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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
S P Q R T S
met GOLF TOURNEY
: WILL OPEN TODAY
70 Golfers Entered In Event
With Picard Only Big
Name Player Missing

BLOOMFIELD, N. j., May %
-R-The 1899 champion, Henry
Picard, is missing, but otherwise
the field of 70 golfers in the 72-hole
metropolitan open golf tournament
starting tomorrow at the Forest
Hills field club has the usual sprin-
king of name" players which has
made it n of the nations out
standing events.
Jimmy Thomson, Horton Smith,
Ben Hogan, Craig Wood, Jimmy
Hines and the argentine trium-
virate of Martin Pose, Aurelio Cas-
tanon and Enrique Bertolino are
in the list of pro shotmakers, as
well as the two players who tied
with Picard for the title last year
only to lose in the playotfs-Paul
Runyan and Vic Ghezzle.
The amateur field n C u d e S
Frank Strafaci and Roy Billows,
two of the best in the Simon-pure
ranks.
The players will tee off in three
somes starting at 10 A. M...The
second 10 holes will be played
Saturday and the final Sc holes
Sunday.
Hines will be seeking his third
championship in the event, and
his chances are enhanced by the
fact he will be playing over the
same course on which he Won in
1887. That year he turned IN a
score of 279 to edge out Picard
by n stroke. In 1888 Hines re
peated, at Fresh Meadow with 207,
He is not the only former cham
pion in the field, however. Runyan
won the event at the Echo Lake
Club in 1884, and the veteran
Willie Macfarlane won in 1880 and
again in 1888. He will tee off in
the first threesome tomorrow.
The event dates back to 1905
when Aleck Smith won with a
score of 300. 1t has been held an
nually since with the exception OF
the war years of 1917 and 1918.
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HOOVER SAYS u. S.
HAS DOUBLE DUTY
Continued From Page One)


That the independence of peaceful
nations should be murdered fires
u indignation. That women and
children should be r~uthlessly
slaughtered brims us to tears"
The nations former chief execu-
tive said that the work Of the boys
club-that of giving a full chance
in life to the pavement boy"-was
not trivial in this world Storm"
adding that "our stern duty is to
carry on the processes of humane
endeavor in this democracy"
With high praise for the boys
club aim Of giving "every child
an equal chance" Hoover S a i d
that "just as the fascists build
their boys as part of a military
state, we want to build our boys to
support a democratic state.
g. We citizens Of the largest
remaining democracy have a high
duty and a high purpose in max
ing easy the path of the demo
cratic ideal"
Hoover declared that govern
ment probably would concern it.
self to a greater and greater ex'
tent with the affairs of the nations
youth.
But" he added, ut will be a
sign of degeneration when we as
private citizens surrender
character building to the state
that is not the place where person
atty and character can I'VE be
built.
This service requires sacrifice
understanding, liberation, genres
ity. The methods of a dictator are
too simple and too easy"
Earlier today, Hoover told hi:
press conference that a democratic
\ president had both the right ane
the opportunity to obtain the views
of the republican party on trans
cendental questions of national de
+ tense, peace and war;"
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CHICAGO TRIUMPHS
PHILLIES, 4-3|
Two-Run Rally In 18th Inning
Gives Cubs Win; Mulcahy,
Root Duel On Mound

PHILADELPHIA, May 23-LR-
Doubles by Bill Nicholson and Al
Todd and a single by Bob Mattick
gave the Chicago Cubs two runs and
a 4 to 8 victory over the fighting
Phillies in a 13-inning game at Shibe
park tonight.
A crowd of 1901 that braved a
drizzle and chilly weather saw the
Pills almost pull the game out of
the fire in their last time at bat,
| scoring one run and having the
bases full when Pinchhitter Herman
Schultz grounded to Mattick for the
final out.
Hugh Mulcahy, of the Phils. seek
ing his fifth straight win, and vet
eran Charlie Root, of the Cubs, had
a pitching duel for ten innings. Root
went Out for a pinchhitter in the
18th but Mulcahy went the route.
Chuck Klein's double with two on
gave the Pills a run in the first.
The Cubs tied it in the third on
Mulcahy's balk that scored Todd.
Thereafter both Mulcahy and Root
were seldom in danger until the
ninth. Hank Leiber, first UP for the
Cubs in the ninth, hit a homer, but
the fifth place Phils rallied a tie in
their half.
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FALL OF ANTWERP
BLAMED ON COUP
Continued From Page One)

