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Behind Front in Africa (Continued From Third Page.) -— native labor, but this the Dutch re- fused. Those Italians living in Egypt who lett to work in labor battalions in Italian East Africa have found to their chagrin that after 20 days’ resi- dence in an Italian colony they can be drafted for the army. And this is being done. Travelers Not Wanted. Travelers are not wanted in this war zone; it is almost impossible to get a visa. Newspaper people especially are anathema. One English corre- spondent arrived with a letter from Mussolini. He was allowed to enter, but he is watched incessantly and his outgoing letters and cables are gone: through with a fine-tooth comb. All | outgoing and incoming cables pass through the censor’s office and lll‘ those in code are decoded. There axe | no non-Italian newspapers in Eritrea | or Italian Somaliland. All news must sift through the screen of censorship. Ever since the Ualual incident last | December Italian troop ships have been steaming Africaward. To move | these troops with as little publicity as | possible the Italian government is | gaid to have asked the Suez Canal, Co. to withhold publication of the numbers of men or the amount of | war supplies using the canal. But| every day many ships are passing | through, loaded with men, beasts and war supplies. Sometimes several troop | ships pass in a day, the men singing, shouting, laughing. But none is al- lowed to debark during the time that | their transports stop to take on water. | But let us continue our journey up: to Asmara, Eritrea’s capital, which is about four hours from Massawa I:!li train or by automobile. We go by | yoad and become a part of that throb- bing military artery of groaning trucks, speeding cars, camel and don- key caravans, marching men. First Lap Through Desert. The first lap of the journey is| through the semi-desert country of | the Somali coast tribes. Black vol- | canic rock and red sand. Thorny mimosa trees dot the sides of the dry river beds. Occasionally there ap- pears a cluster of round stone houses with thatched roofs, where ml!-! naked inhabitants live off the milk | of their scrawny goats. The road | ing (called Americano) to supplement the home-woven chamma cloth; live sheep, doe skins, cowhides, scent, camels, cheap European hardware and glassware. And here had been beg- gars, priests, lepers, pariah dogs, a patent-leather shod, long-coated Hin- du merchant, man with legs like an elephant’: n old peasant carry- ing a sheep around his neck like a fur piece, two wild shepherds from the hills dressed in skins. ‘The picture no longer exists. Now the square is fenced off and piled high with war supplies, road-building materials, trucks, tanks, barbed wire and every conceivable kind of box, crate and bale. Soldiers are on guard at intervals, and Italian laborers are dumping more supplies into the con- fusion. Overhead there is a zooming of war planes in formation. No one even looks up. A steady stream of over- loaded trucks and marching soldiers is pushing out of Asmara toward the Abyssinian frontier. Dotting this front at intervals are the Italian en- campments. In them are many thou- sands of Italian soldiers, and more are continually arriving. One thou- sand airplanes are being assembled. A year ago Eritrea had 250 trucks in circulation. Now there are more than 2,000, most of which are of American ~ manufacture—the Fiat plants in Italy are now devoted al- most entirely to the manufacture of guns and ammunition, and Italy must buy elsewhere. Italian buyers have cleaned out all available stocks in Egypt, Sudan and other nearby coun- tries. U. S. Truck Sales Rise. In previous years the sales of | American automotive products to Eritrea totaled perhaps $50,000 an- nually; in the last eight months at least $800,000 worth of American- made trucks, bodies, tires and re- placement parts have found their way to this colony. Likewise, smaller amounts have gone to Italian Somali- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER- 29, 1935—PART TWO. ~ ficers are enlisting in the army of Haile Selassie, and that & former Turkish general who fought against the Italians in Tripoli 24 years ago will have a high fleld command with their Abyssinian opponents. In Abyssinia, the population is about evenly divided as between Mos- lems and Christians, but politically the latter run the government. The Moslem leaders have spontaneously assured the Emperor that their co- religionists will fight should r to shoul- der with their Christian countrymen. Italy is pleased, however, to know that there are so few war planes in Abyssinia—only about twenty-five— and those piloted by foreigners. The sum total of all this knowledge lea es Mussolini's self-assurance un- touched. He seems determined to go through with his plans; and if his con- fidence in an ultimate and complete victory has ever been shaken, he has certainly concealed it well. So troops keep pouring into Africa. The crowds—and the confusion— keep growing. And the world, anx- lously, nervously awaits the opening gun of a new war. Public Library THE ENGLISH BIBLE. Friday, October 4, marks the four hundredth anniversary of the print- ing of the first English Bible, trans- lated by Miles Coverdale. In this con- nection the Public Library suggests a list of the more important versions and translations of the Bible” and a | selection of some of the more recent works about the “greatest book in the world.” Versions. The English Bible—Extracts from the important English versions | from Wiclif's to the King James. 