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for her illegal and unjustified inva-
sion of China" the letter recon-
mends that the President apply pen
alties provided In section 338 Of the
Tariff Act of 1880 against Japanese
exports and stop Americas par
ticipation in Japan's aggression.
which is in direct violation
Of = the nine-power treaty."
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Presidents Mother Asks
Action Against Jupun

Mrs. James Roosevelt, the Presi-
dents mother, heads a list of So
public officials, civic leaders, educa-
tors, clergymen, editors, writers and
others who have written to Presi-
dent Roosevelt urging removal OF
Japan from its present most
favored-nation" status in commerce
with the United States.
Asking that Japan ''be made to
feel Immediately the moral con-
demnation of the American people
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nation as un-
qualified tops for
c o u = q 6 e and
s t a t e S m a n =
ship. No poll
tician within my
recollection dur
ing 20 years Of
observation of
the Washington
scene ever rose
to a finer exhi-
bltlOn OF lnteSt1-
n a ! investiture
and W | S d o m.
T h e President
would have been
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tax case will open the judicial door

Perhaps ruling the Tennessee poll will
Finally think entirely of
suspicion that his bill
course OF heart-to-hea interview the Senator told
First you wrong in labelling
true that the Vice from the first legislation
not from that that
Roosevelt renonnated third
cent. Otherwise, have made
by North America Newsp
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sons who are
not elecJed at
all? If Congress
onits to pre-
scribe penalties
or punishments.
shall boards or
commissions in
vent the power
to impose fines
on citizens?
These are fun
damental rights
that go to the
h e art of the
American sy s.
tenn of Govern
ment, and the
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third-term ques-
ton - and so
kept himself a
potential candi-
date for q third
TERMS to be
found In the
foreign situa-
ton.
He has been
actuated as well,
no doubt, by the
desire to keep
h / S influence
in Congress, and
h is influence
over the party
nomination for
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tention is being given to section /
and the whole measure is regarded
IN legal circles as the introduction
to movement for a Federal elec-
tions law which will establish uni
form regulations for voting for any
elective Federal office. That such
a law is needed is scarcely open to
doubt, but the Supreme Court will
have to reverse itself-which has
happened in other matters-on the
4-to-4 decision in the Smith case,
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Washington traffic victims last year
who we're IS years Of age and over
accounted for 1873 per cent Of the
total of IS fatalities, although that
particular age group formed only 1.6
per cent Of the population.
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TO have been occupied In posing for
still and news reel photographers,
writing occasional magazine articles
and otherwise busying himself in
ways proper to a candidate. Cynics
will answer the B'nai Births, So
journers, magazine readers, even
landscape architects have votes.
But shrewd and witty woman
came nearer the mark some years
ago when she went to anthrDpology
fNy f1r a,vr RI to,
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The Capital Parade
McNutt Appears Determined to Talk
His Way Into the White House

The ardo Of presidential candidacy
the turned out
to be rather faint The McNutt
House loudly outed ended by convincing
color blind The McNu talents a
test by John Lewis remarks the of troops
strike Yet the McNutt campaign
Failing all Indianas
talk his into the White publicity organization
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elections She compared them to the occasional king killings
hoongs by ancient peoples sought good weather
fine When something ruastic
something
will Indiana.
~ American
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Labor Bourd
View on Role
Shocking
Right to Put
Language Into
Low Questioned
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Shall the laws of the United
States be made by Congress
elected by the people or by boards
or commissions consisting of per-
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District automobile drivers last year
with experience ranging from six
months to is years were involved In
81 fatal accidents ~ compared with
81 involving drivers with from 16
to - years. experience.
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We, the People
Hutch Act Moy Become Big Factor in compoien;
Is Seen, in Fact, as Possible Third-Term Aid
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

Although Hatch Act Is particularly
political chickens which
having laid appears
this bitterly contested
campaign
frequently referred the prohibiting
political activities the pure politics label to which
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HE opinions OF the urtters this page o
necessarily Ths Stars Such opnsons resented n The
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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War Cause
Of 3d-Ternn
Silence
RooseveIt's 1887
'Quorontine'
Speech RecoIIed
BY CHARLES G. ROSS.