on regarded further bloodshed as
useless, and tremendously hand
ed the city's keys over to the Ger
man commander three days ago.
Time bombs. set by the Belgians,
blew up in the tunnel under the
Scheldt river, however, after the
Germans had moved in.
The tunnel would correspond to
the Holland tunnel under the Hud-
son river at New York. Otherwise
the city was not greatly damaged.
General George Kuechlen,
army in the Antwerp sector, said
that his force is aiming via Client
a III Bruges, to Ostend. Belgian
per. directly drr;ss from England
A the same tjme General Val
tier o Ric''cnau is pushing to-
Wa:3 Calais and Dunkcrquc, two
French ports opposite England, ore
of K%euchlen's adjutants explained.
Although a hot battle was rag
ing only a few miles away, Kuech-
len found time to receive me.
"a stern battle is on at Ghent,'
he said simply.
But we are cutting our way to
the sea and expect to be there
shortly. Our enemies are resisting
bravely.
In addition we have foundations
9rI ethan III ff o,,1tinc nf tnrroip 10
contend with" Kuechlen added.
Nevertheless the odds a + c
greatly in our favor. Our task OF
the moment is to get the Client
canal in our hands. That will hap,
pen shortly
Only 30 m~inutes-as a Messer-
schmitt fies-separated me today
from England. l stood at an air.
port facing England across h c
water location not revealable) for
the first time since entering the
western zone of operations.
Stukas olive bombers) and hea-
Wy bombers were roaring over ou1
heads constantly.
Our particular airport had Meth
er heavy bombers nor Stukas. Il
was reserved for Messerschmit'
pursuit. planes, of which q fringec
the airfield, artfully camoufageo
by tWigs and the tops of trees
The commander of this squadron
is Herman Handrick, winner of the
1886 Olympic decathlon.
Even as we greeted Handrick
eight of his Messerschmitts too1
to the air and were out of sight il
a jiffy.
These eight planes have start
ed to assist in the land fight,
) Handrick explained.
! Each plane has either four ma
!, chineguns or two machineguns ane
, two cannon They have orders t.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
Mrs. Marshall Hurt
In Auto Collision

Mrs. B. H. Marshall, of Whights-
vile beach, suffered a broken rib,
cuts and bruises yesterday after
noon about 5 o'clock when her
car was struck at the corner of
Sixteenth and Grace streets by an
automobile driven by j. F. Bran
ion.
Miss Ann Rutherford, 10, oc-
cupant of Mrs. Marshall's car, was
only slightly scratched. Branlon
was not injured.
Branion was travelling west on
Grace street and Mrs. Marshall
was going north on Sixteenth. Her
car was struck on the right side
and was damaged considerably.
Her condition was apparently
satisfactory last night.
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swoop down on marching enemy
columns"
For the first time since moving
about in the operations area, we
have seen naval officers darling
back and forth in speedy cars.
Antwerp on the whole is but lit,
tie damaged, but time bombs blew
up even after the Germans had
moved into what was AntWerp's
pride, the Scheldt tunnel, an en-.
cheering marvel leading under the
Scheldt river. In other words, il
was the Hudson tunnel of Belgium.
A big bridge across the Scheldi
was dynamited by the Belgians be-
fore they retreated.
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White Sox Haze One Big
Inning To Beat AS, 1874