1895. (Old South Leaflets, No. 57) F83.01 14, v. 3. Holy Bible, with the former truns- lations diligently compared and re- vised by his Majesty's special com- mand. (King James version.) land. “Give the Italians 12 months to prepare for this war and they can win. Otherwise they will be driven into the sea.” That was the consensus | three months ago of those foreigners who know the situation on this East African war front. Those who do not know of the extremes of heat and cold, of mountain fastnesses, of can- vons cut through the tortuous val- | is now winding up into the hill coun- try; scrub trees and bushes cover the rocky hills and the heat diminishes somewhat. Gray apes peep over tne’ natural ramparts and gibber at the | noisy traffic. Occasionally & shepherd | tending his goats or sheep is seen on | a dusty hillside. Repairing the tortuous road are | crews of Italian workmen. They straighten and give the Fascist salute | as a car of Italian officers speeds past. The sides of the road are marked by | discarded gasoline tins, broken downi Yorries. Trucks last only four months | on the average because of the bad | roads and overloading. For the thou- | sand trucks lumbering over these | roads and up to the war front there is a scarcity of spare parts. The result is that an unbelievable number of them are disabled. Our road crosses the railroad and then parallels it. A military train chugs by, every window full of Italian | soldiers. Squatting by the roadside is | a group of coffee-colored Eritrean women in long dirty white chammas, | their hair a labyrinth of small black braids. They have sized up the pos- | sibilities of trade and have opened up | 2 native lunch counter. From huge | black pots they ladle out a hodge- | podge of meat and red pepper sauce into cones of native pancakes. From | earthen jars of tej, a wine brewed from wild honey, they dip dripping oxhorn beakers. For dessert there are lengths of sugar cane. Jester Performs Antics. A jester, wearing a lion’s mane headdress, hops up and down nearby and clacks a song. A wizened old na- tive woman and some boys offer for sale an ostrich egg, a mongoose, & tame cheetah. What little wild game there is left in this country has been frightened | away from this much-traveled high- way. But once a flock of guinea hens scatters into the underbrush and two startled antelopes disappear into the distance. It has taken five hours of crawling behind trucks, dodging official cars and careening around hairpin turns to cover the 75 miles to the plateau on which Asmara stands. Some wom- on are plowing flelds of stunted corn with wooden plows. Others are water- ing patches of melons from goat skins on their backs. Small shelters have been set up on stakes in the flelds and from these the peasants watch and guard their pitiful crops from marauding monkeys and passersby. Asmara. What a hive of activity this once sleepy, off-the-beaten-track colonial capital has become. More trucks, cars, caravans, marching troops. The Fascist salute. Even the FEritreans have adopted it. Every able-bodied native is in uniform, equipped not with the spears and an- tiquated rifies of & few years ago, but with shiny new Italian firearms. Asmara is a military camp. Club House for Officers. We drive past the opera house and the club house—the show places of the city. The latter is an officers’ club now, and Mussolinl’'s smart black- shirted officers are relaxing over anti- pastos and a mixture of vermouth and #oda water, called Americanos. Nearby the ornate white stone ca- thedral thrusts its spires into the sky. Down this street, bordered by attrac- tive bungalows, one feels transported back to Italy. Most of the Italian civilians have returned home; not a woman or child is left behind. Their homes have been taken over by the government to use as offices and offi- cers’ quarters. Each house stands in its own gar- den, which has been suffering from the shortage of water for two years. The brave bougainvilleas and oleand- ers are stunted and covered with dust. Further on, surrounded by a formally 1aid out garden and flanked by & tennis court, stands the imposing Government House. At its gate the military guard snaps to attention as some officers descend from their motor rS. “!‘rom the Goverriment House Gen. de Bono directs the whole war ma- chine in Italian East Africa. He is high commissioner of the now sep- arated colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, and is commander-in- chief of the colonial armies. Civilian officialdom has been replaced entirely by him and his overtaxed officers and stafl. | Native Sights Are Done. Let's go down to the big native market in Asmara. Six months ago in the center of this huge square the women were sifting grain and sell- leys, of mud which reaches up to the knees of pack animals during the rainy season, of the narrow mountain trails where camels and mules must single file—any one without knowl- edge of these difficulties cannot im- agine what the Italians are confront- ing. These are nature’s fortifications, and for many centuries they have pro- tected this savage, inhospitable land of the Ethiopians, surrounded on all sides by territory that now belongs to England, France and Italy. More than $60.000.000 has already’ been spent on this East African ad- venture, and Mussolini apparently is going to push his plans through. He has declared that it is the duty of Italy to civilize Abyssinia, to organize | its transportation and to subdue its | raiding tribesmen. Start Due October 26. On October 26, it is reported, Italy will begin its push into Abyssinia. By then the rainy season will be over and the ground hard enough for advancing troops. By then certain hard-surfaced roads, such as the one leading from | Assab, will have been pushed through the territory of the savage Danakils toward Abyssinian territory. As the armies advance the labor battalions will follow on their heels, building roads and spanning the rivers and gullies with bridges. Only when the Italians have conquered Abyssinia can | the shame of Adowa, which