1t continues to be true, in the
opinion of this writer, that ono
great reason why President Roose-
! welt has remained silent on the
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Washington Observations
RooseveIts Attack on Russiu Rates Him Tops
For Courage and Stotesmonship

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Since his two-fisted, sledge-ha
mer speech to the Youth Congress
at the White House, Franklin D.
Roosevelt rates In this columns esti-
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brave and Frederic william Vile.
statesmanlike if he had beel hurting
his thunderbolts only at the rain
soaked, political babes in arms who
constituted his visible audience, but
he was fitting at mighty Red Russia,
at Communism and at its despotic
dictator, Joseph Stain, whom he
did not hesitate so to stigmatize.
I wonder what our young friend
Constantine Oumansky, the Soviet
Ambassador. thought of it all as he
unused before his radio in the Six
teenth street Soviet Embassy and
heard the President of the United
States denounce the U. S. S. r. in
more candid terms than probably
ever before were publicly addressed
under nominally peaceful conditions
to another power with which this
country is in formally friendly rela-
tions. Oumansky and Stain must
have had difficulties in persuading
themselves that the Roosevelt who
gave Red Russia such an unabashed
lacing is the same Roosevelt who
in 1888 agreed to accord Moscow
diplomatic recognition.
II X
"Unadulterated Twaddle."
If F. D. r. handed the Soviet
Union shelIacking, it was almost
a benediction compared to the
tongue lashing he dealt to the half
baked Youth Congress delegates, on
the subject of Finland. They WINGED
perceptibly under his twice uttered
charge that it is simply "unadul-
terated twaddle" for them to suggest
that American aid to the Firms in
their struggle of defense against
Russia would lead to the United
States involvement in ''imperialistic
war" Nor did the beardless ISM
ties who constitute the rank and file
of the so-called youth movement
relish the Presidents thrust that
they are often the victims of infor-
nation on subjects of which their
own ignorance must be profound,
supplied by leaders and pleaders
whose lack of knowledge on issues
like budgetary requirements and
national defense se is equally abysmal.
F. D. r. was particularly effective
when he warned his starry-eyed
young visitors not to rush into the
passage of resolutions from which
angels would shrink, but to keep
their feet on the ground" and not
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which now has an annex in Wash
ington office building, is always busy
sending out McNutt speeches, elabo-
rately mimeographed on special
machine. Lately your correspond
ents have been treasuring these
masterworks of oratory. Their
feeble arithmetic may be at fault,
but it appears to them that McNutt
does more talking than all the other
politicians in Washington-or at
least all the other politicians in
WQ Chinutny, vryo11 l,4a1nL z.o,,~l> -
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All Things to All Men


hay hao to be looked say in the face But not for McNutt
All Things to All Men
On January l3 he addressed On January
ne nspraona
uncheon on January 8 he heard
General Federation of Womens Clubs apy
Natona Housekeeping On January
dealers Association and on January Is having
Time TO catch his breath he told the
or i Members why The Democratic Party
ne GRATED before the American Society
Gays later ne participated in the Town Hall February
Have you got national convention
almost anything please - ~ ~ ~
In the period named he A. and c. c. c.
and pledged additional aid to highly
the Masons admired the architects
relied to find good somewhere came out
strongly for increase the
higher national income
the home. % " ~ ~ ~ 80
He also defended the reciprocal
policy sound national defense
OF business but against regmentaton favor of private
enterprise and individual initiative He deprecated reaction
approved enlightened liberalism Repub
ans including their candidates Vandnberg He
doubted the Republicans knowledge of
practically Of an Immediately balanced budget warned against
governmental waste He all for conservation
highly approved OF democracy and denounced dictatorship
stirring terms Indeed he nearly achieved
being all things to all men.
King Killings
You well inquire why any would wish to talk
so much especially since most Of the rest of
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Same Foes Today as in 1892
All Sections Being Studied