CHICAGO, May 23.-LR-The Chi
cago White sox operated on the
''one big inning system today to
come from behind and overwhelm
the Philadelphia Athletics, 10 to 4,
for their fourth straight victory.
In the eighth inning the Sox scor-
ed 10 runs. getting seven hits, in
GLIDING Taft Wright's homer with
the on, while Philadelphia made
four errors before Johnny Babich
and Ed Heusser finally got the
side out. Until then, the Athletics
had a 4 to 3 lead.
The AS made l6 hits off South.
paw Thornton Lee, but left u men
stranded on the bases.
DuUT AnET pHIA All n n n A
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z-Batted for Klein in 18th.
zz-Ran for May in 18th.
zzz-Batted for Atwood in 9th.
zzzz-Batted for Mulcahy in 18th.
Chicago OO1 600 OO1 900 81
philadelphia $50 100 900 001 600 l.;
Errors: Herman, Klein. Runs batted
in: Klein, Leiber, Todd, Mattick. Muel-
Ter. Two base hits: Klein, Gleeson
Mueller. Nicholson. Home run: Ielber
Left on bases: Chicago II; PhiIadel-
phia II. Stolen base: Klein. Bases
on balls off: Olsen /. Strikeouts by
Mulcahy 10, Root /, Olsen /. Hits off
Root 10 in 10 innings; Olsen 3 in 2 %;
Page l in 1-3. Hit by pitcher by
Mulcahy (Nicholson). Wild pitch: Null
cahy. Balk: Mulcahy. Winning pitch
err: Olsen. Empires: Reardon, Pinelli
and Goetz. Time: 2:37. Attendance
1901.
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CHARLOTTE WINS

CHARLOTTE, May 23-(R-Char-
lotte sluggers raked two Winston
Salem pitchers for II blows tonight
and the Hornets defeated the Twins
~ to 5. Truman kept the Twins
eight blows well scattered and fan
ned eight. -,
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HORSE MEDICINE

HELENA, Mont. - R-What's
good for man may be good for
beasts, reasoned veterinarians who
heard about sulfanilamide and it's
amazing results in the fight on
pneumonia. They tried it against
distemper and infected wounds a.
mong dogs and in the teatment
of pneumonia in horses and re-
ported cures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
NORTHEAST STORM
WARNINGS RAISED
Flown From Delaware Break
water To Maine As Gale
Continues Northward

WASHINGTON, May % B -
Northeast storm warnings were
flown from Delaware breakwate1
to Eastport, Me-, tonight as a gale
swept northward along the Allan.
tic seaboard. Shifting winds ano
gales reaching a so miles an hour
velocity were reported by the bur.
eau.
The text of its warning said:
advisory $50 p. M:
Northeast storm warnings con
tinued Delaware breakWater tc
Nantucket. Atlantic storm still cen
tered about $50 miles east of the
Virginia capes, with lowest pres,
sure about 993 millibars 1882 in,
cheso and will probably move very
slowly northeastward. 1t is accom-
panied by strong shifting winds
and gales up to about so miles
per hour. Northeast storm warn
ings displayed now from Delaware
breakwater to Eastport, Me-"
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he landed in the Gm,rr..
near Rouen, south of the s,~- rs..a
a mission of spreading me- oa
the Allied lines. 0ehiri
He said he had been
mi with Belgian ret9s t,ssd y
set fires wherever he coa, 5sss All
nally of Belgian natiorar;,,. oc,,
was recruited by the Gcrc,. ..'s a'a
last April. '"' army
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
THE STANDINGS
American T.oorro
National League
TOpAY,S GAMES

TODAY'S GAMES
NEW YORK, May 23.-R-Probable
pitchers in the major leagues tomorrow
(won-lost records in parentheses):
American League
Detroit at Chicago-Bridges (2-2) VS..
Rigney (2-5).
Cleveland at st. Louis (night)-Fel-
Ter (5-2) VS.. Auker (3-2).
(Only games scheduled).
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German Parachutist
Planned To Spread
Fires Behind Lines