has hung like a black cloud over Italian military glory for 39 years, be wiped out. To understand this attitude one must know something of the begin- nings of Eritrea. In the late nine- teenth century some Genoese mer- chants bought Assab, an arid strip of sand on the Straits of Al Mandeb, to use as a coaling station. From their pin-point base of Assab the Italians steadily encroached upon Abyssinia's | plateau country. Crispi, the Italian | Bismarck, in the heyday of his ex-| pansion program recognized Eritrea as an Italian colony in 1896. Menelik, the hardy and canny Emperor of | Ethiopia, protested, and when at last | the Italians proclaimed to the world at large that all Abyssinia's dealings with Europe must be transacted through her only. Menelik prepared to fight. Treachery Aided Defeat. Crispi and his imperialists pushed the Italian government into war with the words, “A few modern guns will wipe out these savages” Italy was beaten by greater numbers, by treach- ery, by bad leadership, by the climate and by her belief that she had only an army of savages, armed with spears, knives and blunderbusses, to deal with. She was fooled, in the end, partly by the machinations of a clever, intrig- uing Armenian of Addis Ababa. This man, after revealing his plan to Menelik, was furhished with money and sent out of the country. He bought 20,000 rifles from Holland and & cargo of teak wood from Java. The rifles were shipped to Java and there secreted in the hollowed-out teak logs. Eventually they arrived at Obok, a | small open port of French Somaliland. | ‘Through an inside job the customs | officials at Obok were drugged, then | during the night a caravan of camels appeared and carried the rifies off across the Abyssinian border. Simul- taneously, accomplices set fire to the teak cargo to cover all traces of the ruse. Came the Battle of Adowa in 1896, Wwhen 10,000 Italian soldiers and 10,000 natives met 100,000 of Menelik's war- riors, whose fighting methods were to close with the enemy in hand-to-hand combats with sword, shield and jave- lin. The Italian defeat was decisive; the riot complete. The Abyssinians hacked off legs and arms and other- wise mutilated the survivors of the Italiam army. As a result of this de- feat Italian colonization went no fur- ther than Asmara. Aware of Preparedness. Italy is not now so unaware of her adversary's preparedness as she was back in 1896. It has been reported that Germany and Japan are furnish- ing the Abyssinian army with machine guns, ammunition, gas and bombs. Italy knows that the enemy has, in fact, & quarter of & million rifies, half of which are modern. She knows that Belgian military advisers in the last few years have organized about 50,000 Abyssinians into a regular army along modern lines, and that trench warfare, long-range guns and air attacks are now a part of its repertoire. Italy knows that in addition, 600,000 more Abyssinians can be put into the fleld, led by their native chieftains. She knows that the women will fight along- side their warrior men-folk. She has ing it from heaped round trays on the ground. Here had been sellers of eucalyptus poles, mules, red pepper, tes, silver anklets for the vain and silver crosses for the devout; hay, heard that there are 400 Germans in Abyssinia, and s large number of reserve officers working there in technical capacities; she is aware that Whick black felt, and Japanese sheet- many of Ibn Saud’s regular army of- ) CBAO.1900. | Century Bible, edited by W. . Adeney. (English revised version.) CBAQAd3. (Reference.) Holy Bible, being the version set forth A. D. 1611 compared with the most ancient muthorities and revised A. D. 1881-1885. Newly edited by the American Revision Committee. (American revised version.) CBAQ.1901. Holy Bible, translated Latin Vulgate. CBAN.1914. Fenton, Ferrar, tr. Holy Bible in Mod- | ern English. 1903. CBAV.F358. Goodspeed, E. J, and Smith, J, M. P., tr. the Bible, an American trans- lation. 193i. CBAV.Smé67. | from the (Douay Bible.) tr. the Short Bible. an American translation. 1933. CBA.G62. Kent, C. 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The Bible in my every- day life . . . a practical applica- tion of the Bible to everyday life. 1932. CBA.R25. Richardson, H. G. Life and the Book. 1929. CBB.R39. Sell, H. T. Bible study by doctrines; twenty-four studies of great doc- trines. 1926. CBB.Se45. Sell, H. T. Introductory Bible studies. 1926. CBDS.Sed7i. Spence, H. E, and Cannon, James. A guide to the study of the English Bible. 1926. CXW®:Sp3ég. by chapter; aa ald to Bible read- } | major Wells, A. R. The living Bible. chapter | Hastings. ry Political Tide (Continued Prom First Page.) ment that the New Deal was a splen- did idea as first conceived but that it has been so abused there is little of it left that is worth saving. I don’t believe there can be any doubt but that the sentiment of the public at this time is to reshape our entire nstional policy; some want it done with Roosevelt, some without him. - Roosevelt and the New Deal, as & unit or taken apart, are unquestion- ably the most vulnerable points of attack for the opposition, and of these the New Deal attack will probably be the more effective. The next question—that of unem- ployment—is a question that all political parties will have to stand up and face. Eighty-two per cent of the unemployed I interviewed are against the New Deal. They are still standing in the shadow of despair, waiting, hoping for that promised job which it seems to them will never come. Many of those who are on the relief jobs are dissatisfied either with the wages, the working conditions or the company they are sometimes forced to keep, or because of a self- pride which rebels at either public or private charity. These people want respectable jobs in the economic structure which will restore