Justice Department studying
with application campaign Special
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DC CdTTlcQ away Dy tIlc lucOlOSlCdl
fantasy that the crime, cruelty and
chaos called Soviet Russia can ever
be an acceptable substitute for the
democracy called America.
X
A Unique Appointment.
Whatever he accomplishes, or fails
to accomplish, the dispatch of Sum-
ner Welles to Western Europe to ex-
plore wartime conditions is another
Rooseveltian master stroke. sup
pose that with the exceptions Of
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas
Jefferson, the United States has
never in its history sent more
thoroughly equipped special Am
bassador on a critical mission to the
other side of the Atlantic. Ger
tainly no man in the countrys con-
temporary foreign service ever
measured up to the Undersecretary
of States stature in caliber, sea-
soned background and well-rounded
up-to-date knowledge of world af-
fairs. To these professional attain
ments Welles adds some personal
qualities no less rare: He knows
how to enact a DR.. Jekyll or Mr..
Hyde role alternately as situations
require, on occasion can be as icily
cold and impervious as a highly
polished ball of steel, and in the
next moment as genial and pliable
as a dove. If any evidence in sub
sanitation of Welles' ability to play
a diplomatic Lon CLANCY Is needed,
Washingtonians have only to con-
suit Hans Thomson, German
Charge d'Affaires. as to how the
Undersecretary of State comports
himself when receiving an oficial
Nazi complaint or any Latin-Ameri-
can statesmen who have had con-
tact with Welles' suavity as a con-
ciliator in pan-American contro-
versies. The Undersecretarys path
in London, Paris. Rome and Ber.
lin will be smoothed by the knowl-
edge that he is President Roose-
velt's closest confidential adviser on
foreign affairs.
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Third-Term Politics?
A UNIQUE Amendment.

Naturally those many minds In
Washington which see politician
lurking behind every tree and a
political motive behind his every
thought are persuaded that Roose-
velt's peace offensive" is third
term stuff. sprung, as usual, with
his uncanny sense of timing. What
ever it is, it spikes the guns of those
who accuse him of passion to lead
the United States down the road
to war"-a phrase, I think, patented
by Hiram johnson when the admin
istration arms-embargo repeal plans
were first disclosed. If Roosevelt Is
ready to be drafted for another four
years-as this observer has always
believed he is-about the surest way
he could choose for guaranteeing
either his rejection by the Demo-
cratic National Convention or at
the polls in November would be to
run, or even to appear to be running.
as an advocate Of war. If the age
of miracles is not past and Sumner
Welles' negotiations with the bel
ligerents, coincident with Secretary
Hulls discussions with the neutrals,
should combine to pave the way to
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wv i: Sn:s:::
not intended by its sponsor
hamstring political
President and other rivals President
In point Of fact although the law
political
actually aid the Mr. Roosevelt
convention packed dominated Federal ocehoders
such things have happened hiothe
would entitled candidacy
polls he nominated
freed from the chains
the
dictated candidacy
Same Foes Today as in 1882
AS matter fact the who Roosevelt
1882 him today
with which to pack the convention.
something
the Federal Governments position
section the which provides shall
ntimdate attempt
threaten other for the interfering
the right Of such other to vote choose
Since the United States happens
single employer Of labor in the United States there clear
incident the problem of labor
ordinance private
employers.
All Sections Being Studied
gals Hatch
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sponsor Of the measure, strenuously
objects. His objection is valid in
sofar as the description implied
serious doubts on my part as to the
political altruism of the Senator's
motives. I wish now to state that
I no longer harbor such doubts and
that I am pretty well convinced that
the Hatch Act, whatever its effect
on the 1910 Democratic Convention,
was not intended by its Sponsor to
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mmeograph machines -
The quantity if not invariably the quality
1or between
this simply the Christmas bills
nay had to be looked suarey in the
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be carried away by the theological
fantasy that the crime, cruelty and
chaos called Soviet Russia can ever
be an acceptable substitute for the
democracy called America.
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King Killings