ROUEN, France, May 23.-LR-A
German parachutist, carrying a hi
cycle and incendiary equipment,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24

ErrOfs. Hayes, BdDICu, NHapHIaH'
Mccoy. Runs batted in: Mccoy 2,
Johnson, LilIard, McNair 3, Kuhel 2,
Appling, fresh. Lee, Wright 2. Two
base hits: Rosenthal, Mccoy, Kuhel.
Kreevich, Appling. Home run: Wright.
Sacrifices: Lee 2. Double plays: Hayes
and Mccoy; McNair, Appling and ku-
hel. Left on bases: Philadelphia y
Chicago 5. Bases on balls off: Babich
4, Heusser /, Lee 2. Strikeouts by
Babich 5, Lee 3. Hits off: Babich.
10 in Z 1-3 innings; Heusser 3 in 2-3.
l. osin 6 pitcher: Babich. Umpires
Ormsby, Grieve and Basil. Time: 2:13.
Attendance: (estimated) 1000.
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National Legaue

Boston at New York (night)-Posedel
(2-2) VS.. Gumbert (4-2).
Chicago at Pittsburgh-French (5-2)
VS.. Bowman (1-2).
Brooklyn at Philadelphia Hamlin
(2-2) VS.. Higbe (3-3).
(Only games scheduled).
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STANDINGS
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
American League
nicapn IL. philadelnhia q

Chicago II; Philadelphia 4.
Detroit 3; New York 2.
st. Louis s; Washington Z.
Boston at Cleveland, postponed, rain
National Legaue
st. Louis at Boston, postponed, rain
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, postponed
wet grounds.
Cincinnati at New York, postponed
wet grounds.
Chicago 4; Philadelphia 3.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24

A combination toothbrush and
mouth wash atomizer which
sprays as it brushes the teeth can
be bought in Norway.
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Hobeos Corpus Writ
Seeks to Free Blacksmith

In a habeas corpus writ filed by
woman lawyer, Nita S. Human,
a 5O-year-old w P. A. blacksmith
yesterday sought freedom from the
Occoquan (Va0 Workhouse, where
he has been held for seven months.
The petitioner, Richard H. Cady,
was arrested under a Juvenile Court
order and held in contempt for al
legged failure to support his 16-year-
old daughter. Miss Human con-
tended that Mr.. Cady is illegally
detained because his daughter re-
sides in Maryland and Juvenile
Court does not have jurisdiction in
the case.
Justice F. Dickinson Let's in issu-
ing the writ made it returnable at
1870 pm. Monday before one of the
justices sitting in Criminal Court.
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Grand Jury Returns
40 Indictments

The grand jury returned 40 in
dictments to Justice Peyton Gordon
in Criminal Court yesterday.
One indictment charged Ernest
Stafford Lee, 80, colored, with steal
ing a parcel post package contain
ing cake from a substitute. mail
carrier shortly before Christmas.
Others indicted and the charges
against them included:
Inez Minnie Thomas, robbery
(four charges), assault with intent
to commit robbery and grand lar
ceny; Henry Stevens, assault with
dangerous weapon; Carl w. Tuck
er, non-support of wife; Charles E.
Leapley, John Byrd, Charlie Mills,
James McCray, Clyde Williams and
William Taylor. HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny; John R. Nesbitt, joyriding;
Samuel ]. Hanna, Richard S. Wat
son, Harry A. Suit, joyriding and
grand larceny: James Bolden, War
rem Baylor, Gilbert Moates, Ayor A.
Reeves, Ralph v. Beale, Calvin S.
Brodis, Ernest Lovelace, Charles A.
Bush, lie Roy E. Anderson and
Marjory A. Calan, robbery; Wyman
II. Warren, Tom Pane, John H.
HOWE and Nathaniel Fletcher, as.
sault with dangerous weapon.
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j. Of Wisconsin Alumni
To Hear Davies al Dinner