their so- cial and moral independence. Many of the relief workers and unemployed and their wives have told me that they do not care so much about the size of the salary, the hours of work or the exact working conditions, so long as they can live modestly and know that they are again a useful part of the social fabric. As one ex- pressed it, they don't want to be warts; they want to be sinews, New Drift in Laber Sentiment. One of the most surprising drifts in sentiment we found in the ranks of labor. Here both employed and un- employed, both organized and unor- ganized, have told me that they are opposed to the 30-hour-week, and that higher salaries should not be de- | manded for any who are now work- ing until the unemployed had been absorbed. Much sober and independ- ent thought is developing among the workers, They want jobs for every- body and say that only after labor is fully employed should steps be taken to raise salaries. These people are not |in sympathy with strikes when mil- lions of our men and women are un- employed and willing to take any kind of a job. They argue that it is better to have everybody working at modest salaries than it is to have a few of them working at higher sal- aries. It is my opinion that all polit- ical parties will be called upon for a reasonable and understandable unem- | Goodspeed. E. J, and Smith, J. M. p., | Ployment solution when they face tne electorate in 1936. | If the Constitution develops as the the | issue of the campaign party which adheres more closely to its principles of government will have the advantage. Three out of seven people I talked to are more or less agreeable to, changing the Constitu- tion if the necessity can be clearly shown. The other four of the seven are against any undue tampering with it. Wealth destruction by taxation is generally abhorred. Some believe it 10 be & necessary evil, but practically everybody I interviewed had some regrets. have to humor the farmer. They will fight at the polls any artificial busi- ness and agricultural stimulants that are financed either by the consumer or the Government, provided, of course, that the opportunity to protest against them is presented. My con- ferees feel that the Supreme Court should not be interfered with, that we should have a strong national defense, that the N. R. A. should be allowed to rest in peace and that full consti- tutional rights ot the States should not be impaired. Frame of Mind Healthier. In summing up the public sentiment toward issues as it is now developing, I can report that the public is in a much healthier frame of mind now than it was in those confused and desperate days of 1932. It is my very definite opinion that the trend is in favor of a complete revision of our national policy which will include: 1. Jobs for the physically and mentally employable, and a perma- nent system of maintenance by the States for their respective depend- ables. 2. A close adherence to the Consti- tution as it now stands. 3. Lower taxes in all branches of Government. 4. A drastic and actual reduction in the costs of Federal, State and local government with the elimination of all conflicting and overlapping ac- tivities and the dismantling of all| bureaus, commissions and agencies not absolutely necessary to the wel- fare of the unit. 5. A balanced ordinary and extraor- dinary budget, even if resort must be made to such temporary and a ficial financing as per capita dona- tions and lotteries. 6. A discontinuance of wealth de- struction and the conversion of excess production to permanent State com- missions for the benefit of the poor. 7. A discontinuance of all artificial business and agricultural stimulants which must be financed by the Gov- ernment or by the consumer. (In- dustry workers are the greatest back- | Talbot, N. S. A Biblical thorough- €' Of this issue, but many of the ing, consisting of devotional com- ments on all the 1.179 chapters of the Bible. 1933. CU.W46. Bible Stories. Bowie, W. R. The story of the Bible, retold from Genesis to Revelation in the light of present knowledge, for both the young and the mature. 1934. CBEH.B674. Danielson, F. W. Bible story book. 1930. CBEH.D22. May, W. J. Bible stories and how to tell them. 1930. CBB.M46. May, W. J. Living Bible stories. 1931. CBB.M46L. Mead, F. 8. 250 Bible biographies: thumbnail sketches of the men and women of the Bible. 1934. CBE.- M463. ‘Williams, T. D. Dramatic stories of the Bible; short skeiches of Scrip- ture characters. 1930. CBB.W676. Reference Works. Cruden, Alexander. The Winston clear type Cruden’s complete concord- ance to the Old and New Testa- ments, with notes and Biblical proper names under one alphabet- ical arrangement. 1930. CBBC.- C888a. (Reference.) Eisenlen, F. C, ed. The Abingdon Bible commentary. 1929. CBD.- Ei83. Gore, Charles. A new commentary on Holy Scripture, including the Apocrypha. 1928, CBD.G65. ; James, ed. Dictionary of the Bible. 1900. CBBDH278a. ( ) Those who must count their | pennies to make both ends meet want | and their adventures. 