You may we'll inqui
so much, especially since
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03
Pennroad Denies
Charges Made in
Three Suits
Federal Court Asked
To Dismiss Complaints
OF Irregularities
BY the Associated Press.

oy LIE hoooCldLcu EIcos.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3.-Penn-
road Corp, an affiliate of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, denied categor-
ically in answers to three independ-
ent suits in Federal Court yesterday
that there were any improprieties or
irregularities In the handling OF its
funds.
Three suits, filed separately by
three stockholders during the past
year asked for an accounting of
their investment Of Sal, 285 900 in
the securities of the corporation.
The stockholders charged that the
voting trustees of the Pennroad and
some of its officers and directors,
who held interlocking posts with the
railroad, specifically lost" $1,000
900 and many more millions" yet
to be computed, in trying to help
the Pennsylvania Railroad secure
domination in the Eastern area Of
the United States.
The stockholders are Mrs. lone M.
Overfield of Salt Lake City, Utah:
Grace Stein Weigle, Chicago, and
David Steckler, New York City.
Twenty-three answers were filed
by Pennroad, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, nine living present or former
officials Of the company. and the
estates of six deceased officers. They
asked dismissal of the suits, con-
tending the stockholders have slept"
on their rights and are barred from
any recovery by the legal rule of
"laches."
Identical suits have been filed in
Federal Court at Wilmington, Del.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03
Revision Of Federal
Policies Urged 10
Spur Production
Insurance Executive
Lists Five VituI
Defense Steps
BY the associated Press.

BY the associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 3.-Five "neces-
sary steps" to stimulate production
during the Nations rearmament
were outlined today by DR.. Claude
L. Benner of Wilmington, Del, vice
president of the Continental Ameri-
can Life Insurance Co.
Il am not so much afraid of in
f1ation during the coming year as
I am that the necessary steps will
not be taken to stimulate our pro-
duction to its fullest capacity" he
said, in paper written for the con-
vention of the Mortgage Bankers
Association of America. He listed
the measures this way:
l. A revision of the Labor Rela-
tons Act so that employers as well
as employees can get a fair deal.
2. A revision of our whole tax
structure so that it will penalize
initiative as little as possible
3. A fair attitude toward holding
companies so that private utility
companies will be able to finance
necessary expansion.
f. A somewhat more lenient ad-
miniStration of the control over our
security markets so that the spirit
of speculation so necessary for an
expansion in business will not be
killed
5. A different attitude on the part
of Government toward private en-
terprise, a letting up on so-called
reform legislation, general loosen
ing of Government control over
business and cessation of govern
mental competition with private in
dustry.
DR.. Benner said he agreed with
the President that, if full use is
made of productive resources and
man power, it would be possible to
spend $1,000. 900 900 year for
armament without materially re-
stricting peace time consumption
and lowering the standard of living
But he added:
IF conditions are kept such that
these huge (defense) expenditures
turn out to be nothing more than
enlarged pump printing ventures,
then when they are over we will
find ourselves right back where we
were in 1888 when the peak of our
first pump printing ventures had
been passed
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Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO Oct 3 lPi.-CUnited states
Department of Agriculture .-Salaple noes'
II 900: total $500: opening 10-15 lower
closing mostly 1925 lower than Wednes,
days average top, $50: bulk. GOOD ana
choice, 2I0..1o pounds 6;35-45 l7o,2 on
30: few light sows. .6.15 and above: mos,
good 30O-35O pounds. $3.50. 10: 35O-45U
pounds 5.55-6.00: few 450-5oo pounds
$4,000 r.,
Salable cattle. 5000: calves, 800: fed
steers and yearlines strong to 25 higher;
common and medium Grades steady: full
advance falling on strictly good and cholce
yearlinss and light steers, but all repre-
sentative weights grading GOOD and better
getting dependable action: early top. 135o'
but strictly choice offerings held above
1878: best yearlings. 1928. these choice
to prime: fed steers. all weights, selling ms
short fed offerings at 1918 down to 100
and below: very common light kind 70
625; stocks Arm. % higher for week: all
cows 1925 lower; bulls, 1918 on: veal
ers, weak to so lower at IL 90 down:
very few 11.50: cutter cows. $50 down
with best weiehty. sausage bulls 6.s5.
Salable sheep, 1000; total. 1900: late
Wednesday. fat lambs closed steady to
strong with Tuesdays average: bulk good
and choice natives, 9.25; few TO 9.36;
three doubles s9od to choice iS,ns arognd 60.
today's trade. early sales slaughter lambs
fully steady: little done on yearlines: some
interests talking weaker: scattered sales
and most bids GOOD to choice natives and
western lambs 9.25: asking higher or above
a.35 on best natives: few yearlinRs 775.
bulk unsold: lead 74-pound Wye ming feed
ing lambs strong at 9.10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03
Auto Concerns Order
Only Slight Boosts
In 1941 Prices
Additional Equipment
Regarded as Offset
To Increases
BY DAVID J. WILKIE,