Washington alumni of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin will celebrate
founders day of the university Feb
ruary 7 at 7:30 pm. with a dinner
at the Dodge Hotel.
Former Ambassador to Belgium
Joseph E. Davies and Senator Alex
apder Wiley of Wisconsin will speak.
The program, one of many all
over the Nation, will be broadcast
over a coast-to-c coast hookup. be-
ginning at $50 pm, E. S. T., it
was announced. Mr.. Davies will
speak on Intimate Glimpses of the
European Scene" Senator Wiley
will discuss the place of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in the State
and Nation.
There are said to be some 300
alumni of the institution in Wash
ington, including Is members of
Congress. George E. Worthington
president of the local alumni, will
preside.
The university will be 81 years
old February 7. President Clarence
A. Dykestra will also speak on the
radio broadcast.
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clans who want
to see how the
wind is blowing
before they line
up for a candi-
date.
T h at tn e
movement Is for
midable there
can be no doubt.
Only the most
positive decli-
nation of the
President to run
again can damp
en- it out Of
existence. Be-
hind it are two
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Capital U. GIee Club
Will Sing Here Tonight

The Glee Club of the Conservatory
of Music of Capital University of
Columbus, Ohio. will give concert
in the auditorium of Wilson Teach
er's College, Eleventh and Harvard
streets NV, at 8:15 o'clock tonight.
Prof. Wilbur G. Christ is director
of the club. The concert is being
sponsored by the Capital University
Alumni Association of Washington,
assisted by the Luther Leagues Of
the American Lutheran Churches of
Washington.
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Reports u, 1898 Youths
Placed in Private Jobs

A total Of 1908 young persons
were placed in jobs in private BUSH
ness last month by the National
Youth Administration, Administra-
tor Aubrey Williams has announced.
Mr.. Williams said positions OBJ
tanned by the N. Y. A. junior place.
ment services, which operate in CO.
operation with State employment
offices, during December represented
an increase of more than 1900 over
the previous month. Temporary
jobs created by Christmas sales rush
were responsible In part for the IN
crAaan
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or patronage. The Hatch Pure
Politics law was passed and signed
last summer to prevent exactly this
sort of thing and is heartily in
dorsed by the administration.
Mr.. Roosevelt has no intention
of running again unless there is a
clear national necessity and an un-
mistakable public demand for his
services. Therefore, instead of using
the powers of his great Office to
choke off ar Discourage rival candi-
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steps actually being taken to make dependence
this still
tempted this country
apane by Departments
intervention
list has already been compiled Of strategic materials such
certain steel alloys and the high which the
forced buy Even before tariff action taken
materials
truth the administration pretty
nc
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fective inquiries
ever instituted
by Con gr e S S.
Although the
probe is still In
midstream, the
opinion is freely
held that it has
already dealt a
death blow to
the N. L. R. B.
as at present
on S t | t u t e d.
having unques-
tionably estab-
lished that 1t Is
a mess" and
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demanding a return to the old Chi
nese open door. The japanese are
busily making conciliatory gestures,
but they cannot grant the State De-
partment's demands. The China in
cident has already created vast
japanese vested interests which
temporarily require a closed door.
Moreover, the open-door de-
mands are chiefly intended to re-
mind the japanese that retribution
awaits the moment thew on too far
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trated lecture on The Present Day
Art of Manufacturing Refractories
tomorrow at pm. in the Commerce
Department auditorium. The lee
ture will be sponsored by the Edu-
cation Committee of the Patent
Office.
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y II e dSSlcoSloAi
of a dictator
ship state, the
Congress a n d
the President
W mt to do
S O m e t hing to
manifest Amer
lea IS interest.
But how?
To ex t e n d
financial aid for
arms is consid-
cred unneutral
or active partic-
ipation in the
war. To lend
e- 4 OF
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Washington Observations
Effective N. l. R. B. Inquiry Foreshodows
Brood Changes in Setup and Personnel