1928. CBAD. | !0 know how much longer we will | s Run Strong farmers I interviewed are also in favor of it.) 8. A strong national external de- fense against invasion, and & strong internal defense against crime, anti- Government agitation and alien propagandists. If the trend in public sentiment does not materially change 8s we near the date of the election, the party which more clearly emphasizes these principles of government and which nominates a candidate who, by his ability, record and temperament, is truly representative of these prin- ciples, will have & distinct advantage and should unquestionably win the election. On the Personal Side. ‘The New Dealers have but one choice—Roosevelt—but those who pre- dict that his nomination at the Democratic convention is cut and dried are jll-advised. What the con- servative Democrats do at the con- vention depends to a great extent upon how successful they are in con- solidating their strength. Roosevelt will not be handed the nomination on & silver platter if the Democratic op- position can keep him from being nominated on the first ballot. Any tendency toward a new candidate may very easily spread like a prairie fire if the temper of the Democratic pub- lic does not suddenly change. The opposition forces in the party lean toward Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, Owen D. Young of New York, Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd of Virginia and former Director of the Budget Lewis W. Douglas of Arizona and New York. Alfred E. Smith is respected and admired by almost every man and woman in the country, regardless of political afli- ation, but with the present trend he would not be an acceptable candidate. The sentiment to 'd Gov. E\uenefi Talmadge of Georgia is that he is too | radical. Former Gov. Joseph B. Ely | of Massachusetts is favorably dis- | cussed where mentioned, but at the | moment does not have a large fol- | lowing. | Were the Democratic convention to | be held today I would say that there | would be a good chance for Roosevelt | to be deadlocked out of the nomina- | tion, with Al Smith and Carter Glass | the sacrificial offerings, if they would consent. This is more a hope than |anything smong the Jeffersonian | | Democrats as the New Deal organi | zatlon undoubtedly will be strength- ened by convention time. But. if | Roosevelt is not nominated on the first or second ballots, it is not unreason- | able to take the view that the swing | away from the President might sweep | | through the delegations. Political | leaders of more than one State have expressed such a hope. Race To Be Wide Open. Over in the Republican party. find the race for the nomination to be wide open. If the Republican con- vention were held today. the contest ! would unquestionably ~settle down among Col. Frank Knox of Illin Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas and | Senator Arthur Vendenberg of Mich- igan, once the favorite sons were out of the way. The choice at the present time is almost unanimously for a | Western candidate with a practical business management complex, and an Easterner for & running mate. | Right now Hamiiton Fish of New York | has as good a chance as any one for | the second place. ‘ Sentimentally, Senator Borah is the | | choice at the moment, but his best ! friends hope that he will not allow his name to go before the convention, | except for a complimentary vote. By | convention time he will be 71 years | old. and this and his border political temperament are given as the reasons | why his own people do not want him nominated. They feel that he will | better serve his party and his country | by continuing his public life in the Senate. | Col. Knox is popular, particularly | in the East, and is attracting followers | to his banner almost daily. However, 11t is felt by some of his most ardent admirers that he is spending his strength too soon and that he is un- duly exposing himself to preconven- | | tion attack. | Out in the Middle West they tell me that if Gov. Landon had a more pop- | ular sponsorship he would have a bet- | ter chance. He is under the tutelage of former Vice President Charles Curtis, who does not seem to be very popular in the rank and file of his | party. If Herbert Hoover allows his name | to go before the convention he will get a complimentary vote for old times’ sake, but he has little chance of obtaining the nomination. If Borah and Hoover should both put up a fight for the nomination there may be a hopeless deadlock, featuring Borah, Hoover, Knox and Landon. In this event, Arthur Vandenberg would have an excellent chance to be nominated. Today we have two fairly well de- fined schools of thought. On one side we have the Roosevelt-New Dealers- Democrats and ultra liberals, while on the opposition side we have the anti-New Dealers-Constitutionalists- Republicans. Sentimentally Roosevelt States. Unless the Democrats enter a third party the Republicans have about as | | much chance of winning the Southern States in 1936 as Hitler has of be- | coming President of France—it will be possible, but only by conquest. Even | with a split Democracy the Repub- | lican chances in these States are none !too good unless the entire battle is | waged around the Constitution, with- out regard to any other consideration, which is extremely unlikely. New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Ne- vada, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, all sentimentally Roosevelt because of the direct and indirect benefits from | the New Deal silver and agricultural policies, will be counted safely in the Roosevelt ballot box. Utah and Colo- rado are not as pro-Roosevelt as they | have been, but they are still notice- ably New Deal States. In its present frame of mind a solid Democratic party would carry Mis- souri in spite of dissension around the fringe of the political faction in Kansas City. If the Constitution be- comes the main issue, Missouri will want to be shown, and may go Re- | publican. The Dakotas are reported as favor- able to the liberal complex of :l:c New Deal. While I did not travel in these States, I am inclined to count them as certain New Deal tendency States, based upon competent reports I have received from disinterested parties, ‘The lumber, shipping and paper in- dustries in and around ‘Seamepe favor & change, but in the dairying and rural sections of Washington where :;n-tmms of the voting power exists, ey are still stringing along with Roosevelt. For these reasons I place Washington in the New Deal column. All things being equal, if they ever are, the Republicans should gather in Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecti- | we | State would have been a good New Deal long shot, but today it is turning back to its first love, the Republican party, with all the rapidity of a falling meteor. In the Midwest the Republicans are sure of Michigan and Nlinois. Mich- igan has soured on the New Deal and all it stands for. While Roosevelt has | a considerable personal following in Illinofs, he is sure to be snowed under at the ballot bex on the banks of the Chicago River. A Midwest nominee on the Republican ticket would cer- tainly remove whatever doubt there now exists about the political complex of Iilinois, in which about one-half of the entire State vote is located in and around Chicago. From Illinois we jump clear to the Pacific Coast before we find a sure Republican State. Here, Oregan will turn her back on the President in 1936 if the Republicans offer a strong candidate. While the lumber industry has not yet entirely given up on the New Deal, there is not as much Roose- velt sentiment in the Oregon industry | as I found in Washington. Through the rural districts of this State there is a strong swing away from the New Deal. Califernia Republicans Strenger. In California I found a growing Re- | publican sentiment. Practically the | entire northern half of the State, in- | cluding the San Joaquin Valley, is| doubtful of future hope from the Roosevelt program. In Los Angeles County the sentiment is somewhat mixed, but the powerful oil and motion picture industries are certainly for a | change. Unless the Republicans blun- | der, they should take California by a | fair margin. | Present New Deal dissension in Ohio | might possibly make this State red-hot Republican by election time. Right now, while at odds with the admin- istration, there is little desire for that form of Republicanism as :xprmsed‘ by the Brown-Fess influence. A pop- ular Midwest candidate will excite the imagination of the Buckeye electorate. The voters in Iowa, Kansas and Ne- braska haven't stopped arguing long enough to find out what they are really thinking. These are the ripest places in which to plant an argument. Right now Iowa and Nebraska lean toward the jackpot of the New Deal, | while in Kansas they want a change and are hopeful of seeing a Kansan in the White House. Upstate Against New Deal. We never know where New York | State will land until we know what | Eastport Thrills LY THOMAS R. HENRY. | Dank grows the brown seaweed on | the Eastport wharves. Storm-be- draggled and unpainted are the store fronts. Ghost-like the flocks of white gulls fly over the dilapidated sea-front warehouses. ‘The old fishing town with its blue | harbor—the easternmost city in the United States ahd a day's sail nearer Europe than Boston—is waking out of a nightmare as government cars dash over its rutty streets and spectacled young men with gold keys dangling from their vests set up drawing tables in its public buildings and churches. Eastport is the center of the “Quoddy” project, the head- quarters of a new Army enginering district, and one of the most pub- licized places in America. Down the coast old-timers raise questioning eyebrows when one speaks of harnessing the high tides of the Bay of Pundy. Where will use for | such power be found in Maine, they | ask? What's the use of it all, except | to buy the votes of the unemployed? But there is no such questioning in Eastport. For a long time the old town has wondered what perversity | of fate was to blame that it was not | & great city. It has the location, the | harbor, the natural resources. Some- | how progress has passed it by. But | today there is little question in the minds of Eastport folks. “Maybe not | as big as Portland, but certainly as | big as Bangor.” says Roscoe C. Emory, mayor and editor of the town news- paper, who has been one of the most earnest workers in securing the power project. Thinks It Can Use All Eastport is confident that it can | use, within the next four or five | years, every spare ampere of the | power to be generated at Quoddy and | is afraid there will not be enough. | In this case, they say, all speculations | as to line wastage in long-distance transportation are just empty talk. New York City will do. and 1936 will be no exception. Roosevelt's popu- larity in the upstate territory is un- questionably on the wane. From Syracuse to Buffalo and all down through the Finger Lake district there is a decided turn against the New Deal. Frankly, New York City does not look 50 good for the New Dealers at the present time. The La Guardia follow- ing will be split on the presidential issue, and, even if peace is made with | Tammany, the tiger will not be able | dated old town. . ‘to hand Roosevelt the solid voting | it Was the center of America’s sardine power it did three years ago. Of | those I interviewed in New York City | | 40 per cent of those who voted for | ¥Orld. Then the big decline set in | There was intenser Norwegian compe- Roosevelt in 1932 stated that they would not vote for him in 1936. If | in public opinion is indicated. To | swing his native State Roosevelt will | have to have a landslide in New York | City to offset his losses upstate, and | | I cannot believe that he will be blessed | Plants with a landslide 1n New Yorx Lty | in face of the present drift in senti- | ment. | 1 defy any one to enter the States of Massachusetts. Wisconsin, Indiana, Maryland and Oklahoma and get decided opinion on the division of public sentiment. How can one ana- lyze what I found in Indiana, for in- stance: 267 were for the New Deal, 264 were against the New Deal and 276 were undecided, but when pressed for a tendency stood about equally divided. Any split in the Democratic party will make the Republican task that | much easier if they take advantage of their opportunities. We must conclude at the end