A. F. Of L.. c. I. o. and the Railroad
Brotherhoods, when he spoke of the
teamwork" requisite for perfection
of the Nations armament. He
praised them jointly for their "loyal
cooperation" with the National De-
tense Commission and the Army and
Navy. The labor vote, as has been
demonstrated on countless occasions
in city. State and national elections.
is never deliverable en- bloc. It is
always bipartisan. But Roosevelt
obviously thinks the New Deal leg
islative record, especially in the
fields Of collective bargaining, wages
and hours and social security. is one
that again entities the Democratic
party to organized labor's support
If it'lines up preponderantly in the
Presidents favor, most politicians
concede it will play a mighty, If
not decisive, role in determining the
outcome on November S. Mayor La
Guardia's acclaim of the Presidents
leadership in national defense is
another factor designed to assure
labor backing for the third-term
candidate.
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-05-24

). One great handicap We
face pcychologically is the ten
dcncy of Negroes to squubble
ever office. Sometimes we think
thal every person who has m
vested u dime feels that he is Ell
titled to some office that pays 4
salary. We should omit some
of our ambition for office and
Squcich the tendency to destroy
if we can't rule. =. go. -.
i. Negro business may be
started on the race appeal. but
it cannot but sustained on It.
The only hope for Negro bust
ness IS business efficiency.
3. 1t must be admitted that
too many of our group engaged
m business froWn upo the MOD
T. way and reject with indign
ton every suggestion for expert
mont.
it is hoped, however, that
with the infusion of young blood
into the small stream of our de-
eaying business and enterpris-
rs, together with doing things,
we shall give the race firmer
step and Il livelier pace. g..
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-05-24
Court Street Methodist Church

Court Street Methodist Church
Sunday services, 9:45-1O: so, a.
m: Church school-11:0 100, a. m.
Worship-6:3O to 7:30 pm, Ep-
worth League, 7:35-9:O5, p. m. !;
Worship, 3rd Sunday, 1885 to
9:O5 p. M; Sacred Concert,
Program, LIST Monday, 7:3O p. m.
Official Board; End Monday, at
same hour Unit Leaders board I;
Tuesday, 800 p. M, Methodist
Workers club; Wednesday, at
700, p. m. Prayer and Class.
Meetings.. Thursday, 7:3O p. M,
Choir No. and No. 2 Rehearsal
ais. LIST, End and 3rd Fridays,
1880 p. M, Trustee Aid.
Rev. T. j. Griffin ABB, BID Pastor
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-05-24
NEGRO BUSINESS

1helr MAYOR of%'Uln"l"ndI cncr-
2leS TO 1rat'fh"i orders and
| Chelf cohhect'i insurance de-
paflmehtS. II WAS dul' TINS
period that tf'hru"uS financial
piuhdefs Were ma"r, many NIL
mons ol dollars collected and dlS-
-pated, ana W d"Spvad conil-
ence III race leaders was deS-
tfoEeo' put THESE iill'fmltie'
neither llVed nor d.rd IN Nalh,
ne operation al jh"if insurance
departments cf'''''d the "cS>f
Iof insurance among Negroes.
III caused lh'nI Il" fealiIc the
value OF 1t am made American
Negroes lte-i'Nufahce mlhHv'
theiF failures lo!ljed out I" Ne
GRO leaders the detects III inc
systems and methods Oh pro
ceoure. From MS background
several Negro lie insurance com
panies have ioganize and with
quarter OF a century OF success
tui operation to their credit and
they are now established eco
4 :. L.
homlc institutions Oh the race.
heVieWlh& briefly some oil me
accomplishments OF these com
pahleS III the past twenty E'"'
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the economic erect 1he| "a.
having III race progress In ~
tota assets Of the major life ]"
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they amounted 10 @zo'o'-''''
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-05-24
Fish Walks on Tail

The wahoo, tropical game fish,
when hooked walks on its tail along
the surface Of the water. It has an
unusual backbone consisting of a
iatticework of bones which brace
the spine in such way that the fish
cannot bend its body up or down