Supreme Court. Bergdoll's relief on
habeas corpus was denied by the
District Court at New York, whose
action was sustained by the Circuit
Court of Appeals The request for
certiorari seeks reviews of the action
of the two last-named courts.
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demand
will do willingly knowing
acceptable failed
else will
AS evidence of better temper the whole presidential
there which dib
utes membership organization provides
member admitted without pedgng
not to vote for President the United
Except extreme which
Alliance Inc)
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contains the fundamental issue that
is being evaded on all sides by the
politicians because they think isola-
ZIONIST opinion is at the moment
stronger than co-operationist opin-
ion
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Still Cordial With Garner
allowed its challenge to the
the cordial
friendship himself
believe will support indorse
candidate but there disposition take ubrage
faction Democratic
Last july he Paul McNu the key position for personal
presidential aethe
knowing Mcu admitted candidate for
that Postmaster General Farley could take
the Hooser in shape form
President equally to Mr. Farley He allowed Big
for the Of stable merits and availability
presidential timber Mr. Roosevelt permitted this to happen at time
and the needed the full of the National Com
unite
administrators supporters.
candidacy friends of Secretary of
showed staked
the prestige the administration the renewal of the
AcM Huls policy which lends itself
to Republican attack and public misunderstanding.
Wheeler Is Latest
only aspirants
smile what the American
people want Mr. Roosevelt too wise politician to stand in the
of their decision
From the White House word of still other combinations
mentions Attorney General Bob Jackson Fioreo
New York City Roosevean tickets
possibilities President playing
eagerly Othp
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Washington Goes Los Angeles.

Finland and infantile paralysis,
after all, are worthy causes, and
that covers a multitude of whims
All the same, the National Capital
for the past week has gone Los
Angeles with a vengeance, with its
moronic mass adulation of movie
stars. Every one who ever visited
the Southern California metropolis
remembers how that community of
blasted hopes goes in for golden-calf
worship of everybody and everything
that comes out of Hollywood, Culver
City, Burbank and Beverly Hills.
Well, Washington was like that while
the recent orgy of world premieres"
and Birthday Balls had the place
upside down. AS Mr.. Will Hays
Motion Picture Producers and Dis.
tributors of America and their
over-salaried mummers are, after
all, the chief beneficiaries of this
organized box-office ballyhoo, why
wouldn't it be good sense to save
the fuss and flummery, simply tax
the screen industry, say, round
$1,000,000 and let it charge the
money up to advertising. When all's
said and done, that's about what 1t is
4 X y X
For Small Business.
Latest under the high-pressure
Washington sun is the National
Small Business Research Bureau"
which has just swung into action
for the purpose of promoting the
interests of that forgotten atom of
the American economic community,
the small business man. Its direc-
tor is Charles G. Daughters, who
was research and technical adviser
to Representative Wright Patman,
Democrat, Of Texas, in connection
with the Robinson-Patman Act,
which was designed to cramp the
style of chain stores. Chairman of
the board of the Small Business
Bureau is the Rev. DR.. John F. B.
Carruthers of California, we'll known
in Washington as clergyman and
publicist. The bureau plans during
1910 to establish business policy
boards" in each of the country's 435
congressional districts, which sounds
as If plenty of heat will be turned
on at Washington from time to time
Preparedness.
Assistant Secretary of War Louis
johnson is clothed with the statu-
tory duty of seeing that in the next
war the United States is adequately
equipped with the actual sinews of
battle and means of its own to
produce them. His current annual
report shows that he's valiantly on
the job. Few Americans realize
how unready even our vast industrial
system was in 1917-18 to supply the
equipment needs of the A. E. F.
Except for four 14-inch naval guns,
the First Army in France at no time
fired single cannon or shell made
in America. No tank of American
manufacture was ever used on the
western front. We had to buy ar