of this first study that public opinion is de- veloping along practical, semi-conser- vative lines, and that we will prob- | ably have a revision of national policy | leaning away from a central govern- | ment and favoring more prudent han- dling of the public finances. I be- lieve business should prepare to work out its own plan of individualized and unregulated employment absorption. Both business and Government will have to face this question, which ma: possibly become the leading issue of the coming campaign. One great psychological factor may upset public sentiment and that is sudden favorable or unfavorable eco. nomic change. There is no reason, however, to expect that we will have & great economic boom before election time, nor are there signs that we will | have an economic collapse. Indica- tions are for a steady but irregular improvement. | It would also be a natural center for | the American aluminum and stainless | steel industry, due to the mineral re- “We were able to get it. Give us credit for being able to find ways of using it,” says Mr. Emory. “Every bit of the power that is sent out of this vicinity we will consider a loss.” He is confident that there need be no change in the Maine state law against the export of power. It might | as well be forbidden by Washington county, insofar as it would make any practical difference, he says. Eastport was not always a dilapi- Up to about 1920 industry—the biggest sardine town in the United States and probably in the tition for the sardine market. This 0iS. | that percentage holds, & terrific shift | ¥A5 accompanied by an increasing mechanization of the fishing and packing operations which threw many eut of work. Then the biggest of all the sardine went into receivership and eventually moved to the rival town of Lubec across the bay. And then the depression. There was an unfavorable Canadian exchange and folks stopped coming from the New Brunswick hin- terland to trade in its stores. The lumber industries suffered. A series of dry years struck the vast blueberry barrens of the back hills upon which a good share of the town's income had depended. In 1934 some 450 heads of families. out of a' total population of about 3,500, were on work relief. Eastport was one of the first towns in New England to set up an organization to care for the depression poor. Paper Pulp Available. ‘ But always there was the dream— | and a rather vague dream it was until | this year—of “Quoddy.” If this could be realized, the townspeople said, it would make Eastport one of the great paper manufacturing centers of Amer- ica in a strategic position to receive pulp supply from two sources—first the north woods and second—strange- ly enough —due to its nearness to Europe, Scandinavia and Finland. sources of the region. They pointed 1o the great power projects launched in Quebec for aluminum development. Suddenly the dream came true. The actual building of the dams lies in the future. The plans have not even been entirely formulated. But East- | port citizens claim that already they have prospects of enough new in- dustries to use all the power that can be produced. The inducement is not power slone, but location plus Get Five New Members. Five new members were admitted to the first Fall meeting of the Pet- worth Citizens’ Association recently. This brings the total membership to 843 for the Petworth body. Those admitted are: Mrs. Marie L. Keller, 4109 Fifth street; Mrs. Nellie O'Con- | nor, 4522 Fourth street; Irving Bryan, | 811 Quincy street; Charles B. Scott, | 3813 Fifth street; and S. Frank Stout, | 222 Emerson street. Who Armu? The Romance ‘of Your Name. BY RUBV HASKINS ELLIS. Tfll blazonry of the coat of arms here shown is “Per pale argent and or, & lion rampant per fesse gules and sable.” Crest—A lion rampant. Motto—Conseguitur quodounque petit (he obtains whatever he seeks). These were the armorial bearings used by Tobias Stansbury (1662-1709), who came to Maryland during the early Colonial days by that province. He was appointed ranger by the Gov- ernor of Maryland to protect Colo- nists against Indian attacks. Capt. Tobias Stansbury, his grandson, served in the Maryland militia during the French and Ingian Wars. Descendants of this family are now cut. Delaware and Pennsylvania. A yoar and & half ago the A I living in Maryland and neighboring States. 5 (Coprright. 1083 power. Mr. Emory has it figured out that, for example, phosphate-bear- ‘ng rock can be brought by sea from Florida to Eastport cheaper than 1t can be sent by rail from Florida to Muscle Shoals. Mayor Emory visions a new city and already has named a board of eminent city planners to make sure that it goes in the right direction. He thinks there will be very little of the straggling old down-east town left in a few years. It would be, he insists, an ideal naval base. If the World War had lasted another year as “Qlwddy” Project Proves Dream Near Mayor Thinks City Will Be Able to Use ‘ll Power Generated—Federal Men Welcomed With Open Arms. it probably would have been, he says, the Scapa Flow of America. Perhaps the problem of national de- fense, he thinks, had something to do with the realization of the Quoddy project. An ideal harbor closest of all points in the United States to the Old World, a natural locus for in- vasion, and hitherto practically de- fenseless. History Bears Out Theory. ‘The proximity of Eastport to Europe is reflected in its history. It formed part of the easternmost line of de- fense during the Revolution. Nearby, on De Monts Island in the St. Croix River, is the site of the oldest settle- ment on the Atlantic coast, with the single exception of Jacksonville. Jamestown and Plymouth were babes in arms when this little Fgnch colony, established in 1604, had been forced to evacuate by hunger and scurvy. Centuries before that, even, it