Associated Press Automotlye Editor
DETROIT. Oct. 3.-Price sched-
ules for 194l models have been
fixed by virtually every motor car
manufacturers and show, contrary
to general expectations. that the
increases have been of only modest
proportions.
AS matter of fact, every new
model features so many added re-
finements and so many items of
equipment heretofore optional at
extra cost have been made stand
ard that it truthfully may be said
the motorist gets more for his
money in this years cars than he
did in any previous year.
Making the comparisons by model
classifications, the price increase in
the low and medium class fields
ranges from 3 to per cent. Yet
the manufacturer Of every car SELL
ing around $1,000 can point out
much more than $50 worth of added
standard equipment and refinement.
Smaller Than Expected.
The expectation of price increases
had much to do with the rapid alb
sorption of the heavy field stocks
Of 1910 units during the final weeks
of the model year Just closed, but it
is more than fair assumption
that the announced increases, in
most instances, are far below what
the trade as well as the buying
public expected
The speedy cleaning up of 1910
models in one of the factors con-
tributing TO the optimism of manu-
facturer and merchandiser as the
new model year gets under way. At
the start Of the years second quar-
ter dealers stocks and vehicles in
storage aggregated close to AIS 900
units and the assembly lines were
pouring out cars and trucks at a
rate Of close to 100000 each week.
At the beginning of the present
month as most manufacturers had
concluded their 1910 model assem-
blies the field stocks were well be-
low 100000 units, according to re-
liable estimates. The sales reports
of the various producers for the
first 20 days of this month. ante
dating the formal public introduc-
ton of l941 vehicles. accounted for
most of this stock of unsold 1910
models.
Reserve Depleted.
There was much talk in mid
season about the motor industry
building up heavy reserve stocks
against possible emergency" that
would find new cars difficult to OBJ
tain. Not only has this reserve been
fairly we'll depleted. but almost
without exception the car makers
are reporting untitled orders on
hand far ahead of the beginning of
the last new model year
The industry undoubtedly will
build up another reserve after
dealer outlets have been stocked,
but it is not certain at this time
that the volume of the reserve will
quite equal that of the 1910 model
year high point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03
CHICAGO Produce

CHICAGO. Oct 3 lP-Butter, receipts.
677.44s; Arm; market unchanged. EGGS.
receipts. 1888; firm; current receipts,
49,: dirties. 1872: checks. 1474: storage
packed hrsts. II: refrigerator standards,
I9-lgl4; other prices UNCHANGED
Poultry. live, 25 trucks: steady. market
unchanged.
Potatoes. arrivals, IL: on track. 2s6,
total United States shipments. 597: sup
Of the Jewish holidays; market STEADY;
Idaho Russet Burbanks U S No. /. So
so. Bliss Triumphs u S. No. ], 100
and North Dakota Cobblers SIS per cent
U. s. No. l. 1880; Bliss Triumphs. $500
per cent. U. S. No. l. DOLLS.