prob- ably was the site of a Norse settle- ment, Mayor Emory believes. Studics of Viking records, he says, show that the topography here fits better than that of any other site in the North- east the descriptions left by the Norsemen. It was a center of activ- ity during the War of 1812. It was one of the bases for the Fenian in- vasion of Canada. Its unique posi- tion as the nearest port under the Stars and Stripes to Europe has not always been comfortable for Eastport. i So mnaturally there is no criticism of “Quoddy” in this old town and the young men with gold scholarshin keys hanging from their vests are looked upon as Heaven-sent rescuers. Eastport resents suggestions that there has been any attempt to profiteer in land at the expense of Uncle Sam. Even if it were ethical it would be crazy, considering what the town ex- pects to gain by the project. Eastport is not alone in its en- thusiasm nor will it be allowed to | appropriate all the advantages. The rival town of Lubec cannot conceal its jealousy and has placed a big bill- board on the Maine motor high- way apprising visitors that it is the nearest point to the actual “Quoddy activities. It expects to reap just as great benefits. And there is en- thusiasm in the villages with their white churches scattered through the country of the blueberry barrens where life has been hard these past few years. TAXICAB ZONE TEST CONTINUED 11 DAYS Henning Arraigned on Charge of Operating Vehicle With- out License. A test case to determine the right of the Public Utilities Commission to set zone rates for taxicabs reached Traffic Court yesterday when Bernard L. Henning, 45, of the 1000 block of Pennsylvania avenue southeast, was arraigned on a charge of operating & public vehicle without a license. The case was continued until October 9. Henning, who is president of the Cab Drivers’ Protective Union, was arrested at a cab stand near the Navy Yard by Policeman J. L. Marvars of the Traffic Bureau and released under $50 collateral. The defendant, it is charged. was charging zone rates of 20-40-60-80 cents, while under the commission ruling rates were set at 20-30-50-70 cents. Because of his refusal to comply with the order. the District Commis- sioners recently revoked Henning's license. He contends his license was revoked without right and he has failed to turn it in. Henning led the recent fight of cab drivers for higher rates. Today's Film Schedule NATIONAL—“The Crusades,” local premiere. at 8:45 pm. R-K-O KEITH'S—'Top Hat."” at 2:34, 4:58, 7:22 and 9:46 pm. EARLE—“Two for Tonight,” at 3.5:20, 7:40 and 10 p. shows at 2:10, 4:30, 9:10 pm. LOEW'S FOX—"Bonnie Scot- land,” at 2, 4:30, 7:20 and 10 p.m. Stage shows at 3:20, 6:10 and 8:50 p.m. METROPOLITAN—"Little Big Shot.” at 2, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:45 p.m. COLUMBIA—“Thunder in the Night,” at 2:30, 4:20, 6:10, 8 and 9:50 p.m. BELASCO—"“The Clairvoyant,” at 2:30, 4:17, 6:04, 7:57 and 9:50 p.1 PALACE—"Call of the Wild.” at 1:45, 3:40, 5:40, 7:35 and 9:35 pm. German and ltalian Press Censorships Are Notable Examples of Boomerang (Continued From Third Page.) Paris and having them published un- der a camoufiaged date line. A regu- lar grapevine news service, with its roots in Italy and Germany, and its tendrils leading across the French, Swiss and Dutch borders, exists, and for the alleged “lies” that it dissemi- nates, the Fascists and Nazis have only themselves to blame. When the dis- semination of unpalatable truths is forbidden, circulation of equally un- palatable half truths or even untruths is inevitable. Subvervise elements cap- italize on the rumors that follow censorships. Rumors become facts in an atmosphere surcharged with se- crecy and mystery. The Soviets learned that—and so did the rest of the world —when the “lie factories” of Reval and Riga, in which anti-Bolshevists fabri- cated everything from atrocity stories to the famous Zinovieff letter which lost the elections for the British Labor party, were uncovered. Lies Make the Press. ‘The same situation still exists— thanks to the German ar.d Italian cen- sorships—and the Nazis and Fascists perhaps are the worst sufferers through it. Writing in the New York Times recently from Geneva, F W. Birchall said: “A little sympathy might be spared for the honest chroniclers of ac- tual occurrences in this Geneva rumor factory where canards flourish and & ‘mare’s nest is a marketable commodity. The American brethren are not having lof the 24 except Sunday. 50 enjoyable a season. Somewhers between the coasts of the United States a newspaper edition, requiring a fresh headline, is going to press every hour Ananias and Sapphira, his wife, are numer- " ously and efficiently represented here to supply that need and they do. The materials are always at hand. “In a cafe beside the lake, where the boys gather for light refreshments after midnight while the night is still young in New York, you can hear “au- thentic” stories thet put those of Baron Munchpusen in the amasteur class. You can learn the precise and startling intentions of Premier Plerre Laval of France and what Anthony Eden, British minister tor League of Nations affairs, really has in the back of his mind, “Imaginative resourcefulness will confide to you the precise nature of a confidential communication that the- French Ambassador made to Musso= lini in Rome today and the exact ex- pletives (in Italian) with which Il Duce received the whole truths that were imparted. Some of this always gets to New York. It reads well 3,000 miles pway, where the methods of di~ plomacy and the opportunities of these rumormongers are not sc well under- stood as here. And to the truth-seek- ing correspondent who fails to pass along these brain children a cable message may bring them back later in the form of reproaches to haunt his uneasy pillow.”